KO Donghwan Portrait

KO Donghwan

Animation Director | Layout Artist

He graduated Hongik University majoring in Animation.

He is currently joining as a layout artist on director Bong Joonho's feature animation, while also directing short animations in Korea.

Education

ํ™์ต๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต(Hongik University) | BFA, Animation

Awards | Official Selection

2026 |  ๋ฌผ ๋งŒ๋‚œ ๋ถ•์–ด๋นต (Crisp Dream)  l  Nantco Film Festival  l  Invitation Short Film
2025 |  ๋ฌผ ๋งŒ๋‚œ ๋ถ•์–ด๋นต (Crisp Dream)  l  Asiatiska FilmFestivalen  l  Kortfilmsdagen 2025
2024 |  ๋ฌผ ๋งŒ๋‚œ ๋ถ•์–ด๋นต (Crisp Dream)  l  ์„œ์šธ๊ตญ์ œ์–ด๋ฆฐ์ด์˜ํ™”์ œ (Seoul International Children's Film Festival)  l  Jury Award
2024 |  ๋ฌผ ๋งŒ๋‚œ ๋ถ•์–ด๋นต (Crisp Dream)  l  ๋Œ€๋‹จํ•œ๋‹จํŽธ์˜ํ™”์ œ (The 16th Great Short Film Festival)  l  Invitation Short Film
2024 |  ๋ฌผ ๋งŒ๋‚œ ๋ถ•์–ด๋นต (Crisp Dream)  l  ๊ตญ์ œํ•ด์–‘์˜ํ™”์ œ (Korea International Ocean Film Fesival)  l  Official Selection
2024 |  ๋ฌผ ๋งŒ๋‚œ ๋ถ•์–ด๋นต (Crisp Dream)  l  ์„œ์šธ์ธ๋””์• ๋‹ˆํŽ˜์ŠคํŠธ (Seoul IndieAniFest 2024)  l  Official Selection
2024 |  ๋ฌผ ๋งŒ๋‚œ ๋ถ•์–ด๋นต (Crisp Dream)  l  ๋น›๋‚˜๋Š”๋‹จํŽธ์• ๋‹ˆ๋ฉ”์ด์…˜์˜ํ™”์ œ (Shining Short Animated Film Festival)  l  Official Selection
2024 |  ๋ฌผ ๋งŒ๋‚œ ๋ถ•์–ด๋นต (Crisp Dream)  l  ์›์ฃผ์˜ฅ์ƒ์˜ํ™”์ œ (Wonju Rootop Film Festival)  l  Official Selection
2024 |  ๋ฌผ ๋งŒ๋‚œ ๋ถ•์–ด๋นต (Crisp Dream)  l  ์ฒญ์ฃผ๊ตญ์ œ๋‹จํŽธ์˜ํ™”์ œ (CheongJu International Short Film Festival)  l  Official Selection
2024 |  ๋ฌผ ๋งŒ๋‚œ ๋ถ•์–ด๋นต (Crisp Dream)  l  Flicker's Rhode Island International Film Festival  l  Official Selection
2024 |  ๋ฌผ ๋งŒ๋‚œ ๋ถ•์–ด๋นต (Crisp Dream)  l  LeidenShorts 2024  l  Official Selection
2024 |  ๋ฌผ ๋งŒ๋‚œ ๋ถ•์–ด๋นต (Crisp Dream)  l  La Guarimaba Film Festival  l  Official Selection
2023 |  ๋ฌผ ๋งŒ๋‚œ ๋ถ•์–ด๋นต (Crisp Dream)  l  ์• ๋‹ˆ๋ฉ”์ด์…˜์–ด์›Œ์ฆˆ (The 6th Animation Awards)  l  Animation Award
2023 |  ๋ฌผ ๋งŒ๋‚œ ๋ถ•์–ด๋นต (Crisp Dream)  l  ๋ถ€์ฒœ๊ตญ์ œ์• ๋‹ˆ๋ฉ”์ด์…˜์˜ํ™”์ œ (Bucheon International Animation Festival)  l  Official Selection

2021 | PLAY ON  l  13th ASIAGRAPH 2021 | Best Works
2021 | PLAY ON  l  ์„œ์šธ๊ตฌ๋กœ๊ตญ์ œ์–ด๋ฆฐ์ด์˜ํ™”์ œ (Seoul Guro International Kids Film Festival) | Non Competition
2021 | PLAY ON  l  Montreal International Animation Film Festival - ANIMAZE | Official Selection
2021 | PLAY ON  l  VOID International Animation Film Festival | Official Selection
2020 | PLAY ON  l  ์ธ๋””์• ๋‹ˆํŽ˜์ŠคํŠธ (IndieAniFest) | Audience Award
2020 | PLAY ON  l  ๋””์ง€์ฝ˜์•„์‹œ์•„์–ด์›Œ๋“œ (Digicon6 Asia - South Korea) | Silver Award
2020 | PLAY ON  l  New York Los Angeles International Film Festival | Best Animation
2020 | PLAY ON  l  California International Shorts Festival | Honorable Mention
2020 | PLAY ON  l  Bengaluru International Short Film Festival | Non Competition
2020 | PLAY ON  l  USA FIlm Festival | Official Selection
2020 | PLAY ON  l  ์„œ์šธ๊ตญ์ œ๋งŒํ™”์• ๋‹ˆ๋ฉ”์ด์…˜ํŽ˜์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ฒŒ (Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival) | Official Selection
2020 | PLAY ON  l  SPARK Animation | Official Selection
2020 | PLAY ON  l  ONE Country ONE FIlm | Official Selection
2020 | PLAY ON  l  Cartoon Club | Official Selection
2019 | PLAY ON  l  ํ™์ต๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต ์กธ์—…์˜ํ™”์ œ (Hongik University Graduation Film Festival) | Grand-Priz

Exhibition

2020.09.16 - 09.21 BEYOND SCREEN | Group Exhibition | Gallery ใ€ŽIsใ€, Insadong, Korea  l  16th Sept 2020 - 21th Sept 2020

Judge

2022.09.22 - 09.27 ์„œ์šธ์ธ๋””์• ๋‹ˆํŽ˜์ŠคํŠธ 2022 | Judge | Web-Animation | YeonNam CGV, Korea  l  22th - 27th Sept 2022
2021.12.12 ์ œ4ํšŒ ์• ๋‹ˆ๋ฉ”์ด์…˜ ์–ด์›Œ์ฆˆ | Judge | Cine Library in MyongDong CGV, Korea  l  12th Dec 2021

Executive

2025 - Present ์„œ์šธ์ธ๋””์• ๋‹ˆํŽ˜์ŠคํŠธ (Seoul Indie-Anifest) | ์ง‘ํ–‰์œ„์› (Executive Committee Member)