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Ryoo Seung-wan Biography
Ryoo Seung-wan is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on December 15, 1973 in Asan, South Chungcheong Province, South Korea.
Ryoo Seung-wan (born December 15, 1973) is a South Korean film director.
Ryoo became his family’s sole breadwinner after he lost his parents while in middle school. He later dropped out of high school in 1992 and worked for six months to raise enough money to cover a year’s worth of basic living expenses for his family. After that he joined a private film workshop, and paid his tuition through several part-time jobs: as a construction worker, hotel janitor, vegetable cart driver, and even an instructor at an illegal driving school. Ryoo, a fan of a young unknown director named Park Chan-wook’s 1992 debut The Moon Is… the Sun’s Dream and his work as a critic, went to meet Park and the two quickly became friends. Those formative years also saw Ryoo’s debut as a ‘real’ director, with the 1996 short Transmutated Head. The 19-minute short’s DP was Jang Joon-hwan (then a young film academy student), and it featured many familiar faces in the Korean indie scene, including character actor Heo Jong-soo and Lee Mu-young (future director of The Humanist).
| Name | Ryoo Seung-wan |
| First Name | Anthony |
| Last Name | Ang |
| Occupation | Film Director |
| Birthday | December 15 |
| Birth Year | 1973 |
| Place of Birth | Asan |
| Home Town | South Chungcheong Province |
| Birth Country | South Korea |
| Birth Sign | Sagittarius |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Father | Not Available |
| Mother | Not Available |
| Siblings | Ryoo Seung-bum |
| Spouse | Hye-Jung Kang |
| Children(s) | Ryoo Eui-jin, Ryoo Hyun-jin, Ryoo Seo-jin |
Ethnicity, religion & political views
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With a few years of experience as assistant director on Whispering Corridors and Park’s 1997 film Trio, Ryoo was ready to jumpstart his own career. Ryoo’s debut was initially planned as a full-fledged feature film, but various issues forced him to instead shoot separate short films sharing common characters and themes. In 1998 his short film Rumble won him the Best Film at the 1998 Busan Short Film Festival, and a year later he signed a contract to develop a feature film out of Rumble and three following sequels, one of which was his short Modern Man, which was not only the audience’s favorite, but also won Best Film at a Short Film Festival in 1999. The four shorts, shot on an ultra-low budget of around ₩65 million, became Ryoo’s first feature film: Die Bad. In an era when blockbusters like Shiri and Joint Security Area were the rage in Korean cinema, the action dramedy became an instant sensation. Starring in the film himself along with some industry friends and even his little brother Ryoo Seung-bum, Ryoo became an instant cult hit, praised left and right for his masterful debut. With his directorial debut, Ryoo became known as the “Action Kid.”
Ryoo Seung-wan Net Worth
Ryoo Seung-wan is one of the richest Film Director from South Korea. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ryoo Seung-wan's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Ryoo Seung-wan was born in 1973 in Onyang, a small town in South Chungcheong Province. With the choice of domestic films mostly limited to propaganda and hostess films due to extreme government censorship, young Ryoo often opted for the more kinetic and free-spirited action films from the Shaw Brothers canon. Watching Jackie Chan’s Drunken Master turned him into a lifelong fan, and Ryoo spent his youth building his knowledge and love for Hong Kong action. Dreaming of becoming a film director someday, he took taekwondo lessons and saved lunch money for three years in middle school to buy an 8mm camera, with which he shot short films.
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Film Director |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
With the country experiencing tremendous growth in high-speed Internet penetration, a few companies tried to bank on this momentum by producing online short films. In 2000 the now defunct Cine4M website released a short film by Ryoo alongside Jang Jin’s A Terrible Day and Kim Jee-woon’s Coming Out. Titled after industry slang (“tachimawari” is a part of Kabuki theater plays that involve spectacular action scenes), the short Dachimawa Lee was a wild and hilarious parody of the films he grew up with: Korean action films of the 60s and 70s, Bruce Lee and Shaw Brothers flicks, the machismo kitsch of old Korean melodramas, and of course Jackie Chan. Coupling over-the-top voice dubbing with deliberately mistimed action, Dachimawa Lee was an enormous success online, making lead actor Im Won-hee a minor star and the Ryoo Brothers even bigger names.
After the success of 2003’s If You Were Me, South Korea’s National Commission on Human Rights commissioned a second omnibus film in 2006, If You Were Me 2. Five directors — Park Kyung-hee, Jang Jin, Jung Ji-woo, Kim Dong-won and Ryoo — contributed short films on a human rights issue of their choosing. Ryoo’s short Hey Man! is almost one complete take of a man (Kim Su-yeon) with multiple prejudices that lead him to cast off every one of his “friends” and fellow patrons who are sharing the communal space of a late night restaurant.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
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| Height | Unknown |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
| Eye Color | Not Available |
| Hair Color | Not Available |
| Feet/Shoe Size | Not Available |
Ryoo is married to Kang Hye-jung, film producer and CEO of their production company Filmmaker R&K. They met when Kang was a crew member on his 1996 short Transmutated Head.
In 2006 Seoul Art Cinema organized a special program “Anatomy of Violence: Ryoo Seung-wan’s Action School” wherein Ryoo selected 10 films to screen and discuss with participants, including five of his own works. The program aimed to better understand the art of action filmmaking.
Who is Ryoo Seung-wan Dating?
According to our records, Ryoo Seung-wan married to Hye-Jung Kang. As of December 1, 2023, Ryoo Seung-wan’s is not dating anyone.
Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Ryoo Seung-wan. You may help us to build the dating records for Ryoo Seung-wan!It took another two years for Ryoo to come back, but 2005’s Crying Fist was in many ways proof he had matured beyond easy labels and traditional genre boundaries. Ryoo was more than just an action kid. Starring acclaimed veteran actor Choi Min-sik, the film saw the official birth of a new star, Ryoo Seung-bum. Steadily impressing critics and audiences since his debut in 2000, Ryoo displayed amazing energy and range in the film, such that he often overshadowed his older, more prestigious colleague. But the real star of Crying Fist was none other than Ryoo Seung-wan. Finally stripping himself from genre tropes, he was able to draw an incredible emotional portrayal of two people winning the most important boxing game of their life: the match against their own inner demons. More a story of survival than a simple sports drama, Crying Fist opened on April 1, 2005 against Ryoo’s old friend Kim Jee-woon’s A Bittersweet Life, offering one of the best double-headers of 2005. The two films garnered excellent reviews, but ended up canceling each other at the box office, selling a little over a million tickets a piece.
Facts & Trivia
Anthony Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Korea. Ryoo Seung-wan celebrates birthday on December 15 of every year.
In 2009 Ryoo directed four mini-movies for the Korea Tourism Organization targeted at the Chinese market. Each movie tells a story that represents the beauty of Korea’s travel locations through four themes: Hallyu (Korean movies and dramas), food, shopping and trendy places to visit like Hongdae or Cheongdam-dong. The tourism commercials starred Gao Yuanyuan and Li Guangjie as a Chinese couple, with cameos by Song Seung-heon, Park Hae-jin and Park Eun-hye.
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