Bae Yong-Kyun
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Bae Yong-Kyun is a South Korean film director, painter, and professor. He is best known for his Seon(Zen)-influenced 1989 film Dharmaga tongjoguro kan kkadalgun
(Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East, 달마가 동쪽으로 간 까닭은). He also wrote and directed one other film, Geomeuna dange huina baekseong (The People in White, 1995).
Bae is a painter by training. He holds a doctorate and serves as an art professor in South Korea.
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? is an award-winning South Korean film written, produced and directed by Bae Yong-kyun, a professor at Dongguk University in Seoul. Known principally as a painter, Bae spent seven years making this film with one camera and editing it by hand...
(Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East, 달마가 동쪽으로 간 까닭은). He also wrote and directed one other film, Geomeuna dange huina baekseong (The People in White, 1995).
Bae is a painter by training. He holds a doctorate and serves as an art professor in South Korea.
See also
- List of Korean film directors
- Korean cinema
- Contemporary culture of South KoreaContemporary culture of South KoreaThe contemporary culture of South Korea developed from the traditional culture of Korea, and on its own path away from North Korean culture since the division of Korea in 1948. The industrialization and urbanization of South Korea, especially Seoul, have brought many changes to the way Korean...