Biography
Born in 1925 in Hwang-hae Province, in what is now North Korea. While studying Korean, he began working as an assistant director. In addition to directing films, from 1963 Yu Hyun-mok also taught at Dongguk University. He took over as director of the Korean Film Archive in 1977, and in 1989, he was elected chairman of the Film Art Society of Korea, and became dean of the Department of Arts at Dongguk University. Yu Hyun-mok made forty-three feature films, and wrote several film history books. He died in 2009.
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