Park Hoon-Jung

Park Hoon-jung is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Park first attracted notice within the Korean film industry for writing the screenplays for Kim Ji-woon's I Saw the Devil (2010) and Ryoo Seung-wan's The Unjust (2010). He made his debut as a director in 2011 with the period film The Showdown, which was largely overlooked by Korean viewers upon its release. However with his second film, gangster epic New World (2013), he scored a critical and commercial success.