Posted : 2021-01-26 09:06
Updated : 2021-01-27 10:48
Lee So-yeon as Park Nam-ok in a scene from Apres-Girl, a performance about Korea s first female film director / Courtesy of National Theater of Korea
By Kwon Mee-yoo
From past to present, many of the world s greatest film directors started as cinephiles and Park Nam-ok (1923-2017), Korea s first female film director, is no exception. Having maintained a strong interest in film from a young age, she quit Ewha Women s Professional School to write film reviews for a newspaper and worked as a scripter and assistant editor at a film company after the 1950-53 Korean War. Park was one of the few who blazed a trail for women in Korea s movie industry.