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Known for
Writer
Gender
Female
Birthday
12 September
Location
Seoul, South Korea
Edit pageSong Ji Na
Biography
Song Ji-na (born September 12, 1959) is a South Korean screenwriter. She is best known for writing Eyes of Dawn (1991) and Sandglass (1995), two of the most influential and highly-rated Korean dramas of all time.
Song Ji-na began her career as a writer for the radio program Starry Night on MBC Radio. She made her television writing debut in 1982 on the children's show Tiger Teacher, while writing the scripts for a social documentary TV series.
She then met TV director Kim Jong-Hak, with whom she would famously collaborate on eight television dramas. Their first work together was The Last Station (1987), one of MBC's early experiments with the miniseries format.
Adapted from a manhwa by Huh Young-man, the eight-episode series was set in the 1970s and starred Jung Dong-hwan and Kang Moon-young. Song and Kim's second drama was Teacher, Teacher, Our Teacher (1988).
Their third collaboration, Human Market (1988) was based on Kim Hong-shin's bestselling novel and became one of the classics of 1980s Korean television (SBS would later remake it in 2004).
Song was supposed to be the writer for the then-developed MBC series Gaia but was replaced later by Kim Ban-di. The project was eventually retitled as Missing 9.
Song is married to Jin Ki-woong, a director for KBS1's long-running investigative news program In Depth 60 Minutes. They have a son, Jin Han-sae (Gin Han-sai), who is also a drama screenwriter. Jin Han-she is the writer of the 2020 Netflix original Extracurricular and the 2017 Naver web series Irish Uppercut.
