Chung Seokyung, born in 1975, studied at the Korea National University of Arts. Majoring in screenwriting, she was still a senior when her script titled Electricians was selected for a short film production grant from Kodak in 2002. After making her commercial debut with the screenplay for Family Matters (2005), she was contacted by none other than Park Chan-wook, who had been part of the jury that chose her project for the Kodak grant, and was asked to pen the screenplay for the director’s Thirst. That project being postponed, he decided instead to move forward with the final chapter in his Trilogy of Violence and put Chung in charge of writing the story, which would become Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005). Since then, Chung has been working almost exclusively with Park, with Thirst, which was eventually made in 2008, and The Handmaiden (2016) among her most notable contributions. She also contributed to Lee Kyoungmi’s The Truth Beneath (2015) and Lee Haeyoung’s Believer (2018), and delved into TV series with the script for Mother (2018). Most recently, she wrote Park’s Decision To Leave (2022) and the crime drama series Little Women (2022).
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
