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Samuel Yeunju HA
Korea
Bound Entertainment / CEO
Samuel Yeunju Ha is a veteran entertainment executive and producer who has over 15 years of experience working on many Korean, pan-Asian and US co-productions ranging from film to animations and games.
He worked as an executive fund manager at Union Investment Partners, Korea’s largest private investor in film and entertainment. He managed a $120 million content investment fund that invested into over 60 companies and content-related projects that encompassed Korean films, TV shows, games and animations, as well as international film and animation co-productions with the USA, China, and Japan. Some of his executive producer credits include Director Bong Joon-ho’s Okja and Snowpiercer, Lee Min-ho’s first Chinese co-production Bounty Hunters for China’s LeTV, Director Kim Jee-Woon’s Illang: The Wolf Brigade with Warner Bros., Director Yoon Sung-Hyun’s Time To Hunt for Netflix And on US co-productions such as Equals (Kristen Stewart, Nicholas Hoult), A Walk in the Woods (Robert Redford, Nick Nolte), Free State Of Jones (Matthew Mcconaughey) and Colossal (Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis).
Before working At Union Investment Partners, Samuel Yeunju Ha served as Senior Vice President of Film Production & Investment at the film studio, DCG Plus, where he managed packaging and finance deals on over 15 films that were picked up by major distributors in Korea. Some of his producer credits include Scandal Makers, My Girlfriend Is an Agent and War of Arrows.
Samuel Yeunju Ha is currently the founder and CEO of Bound Entertainment, which was established in the beginning of 2019. Based in Seoul and Los Angeles, Bound specializes in television, film, and digital media and is dedicated to developing and producing a slate of diverse stories that can reach global audiences for all platforms with a focus on talent, resources, and stories from and about the Asian diaspora. Bound Entertainment produced Apple TV+’s first Korean language original series, Dr. Brain, written and directed by Kim Jee-woon ( The Age of Shadows, I Saw the Devil), Starring Lee Sun-Kyun Of Parasite.
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