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Hwang Dong-hyuk Height, Weight, Net Worth, Age, Birthday, Wikipedia, Who, Nationality, Biography

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Lily Fisher

Published Jan 06, 2026

Hwang Dong-hyuk was born in a Korean family on 26 May 1971 in Seoul, South Korea. His nickname is Hwang and his zodiac sign is Gemini. He finished his tutoring at a nearby school in his old neighborhood. From that point onward, he graduated with a B.A degree in interchanges from Seoul National University.

His nationality is Korean. Be that as it may, there is no data accessible with regards to his folks at this point. His conjugal status is hitched. Notwithstanding, he hasn’t many insights regarding his significant other or youngsters yet. The subtleties are obscure as he doesn’t have a lot of essence via online media.

Real NameHwang Dong-hyuk
NicknameHwang
ProfessionMovie director & screenwriter
Age50 [as of 2021]
Date of Birth26 May 1971
BirthplaceSeoul, South Korea
HometownSeoul, South Korea
Zodiac SignGemini
NationalityAmerican
ReligionNot Known
CollegeSeoul National University
HobbiesTraveling
Famous ForDirecting the series Squid Game

Subsequent to finishing his graduation from Seoul National University, he traveled to Los Angeles to seek after M.F.A in film creation at the University of Southern California. Prior to moving to the United States, he has coordinated a couple of short movies that incorporate Our Sad Life. Nonetheless, his graduation postulation movie Miracle Mile was one of his essential movies that demonstrated his capacity of coordinating motion pictures.

Hwang Dong-hyuk

BornMay 26, 1971 

Seoul, South Korea

Other namesHwang Dong-hyeuk
Education
  • Seoul National University (B.A.)
  • University of Southern California (M.F.A.)
Occupation
  • Film director
  • producer
  • screenwriter
Years active2000–present

Notable work

Silenced and Squid Game

Hwang’s presentation highlight film named My Father was dispatched in 2007. It was a genuine story and involved noticeable entertainers including Kim Yeong-Cheol, Daniel Henney, and so on Following a hole of four years, his subsequent element film Silenced was delivered. It was perhaps his best work as it was viewed as probably the best film in Korea in that year. After this movie, he has coordinated two additional motion pictures named Miss Granny (2013) and The Fortress (2017) separately. In 2020 he created a film named Collectors.


However he had some great films previously, he has never come into the spotlight. This proceeded till the arrival of the Netflix series Squid Game. He initially composed the content for the series way back in 2008. Nonetheless, because of his terrible monetary status, he couldn’t immediate the film at that point. His monetary status was more awful to the point that he needed to offer his PC because of monetary battles. Since he composed the content for the series, he moved toward many individuals/studios and was dismissed by around ten studios. In any case, he never surrendered and kept on doing what he is great at. At last, the Netflix series was dispatched on 17 September 2021 and it broke all the past Netflix records. It is at present the most-watched show on Netflix and stands at the #1 spot in 90 nations.

Hwang Dong-hyuk’s total assets is $5 million (assessed). His significant kind of revenue is coordinating and screenwriting. Basically, his total assets was under 1,000,000 dollars. Notwithstanding, after the dispatch of Squid Game, his total assets has fundamentally seen an incredible lift and is simply expected to become bigger later on.