Kim Dong-won
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday24 February 1955 (71 years old)
Known credits17
Biography
KIM Dong-won is like a godfather to Korean documentaries. As the leader of [PURN Production], a documentary production house that focused on unearthing the contradictions of Korean society from a progressive viewpoint. Purporting to make “good,” rather than “fun” movies, his camera zoomed straight in on the dark corners of the society, places full of contradictions, and refuges of the socially disadvantaged. KIM’s works provided textbook examples to Korea’s documentary directors that followed in his footsteps. His debut movie, < Sangye-dong Olympics >(1987), deals with people of Sangye-dong, a…

The 2nd Repatriation
2022 · Director

88/18
2018 · Self

Jung Il-woo, My Friend
2017 · Director

63 Years On
2008 · Director

JONGNO, WINTER
2006 · Director

If You Were Me 2
2006 · Director

Repatriation
2004 · Director

Repatriation
2004 · Screenplay

TEKKEN FAMILY
2002 · Director

A man
2001 · Director

Another World We Are Making: Haengdang-Dong People 2
1999 · Director

The 6 Days Struggle at the Myong-Dong Cathedral
1997 · Director

People In A Flood Of Media
1995 · Director

We'll Be One
1995 · Director

Haengdang-dong People
1994 · Director

Standing on the Edge of Death
1990 · Director

Sanggyedong Olympic
1988 · Director

Sanggyedong Olympic
1988 · Director of Photography

James' May
1986 · Director
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