Chung is a veteran filmmaker with 50 films from the debut feature The Only Son to Mugoonghwa-Korean National Flower. He brought a new wave of melodrama with distinctive use of music in such films as A Student Boarder(1966) and Green Rain(1966), and portrayed women’s tragic lives in his later works including Does Cuckoo Cry at Night(1980), Parrot Cries with Its Body and The MA-NIM(1984). He established Woojin Film and produced around 130 films, and also succeeded in importing foreign films, running theaters and distribution. He is currently serving as the board chairman of Korean Film Directors’ Association and Korean Filmmakers’ Welfare Foundation.