Jang Yeong-seon
BIOGRAPHY
Jang Yeong-seon (장영선), credited on TMDB as Jang Young-seon, is a South Korean director and screenwriter. The record covers fourteen years, and almost all of it is queer work made at short length.
The earliest credit on file is the 2012 film Nabang Spark (나방스파크). The queer filmography opens three years later with A Naked Boy (아직 끝나지 않았다, 31 October 2015), a twenty two minute short written and directed by Jang. Five more short films followed, every one of them classified by TMDB as boys’ love (bl): My Eleventh Brother (형이 돌아왔다, 2016, twenty one minutes), The Four Vampires (4인의 뱀파이어, 2018, fourteen minutes, written as well as directed), Private Lessons (보충수업, 2020, twenty four minutes), Fingers After (첫날밤과 손가락, June 2021, ten minutes) and Please Tell Me So (말해줘, October 2021, nine minutes). A further 2021 title, The Confidential Coffee Brake (두 교수의 은밀한 만남), is directed by Jang but carries no genre classification on record, so none is claimed for it here.
Six BL short films in six years, and not one of them longer than twenty four minutes.
The move to serial work came with Love Class (수업중입니다), the South Korean BL franchise carried by Viki, GagaOOLala, wavve and Cinema Heaven, with Studio Yanggwibi, Rad Film, Urban Works, BOXMEDIA and IMU studio credited across it. Episodes run about twenty minutes. Jang had no credit on the first season, which ran six episodes from 13 May 2022 under director Lee Seong-taek and writer Kim Kyung-hwan.
On Love Class Season 2, ten episodes from 11 August 2023, Jang directed every episode and shared the writing credit with Kim Kyung-hwan. On Love Class Season 3, sixteen episodes from 28 May 2026, Jang is the sole credited writer across all sixteen, with Lee Seok-yong directing.
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BLGLFlix editorial view
The three seasons of Love Class run six episodes, then ten, then sixteen, across 2022, 2023 and 2026. That is what a pipeline looks like from the inside. This site has said before that Korea has no BL pipeline, only scattered short form web projects. This filmography is the correction. Korea does have one. It just does not look like the Thai version, where a studio commissions twelve episodes on day one and puts them on television.
Look at who stays and who rotates. Season one: Lee Seong-taek directs, Kim Kyung-hwan writes. Season two: Jang directs and co-writes with Kim. Season three: a third director, Lee Seok-yong, and Jang writing alone. The chair that changes every season is the director’s. The continuity is the script, and over three seasons the authorship has passed from one writer to the other. In Thai BL the recognisable name is usually the director or the studio. Here it is the writer, and that is a different way of building a franchise.
Then there is the road that led to it. Six queer short films between 2015 and 2021, running from nine minutes to twenty four. Korean BL short film is not a stepping stone that people are impatient to leave. It is the format itself, made and watched at that length for years, and it is also where the directors who eventually make series learn the job. There is no film school pathway visible here and no broadcaster apprenticeship. There is a decade of short films.
The distribution point is worth repeating because it keeps recurring in our Korean records. Love Class reaches viewers through Viki, GagaOOLala, wavve and Cinema Heaven. Not one of those is a Korean television channel. The same was true of Friendly Rivalry, which reached sixteen episodes and a name cast and still went out on a telecom operator’s app. Korean queer drama does not lack production capacity or audience. It lacks a broadcast slot, and it has stopped waiting for one.
PROFILE DETAILS
- Native Name
- 장영선
- Real Name
- Jang Yeong-seon
- Nickname
- Jang Young-seon (장영선)
- Profession
- Nationality
- Debut
- 2012 — Nabang Spark (나방스파크, 2012), as director. First queer credit: A Naked Boy (2015)
- Years Active
- 2012-present
- Languages
- Korean
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