Heo Jin-ho (also known as Hur Jin-ho) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter born on August 8, 1963. He is a graduate of Yonsei University with a degree in philosophy and has also studied filmmaking at the Korean Academy of Film Arts. He has specialized in directing romance films, with all five of his feature films Christmas in August, One Fine Spring Day, April Snow, Happiness and A Good Rain Knows being examples of the genre. —Wikipedia
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