Kim Jeon-han
Writing
Biography
At age thirty, Jeonhan Kim became a writer when his scenario was chosen in the Korean Film Council competition, and when one of his poems won the prize at the Munhwa Ilbo competition. Since then, he has written novels, webtoons, and epic books while working as a screenwriter for several films. He wrote scenarios for Bong Ja (2001), Green Chair (2005), Driving with My Wife’s Lover (2006), Autumn Sonata (2017), and Farewell Restaurant (2020). In 2008, he was invited to several film festivals, including International Film Festival Innsbruck, with his directorial debut film Moon Palace (2008).
Known For
When she falls in love with a handsome minor, a South Korean housewife finds herself at the center of a sexual scandal and hounded by hungry tabloid journalists. She vows to cut him out of her life but then he reaches the age of legal consent.
Green Chair
A mild-mannered stamp maker searches for the man who slept with his wife. Disguised as a customer, he approaches the man.
Driving with My Wife's Lover
It is said that time is equal to everyone but things are different to Suryeon who turns 30. She doesn't have much time to live. Her dad died from disease when she was young. She expects the same path.
Autumn Sonata
Thomas is a meek man on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Despite his situation he decides to fake a work trip to go to Vallarta to confront Jero, a taxi driver who is sleeping with his wife.
¿Y cómo es él?
Bong-ja is perfectly happy in her monotonous life of making and selling seaweed rolls near a train station. However, when a free spirited teenage girl enters her life and takes over her home, Bong-ja begins to feel the stirrings of love as disaster brews.
Bongja
Hae-jin, a chef who suddenly broke up through Kakao, left for Skopelos, Greece, the same island he promised to come with for the summer vacation. Hae-jin opened a Korean restaurant called Farewell Restaurant. For couples' last farewell before their breakups, they play music and comfort them. And then one day, Eleni, a Greek girl came… and he falls in love again.
Farewell Restaurant
The cat in a box, is it dead or alive? Schrödinger, a quantum physicist, asked the question. He answered that the cat is simultaneously both dead and alive. It paved a path to paradox. The monk in the house seeks after the truth in quantum physics. The time for the stars to bloom, the sunset when the flowers fall, the moment when light disappears in darkness, how do they exist in the same landscape? His question becomes spiral stairs.
The House Beyond the Stairs
Director and screenwriter Kim Jeonhan filmed “Yebeodeong Literature House,” a writing studio located in Hoengseong, Gangwon Province, for two years.