Bong Joon-ho Height, Weight, Age, Bio, Wiki & More

Bong Joon-ho was born on 14 September 1969 Bongdeok-dong, Nam District – Daegu, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. His zodiac sign is Virgo. While Bong was concentrating in grade school, his family migrated to Jamsil-dong in Seoul. From that point, he did his tutoring from Jamsil High School, Songpa-gu, Seoul. He enlisted at Yonsei University, Seoul in 1988 to do his majors in Sociology. In 1992, Bong came back from his obligatory military help and finished his graduation in 1995. He finished a two-year program in filmmaking from Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA), Busan.

His dad, Bong Sang-kyun was a visual architect, an educator of Applied Arts at Seoul National University of Science and Technology, and his mom, Park So-youthful was a homemaker. He is the most youthful of the four siblings (2 siblings and 2 sisters). His sibling, Bong Joon-soo is an English Professor at Seoul National University. His sister, Bong Ji-hee is a style fashioner and a Professor of Fashion Designer at Hanyang University. He got married to the screenwriter Jung Sun-youthful in 1995. The couple has a child named Bong Hyo-min.

During his school days, he shaped a film club called “Yellow Door” with the understudies from neighboring universities like Hongik University, Ewha Womans University, and Sogang University. He made short movies with them; the initial ones being, “Heaven” (1994) and “Baeksaekin (White Man)” (1994). Out of which, the last was screened at the Vancouver and Hong Kong global film celebrations. He made some progressively short movies, for example, “Confusion” (1994), “The Memories in My Frame” (1994), Twentidentity (2003; fragment Sink and Rise), Digital Short Films by Three Directors (2004; section Influenza), Tokyo! (2008; section Shaking Tokyo), and 3.11 A Sense of Home (2011; fragment Iki). He additionally teamed up a few times with his cohorts remembering functioning as a cinematographer for exceptionally acclaimed 2001 Jang Joon-hwan’s short movie “Envision” and Hur Jae-youthful’s short movie “A Hat.” He likewise filled in as a helping executive in “Sounds From Heaven and Earth” by Choi Equan, and “The Love of a Grape Seed.”

After his graduation, he worked with different executives in different filmmaking limits. He got incomplete credit as a screenwriter for the 1996 film “Seven Reasons Why Beer is Better Than My Lover.” In 1997, Bong Joon-ho made his introduction as a screenwriter with the 1997 film “Inn Cactus.”

He rose to universal conspicuousness with his film “The Host” (2006). The movie got a blissful debut in the Director’s Fortnight segment at the 2006 Cannes Festival. His first English-language film “Snowpiercer” was discharged in 2013. He coordinated and composed the screenplay of numerous movies, for example, Memories of Murder (2003), Antarctic Journal (2005), The Host (2006), Mother (2009), Snowpiercer (2013), Sea Fog (2014), Okja (2017), and Parasite (2019). He made his presentation as a maker with the film “Ocean Fog” (2014). He has likewise created the movies Okja (2017), and Parasite (2019).

Some Important Facts About Bong Joon-ho :-

1. He likes to watching film and collecting blu-rays.
2. Bong Joon-ho’s artistic sense comes from his family. His dad was a graphic designer, and his maternal granddad, Park Taewon was a famous Korean author.
3. He never got an opportunity to meet his maternal granddad; in light of the fact that their family had isolated after the Korean War.
4. His granddad carried on with an amazing remainder in Pyongyang, North Korea. His mom’s sister’s additionally lived there and rejoined in 2006 following 56 years.
5. Since his youth, he cherished watching films. At the point when he was in center school, he chose to turn into a movie chief.