Hur Jin-ho graduated from Yonsei University with a degree in philosophy and went on to study filmmaking at the Korean Academy of Film Arts . His first steps as a film director did not go unnoticed as his first short , '' For Go-chul '' , was selected for the Vancouver International Film Festival . He later co-wrote the script of '' A Single Spark '' and '' Kilimanjaro '' . Many of his feature films , '' Christmas in August '' ( shown at the Critics ' Week in Cannes in 1998 ) , '' One Fine Spring Day '' ( 2001 ) , '' April Snow '' ( 2005 ) , '' Happiness '' ( 2007 ) and '' A Good Rain Knows '' ( 2009 ) are variations on Hur 's favorite theme : love . Film critic Kim Ji-mi says in '' Korean Film Observatory '' magazine ( No. 23 ) , Hur " shows the outstanding talent of being able to grasp the sensitive moments of the beginning and ending of a love between a man and a woman " ( p. 22 )
Vancouver International Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival
Hur Jin-ho