After graduating from Gyeongbo High School and graduating from Korea University Law School, he worked as an assistant director to director No Pil, working as an assistant director for ‘Dream Gone’, ‘Even If Love Goes on’ (1959), and ‘Late Night Blues’ (1960). He worked as an assistant director for more than 50 authentic melodramas, including ‘Goodbye’ (1963) and ‘Waves’ (1967).
His directorial debut was in 1971 with the melodrama “Even if I Hate You”. The film that he made a comeback with five years after the failure of his debut film was ‘High School Yalgae’ (1976), one of the representative films of the 1970s. This movie, which is based on Jo Heun Pa’s cheerful novel ‘Yalgaejeon’, mobilized over 260,000 viewers at the time, creating a love for teen movies.
In the end, when teen movies disappeared in 1980, after a long silence, he released a series of youth films for college students whose audience age was higher than that of teen movies. Although he is a director who opened the heyday of teen movies, he soon fell into stagnation while settling for teen movies with similar content. Nevertheless, his series of teen films in the 1970s occupy an indispensable place in Korean film history in many ways.
(Source: KMDb)