Byun Seung-min is the CEO of South Korea-based film and television production studio Climax Studio, formerly Lezhin Studio.
A lifelong fan of film and TV who as a youth would avidly take notes on films by directors such as Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Byun learned about the industry from the bottom up when he started out doing grunt work on film productions in college.
In 2009, he joined investment and distribution company NEW, where he worked on the financing and release of films ranging from Lee Chang-dong's Cannes prize-winner Poetry (2010) to box-office hit Miracle In Cell No. 7 (2012).
He later moved to Warner Brothers Korea to head its local film division, overseeing titles such as The Age of Shadows (2016) and Champion (2018) starring Don Lee (aka Ma Dong-seok), before turning his attention to television in 2018 when he started production and investment firm Lezhin Studio.
(Source: Screen International)
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