Yeon Sang-ho

Yeon Sang-ho (b. 1978) is a South Korean director and screenwriter. In 2012, his first film The King of Pigs was the first South Kore­an ani­mat­ed fea­ture film to be pre­sent­ed at the Cannes Film Fes­ti­val. In 2016, he came back to Cannes with Train to Busan, a genre film pre­sent­ed dur­ing a Mid­night screen­ing which would become a huge inter­na­tion­al suc­cess. A mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary artist, he became the genre mas­ter in South Korea with var­i­ous projects: super-hero film Psy­choki­ne­sis, hor­ror TV series The Cursed, and comics web series Hell.