Oh Chung Hwan
Biography
Oh Chung-hwan is a South Korean drama television director best known for his television dramas series My Love from the Star (2013–2014), The Doctors (2016), While You Were Sleeping (2017), Hotel del Luna (2019), Start-Up (2020), Big Mouth (2022), and Castaway Diva (2023).
Oh began his career in the broadcasting industry through the 2006 SBS New Employee Open Recruitment for the drama production director position. In 2009, Yoo worked as assistant director for directors Son Jung-hyun and Cho Young-Hwang on a 21-episode drama series called Temptation of an Angel written by Kim Soon-ok.
In 2013, Oh co-directed the drama My Love from the Star with director Jang Tae-yoo.
Oh, my first work as a lead director in a full feature-length drama was in the 2016 SBS medical drama The Doctors. The drama won the Excellence Award in The 'Seoul Drama Awards 2017'. When receiving the award, Oh paid tribute to the late Kim Young-ae.
In 2021, Oh co-founded Next Scene, a drama production company, with director Park Shin-woo. On March 28, 2022, Studio Dragon announced that it had signed an equity investment contract with Next Scene.
