Hong Sangsoo was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1960. After studying at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, he continued his education at the California College of Arts and Crafts and the Art Institute of Chicago. Beginning with The Day a Pig Fell into the Well in 1996, he has written and directed two dozen films, including The Power of Kangwon Province (1998), Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000), Turning Gate (2002), Woman Is the Future of Man (2004), Woman on the Beach (2006), Hahaha (2010), In Another Country (2012), Right Now, Wrong Then (2015), On the Beach at Night Alone (2017), Claire’s Camera (2017), and Hotel by the River (2019), among others. The Woman Who Ran is his 24th feature in 24 years.