Ryoo Seung-wan

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ryoo Seung-wan
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Dec 15, 1973(1973-12-15)
Age	51
Birthplace	Asan
Country	South Korea
Birth City	South Chungcheong Province
Horoscope	Sagittarius

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).

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.

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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.