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Southward Korean screenwriter

Kim Eun-sook
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Kim Eun-sook in 2016
Born 1973 (historic period 48–49)

Gangneung, Republic of korea
Teaching Seoul Institute of the Arts - Creative Writing
Occupation Screenwriter
Years active 2003-present
Amanuensis Hwa&Dam Pictures
(a subsidiary of Studio Dragon)
Spouse(s) Choi Sang-hyun
Korean name
Hangul

김은숙

Hanja

金銀淑

Revised Romanization Gim Eun-suk
McCune–Reischauer Kim Ǔnsuk

Kim Eun-sook (Korean: 김은숙, born 1973) is a South Korean screenwriter. She wrote the popular goggle box dramas Lovers in Paris (2004), On Air (2008), Secret Garden (2010), A Gentleman'due south Nobility (2012), The Heirs (2013), Descendants of the Dominicus (2016), Guardian: The Lonely and Bully God (2016–2017), Mr. Sunshine (2018) and The Male monarch: Eternal Monarch (2020).

Career [edit]

Lovers "trilogy" and motion picture debut [edit]

Kim first gained attention when her television drama Lovers in Paris became a major striking in the summer of 2004, with viewership ratings averaging 41.3% and a peak of 57.half-dozen% (#11 highest rated of all time). The bandage and crew flew to French republic to moving picture several scenes in Paris and Dainty, igniting a trend among Korean dramas for overseas location shoots. A Cinderella-like story of a cheerful, ordinary daughter who becomes the housekeeper of a common cold and suave businessman, lead actors Park Shin-yang and Kim Jung-eun shared the Thou Prize ("Daesang") at the 2004 SBS Drama Awards. Then at the 2005 Baeksang Arts Awards, Lovers in Paris won the following awards: the Daesang, All-time Television receiver Actress for Kim Jung-eun, and Best Telly Screenplay for Kim Eun-sook and Kang Eun-jung. It also became popular internationally, and Kim Jung-eun was named All-time Actress at the 2005 Asian Television Awards.

Kim chose another European setting for her next drama, Lovers in Prague (2005). In a gender reversal, Jeon Do-yeon played a diplomat in Prague, Czech republic, who falls in honey with a police detective, played by Kim Joo-hyuk. Kim Eun-sook said she wanted to characteristic a romance in which the woman's social status is higher than her partner, and wanted to make the social deviation between the two main characters as extreme as possible by too making the heroine the daughter of the president of Republic of korea. Kim added, "Although some might say it is another unrealistic story, a drama is a drama. I just desire to brand people enjoy the fantasy."[1] Jeon won the Daesang at the 2005 SBS Drama Awards, and Kim Joo-hyuk won Best Telly Actor at the 2006 Baeksang Arts Awards.

Kim tried her hand at writing for the big screen in the 2006 melodrama Fly High (also known as Loving is Okay). Directed past Kwak Ji-kyoon, it starred Ji Hyun-woo as a high school educatee who falls for a girl with a terminal affliction (Im Jung-eun). The film was a critical and box office disappointment,[2] and Kim soon returned to her milieu, television receiver.

Despite overseas shoots in Hainan, China, the conclusion to Kim's loosely named "Lovers trilogy" was only titled Lovers (2006-2007). Based on the Lee Man-hee stage play Plow Effectually and Go out (that also inspired the 1998 pic A Promise), Kim again cast Kim Jung-eun, this time opposite Lee Seo-jin, as they played a plastic surgeon and a gangster entering into an unlikely romance.[three] [4] Though not equally successful as its predecessors, Lovers recorded solid ratings in the high teens to depression-20s.

On entertainment, politics, and body-swapping [edit]

Kim's next drama, On Air (2008), revolved around four amusement industry figures - a newbie TV manager (Park Yong-ha), an established screenwriter (Song Yun-ah, every bit Kim'south change-ego), a diva actress (Kim Ha-neul), and her struggling manager (Lee Beom-soo), whose personal and professional lives intertwine during the shooting of a fictional Television drama.[5] Filled with cameos and a gossipy, insider await at stars behind the scenes, On Air was a striking, and director Shin Woo-chul (in his fourth collaboration with Kim) won Best Television receiver Director at the 2009 Baeksang Arts Awards.

