Yoon Seok-Ho is a South Korean

South Korea

The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

 television drama

Korean drama

Korean drama refers to televised dramas, in a miniseries format, produced in the Korean language. Many of these dramas have become popular throughout Asia and have contributed to the general phenomenon of the Korean wave, known as "Hallyu", and also "Drama Fever" in some countries...

 director

Television director

A television director directs the activities involved in making a television program and is part of a television crew.-Duties:The duties of a television director vary depending on whether the production is live or recorded to video tape or video server .In both types of productions, the...

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He was the director of four TV series produced by KBS that are sometimes collectively referred to as Endless Love

Endless Love (TV series)

Endless Love was the unofficial title for a set of four Korean drama series directed by Yoon Seok-Ho, produced by KBS stations.- Structure :...

, each containing the name of one of the four seasons in its title. The series were immensely popular throughout Asia, especially Winter Sonata

Winter Sonata

Winter Sonata is a South Korean television drama series broadcast by KBS in 2002. It is the second part of the Endless Love installment directed by Yoon Seok-Ho...

, and intensified a surge in popularity of Korean popular culture known as Hallyu, or the Korean Wave

Korean wave

The Korean Wave, also known as the Hallyu , refers to spread of South Korean culture around the world. The term was coined in China in mid-1999 by Beijing journalists surprised by the fast growing popularity of Korean entertainment and culture in China...

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Profile

• Joined KBS in 1985
• Worked as senior producer for KBS
• Today president of Yoon's Color Ltd.

Work

• Love Rain
  Love Rain
  Love Rain is a 2012 South Korean drama. The series will be aired from 2012 on the Korean network KBS2. It starred Jang Geun Suk & Yoona....
  
   (KBS2, 2012)
• Wedding Dress
  Wedding Dress (film)
  - Plot :Go-eun , a wedding dress designer and single mom, has only a limited number of days to live. Before parting from her young daughter So-ra , Go-eun wants to do everything she can for her, including making a beautiful wedding dress for So-ra for the future...
  
   (KBS, 2009)
• Spring Waltz
  Spring Waltz
  Spring Waltz is the fourth and final installment of Yoon Seok-Ho's seasonal drama series, Endless Love directed by Yoon Seok-Ho, following the preceding Autumn in My Heart, Winter Sonata and Summer Scent.- Series Development :...
  
   (KBS, 2006)
• Summer Scent
  Summer Scent
  Summer Scent is a 20-episode TV drama series made in 2003. It is the third installment of the four part Endless Love drama series directed by Yoon Seok-Ho, produced by South Korean TV Network KBS.- Storyline :...
  
   (KBS, 2003)
• Winter Sonata
  Winter Sonata
  Winter Sonata is a South Korean television drama series broadcast by KBS in 2002. It is the second part of the Endless Love installment directed by Yoon Seok-Ho...
  
   (KBS, 2002)
• Autumn in My Heart (KBS, 2000)
• Invitation
  Invitation
  Invitation is the first full-length studio album from the Finnish power metal band Altaria.-Track listing:# "Unicorn" – 3:32# "History of Times to Come" – 4:16# "Ravenwing" – 4:30# "Innocent" – 4:11# "Wrath of a Warchild" – 4:13...
  
  (KBS, 1999)

Awards

• TV production award, 38th Baeksang Art Awards (2002)
• Drama Work Award, Korea Broadcasting Grand Awards
• Merit Award from Kinema Junbo, Japan
• Selected as the Person of the Year in 2004 by UNESCO Seoul Association

External links

• Profile (empas)
• Profile (epg)
• Article: Winter Sonata' Producer Readies New Drama (The Korea Times, 2005-04-18)