Kim Hae-jin

Kim Hae-jin is a South Korean filmmaker known for the short film Queer Violence (2017), an eleven-minute drama that premiered in the Queer Rainbow section of the Seoul International Women's Film Festival. The film follows a lesbian couple, Yujin and Dohee, who take a taxi home late at night; the driver's increasingly invasive questioning about their relationship escalates into a menacing, claustrophobic threat, before the film subverts audience expectations in a final-act reversal in which the women refuse to remain passive victims. The short has been recognized as a distinctive entry in Korea's queer short-film scene for its tonal shift from horror into vindication, and remains, based on available English- and Korean-language sources, Kim's most documented contribution to queer Korean cinema.