Yang Yong Hi is a Japanese-born Korean (or Zainichi) film director.

Born in Osaka in 1964 as a second-generation Korean. She studied Korean literature at Korea University in Tokyo and media studies in New York. She has worked as a teacher, actress, radio host and foreign correspondent for TV. Having made documentary films since 1995, she gave her fictional film directing debut in 2012 with "Our Homeland" (NC ’12). Her films have been screened and awarded at many international film festivals. After the documentaries "Dear Pyongyang" (2005) and "Sona, The Other Myself" (2009), "Soup And Ideology" (2021) is the final part of a trilogy about her family’s Korean heritage.

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