Born in 1969, he studied Cinematography at VGIK. His feature, The flight of the bee (1998) won Silver alexander at TIFF and Best Picture Award, Best Feature Film Prix FIPRESCI Award, and Audience Award at TFF. Let’s not cry (2001), Pruning the grapevine (2007), Nostalgia (2011), and Touch (2012) were screened at many film festivals. Mask and Mirror (2013) won Best Director Prize at Korean Competition For Shorts of the 14th Jeonju IFF. Following the documentary , MIN returned to arthouse fiction fare with , which debuted at the Busan International Film Festival in 2014, just as had two years prior. Hi next work , a co-production between South Korea and China, came a year later.