Kim Soo-yong | |
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| Born | 23 September 1929 |
| Died | 3 December 2023 (aged 94) |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1958–1999 |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 김수용 |
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Gim Su-yong |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kim Su-yong |
Kim Soo-yong (Korean: 김수용; 23 September 1929 – 3 December 2023) was a South Korean film director. Kim made his debut in 1958 with A Henpecked Husband and directed more than 100 movies through 1999 with Scent of Love (2000). He made many popular commercial films of the past decades, such as Sad Story of Self Supporting Child (a.k.a. Sorrow in the Heavens) (1965) as well as some 50 literary movies based on popular Korean novels such as The Sea Village (1965) and Mist (1967).[1][2][3] Kim died on 3 December 2023, at the age of 94.[4]
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- ^ "'저 하늘에도 슬픔이' 김수용 감독 별세". KBS News (in Korean). Retrieved 3 December 2023.