Yeon Sang-ho연상호

Yeon Sang-ho (연상호; born December 25, 1977) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter, born in Seoul. He graduated from Sangmyung University with a degree in Western Painting, directed his first animated short, Megalomania of D, in 1997 and set up his own production house, Studio Dadashow, in 2004.¹ He gained international attention with the adult animated films The King of Pigs (2011) and The Fake (2013), then with the live-action Train to Busan (2016), its animated prequel Seoul Station (2016) and sequel Peninsula (2020), and Psychokinesis (2018), which Wikipedia calls the first South Korean superhero film.¹

The King of Pigs was the first Korean animated film invited to the Cannes Film Festival, where it screened in the 2012 Directors' Fortnight, and it won awards that included the Director's Guild of Korea Award for Best Director at the 2011 Busan International Film Festival.¹ Train to Busan is in DabPop's ranking of the highest-grossing Korean films, at No. 19 with 11,567,662 admissions as of October 11, 2026.²

His 2025 film Revelations (계시록), which he wrote and directed with a co-writer from their own webtoon, stars Ryu Jun-yeol and Shin Hyun-been and was released on Netflix on March 21, 2025.³ In Netflix's weekly data it peaked at 6.9 million views in the week ending March 30, 2025, when it was No. 1 on the global non-English films list, and it spent three weeks on that list, which puts it 11th in DabPop's table of the most-watched Korean films on Netflix.⁴