The giant of the Korean film industry, the late Itaewon Taeheung Film Company, passed away today (26th).
The CEO of Itaewon suffered a fall in May last year and was hospitalized for about a year and seven months, but his condition deteriorated rapidly and passed away on the 24th at the age of 83.
The former CEO of Itaewon was born in Pyongyang in 1938 and entered the film industry with the production of ‘Yoojeong Cheon-ri’ in 1959. After leaving the film industry for a while due to the failure of his first film, he made a relationship with film again by operating a theater in Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi-do in 1973. Started making movies.
In 1989, Taeheung Film Company produced Im Kwon-taek’s ‘Azeaze Barrage’. Afterwards, the former CEO of Itaewon made works that marked a milestone in Korean film history, such as ‘The General’s Son’, ‘Seopyeonje’, ‘Chunhyangdang’, and ‘Chwihwaseon’ with Director Im.
Meanwhile, former CEO Lee was nicknamed ‘Chungmuro Three Musketeers’ with director Im Kwon-taek and cinematographer Jeong Il-sung, who worked with him on several films. , and ‘Chwihwaseon’ also won the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival for director Im Kwon-taek.
The last film the former CEO of Itaewon produced was Lim’s Downstream (2004).
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