Bae Yong-kyun

Bae Yong-Kyun (Korean: 배용균; born 1951) is a South Korean film director, painter, and professor. He is best known for his 1989 film Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?

In this Korean name, the family name is Bae.
Bae Yong-kyun
Born1951 (age 71–72)
Daegu, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea
NationalityKorean
Occupation(s)film director, painter, professor
Known forWhy Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?
Bae Yong-kyun
Hangul
배용균
Hanja
Revised RomanizationBae Yong-gyun
McCune–ReischauerPae Yonggyun

Life and career

Bae is a painter by training and a graduate of the University of Paris.

In the early 1980s, Bae began production on the film Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? without any experience in the Korean film industry and using amateur actors. Production lasted for almost ten years, with Bae directing, writing, filming, editing and financing the film by himself.[1] The film won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival and was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.[2] It was the first South Korean film to receive theatrical distribution in the United States.

Bae wrote and directed one other film, The People in White (Korean: 검으나 땅에 희나 백성, romanized: Geomeuna dange huina baekseong, 1995).

Until 2000 he taught painting at Catholic University of Daegu.[3] He has not been seen in public since August 2001.[4] However, in 2020 the Korean Film Archive reported that he had assisted them in a digital restoration of Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?[5]

References
  1. Maida, Gaetano Kazuo (Summer 1994). "Ox-Herding Pictures". Tricycle. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
  2. "Festival de Cannes: Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-08-02.
  3. Detailed information about Bae Yong-gyun at the KMDb (in Korean)
  4. 조문호기자 (26 April 2008). "배용균 감독이 보이지 않는 까닭은…". naver.com (in Korean). Retrieved 17 October 2023.
  5. "[뉴스레터] 배용균 감독이 파주로 간 까닭은?". 한국영상자료원 (in Korean).


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