Yeon Sang-ho (b. 1978) is a South Korean director and screenwriter. In 2012, his first film The King of Pigs was the first South Korean animated feature film to be presented at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2016, he came back to Cannes with Train to Busan, a genre film presented during a midnight screening which would become a huge international success. A multidisciplinary artist, he became the genre master in South Korea with various projects: super-hero film Psychokinesis, horror TV series The Cursed, and comics web series Hell.