Kim Kiyoung

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kim Kiyoung
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Oct 10, 1919(1919-10-10)
Age	105
Date Of Death	February 5, 1998, Seoul, South Korea
Birthplace	Gyeongun-dong
Country	South Korea
Horoscope	Libra

Kim Kiyoung Biography

Kim Kiyoung is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on October 10, 1919 in Gyeongun-dong, South Korea.

Kim Ki-young was born in the Gyo-dong neighborhood of Seoul—now part of Gyeongun-dong in Jongno-gu—on October 10, 1922. His family had lived in Seoul for several generations, and his grandfather was a guard at Gwanghwamun. Kim’s family was well-educated and artistically inclined. His father, Kim Seok-jin, was an English teacher, and his mother, Han Jin-cho, was also a teacher and a graduate of Gyeonggi Women’s College. Both painted as a hobby. The family had two daughters, and Kim Ki-young was their only son. One of his sisters graduated as an art major from Seoul National University, and the other majored in dance at Ewha Womans University. His sisters encouraged the young Kim to develop his own creativity. The family moved to Pyongyang in 1930, where they stayed for the next 10 years. At Pyongyang National High School, Kim showed exceptional talent in music, painting and writing, and his studious nature earned him the nickname “Professor of Physics”. While still a student, one of Kim’s poems was published in a Japanese newspaper, and he was awarded first prize in a painting competition.

Despite his artistic talents, Kim’s main interest was medicine, and he applied for entrance into medical school upon graduation from high school in 1940. When he failed to gain admittance, Kim moved to Japan, planning to study and save up money to reapply for medical school. The theater and cinema grew into lifetime interests at this time. Kim often went to Kyoto, where he attended many stage productions and saw many international films. Josef von Sternberg’s Morocco (1930) and Fritz Lang’s M (1931) made a particularly strong impression on him, and their influence was to show in his mature film style.

Kim Kiyoung Net Worth

Kim Kiyoung is one of the richest Film Director from South Korea. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kim Kiyoung 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Kim Ki-young (October 10, 1919 – February 5, 1998) was a South Korean film director, known for his intensely psychosexual and melodramatic horror films, often focusing on the psychology of their female characters. Kim was born in Seoul during the colonial period, raised in Pyongyang, where he became interested in theater and cinema. In Korea after the end of World War II, he studied dentistry while becoming involved in the theater. During the Korean War, he made propaganda films for the United States Information Service. In 1955, he used discarded movie equipments to produce his first two films. With the success of these two films Kim formed his own production company and produced popular melodramas for the rest of the decade.

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In 1956 Kim started Kim Ki-young Productions, and began making melodramas, the most popular film genre in South Korea at the time. His first independent production was Touch-Me-Not (1956). In 1957, Kim was living near the red-light district of Yongsan, and the atmosphere of this neighborhood influenced his films, A Woman’s War and Twilight Train (both 1957). With First Snow (1958), Kim moved from melodrama to a more socially conscious realism. Defiance of a Teenager (1959) and Sad Pastorale (1960) followed in this style. Defiance of a Teenager was one of Kim’s most successful and respected early works, and he attended the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1960 for a showing of this film.

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Kimmo Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Korea. Kim Kiyoung celebrates birthday on October 10 of every year.

Some of the characteristic traits of Kim’s mature style, first seen in these three films, are gothic excess, surrealism, horror, perversions and sexuality. Although in stark contrast to the realism, harmony, balance and sentimentality typical of Korean cinema of the time, Kim’s films, in an eccentric and metaphorical way, deal with the realities of postwar, industrializing South Korean society and psychology. After having firmly established his auteur status with these films, Kim’s unique vision began to wane in his films of the later 1960s.