Lim Sang-choon

Lim Sang-choon (Korean: 임상춘; Hanja: 林想賰) is a screenwriter from South Korea. She is best known for her work on the television drama Fight for My Way (2017) and When the Camellia Blooms (2019) for which she won the Best Screenplay Award at the 56th Baeksang Arts Awards, the 15th Seoul International Drama Awards, the 2019 KBS Drama Awards, and 47th Korea Broadcasting Awards.

In this Korean name, the family name is Lim.
Lim Sang-choon
임상춘
Born
South Korea
OccupationScriptwriter
Years active2014–present
Organization(s)Korea Television and Radio Writers Association (KTRWA)
Notable workFight for My Way
When the Camellia Blooms
HonoursCommendation from the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism
Korean name
Hangul
Hanja
林想賰
Revised RomanizationIm Sang-chun
McCune–ReischauerIm Sangch'un

Career

The name 'Lim Sang-choon' is a pen name derived from the Chinese characters "想賰," which means "plentiful imagination". Lim aims to tell stories through the characters in her work rather than being illuminated as an artist, hence her use of a pen name.[1][2] In 2017, during the press conference for Fight for My Way, she was inevitably revealed to be a woman in her early 30s. However, she stated that she wanted to remain anonymous and would not reveal any more personal information. If her identity are to be revealed, she plans to write under a different pen name. Consequently, she was absent from all awards ceremonies she was invited to.[1]

Prior of becoming a writer, in her late 20s Lim was working at a company. Writer Lim says she dreamed of becoming a writer after seeing people being happy watching dramas.[3]

"I saw people smiling while watching dramas on their cell phones on the bus going home with their tired bodies. I thought I should write a drama that makes people happy."[4]

She never attended any writer's education center, so she obtained scripts and studied them on her own. In 2013, Lim submitted her work to The 5th Drama Script Contest — Finding a Shooting Star in the Desert,[lower-alpha 1] and two of her scripts made it through to the final screening. She revealed that she didn't even know how to write a script at the time of the contest. Instead, it seems that her freedom, which was not confined to a frame, was expressed as her unique style.[4] Lim won the 'SBS Plus Award' at the contest.[2] At that time, the producer who read her scripts suggested a Chuseok special drama. In 2014, Lim made her debut with the MBC Chuseok special drama "Lump in My Life." The drama tells the story of the love-hate and reconciliation between a grandfather and granddaughter who were like a lump to each other, and featured actors Byun Hee-bong, Kang Hye-jung, Song Ok-sook, and child actor Kal So-won.[6] The drama also broadcast for the second time at 2014 Short Drama Festival, which marks its 4th anniversary that year. It was a festival where one can watch short dramas broadcast through KCA's production support at a movie theater. Lim's The Lump in My Life was screened as closing drama of the festival.[7]

Lim's other script was also turned into a drama. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning's '2014 One-act Play Festival' was hosted by the Korea Communications Agency (KCA) at CGV in Yeouido, Seoul from the 23rd to the 25th. The opening ceremony included a production presentation of the SBS Plus drama 'Dodohara', a mini-drama supported by the KCA and written by Lim Sang-choon, directed by Yoon Ryun-hae that was premiered on the 29th. 'Dodohara' is a romantic comedy drama featuring Girl's Day's Yura, Shin So-yul, and Yoo Min-gyu, where a man and two women come together to create a fashion shopping mall.[7]

Lim drew attention with KBS2 short drama Becky's Back in 2016. This four-episode Korean drama, was airing on KBS2 from June 6, 2016, starring Kang Ye-won, Jin Ji-hee, Kim Sung-oh, Choi Dae-chul, In Gyo-jin and Choi Phillip. The show follows the return of Scarlet O'Hara Yang Baek-hee to the quiet island of Seomwol-do after 18 years of identity laundering.[8] It was well-received during its initial broadcast, and as a result, requests for reruns continued. Due to viewers' favorable reviews and requests for reruns, on March 15 and 16, 2017, a week before the first broadcast of the drama Fight for My Way, KBS rebroadcast the director's cut of drama Becky's Back as a two-part series.[9][10]

"The strength of writer Lim Sang-choon is that she writes realistic stories that are not absurd. She will be one of the few writers who can do both minis and weekend dramas."

