Hyunwoo Thomas Kim

Hyunwoo Thomas Kim (born 18 December, 1973) is a South Korean entrepreneur and film producer. He is the CEO of South Korean production company Kross Pictures. He has produced films and TV series in territories including South Korea, India, China, and Vietnam with works such as Cheese in the Trap (TV series) (2016), The Sound of Your Heart (TV series) (2016) The Devotion of Suspect X (film) (2017), and Oh! Baby (2019). He is also the co-founder and president of Kross Komics, a webtoon platform and app in India which launched in 2019. 
== Early life and Education ==
Born and raised in Seoul, Kim, immigrated with his family to New York City during the 1980's. He attended Yonsei University in South Korea, where he received his bachelor's degree in business. He then went on to study management and received an MBA from Waseda University in Japan. He later studied film producing in the Professional Producer Program at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in the US.
== Career ==
Kim began his professional career as a management consultant at Bain & Company's Seoul Office, then worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs & Co. in Hong Kong. After a stint at SoftBank Group|Softbank and e-Samsung, Samsung|Samsung Group's VC arm, in Tokyo, he moved to Los Angeles to start his entertainment career at Walt Disney. He then co-founded Kross Entertainment with a partner, which went on to become Kross Pictures, and established its operations in Los Angeles, Seoul, and Mumbai, focusing on acquiring and developing Asian IPs into both domestic and global film and TV content. Starting with the 2012 South Korean TV series Dr. Jin, he has since produced major films in territories including India and China, as well as major TV series in South Korea and China.
In 2019, Kim launched Kross Komics, a mobile application servicing Korean webtoons in India. As of September 2021, Kross Komics reached 43 million downloads and 45,000 active daily users. Kross Komics branched out into mobile gaming with the launch of Kross Games in September 2020. 
== Filmography ==
=== Films ===
Films produced
Year	Film 	Country 	Director 	Cast
2014	God's Eye View 	South Korea	Lee Jang-ho 	Oh Kwang-rok
2016	Te3n 	India 	Ribhu Dasgupta 	Amitabh Bachchan, Vidya Balan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
2017	The Devotion of Suspect X (film)	China 	Alec Su 	Wang Kai, Zhang Luyi, Ruby Lin
2018	100 Days of Sunshine 	Vietnam 	Phoenix Vu 	Jun Pham, Kha Ngan, B Tran
2019	Oh! Baby 	India 	B. V. Nandini Reddy	Lakshmi, Naga Shaurya, Rajendra Prasad (actor)|Rajendra Prasad
2021	Netrikann 	India 	Milind Rau 	Nayanthara
2021	Blind (post-production) 	India 	Shome Makhija 	Sonam Kapoor, Purab Kohli, Vinay Pathak, Lillete Dubey
TBA 	Midnight Runners 	India 	Sudheer Varma 	Nivetha Thomas, Regina Cassandra
Upcoming films
* Indian remake of South Korean movie Miracle in Cell No. 7 in Hindi language
*Indian remake of South Korean movie A Hard Day in Hindi languagehttps://m.peepingmoon.com/tag/kross-picture
* Indian remake of South Korean movie Miss Granny in Hindi language
* South Korean remake of the Indian movie Kahaani
* Indian remake of South Korean movie Tunnel (2016 film)|Tunnel in Hindi language
* Indian remake of South Korean movie Midnight Runners in Hindi language
* Indian remake of South Korean movie Dancing Queen (2012 film)|Dancing Queen in Hindi language
=== Television ===
TV series produced
Year	TV Series 	Country 	Cast
2012	Dr. Jin 	South Korea	Song Seung-heon, Park Min-young
2016	Cheese in the Trap (TV series) 	South Korea	Park Hae-jin, Kim Go-eun, Seo Kang-joon
2016	The Sound of Your Heart (TV series) 	South Korea	Lee Kwang-soo, Jung So-min
2017	I Cannot Hug You (TV series) 	China 	Xing Zhaolin, Zhang Yuxi
2018	The Sound of Your Heart (TV series) Season 2 and Season 3	South Korea	Kwon Yuri
2022	A Business Proposal 	South Korea	Kim Se-jeong, Ahn Hyo-seop
Upcoming TV series
*A Business Proposal, a South Korean live-action adaptation of the webtoon published on KakaoPage.
Category:South Korean producers
Category:1973 births
Category:Yonsei University alumni
Category:Waseda University alumni