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title: 'Jung Sung-il'
type: 'critic-profile'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/critics/jung-sung-il'
updated: '2026-07-31'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Jung Sung-il

A critic followed by the CinePixo community. This is a profile, not a byline:
Jung Sung-il does not write for CinePixo, and no opinion on this site
should be attributed to this critic.

## About

The dean of Korean cinephile criticism: editor-in-chief of the magazine KINO through the 1990s, where a generation of Korean directors and critics — Bong Joon-ho among the readers — learned to take their own cinema seriously. Jung writes criticism as devotion, sentence by long sentence, and later crossed the aisle to direct documentaries on Im Kwon-taek and Hou Hsiao-hsien.

## Elsewhere

- [KINO (magazine)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kino_(South_Korean_magazine))

Source: https://cinepixo.com/critics/jung-sung-il
Profile written for CinePixo.