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Hwang Dong-hyeok

South Korean film director and screenwriter · South Korea · On the map · Directors · Born 1971 · age 55

Hwang Dong-hyuk is a South Korean filmmaker known for writing and directing the crime drama film Silenced (2011) and the creator of Netflix's Squid Game (2021-2025).

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A life in dates

2026The Affair Was Just the BeginningSeries, Producer2025Squid Game in ConversationFilmSquid Game: Making Season 2Film, 20252024Squid Game: The Official PodcastSeries2023Making Squid Game: The ChallengeFilm2022Order of Cultural Merit, 1st classAwardTime 100Award2021Next Entertainment, VisionarySeriesSquid GameSeries, 2021Director, Writer2020CollectorsFilm, Producer2018Twenties Once AgainSeries, Writer2017The FortressFilm, Director, Writer2014Miss GrannyFilm, Director2013Came To Me And Become A StarFilm, Director2012Baeksang Arts AwardsSeries2011SilencedFilm, Director, Writer2007My FatherFilm, Director, Writer2000DesperationFilm, Director, Writer1971Born26 May 1971

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  • Squid Game: Making Season 2 2025
  • Silenced 2011
  • Making Squid Game: The Challenge 2023
  • Miss Granny 2014
  • The Fortress 2017

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Filmography 12

33 credits on file

Television 7

Media & music

Photos 1

Awards

Time 1002022
Order of Cultural Merit, 1st class2022

About this person

Country
South Korea
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1971 · age 55

In the same film or series as Hwang

Kim Ji-seokAlso in Came To Me And Become A Star (2013)Lee Je-hoonAlso in Collectors (2020)Daniel HenneyAlso in My Father (2007)Shim Eun KyungAlso in Miss Granny (2014)