| Kim-Jho Gwang-soo | |||||||||||||||||
| Othername: | Kim-Jho Kwang-soo Peter Kim | ||||||||||||||||
| Birth Name: | Kim Gwang-soo | ||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 26 March 1965 | ||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Seongbuk District, Seoul, South Korea | ||||||||||||||||
| Alma Mater: | Hanyang University | ||||||||||||||||
| Occupation: | Film director, screenwriter, film producer | ||||||||||||||||
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Kim-Jho Gwang-soo (; born 26 March 1965), also known as Peter Kim, is a South Korean film director, screenwriter, film producer and LGBT rights activist.[1] [2]
Kim Gwang-soo was born in Seongbuk District, Seoul. He disclosed his sexual orientation in 2006, and legally changed his name to Kim Jho Gwang-soo. Kim-Jho is one of South Korea's few openly gay film directors and has been involved in the production of several works with LGBT themes.[3]
He collaborated with director Leesong Hee-il to produce the 2006 film No Regret, considered to be "the first real Korean gay feature."[4] In 2008, he directed and wrote his first short film, Boy Meets Boy as well as two follow-ups: Just Friends? (2009) and LOVE, 100°C (2010). His first feature film, Two Weddings and a Funeral was released in 2012.[5]
Kim Jho held a public, non-legal wedding ceremony with film distributor and LGBT activist David Kim Seung-hwan (his partner since 2004), in Seoul on September 7, 2013, the first of its kind in the country which does not recognize same-sex marriages.[6] [7] [8] [9] The preparations for their wedding and the ceremony itself was the subject of Jang Hee-sun's 2015 documentary My Fair Wedding.[10]