Yang Ik-june

Yang Ik-june (born 19 October 1975, Seoul) is a South Korean actor, director, screenwriter and editor. He trained at the Actor's 21 Academy and became known when he wrote, directed, edited and starred in the semi-autobiographical Breathless (2009), which won the VPRO Tiger Award at Rotterdam and a run of prizes at Deauville, Fantasia, Fantastic Fest and Tokyo FILMeX. He has since acted in films including Wilderness (2017), for which he won Best Supporting Actor at the Kinema Junpo Awards and the Asian Film Awards. In 2026 coverage he appears as one of three co-directors, with Jung Joo-won and Moon Shin-woo, of Raphael, an 80-minute feature billed as South Korea's first fully AI-generated theatrical film, made by Mateo AI Studio with MBC C&I's AI Content Lab. Press spells his name Yang Eekjun there and describes him as co-founder of Mateo AI Studio and a director at the MBC C&I AI Content Lab. He presented about five minutes of footage at a Kling AI session at the Cannes Marche du Film in May 2026.