Director

Byun Young-joo

Directing

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Directed movies: 6Directed series: 2All crew credits: 10

TMDB ID: 42793

IMDb ID: nm1410208

Known for: Directing

Born: December 20, 1966

Age: 59

Place of birth: Seoul, South Korea

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1993 - 2025

Years active: 33

Average TMDB rating: 7.12

Wikidata: Q5004675

Also known as

Byeon Yeong-ju • Byun Young-joo

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Director (7)Director of Photography (1)Editor (1)Screenplay (1)

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Biography

She is a founding member of the women's feminist film collective "Bariteo," which was established in 1989. She worked as a cinematographer on Even Little Grass Has Its Own Name (dir. Kim So-young, 1989), a short film about gender discrimination at work, and My Children (dir. Doe Sung-hee, 1990), a documentary film about childcare in a poor neighborhood. Her first documentary Women Being in Asia (1993) centers on the sex trade in Asia, particularly the sex tourism of Jeju Island.