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Kwak Kyung-taek
Kwak in October 2013
Born	(1966-05-23) May 23, 1966 (age 58) Pusan, South Korea
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter
Years active	1997–present
Relatives	Kwak Sin-ae (sister)
Korean name
Hangul	곽경택
Revised Romanization	Gwak Gyeongtaek
McCune–Reischauer	Kwak Kyŏngt'aek

Kwak Kyung-taek (Korean: 곽경택; born 23 May 1966) is a South Korean film director best known for his 2001 record-breaking film Friend.

Career

Friend, a drama where conflicting criminal alliances turn old friends into enemies, set a new Korean box office record with an audience of 8 million, and he received the Holden Award for the Best Script at the 2001 Torino Film Festival. In 2003 he received an award at the Philadelphia Film Festival for the boxing drama film Champion. His 2005 action film Typhoon, however, was a commercial failure.

Filmography as director

• 3pm Bathhouse Paradise (1997)
• Dr. K (1999)
• Friend (2001)
• Champion (2002)
• Mutt Boy (2003)
• Typhoon (2005)
• A Love (2007)
• Eye for an Eye (2008)
• Pained (2011)
• The Ugly Duckling (2012)
• Friend: The Great Legacy (2013)
• The Classified File (2015)
• RV: Resurrected Victims (2017)
• The Battle of Jangsari (2019)
• Firefighters (2024)

External links

• Kwak Kyung-taek at IMDb
• Kwak Kyung-taek at HanCinema

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