Bae Yong-Kyun

Bae Yong-Kyun (born 1951 in Daegu, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea) is a South Korean film director, painter, and professor. He is best known for his Seon(Zen)-influenced 1989 film Dharmaga tongjoguro kan kkadalgun (Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East, 달마가 동쪽으로 간 까닭은). He also wrote and directed one other film, Geomeuna dange huina baekseong (The People in White, 1995).
Bae is a painter by training. He holds a doctorate and serves as an art professor in South Korea.
==See also==
*List of Korean film directors
*Korean cinema
*Contemporary culture of South Korea
==External links==
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* General information about Bae Yong-gyun at the Cine21
* Detailed information about Bae Yong-gyun at the KMDb
Category:Living people
Category:1951 births
Category:South Korean film directors
Category:Buddhism in Korea
Category:People from Daegu
Category:South Korean painters