A BRAND NEW LIFE

She was born in Seoul in 1966. She left Korea for France at the age of 9 when a Protestant family adopted her. After studying dress design, she worked on a number of films: as an actress with Olivier Assayas (Paris s’eveille) and as a costume designer, notably for Sophie Fillieres. In 1991, she returned to Korea to play the part of an abandoned girl looking for her roots there. The film (Seoul Metropolis by Seo Myung-Soo) was never made, but reality caught up with fiction and she was reunited with her biological family. In 2006, she enrolled at the Femis Screenwriting Workshop where she started to write A Brand New Life.