Jung Joo-won

Jung Joo-won (also romanised Jung Ju-won, Jung Juwon or Juwon Jung) is a South Korean filmmaker and the co-representative (CEO) of Mateo AI Studio, a Seoul studio that makes films, dramas and animation with generative AI. Press describes him as one of three co-directors of Raphael, an 80-minute feature billed as South Korea's first fully AI-generated theatrical film, alongside Yang Ik-june (spelled Yang Eekjun in some coverage) and Moon Shin-woo. The same trio made the short Mateo, which won the Grand Prize at the 2024 Korea International AI Film Festival. Raphael follows a war android modelled on a dictator's younger self who meets a Catholic priest; it was shown at Hong Kong FilMart in March 2026 and at a Kling AI panel at the Cannes Marche du Film in May 2026, with a Korean release planned with MBC C&I. Reports say Jung co-runs Mateo AI Studio with Jung Myeong-young, and that in 2026 the studio raised a 2 billion won pre-A round and took a Tips grant. Asked about the investment, he said the studio's edge is in building stories, worlds and characters that move people, not in the technology itself.