Yu Hyun-mok
Birthday
1925/07/02
Day of death
2009/06/28 (84 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Sariwon, Hwanghae Province, North Korea
Also know as
유현목, Hyun-Monk Yu, Hyun-mok Yoo, Yoo Hyun Mok , Yoo Hyun-mok , Yoo Hyunmok , Hyunmok Yu , Yu Hyun Mok , Yu Hyun-mok , Yu Hyunmok , Ю Хён Мок, Ю Хён-мок, Ю Хёнмок, Хёнмок Ю
Biography
Yu Hyun-mok (July 2, 1925 – June 28, 2009) was a South Korean film director. Born in Sariwon, Hwanghae, Korea (North Korea today), he made his film debut in 1956 with Gyocharo (Crossroads). According to the website koreanfilm.org, his 1961 film Obaltan "has repeatedly been voted the best Korean film of all time in local critics' polls." Yu attended the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1963, where Variety called Obaltan a "remarkable film", and praised Yu's "[b]rilliantly detailed cam...Read more
