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Writer
Gender
Female
Birthday
07 January
Location
Seoul, South Korea
Edit pageKim Eun Hee
Biography
Kim Eun-hee, born in 1972 in South Korea, is a South Korean screenwriter renowned for creating suspenseful stories across crime, mystery, thriller, historical drama, and horror. She studied mass media and journalism and began her career as an assistant writer for SBS entertainment programs before moving into television and film screenwriting.
She made her feature-film screenwriting debut with Once in a Summer (2006) and entered television with Harvest Villa in 2010. She gained recognition through genre dramas such as Sign (2011), Phantom (2012), Three Days (2014), and Signal (2016). Signal received the Baeksang Arts Award and APAN Star Award for Best Screenplay.
Her international breakthrough came with Netflix's Kingdom (2019–2020), a historical zombie thriller set during Korea's Joseon period. Kim developed the project from an idea she had been working on since 2011, using the era's famine and social inequality as inspiration for the zombie outbreak.
She also wrote Kingdom: Ashin of the North (2021), Jirisan (2021), and the acclaimed occult mystery series Revenant (2023). Her work is particularly noted for combining genre entertainment with social themes, including politics, hunger, inequality, and human fear.
Kim Eun-hee is widely regarded as one of South Korea's leading genre-drama writers, earning recognition for her distinctive storytelling and ability to blend Korean history and folklore with modern thriller and horror elements.
