Kim Jho Kwang-soo also known as Peter Kim, is a South Korean filmmaker.

Career

Kim is one of South Korea's few openly gay film directors and has been involved in the production of several works with gay themes. He collaborated with director Leesong Hee-il

Leesong Hee-il

Leesong Hee-il is a South Korean film director whose first feature film No Regret is regarded as "the first real Korean gay feature." The film won him Best Independent Director at the 2006 Director's CUT Awards...

 to produce the 2006 film No Regret

No Regret (film)

No Regret is a 2006 South Korean film and the feature film directorial debut of Leesong Hee-il, based on his earlier short Good Romance...

, considered to be "the first real Korean gay feature." In 2008, he directed and screenwrote his first short film, Boy Meets Boy

Boy Meets Boy (film)

Boy Meet Boy is a 2008 South Korean short film directed by Kim Jho Kwang-soo.It premiered at the 13th Pusan International Film Festival in 2008. It was theatrically released in South Korea on November 20, 2008.- Plot :...

as well as two follow-ups: Just Friends?

Just Friends?

Just Friends? is a 2009 South Korean short film directed and written by Kim Jho Kwang-soo. It is the second installment in a series of gay-themed short films directed by Kim, following the 2008 film Boy Meets Boy...

(2009) and LOVE, 100°C (2010).

Director

• 2008 Boy Meets Boy
  Boy Meets Boy (film)
  Boy Meet Boy is a 2008 South Korean short film directed by Kim Jho Kwang-soo.It premiered at the 13th Pusan International Film Festival in 2008. It was theatrically released in South Korea on November 20, 2008.- Plot :...
  
  
• 2009 Just Friends?
  Just Friends?
  Just Friends? is a 2009 South Korean short film directed and written by Kim Jho Kwang-soo. It is the second installment in a series of gay-themed short films directed by Kim, following the 2008 film Boy Meets Boy...
  
  
• 2010 Ghost
• 2010 LOVE, 100°C

Writer

• 2008 Boy Meets Boy
  Boy Meets Boy (film)
  Boy Meet Boy is a 2008 South Korean short film directed by Kim Jho Kwang-soo.It premiered at the 13th Pusan International Film Festival in 2008. It was theatrically released in South Korea on November 20, 2008.- Plot :...
  
  
• 2009 Just Friends?
  Just Friends?
  Just Friends? is a 2009 South Korean short film directed and written by Kim Jho Kwang-soo. It is the second installment in a series of gay-themed short films directed by Kim, following the 2008 film Boy Meets Boy...
  
  
• 2010 Ghost
• 2010 LOVE, 100°C

Producer

• 2001 Wanee and Junah
• 2002 Jealousy Is My Middle Name
  Jealousy is My Middle Name
  Jealousy is My Middle Name is a 2002 South Korean film. It won Best Film honors at the Pusan International Film Festival and the Rotterdam Film Festival and was the directorial debut of Park Chan-ok. It was inspired by the poem of the same name by Ki Hyung-do....
  
  
• 2004 So Cute
  So Cute
  So Cute is a 2003 South Korean film about four men on the margins of society who fall in love with the same woman. It was selected to screen at the Pusan International Film Festival and the 2005 Brisbane Film Festival. It marked the acting debut of director Jang Sun-woo...
  
  
• 2005 The Red Shoes
  The Red Shoes (2005 film)
  The Red Shoes is a 2005 horror film written and directed by Kim Yong-gyun. Kim Yong-gyun was inspired by the fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen, where a vain stepdaughter could not stop dancing in her enchanted red shoes.-Plot:Set in Seoul, Sun-jae leaves her unfaithful husband...
  
  
• 2006 No Regret
  No Regret (film)
  No Regret is a 2006 South Korean film and the feature film directorial debut of Leesong Hee-il, based on his earlier short Good Romance...
  
  
• 2006 Boys of Tomorrow
• 2006 Pornmaking for Dummies
  Pornmaking for Dummies
  Pornmaking for Dummies is a 2007 South Korean film. An independent production created by former pornographic film director Kong Ja-kwan, Pornmaking for Dummies is a fictional story based on his own personal experiences of working within that industry....
  
  
• 2007 Milky Way Liberation Front
  Milky Way Liberation Front
  Milky Way Liberation Front is a 2007 South Korean film.- Plot :Yeong-jae is dumped by his girlfriend as he struggles writing the script for his new film. As the pressure mounts, he develops aphasia.- Cast :* Im Ji-gyu ... Yeong-jae...
  
  
• 2008 Death Bell
  Death Bell
  Death Bell is a 2008 South Korean film. The only Korean horror film released over the summer of 2008, it is the first feature by former music video director Chang , who also co-wrote the screenplay. Death Bell stars Lee Beom-soo in his first horror film role, and K-pop singer Nam Gyu-ri in her...
  
  
• 2009 More Than Blue
  More Than Blue
  More Than Blue is a 2009 South Korean film. The directorial debut of poet Won Tae-yeon, it stars Kwon Sang-woo, Lee Bo-young and Lee Beom-soo in the lead roles...
  
  
• 2009 Break Away
• 2010 Ghost

See also

• List of Korean film directors
• Cinema of Korea
  Cinema of Korea
  Korean cinema encompasses the motion picture industries of North and South Korea. As with all aspects of Korean life during the past century, the film industry has often been at the mercy of political events, from the late Joseon dynasty to the Korean War to domestic governmental interference...
  
  
• Contemporary culture of South Korea
  Contemporary culture of South Korea
  The 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...
  
  

External links

Kim Jho Kwang-soo at the Korean Movie Database

Korean Movie Database

The Korean Movie Database is a South Korean online database of information related to Korean movies, animation, actors, television shows, production crew personnel and other film-related information. KMDb launched on February 2006 by Korean Film Archive...