Lee Jang-soo (television director)

South Korean television director and producer

Lee Jang-soo
Born (1960-04-05) 5 April 1960 (age 64)
South Korea
Other namesLee Jang-su
EducationInha University – Bachelor of Civil Engineering (grad. 1982)
Torch Trinity Graduate School of Theology – General Theology (grad. 2009)
Occupation(s)Director, producer, businessperson
Years active1991–present
AgentLogos Film
Known forHeaven Trilogy (Beautiful Days, Stairway to Heaven, Tree of Heaven)
Korean name
Hangul
이장수
Hanja
李章洙
Revised RomanizationYi Jang-su
McCune–ReischauerYi Chang-su

Lee Jang-soo (Korean: 이장수; born 5 April 1960) is a South Korean television director and producer. He is the founder of the production company Logos Film.[1]

Experience

  • Drama director for SBS and MBC
  • Freelance Director for TV Series and Film
  • Director and Producer of Logos Film

Personal life

Lee is a practicing Christian. As seen in Logos Film's SaraminHR profile, the reason of its foundation in 2000 was to produce just Christianity-related content.[2]

Awards

  • 2017 10th Korea Drama Awards, Best Producer「Good Manager」
  • 2017 Broadcast Promotion Merit Award, Presidential Citation
  • 2014 50th Baeksang Arts Awards, Best TV Drama Series「Good Doctor」
  • 2012 5th Korea Drama Awards, Best TV Drama Series「My Husband got a Family」
  • 2011 Commendation from the minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism
  • 2004 2nd Andre Kim Best Star Awards「Stairway to Heaven」
  • 2002 SBS Evaluation Award (The Second Half of the Year), Best TV Show「Shooting a Star」
  • 2001 SBS Evaluation Award (The First Half of the Year), Best TV Show「Beautiful Days」
  • 1998 34th Baeksang Arts Awards, Best Director for TV Series「Sae Ki」
  • 1998 34th Baeksang Arts Awards, Grand Prix for TV Series「Sae Ki」
  • 1997 30th World Fest Houston Gold Award for「Beef Soup」
  • 1996 The New York Festival Finalist Award for「Beef Soup」
  • 1995 28th World Fest Houston Merit-Finalist for 「Light the Candles」
  • 1993 SBS Evaluation Award (The Fourth Quarter), Best Director「Light the Candles」
  • 1992 SBS Evaluation Award (Second quarter), Best Director「Marigold Flower」
  • 1990 MBC Evaluation Award (The Third Quarter), Best TV Show「The Woman」
  • 1988 Korean Lyric Awards, Beautiful Lyric Award for 「The Child」

Works

As director

Television

  • Love Windmill (SBS, 1991)
  • Blue Thread, Red Thread (SBS, 1992)
  • Marigold Flower (SBS, 1992)
  • Desire on the Sand (SBS, 1992)
  • The Thing Called Love (SBS, 1993)
  • Light the Candles (SBS, 1993)
  • There Goes the Tokebi (SBS, 1994)
  • Asphalt Man (SBS, 1995)
  • Beef Soup (SBS, 1996)
  • Beautiful Lady (SBS, 1997)
  • Longing (SBS, 1997)
  • Sae Ki (SBS, 1997)
  • Love You, Love you (SBS, 1998)
  • Beautiful Days (SBS, 2001)
  • Shooting a Star (SBS, 2002)
  • Stairway to Heaven (SBS, 2003)
  • Love Story in Harvard (SBS, 2004)
  • Tree of Heaven (SBS, 2006)[3]
  • The Relation of Face, Mind and Love (SBS/TV Asahi, 2010)
  • Paradise (SBS, 2009)
  • Road No. 1 (MBC, 2010)

Film

  • Love (1999)
  • Paradise (2009)

As writer

Book

  • I Want to Live for 20 Years (with Kim Chang-wan) (1990)[4]
  • If You Hated Someone, You Actually Loved the One (2014)

As producer

  • Screen (SBS, 2003)
  • Stairway to Heaven (SBS, 2003)
  • Save Your Last Dance For Me (SBS, 2004)
  • Love Story in Harvard (SBS, 2004)
  • Summer Beach (SBS, 2005)
  • Miracle of Love (SBS, 2005)
  • Heaven's Tree (SBS, 2006)
  • The Daring Sisters (MBC, 2006)
  • Last Scandal (MBC, 2008)
  • Little Mom Scandal (Channel CGV, 2008)
  • Smile, Dearies! (SBS, 2009)
  • Road No. 1 (MBC, 2010)
  • Listen to My Heart (MBC, 2011)
  • Heavenly Garden 'Gombaeryoung' (Channel A)
  • Color of Woman (Channel A)
  • Come, Come, Absolutely Come (MBN, 2011)
  • My Husband Got a Family (KBS, 2012)
  • Happy Ending (JTBC, 2012)
  • Good Doctor (KBS, 2013)
  • Her Legend (JTBC, 2013)
  • Feel-Good Day (SBS, 2014)
  • Remember – War of the Son (SBS, 2015)
  • My Fair Lady (KBS, 2016)
  • Good Manager (KBS, 2017)
  • Cross (tvN, 2018)
  • Lawless Lawyer (tvN, 2018)
  • Catch the Ghost (tvN, 2019)
  • Vincenzo

References

  1. ^ 회사에 억눌린 ‘김과장’ 코믹 팀워크로 하이킥 Archived 24 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "로고스필름(주) 기업소식 | 기업비전, 기업개요, 기업정보 제공".
  3. ^ ‘천국의 나무’ 日 상륙
  4. ^ Naver source
Baeksang Arts Award Grand Prize – Television
1970s
  • - (1974)*
  • - (1975)*
  • - (1976)*
  • - (1977)*
  • - (1978)*
  • Kim Hye-ja, Jung Hye-sun and Kim Young-ok (I Sell Happiness) (1979)
1980s
  • Kim Min-ja (A Lonely Affair) (1980)
  • Ulhwa (1981)
  • A Life-sized Buddha (1982)
  • Winds of Change (1983)
  • The Five Indian Kingdoms (1984)
  • Korea's Butterflies (1985)
  • Shin Bong-seung (500 Years of Joseon Dynasty) (1986)
  • The Boil (1987)
  • Love and Ambition (1988)
  • Kim Hye-ja (Winter Mist and Sand Castle) (1989)
1990s
  • Peace, the Arduous Way to Go and Tree Blooming with Love (1990)
  • The Second Republic (1991)
  • Eyes of Dawn (1992)
  • Go Doo-shim (My Husband's Woman) and Kim Hee-ae (Sons and Daughters) (1993)
  • Park Chul (My Mother's Sea) (1994)
  • Sandglass (1995)
  • Korea's Reptiles (1996)
  • The Most Beautiful Goodbye (1997)
  • Lee Jang-soo (Offspring) (1998)
  • Jang Soo-bong (When Time Flows) (1999)
2000s
2010s
2020s
* awarded to theatrical play or film


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