Lee Jeong-hyang

Lee Jeong-hyang (; born April 13, 1964) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. She is best known for The Way Home, a film she wrote and directed which won her Best Film and Best Original Screenplay at the Grand Bell Awards.

Life and career Born in South Korea, Lee attended Sogang University, majoring in French Language and Literature. She subsequently entered The Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) in 1988 and was a part of its fourth graduating class.

Upon graduation from KAFA, Lee worked as an assistant director on Declaration of Genius (1995), a film by Lee Jang-ho, a director who came to fame in the mid-1970s. It was during this time in 1995, when the government censorship was at its peak, that Lee began working on the script of what became her writer-directorial feature film debut, Art Museum by the Zoo (1998). The film, a semi-autobiographical The film premiered at the 16th Busan International Film Festival, nine years after the release of her last film.

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