In City Hall (2009), Cha Seung-won played an elite deputy mayor with presidential aspirations who unexpectedly falls for an unwitting female authorities employee-turned-town mayor (Kim Sun-a).[six] Though she left infinite in the script for Cha and Kim to ad-lib, Kim Eun-sook called it her funniest piece of work. She said she used politics as a backdrop for the romance to evidence her idealism regarding public officials.[7]

A beloved story between the rich, arrogant and eccentric president of a section store (Hyun Bin) and a brave but sugariness stunt woman (Ha Ji-won) whose bodies switch souls whenever it rains, Surreptitious Garden (2010-2011) became 1 of the biggest hits of Kim'south career.[8] Afterward writing vi dramas, Kim said she "contemplated on whether to write a drama that benefits the earth or ane that volition garner good ratings" and decided to "abandon the depth I showed in Urban center Hall" (which recorded solid, if unimpressive, ratings in the high teens). Instead, she "fabricated an easy, light drama for the whole family to enjoy on weekends," and intentionally wrote it "to exist fun."[9] [10] [11] Secret Garden won Best TV Drama at the 2011 Baeksang Arts Awards, besides as All-time TV Screenplay for Kim, Best New Tv set Extra for Yoo In-na, and the Daesang for Hyun.[12] Kim besides won All-time Writer at the Seoul International Drama Awards, the Korea Drama Awards, and the Korea Content Awards.

Jang Dong-gun'south TV improvement [edit]

By this time, the writer-director duo of Kim and Shin had gained a reputation for making hits, and their projects attracted high-profile actors. In 2012, after 12 years of interim in films, superstar Jang Dong-gun made his television improvement in A Admirer'due south Dignity. Jang said that Kim and Shin's involvement in the project influenced his decision. Later repeatedly alluding to him in On Air, Kim confessed her "ulterior motives" that she had really wanted to work on a drama with Jang. She and the crew were so determined to cast him in the lead that non only was the airdate moved back from March to late May to suit his schedule, merely Kim, in the hopes of getting him to take the part, lied to Jang's wife, extra Ko Then-young that at that place would exist no kissing scenes.[xiii] Instead, Kim wrote racy and sexy scenes, every bit conforming what has been called a "forty-year-sometime, male version of Sex and the City."[xiv] The drama portrayed the humorous love lives of a group of close-knit male friends played past Jang, Kim Min-jong, Kim Su-ro, and Lee Jong-hyuk, and previous On Air star Kim Ha-neul played Jang's love involvement.

The Heirs [edit]

Kim said she wrote the hero of 2013 drama He Who Wishes To Wear the Crown Endures Its Weight: Heirs (too known as The Heirs or The Inheritors, 2013) specifically for role player Lee Min-ho.[fifteen] He starred opposite Park Shin-hye in a Gossip Daughter-esque trendy drama set in a loftier school populated by the uber-rich.[sixteen] [17] Kim said the biggest difference was writing about 18-year-olds when her previous characters had been in their thirties and forties, calling The Heirs "a teen romance for grown-ups". She admitted that she utilizes clichés, "but all my previous works used plenty of cliches and were embraced by audiences. The key is making characters that are dissimilar, so the audience forgets the clichéd setting. That's what I'thousand good at, and that is what I find fun. I want people to remember, 'I've seen something like this before, just notwithstanding this is strangely fun.'"[18]

Descendants of the Sun and pre-produced dramas [edit]

Three years since The Heirs, Kim Eun-sook announced that she would be coming dorsum with a man melodrama about a man and a woman who bail gradually as they salvage lives in disaster zones and end up falling in beloved. Titled Descendants of the Sunday, the drama starred Song Joong-ki in his first idiot box drama subsequently war machine discharge along with Song Hye-kyo. Set in the fictional world of Uruk, Song Joong-ki plays a special forces helm who juggles peacekeeping duties with wooing a surgeon played by Song Hye-kyo. The armed forces drama gained huge success and received immense popularity across Asia.[19] It has given ascent to the popularity of Korean soldier talk.[20] The show also contributed to the rise of tourism in Greece, where scenes of the drama were shot.[21]

The success of Descendants saw a change in tide toward pre-produced Korean dramas. Nevertheless, in an interview, Kim Won-seok (co-writer of Descendants) stated that said there were some parts that could have been improved on if the bear witness had been shot as information technology was existence aired, per local industry norm.[22]

Following the success of Descendants of the Sun, Kim Eun-sook wrote her next ii dramas, Guardian: The Lonely and Neat God and Mr. Sunshine for cable network TVN in 2016 and 2018. Both dramas held the highest average nationwide ratings recorded for cable dramas—12.955% for Mr. Sunshine, and 12.428% for Guardian: The Solitary and Great God—until the old'south two-year long record was cleaved by The World of the Married in 2020.

