Paper Man

Kimotae, (August 3rd, 1984~)

Born in Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. He was raised by his grandparents away from his parents. He was far from enjoying cultural life since he lived in a village in the countryside which is called Namha. It was only fun and pleasure reading fairy tales bought by his aunt, dancing and singing along to popular music from his father. He left for a city called Seongnam at the age 13 and enjoyed dancing and singing in a small studio. That naturally led to the entrance for a school of musical performance having been advised by his colleague in a dance team. That’s how he learned acting and realized he is cut out for it, however, he could not graduate because of livelihood although he transferred to a university and concentrated on studying. He joined a few plays out of school but still had difficulty in life due to insecurity from family issues.
After he suffered from depression, he started to feel secure from the counseling and colleagues who remembered and encouraged his talent. It made him go back to work for his career. The chief in the dance team encouraged him to join the production for play and it had a good result. This was the starting point to put his mind to his work. A friend of his who was in a movie production team encouraged him to be in charge of writing scripts and acting but he was still eager to learn although he was getting experienced in the field. He studied scenarios and worked together with the professional writer for 3 years.
Interestingly, he once moved to Busan for a play and met a soulmate. They got to have strong belief in each other and started to create films. Kimotae is in charge of writing and directing while his colleague, Hyunjun Jang supports and manages in general. They became confident and planned a low budget but feature film. Kimotae produced his first feature film, Paperman in 2021 sponsored by a good acquaintance who liked his script.