Yoon-gi Lee

Lee Yoon-ki (b. 1965, Daejeon, Korea), after leaving school, set out for the United States where he studied economics at the University of Southern California. He also used this education in film – during the mid-1990s he began producing short films for his Korean colleagues. He concurrently started making his own films and took his short My Kind of Love to compete in the Seoul Film Festival in 1995. In 2004 he debuted with the feature This Charming Girl (Yeoja, jeong-hye) and, after it brought him an award at the Pusan IFF, he took it to other leading international festivals, including Sundance and Berlin. The filmmaker, one of the greatest talents in Korean cinema, also introduces the intimate poetic style of this film, which audiences would have seen at last year's KV festival, in his latest work, Love Talk, in which he draws on his own experiences as a Korean immigrant living in Los Angeles.

MFF Karlovy Vary