Kim Eun-sook returned to free-to-air goggle box with the series The King: Eternal Monarch on SBS. She worked again with Lee Min-ho of The Heirs and Kim Go-eun of Guardian: The Solitary and Great God in the leading roles. Afterward premiering with a promising double-digit rating of 10.1%,[23] the drama peaked at xi.6%[24] for the 2d episode but ratings slid to equally depression as five.2%[25] during the eleventh episode, the lowest ever recorded for her works including her cablevision dramas with the serial received criticisms for its screenplay, management and editing, leading to lower-than-expected domestic popularity in Korea.[26] [27] [28]

Critical assessment [edit]

Kim's trademark is slick and glossy romantic comedies with fast-flying banter. Some critics have opined that Kim writes shallow characters, and she is as polarizing as she is successful. But not just do well-nigh of her dramas appeal to a broad historic period range of viewers and receive loftier ratings, merely they often have that extra element that make them pop-civilization buzz projects, whether it's due to a particularly catchy line of dialogue or a recurring joke.

In 2012, she received a Lifetime Achievement Accolade at the SBS Drama Awards.

Philanthropy [edit]

On March 10, 2022, Kim made a donation ₩60 millions to the Hope Bridge Disaster Relief Association to assistance the victims of the massive wildfire that started in Uljin, Gyeongbuk and has spread to Samcheok, Gangwon. and donated money ₩40 millions to help Ukraine war victims.[29]

Filmography [edit]

Tv [edit]

Broadcast period Title Broadcaster
2003 South of the Sun [ko] SBS
2004 Lovers in Paris
2005 Lovers in Prague
2006 Lovers
2008 On Air
2009 The City Hall
2010 Cloak-and-dagger Garden
2012 A Admirer'southward Dignity
2013 The Heirs
2016 Descendants of the Sun KBS2
2016–2017 Guardian: The Solitary and Great God tvN
2018 Mr. Sunshine
2020 The King: Eternal Monarch SBS
TBA The Celebrity TBA

Film [edit]

  • Wing High [ko] (2006)

Awards [edit]

  • 2017 7th Korean Popular Civilisation & Arts Awards: Prime Government minister Award[30]
  • 2017 53rd Baeksang Arts Awards: Grand Prize (Television) (Guardian: The Lonely and Neat God)[31]
  • 2016 30th KBS Drama Awards: Best Writer (Descendants of the Sun)
  • 2014 second Asia Rainbow TV Awards: Outstanding Scriptwriter (The Heirs)
  • 2012 SBS Drama Awards: Accomplishment Award (A Gentleman's Nobility)
  • 2011 Korea Content Awards: Prime Minister's Award in the Field of Broadcasting (Underground Garden)
  • 2011 4th Korea Drama Awards: Best Writer (Secret Garden)
  • 2011 sixth Seoul International Drama Awards: Outstanding Korean Screenwriter (Undercover Garden)
  • 2011 SBS 상반기 작품상: 및 특별상 시상식 특별상 (Undercover Garden)
  • 2011 47th Baeksang Arts Awards: Best TV Screenplay (Surreptitious Garden)
  • 2009 SBS 상반기 작품상: 및 특별상 시상식 특별상 (On Air)
  • 2005 SBS Drama Awards: Special Award (Lovers in Paris)
  • 2005 41st Baeksang Arts Awards: All-time TV Screenplay (Lovers in Paris)

References [edit]

