Born in Cheju Island in 1956, Yang Yoon-Mo studied film at Seoul Institute of the Arts. He started his film career as a film critic in 1989 and wrote actively for many film periodicals. He taught film at many universities including Chung-Ju University and his main interest is in short film. Currently he works solely as a film critic and an editor for Film Network, issued by the Korean Association of Film Art & Industry (KAFAI).

Cho Jai-Hong (b. 1960) began his career as a film reporter. After working as assistant director for Jung Ji-Young and Lee Jang-Ho, he started his career as film critic in 1989, working on both criticism and film production. With the screenplay for Silver Stallion, he received the Best Script Award at Montreal World Film Festival in 1989. He just finished making Shoot the Sun by Lyric, a documentary on the screen quota system in Korea.

Yim Soon-Rye (b. 1960) gained critical acclaim with her short film Promenade in the Rain which won the Grand Prize at 1st Seoul Short Film Festival. She majored in English at Hanyang University and further studied film directing at The University Paris, 8. She worked as an assistant director for Yeo Kyun-Dong’s Out to the World. She made her debut with Three Friends in 1996, which won the NETPAC Award at the 1st PIFF.

Born in Korea in 1946, Jung Ji-Young studied French at Korea University. In 1982, he made his directorial debut with Mist Whispers Like a Woman. He also worked as a producer for TV. He has started to deal with social issues in Korean society since North Korea’s Southern Army (1990). Including The White Badge (1992) and Black Jack, he has made more than 10 films; his latest is Naked Being (1999).

PH. D. Dept. of Radio-TV-Film, The Univ. of Texas at Austin. Joo Jin-Sook is a film professor at Chung-Ang University. She was a member of the Executive Committee of Grand Bell Film Festival (Korea) from 1993 to 1995, Jury Chairman at the 1st and 2nd Women’s Film Festival in Seoul and head of the Korean Film Institute (1996-8). She translated Film Art: (David Bordwell & Kristin Tompson) and edited Homo, Punk, Queer.

Jang Mi-Hee is one of leading actresses in Korea. She studied film directing and acting at UCLA and also studied education at Hawthorne University. She was a vice president at The Film Actor’s Association of Korea and is currently film professor at Myung-Ji University. She acted in large number of films from 1981 to the early 1990s and won numerous acting awards. Currently, she devotes herself to teaching and translating, rather than acting.