Kim Jho Gwangsoo
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Kim Jho Gwang-soo | |
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Born | Kim Gwang-soo 1965 (age 58–59) Seongbuk District, Seoul, South Korea |
Other names | Kim Jho Kwang-soo Peter Kim |
Alma mater | Hanyang University |
Occupation | Film director, Screenwriter, Film producer |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 김조광수 |
Hanja | 金趙光秀 |
Revised Romanization | Gim Jo Gwang-su |
McCune–Reischauer | Kim Cho Kwang-su |
Birth name | |
Hangul | 김광수 |
Revised Romanization | Gim Gwang-su |
McCune–Reischauer | Kim Kwang-su |
Kim Jho Gwang-soo (Hangul: 김조광수; born 1965), also known as Peter Kim, is a South Korean film director, screenwriter, film producer and LGBT rights activist.[1][2]
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Career
Kim Gwang-soo was born in Seongbuk District, Seoul. He came out of the closet in 2006, and legally changed his name to Kim Jho Gwang-soo. Kim Jho is one of South Korea's few openly gay film directors and has been involved in the production of several works with LGBT themes.[3]
He collaborated with director Leesong Hee-il to produce the 2006 film No Regret, considered to be "the first real Korean gay feature."[4] In 2008, he directed and wrote his first short film, Boy Meets Boy as well as two follow-ups: Just Friends? (2009) and LOVE, 100°C (2010). His first feature film, Two Weddings and a Funeral was released in 2012.[5]
Personal life
Kim Jho held a public, non-legal wedding ceremony with film distributor David Kim Seung-hwan (his partner since 2004), in Seoul on September 7, 2013, the first of its kind in the country which does not recognize same-sex marriages.[6][7][8][9] The preparations for their wedding and the ceremony itself was the subject of Jang Hee-sun's 2015 documentary My Fair Wedding.[10]
Filmography
Director
- 2008 Boy Meets Boy
- 2009 Just Friends?
- 2010 Ghost (Be With Me)
- 2010 LOVE, 100°C
- 2012 Two Weddings and a Funeral
- 2014 One Night Only
Writer
- 2008 Boy Meets Boy
- 2009 Just Friends?
- 2010 LOVE, 100°C
- 2014 One Night Only
Producer
- 2001 Wanee & Junah
- 2002 Jealousy Is My Middle Name
- 2004 So Cute
- 2005 The Red Shoes
- 2006 No Regret
- 2006 Old Miss Diary
- 2007 Boys of Tomorrow
- 2007 Pornmaking for Dummies
- 2007 Milky Way Liberation Front
- 2010 Ghost (Be With Me)
- 2010 Break Away
- 2011 Detective K: Secret of the Virtuous Widow
- 2011 The Client
- 2015 Detective K: Secret of the Lost Island
See also
References
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- 1965 births
- Living people
- South Korean film directors
- LGBT people from South Korea
- LGBT rights activists from South Korea
- Gay writers
- LGBT directors
- South Korean human rights activists
- South Korean humanitarians
- South Korean writers
- South Korean columnists