Director

Joung Yu-mi

Directing

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Directed movies: 5Directed series: 0All crew credits: 15

TMDB ID: 1336731

IMDb ID: nm2165005

Known for: Directing

Born: March 14, 1981

Age: 44

Place of birth: South Korea

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2006 - 2025

Years active: 20

Also known as

Yumi Jung • Joung Yumi • 정유미 • Jung Yu-mi • Jeong Yu-mi • Чон Юми

Frequent jobs

Director (5)Producer (5)Editor (3)Writer (2)

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Biography

Filmmaker, animation artist, and illustrator. Studied animation directing at the Korean Academy of Film Arts. A participant and award-winner at leading global festivals, her films Dust Kid (2009), Math Test (2010), Love Games (2013), House of Existence (2022), The Waves (2023) have been selected for Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, and Zagreb film festivals. In addition to animation, she works in book illustration and has been awarded prizes at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Since 2019, she has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. One of Jeong Yumi’s recent works, Circle (2024), was featured in the International Competition of the 34th Message to Man Film Festival.

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