Gloria Ui Young Kim

Gloria Ui Young Kim is a Korean Canadian film and television director and screenwriter, most noted as director of the films Queen of the Morning Calm and Left for Dead: The Ashley Reeves Story.

Born in Seoul, South Korea, she moved to Toronto, Ontario in childhood. She studied English literature at the University of Toronto, and worked as a journalist for Maclean's before studying filmmaking at the Canadian Film Centre's Directors Lab in 2008.

Kim made a number of short films, including Partial Selves (2000), Rock Garden: A Love Story (2007), The Auction (2010), Why Do I Dance? (2012) and Flamenco Movie (2015) before winning an award from Women in the Directors Chair in 2016 toward the production of Queen of the Morning Calm. and had its theatrical premiere at the 2019 Whistler Film Festival.

The television movie Left for Dead, produced in Canada by Cineflix, premiered in 2021 on Lifetime.

She has also directed episodes of the television series It's My Party!, Odd Squad, Coroner, Heartland and Murdoch Mysteries. She received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Direction in a Children's or Youth Program or Series at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020 for It's My Party!.