Director Lee Kun-joon, [4]

In 2017, Lim made his debut as a feature-length drama writer through for Fight for My Way.[2] Starring Park Seo-joon and Kim Ji-won, it was aired on KBS2 from May 22 to July 11, 2017, and tells the story of two childhood friends struggling to succeed in their careers. The show was well-received for its realistic plot and performances, and it topped the TV popularity index for three consecutive weeks. It was later adapted into a manhwa.[11][12][13][14]

Two years later Lim was back with When the Camellia Blooms, mini-series that stars Gong Hyo-jin, Kang Ha-neul, Kim Ji-seok, Son Dam-bi, and Kim Kang-hoon. It was aired on KBS2's Wednesdays and Thursdays at 22:00 (KST) time slot from September 18 to November 21, 2019. The show became the highest-rated mini-series drama of 2019, with a single episode rating of 23.8%. It also received high average ratings of 14.83% for all episodes, second only to SBS's The Fiery Priest. The show was praised for its production and solid performances by the actors. It received 10 nominations at the 56th Baeksang Arts Awards, winning four, including the Grand Prize for Television and Best Scriptwriting for Lim. It also won multiple awards at the 2019 KBS Drama Awards, including the Grand Prize for Gong Hyo-jin and Best Scriptwriting for Lim. The show's unique genre combination of romantic-comedy and thriller was well received by audiences, and episode was released on Netflix in South Korea and most Asia-Pacific and English speaking countries after their television broadcast.[lower-alpha 2][15][16][17]

The message that penetrates Lim's works is comfort. It depicts the process of people who have forgotten their value in a harsh world and regain their selves through the support and encouragement of the people around them.[1]

"I want to write something to cheer people on, like putting air in their bikes until the day I die."[1]

Currently, Lim is a member of Korea Television and Radio Writers Association (KTRWA).[lower-alpha 3] Her name and her copyrighted works as television screenwriter can be found in the KTRWA online database.[20]

Filmographies
Filmographies
Year Title Network Credited as Note
English Korean Creator Writer
2014 2014 Drama Festival – Lump of My Life 2014 드라마 페스티벌 – 내 인생의 혹 MBC No Yes [21]
Dodohara 도도하라 SBS Plus No Yes [22]
2016 Becky's Back 백희가 돌아왔다 KBS2 No Yes [23]
2017 Fight for My Way 쌈 마이웨이 No Yes [4]
2019 When the Camellia Blooms 동백꽃 필 무렵 No Yes [24]
TBA You Have Done Well 폭싹 속았수다 Netflix No Yes [25]

Recurring cast
Recurring casts
Actor
Work
Jeon Bae-soo
Lump of My Life
Dodohara
Becky's Back checkY checkY checkY checkY
Fight for My Way checkY checkY checkY checkY checkY checkY
When the Camellia Blooms checkY checkY checkY checkY checkY
You Have Done Well checkY checkY

Awards and nominations
Awards and nominations
Year Ceremony category Nominated Work Result Ref.
2013 The 5th Drama Script Contest 'Finding the Shooting Star in the Desert'[lower-alpha 1] SBS Plus Award Puberty Won [4][26]
2018 54th Baeksang Arts Awards Best Screenplay – Television Fight for My Way Nominated [27]
13th Seoul International Drama Awards Best Screenwriter Nominated [28]
2019 KBS Drama Awards Best Screenwriter When the Camellia Blooms Won [29][30]
2020 56th Baeksang Arts Award Best Screenplay – Television Won [31][32]
47th Korea Broadcasting Awards Best Screenwriter Won [33]
15th Seoul International Drama Awards Best Screenwriter Won [34]

State honors
Name of country, year given, and name of honor
Country Award Ceremony Year Honor Ref.
South Korea 11th Korean Popular Culture and Arts Awards[lower-alpha 4] 2020 Commendation from the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism [35]

See also
  • South Korean Screenwriter

Notes
  1. Drama Script Contest 'Finding the shooting star in the desert' (드라마극본공모전 '사막의 별똥별 찾기') is hosted by Broadcasting Contents Promotion Foundation (BCPF). Since 2008, this is the only drama script contest hosted by a non-broadcasting company. The winning works are published as a collection of works and distributed to drama production companies and broadcasting companies so that they can be produced as actual dramas.[5]
  2. For Japan, all episodes were launched at once on November 15, while for the rest of the world it was launched weekly from September 28.
  3. Korea Television and Radio Writers Association (KTRWA) is an association composed of thousands of South Korean writers who write the radio and/or television shows, news program, documentaries and translated scripts. This Association was established to protect all rights of broadcasting writers, including copyrights, and to contribute to the development of culture through the improvement and development of broadcasting literature and the exchange of broadcasting writers. The Association started as a social group in 1957 and was formally established in April 1988. In July of that year, the Association opened the Broadcasting Writers Education Center and received permission to manage copyright trusts, thereby taking a leading role in the protection of copyrights and other rights of broadcasting writers. There are currently around 3,700 active members from various fields, including variety program, documentary, drama, radio, translation, and entertainment.[18][19]
  4. The Korean Popular Culture and Arts Awards (Korean: 대한민국 대중문화예술상) is an annual South Korean government-run awards ceremony hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism's Korea Creative Content Agency. The ceremony, which was first held in 2010, "honor[s] those who have made a contribution to contemporary pop culture and the arts, including actors, singers, comedians and models."

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