Kim Dae-woo (born 1962) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Kim started his filmmaking career by winning the 1991 Korean Film Council Screenplay Contest. He was an accomplished screenwriter with a number of hit scripts, including The Girl for Love and The One for Marriage (1993),
An Affair (1998),
Rainbow Trout (1999), and
Untold Scandal (2003). Making a switch to directing, he debuted with the hit period drama film
Forbidden Quest (2006), followed by
The Servant (2010) and
Obsessed (2014).
Forbidden Quest won the Best New Director at the 42nd Baeksang Arts Awards, and Best New Director and Best Screenplay at the 26th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards in 2006.
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