| Won Shin-yun | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 23, 1969 South Korea |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 원신연 |
| Revised Romanization | Won Sin-yeon |
| McCune–Reischauer | Wŏn Sin-yŏn |
Won Shin-yun (born October, 1969) is a South Korean film director. Won has the unique background of having been a stuntman before making his directorial horror film debut The Wig (2005). Since then, he has shown strong talent in action thriller movies through A Bloody Aria (2006), Seven Days (2007) and The Suspect (2013). The Suspect was a box office hit with over 4.1 million admissions.
His new action thriller movie The Fifth Row which depicts the conflict and conspiracy that an army criminal investigator (starring Song Kang-ho) has to face, will begin filming in the second half of 2016.