Yim Pil-sung (born May 13, 1972) is a South Korean film director and
screenwriter. He wrote and directed Antarctic Journal (2005), Hansel
and Gretel (2007), and Scarlet Innocence (2014).Yim Pil-sung began
directing short films in 1997, with Souvenir as his first. Brushing
(1998), about an overweight teenage boy who is left home alone with
his senile grandfather, was invited to the Clermont-Ferrand
International Short Film Festival. Baby (1999) screened at the Venice
Film Festival and Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Mobile
(starring Park Hae-il, Yoon Jin-seo, and Yoon Je-moon) was included in
the 2003 omnibus Show Me.In 2005, he made his feature film debut with
Antarctic Journal, a tale of six South Korean explorers on an
expedition to reach one of the remotest points in the South Pole,
until mysterious deaths begin to occur as the human psyche preys on
itself amidst the icy, barren landscape. The big-budget film starred
Song Kang-ho and Yoo Ji-tae, and was shot in New Zealand. It won the
Best Feature Film award in the Orient Express-Casa Asia section of the
38th Sitges Film Festival.Yim then played a small supporting role in
Bong Joon-ho's monster movie The Host (2006), as a white-collar worker
who betrays his college friend. He had agreed to appear in the film in
exchange for Bong co-writing the screenplay to Antarctic Journal. Yim Pil-sung Biography, Weight & Height, Age, Nationality & Ethnicity
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