Manpower
Proven hit DNA, built into one studio.
STUDIO HYPER's Manpower is a network of leaders, writers, and directors who understand production, genre, platforms, and business.
Executive Producer
CEO
CEO
Kim Jae-hoon
Executive producer with experience across film, drama, post, VFX, and studio operations.
Credentials
- Major Studio C-Level: Former COO of WYSIWYG Studios and former CEO of A2Z Entertainment
- Award: Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Award for digital content production activation, 2012
Portfolio
Movie / Cinema
Blockbuster and commercial film investment, production, and DI
49
Drama
Hit titles across terrestrial, cable, and general programming channels
56
Restoration
Classic Korean film digital restoration projects
28
Other
Web drama, promotional video, and 3D stereoscopic work
4
Representative Works
Blockbusters / 10M Films
Well-Made Commercial Hits
National Dramas
Features
- A rare position that can control both Visual Quality and Business beyond simple production.
- Experience building large-scale production pipelines and operating organizations at an IPO-ready level.
Key Members
Leadership
Ha Jeong-seok
Head of Non-Scripted
A non-scripted leader connecting K-Food, culinary entertainment, and global formats.
Background & Feature
- Oversees non-scripted format development and multi-season scale-up strategy.
- Builds global-ready production frameworks for food and lifestyle IPs.
- A CJ ENM and WBD producer who helped define Korea's cooking entertainment format.
- Built hit food formats across MasterChef Korea, Korean Food War, Tasty Road, and related lifestyle series.
Portfolio
- Channel A <Mask Chef>
- tvN <Mainly Two of Us>
- Discovery Korea <Gear Gods>, <Hello Plate>
- JTBC <Team Chef>
- Olive TV <Korean Food War>, <MasterChef>, <Tasty Road>
Lim Young-jin
Head of Drama
Drama lead with genre series and platform production experience.
Background & Feature
- Leads genre-series development, writers-room operation, and platform strategy.
- Builds systems that raise both narrative quality and commercial hit rate.
- A drama all-rounder with experience from field production through executive producing.
- Has guarded the front line of hit drama production for more than 15 years.
Portfolio
- KBS <Villain's Country>
- Netflix <Goodbye Earth> Executive Producer
- tvN <Family> Production Executive
- KBS <Dog Knows Everything> Executive Producer
- E Channel <Riders> Production Executive
- OCN <My Secret Romance> Production Executive
Hong Jae-jun
Head of Movie
Movie lead combining commercial film planning with stable production execution.
Background & Feature
- Drives film slate planning, production balance, and genre expansion.
- Operates a pipeline focused on both market performance and execution quality.
- A film producer with elite Korean film training and more than 17 commercial film credits from 2013 to 2024.
- Combines audience insight with stable production management to raise the success probability of HYPER's film slate.
Portfolio
- 2024 <Exhuma> 10M admissions, co-production
- 2013 <Secretly, Greatly> 7M admissions, planning/production
- 2019 <Tazza: One Eyed Jack> co-production
- 2019 <By Quantum Physics> production
- 2018 <The Vanished> co-production
- 2022 <Spring Day> production
- 2023 <Secret> co-production
Scripted Department (Writers)
Han Sang-woon
Writer
Builds dense genre plotting and powerful narrative pull.
Lee Byung-hak
Writer
Moves across period, thriller, and psychological drama.
Jung Yoo-sun
Writer
Creates trend-forward, character-driven stories.
Lee Gun-sook
Writer
Award-winning writer focused on psychological thrillers.
Hwang Yoon-jung
Writer
Combines romantic comedy with premium mainstream appeal.
Scripted Department (Directors)
Myung Hyun-woo
Director
A visual storyteller moving across global OTT titles and trend-forward romance.
- Directs refined emotional beats with a clear eye for mainstream audience demand.
Oh Seung-yeol
Director
A veteran director behind heavyweight narratives and gripping human dramas.
- Maximizes production quality through strong set command and precise direction.
Joo Sang-gyu
Director
A hybrid creator spanning romance sensitivity, genre impact, planning, and directing.
- Combines market-aware planning with detailed direction across genres.
Kim Young-sam
Director
An all-round director moving from youth emotion to K-creature scale.
- Handles both delicate romance and large-scale genre storytelling with flexible control.