Shin Hyun-joon
Kim Yoo-jin said he began his filmmaking career to "voice social opinion," notably in "Only Because You Are a Woman" (1990), where Won Mi-kyung played a raped housewife who faces doubt and victim blaming from her family, neighbors and inside the courtroom. But most of Kim's films have been commercial fare, with a string of box office hits from the 1980s through the 2000s. He won Best Director at the 14th Blue Dragon Film Awards for "Love Is Oh Yeah!" (1993), which starred Shin Hyun-joon and Kim Hye-sun. In 1995, he directed "My Dear Keumhong" in which Kim Kap-soo and Kim Soo-chul played the painter Koo Bon-woong and the poet Yi Sang, friends who both fall for the same concubine. Kim then cast Park Shin-yang and Jeon Do-yeon in "A Promise", a melodrama about the romance between a gangster and a doctor; it drew critical acclaim for its actors and became the top-grossing Korean film of 1998. In 2003, Jung Jin-young and Yang Dong-geun played detectives determined to find a young killer and his gang in Kim's gritty cop drama "Wild Card".