# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jeon-kyu-hwan
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:15:16.008Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jeon-kyu-hwan"
name: "Jeon Kyu-hwan"
slug: "jeon-kyu-hwan"
description: "Jeon Kyu-hwan is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Besides being the first Korean film to win the 2012 Queer Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival, The Weight (2012) also won various awards at film festivals, including Best Director at the 16th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and Silver Peacock Award for best director at the 43rd International Film Festival of India in 2012."
tagline: "South Korean film director and screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jeon_Kyu-hwan01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Korea"
  isoCode: "KR"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1965"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.53
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.136249333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3168127/"
    handle:    "nm3168127"
sources:
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A0%84%EA%B7%9C%ED%99%98"
    title: "전규환"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "چيون كيو هوان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeon_Kyu-hwan"
    title: "Jeon Kyu-hwan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeon_Kyu-hwan"
    title: "Jeon Kyu-hwan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeon_Kyu-hwan"
    title: "Jeon Kyu-hwan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeon_Kyu-hwan"
    title: "Jeon Kyu-hwan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3177233"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1043941"
    title: "Jeon Kyu-hwan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump