Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Known Credits
19
Gender
Male
Birthday
1962-01-01 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
Seoul, South Korea
Also Known As
Daeu Kim
Dae-woo Kim
Kim Dae-woo
김대우
金大佑
Kim Dae-woo
Biography
Kim Dae-woo is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Kim started his filmmaking career by winning the 1991 Korean Film Council Screenplay Contest. He was an accomplished screenwriter with a number of hit scripts, including The Girl for Love and The One for Marriage (1993), An Affair (1998), Rainbow Trout (1999), and Untold Scandal (2003). Making a switch to directing, he debuted with the hit period drama film Forbidden Quest (2006), followed by The Servant (2010) and Obsessed (2014). Forbidden Quest won the Best New Director at the 42nd Baeksang Arts Awards, and Best New Director and Best Screenplay at the 26th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards in 2006.
