# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jung-byung-gil
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:56:13.356Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jung-byung-gil"
name: "Jung Byung-gil"
slug: "jung-byung-gil"
description: "Jung Byung-gil is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Jung was trained at the Seoul Action School. He graduated from Chung-Ang University, majoring in film, before making his directorial debut with a documentary about stuntmen, Action Boys, in 2008. Jung gained international recognition\nwith the action thriller The Villainess, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017."
tagline: "South Korean film director and screenwriter"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/wWkvEhbAjNulm4fDQ945G8S3dj0.jpg"
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: "1980-08-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.018864
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3468066/"
    handle:    "nm3468066"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jung_Byung-gil"
    title: "Jung Byung-gil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "چونج بيونج جيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jung_Byung-gil"
    title: "Jung Byung-gil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jung_Byung-gil"
    title: "Jung Byung-gil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%DA%AF_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86%DA%AF-%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "جونگ بیونگ-گیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeong_Byeong-gil"
    title: "Jeong Byeong-gil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A0%95%EB%B3%91%EA%B8%B8"
    title: "정병길"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15985300"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/548646"
    title: "Jung Byung-gil"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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