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Yeon Sang-ho

South Korean film director and screenwriter · South Korea · On the map · Directors · Born 1978 · age 48

Yeon Sang-ho is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He gained international popularity for working his adult animated films The King of Pigs (2011) and The Fake (2013), and the live-action film Train to Busan (2016), its animated prequel Seoul Station (2016) and live-action sequel Peninsula (2020), and...

Yeon Sang-ho is read about 791 times a day, in 17 languages.

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A life in dates

2026Human VaporSeries, Writer, CreatorColonyFilm, 2026Director, Writer2025RevelationsFilm, Director, Writer2024Here for PromoSeriesThe BequeathedSeries, 2024Writer, Producer2023Nattering with NahSeriesJUNG_EFilm, 2023Director, Writer2022MonstrousSeries, Writer, CreatorThe King of PigsSeries, 2022CreatorPrincess AyaFilm, 2022Producer2021HellboundSeries, Director, Writer2020The CursedSeries, Writer, CreatorPeninsulaFilm, 2020Director, Writer2019Because I Want to TalkSeries2018Movie RoomSeriesPsychokinesisFilm, 2018Director, Writer2017The Way HomeFilm, Director, Writer2016Sitges Film Festival Best Director awardAwardKaiFilm, 2016Producer2014Master and ManFilm, Producer2013The FakeFilm, Director, Writer2011The King of PigsFilm, Director, Writer2008Indie Anibox: Selma's Protein CoffeeFilm, Director2004The Hell (Two Kinds of Life)Film, Director, Writer1998Megalomania of DFilm, Director1978Born1 January 1978

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  • Colony 2026
  • Train to Busan 2016
  • The Cursed: Dead Man's Prey 2021
  • Peninsula 2020
  • Seoul Station 2016

Also in Deutsch

Filmography 26

84 credits on file

Television 13

Media & music

Photos 1

Awards

Sitges Film Festival Best Director award2016

About this person

He gained international popularity for working his adult animated films The King of Pigs (2011) and The Fake (2013), and the live-action film Train to Busan (2016), its animated prequel Seoul Station (2016) and live-action sequel Peninsula (2020), and first South Korean superhero film Psychokinesis (2018).

Country
South Korea
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1978 · age 48