Yoo Ha
Yoo Ha | |
|---|---|
| Born | Kim Young-joon February 9, 1963 Gochang, South Korea |
| Nationality | South Korean |
| Other names | Yu Ha |
| Education | BA, MA |
| Alma mater | Dongguk University, Sejong University |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, Screenwriter, Poet, Professor |
| Years active | 1988 - present |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 유하 |
| RR | Yu Ha |
| MR | Yu Ha |
| Birth name | |
| Hangul | 김영준 |
| Hanja | 金榮俊 |
| RR | Gim Yeongjun |
| MR | Kim Yŏngjun |
| Notes | |
Yoo Ha (Korean: 유하; or spelled Yu Ha; born 9 February 1963) is a South Korean film director, screenwriter and a contemporary poet. He directed the critically acclaimed films Marriage Is a Crazy Thing (2002), Once Upon a Time in High School (2004), A Dirty Carnival (2006) and Gangnam Blues (2015). The latter is a gangster movie with allusions to Martin Scorsese films like Gangs of New York, Mean Streets and Goodfellas.