Overview
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Birthday
Dec 20, 1966 (58 years old)
Byun Young-joo
Known For
Ari Ari the Korean Cinema
Director Chung Ji-Young criticizes the thought that older directors have...
Two Or Three Things I Know About Kim Ki-young
A documentary consisting of twenty-two Korean directors' interviews about Kim...
Biography
She is a founding member of the women's feminist film collective "Bariteo," which was established in 1989. She worked as a cinematographer on Even Little Grass Has Its Own Name (dir. Kim So-young, 1989), a short film about gender discrimination at work, and My Children (dir. Doe Sung-hee, 1990), a documentary film about childcare in a poor neighborhood. Her first documentary Women Being in Asia (1993) centers on the sex trade in Asia, particularly the sex tourism of Jeju Island.