Kim Hong Sun

Kim Hong Sun (김홍선) is a South Korean director and writer whose filmography runs on pressure, violence, and clean formal control. KOFIC's public profile says he earned an MFA from New York University's Tisch School of Film and Television before working as an assistant director on Korean television series such as 90 Days, Time to Love, Working Mom, Style, and Dae Mul. That training-ground mix helps explain why even his most chaotic films usually feel engineered instead of merely loud.

His feature career made that reputation stick. Traffickers, The Con Artists, Metamorphosis, and especially Project Wolf Hunting turned him into a dependable name for hard-edged genre filmmaking. In 2025 he widened that lane by directing Netflix's period mystery Tangeum while also moving into the international series space through Gangs of London Season 3.

The 2026 film Sal Saeng Bu keeps the trajectory coherent. With the project positioned as a Kakao Webtoon-linked historical action title, Kim Hong Sun remains the kind of director producers call when a package needs discipline, speed, and real genre conviction instead of generic spectacle.