Person

Joung Yu-mi

Directing · Born 1981-03-14 · South Korea

Filmmaker, animation artist, and illustrator. Studied animation directing at the Korean Academy of Film Arts. A participant and award-winner at leading global festivals, her films Dust Kid (2009), Math Test (2010), Love Games (2013), House of Existence (2022), The Waves (2023) have been selected for Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, and Zagreb film festivals. In addition to animation, she works in book illustration and has been awarded prizes at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Since 2019, she has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. One of Jeong Yumi’s recent works, Circle (2024), was featured in the International Competition of the 34th Message to Man Film Festival.

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  Math Test

  Editor

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  Killerswell: Our Space

  Producer

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  Paranoid Kid

  Director

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  Glasses

  Director

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  The Waves

  Writer

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  Love Games

  Director

• Chance Travelers

  Producer

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  Journeys in Math and Genetics

  Producer

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  Circle

  Director

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  House of Existence

  Editor

• 2025Journeys in Math and GeneticsProducer
• 2025Paranoid KidDirector
• 2025GlassesDirector
• 2025Layover HotelWriter
• 2024CircleDirector
• 2023The WavesWriter
• 2023The layoverProducer
• 2022House of ExistenceEditor
• 2021Plant Cafe, WarmthWriter
• 2020Killerswell: Our SpaceProducer
• 2019The Boy from NowhereProducer
• 2013Love GamesDirector
• 2010Math TestEditor
• 2009Dust KidDirector
• 2006My Small Doll HouseDirector
• —Chance TravelersProducer