Ryoo Seung-wan류승완

Ryoo Seung-wan (류승완; born December 15, 1973) is a South Korean film director, described on Wikipedia as Korea's "action kid" for his action films. He worked as an assistant director under Park Chan-wook before making his feature debut with Die Bad (2000), which won him the Blue Dragon Film Awards' prize for Best New Director.¹ His later films include Crying Fist (2005), The Unjust (2010), The Berlin File (2013), Veteran (2015), Escape from Mogadishu (2021), Smugglers (2023) and Humint (2026).¹

DabPop's rankings and archives record the following. Veteran, released by CJ Entertainment on August 5, 2015, sold 13,414,484 tickets in South Korea, sixth among Korean films in DabPop's all-time admissions ranking.² Three of his films won Best Film at the Blue Dragon Film Awards, according to DabPop's archive of every winner: The Unjust (the 32nd ceremony, 2011), Escape from Mogadishu (the 42nd, 2021) and Smugglers (the 44th, 2023).³

His most recent film, Humint, follows South and North Korean intelligence agents who clash in Vladivostok. Wikipedia calls it the third entry in his unofficial "Overseas Location" trilogy after The Berlin File and Escape from Mogadishu; it was produced by his company Filmmaker R&K and opened in Korean cinemas on February 11, 2026.¹ It later reached Netflix, where it logged 11.0 million views in a single week, fifth among Korean films in DabPop's Netflix ranking.⁴