  1. ^ Park, Chung-a (xiv September 2005). "Drama Looks for Love in Prague". The Korea Times via Hancinema . Retrieved 2013-05-22 .
  2. ^ Kim, Tae-jong (17 August 2006). "Fly High, Outdated Melodrama". The Korea Times . Retrieved 2013-05-22 .
  3. ^ Cho, Chung-un (ane December 2006). "HERALD INTERVIEW: Actor Lee Seo-jin seeks versatility". The Korea Herald via Hancinema . Retrieved 2013-05-22 .
  4. ^ Garcia, Cathy Rose A. (17 April 2007). "Glory Romance Heats Upward". The Korea Times . Retrieved 2013-05-22 .
  5. ^ Kwon, Mee-yoo (27 February 2008). "On Air Looks Into Making of Dramas". The Korea Times. Archived from the original on half-dozen April 2012. Retrieved 2013-05-22 .
  6. ^ Oh, Jean (29 April 2009). "More romantic comedy for prime fourth dimension". The Korea Herald . Retrieved 2013-05-22 .
  7. ^ Han, Sang-hee (21 Apr 2009). "Metropolis Hall to Bring Public Officials to Tv". The Korea Times . Retrieved 2013-05-22 .
  8. ^ Kwon, Mee-yoo (26 Jan 2011). "Secret Garden leaves fairytale love story". The Korea Times . Retrieved 2013-05-22 .
  9. ^ Lee, Ga-on (eleven November 2010). "PREVIEW: SBS Idiot box serial Hole-and-corner Garden". 10Asia . Retrieved 2013-05-22 .
  10. ^ Lee, Ga-on (19 November 2010). "SBS Secret Garden – "Forget about City Hall, you'll find Lovers in Paris instead"". 10Asia via Otayamin . Retrieved 2013-05-22 .
  11. ^ Seo, Bo-hyun (14 Nov 2011). "The v Charms of Underground Garden". Sports Seoul via Otayamin . Retrieved 2013-05-22 .
  12. ^ Hong, Lucia (27 May 2011). "Hyun Bin, Lee Byung-hun win top prizes at Paeksang". 10Asia . Retrieved 2013-05-24 .
  13. ^ Oh, Jean (24 May 2012). "Jang Dong-gun gets first 'proper' kiss scene". The Korea Herald . Retrieved 2013-05-22 .
  14. ^ Sunwoo, Carla (28 July 2012). "Admirer's Dignity to air in Japan". Korea JoongAng Daily. Archived from the original on xv August 2012. Retrieved 2013-05-22 .
  15. ^ Hong, Grace Danbi (29 March 2013). "Lee Min Ho to Return to TV with Hush-hush Garden Writer". enewsWorld. Archived from the original on 6 June 2013. Retrieved 2013-05-31 .
  16. ^ Lee, In-kyung (25 July 2013). "Officials Complain That The Heirs Has Swept Up All the Actors". enewsWorld. Archived from the original on 7 Nov 2013. Retrieved 2013-07-26 .
  17. ^ Oh, Jean (8 Oct 2013). "Lee Min-ho, dorsum to form". The Korea Herald . Retrieved 2014-02-03 .
  18. ^ Won, Ho-yeon (10 October 2013). "Famed scriptwriter revels in platitude". Korea JoongAng Daily . Retrieved 2014-02-03 .
  19. ^ Kang, John. "Korean Drama 'Descendants Of The Dominicus' Breaks Records Cheers To Chinese Investments". Forbes . Retrieved 2020-06-13 .
  20. ^ https://www.dramafever.com/news/descendants-of-the-sunday-fans-are-learning-how-korean-soldiers-talk/
  21. ^ "Tourists flock to this state to stand where Song Joong Ki and Song Hye Kyo stood in 'Descendants of the Sunday'". allkpop . Retrieved 2020-06-13 .
  22. ^ "Yonhap News Agency". Yonhap News Agency . Retrieved 2020-06-13 .
  23. ^ "Nielsen Korea". www.nielsenkorea.co.kr . Retrieved 2020-06-13 .
  24. ^ "Nielsen Korea".
  25. ^ "Nielsen Korea". world wide web.nielsenkorea.co.kr . Retrieved 2020-06-thirteen .
  26. ^ "[E!시청률] '더 킹' 8.five% 기록, 2049는 5.ane%…두 자릿수 못넘고 '시들'". sports.hankooki.com (in Korean). Retrieved 2020-06-05 .
  27. ^ "[SC초점] '더킹' 부진은 다 김은숙 탓? 디테일 부족→연출도 한몫했다". 스포츠조선 (in Kanuri). 2020-05-22. Retrieved 2020-06-05 .
  28. ^ "Star screenwriter struggling with lower-than-expected popularity of 'The King'". Korea Herald. May 18, 2020. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
  29. ^ Kim Kyung-hee (March 10, 2022). "김은숙 작가, 우쿠라이나 전쟁 피해자+산불 피해이웃돕기 성금 기부" [Writer Eun-sook Kim, donated money to help the victims of the Ukrainian war + the victims of forest fires] (in Korean). iMBC. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Naver.
  30. ^ "Korean Popular Culture and Arts Awards announces winners". Kpop Herald. 25 Oct 2016.
  31. ^ "'Guardian,' 'The Handmaiden' win big at Baeksang Awards". Korea Herald. 4 May 2017.

External links [edit]

  • Kim Eun-sook at HanCinema Edit this at Wikidata
  • Kim Eun-sook at IMDb

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