---
name: "Cho Hwa-sung"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/cho-hwa-sung"
fi1m_id: "cho-hwa-sung"
imdb_id: "nm1385635"
tmdb_id: 38017
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "8 April 1969"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-27T08:07:24.459332+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Cho Hwa-sung

## Identity

Cho Hwa-sung

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/cho-hwa-sung
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** cho-hwa-sung
- **IMDb ID:** nm1385635
- **TMDB ID:** 38017
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1385635/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/38017

Production designer. Born 8 April 1969.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 8 April 1969
- **Also known as:** 조화성, Hwa-seong Jo
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1385635/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/38017

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*The Good, the Bad, the Weird*](https://film.one/film/the-good-the-bad-the-weird.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Cho Hwa-sung (also credited as Hwa-seong Jo or 조화성) is a South Korean production designer and art director. He began working in film in the mid-1990s and has credits on dozens of features.

He is known for his work on *The Good, the Bad, the Weird* (2008), *Lady Vengeance* (2005), *I Saw the Devil* (2010), *A Taxi Driver* (2017), *The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil* (2019), *All of Us Are Dead* (2022) and *Badland Hunters* (2024). He has received multiple awards for art direction and production design, including for *The Good, the Bad, the Weird*.

*Sources: imdb.com, kmdb.or.kr, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Good, the Bad, the Weird* (2008), Fi1m 74, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-good-the-bad-the-weird.md)

## Complete filmography (56)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Concrete Market* (2025), Production Design
- *Tristes Tropiques* (2025), Production Design
- *Dark Nuns* (2025), Production Design
- *The Tyrant* (2024), series, Production Design
- *이유 있는 건축* (2024), series, Actor
- *The Plot* (2024), Production Design
- *Pyramid Game* (2024), series, as Art Direction
- *Badland Hunters* (2024), Production Design
- *Noryang: Deadly Sea* (2023), Production Design
- *Daily Dose of Sunshine* (2023), series, Production Design
- *Concrete Utopia* (2023), Production Design
- *The Childe* (2023), Production Design
- *Gentleman* (2022), Production Design
- *A Birth* (2022), Production Design
- *Hansan: Rising Dragon* (2022), Production Design
- *The Witch: Part 2. The Other One* (2022), Production Design
- *All of Us Are Dead* (2022), series, Production Design
- *Dr. Brain* (2021), series, Production Design
- *Heaven: To the Land of Happiness* (2021), Production Design
- *Night in Paradise* (2020), Production Design
- *Deliver Us from Evil* (2020), Production Design
- *Me and Me* (2020), Production Design
- *The Man Standing Next* (2020), Production Design
- *Forbidden Dream* (2019), Production Design
- *Bring Me Home* (2019), Production Design
- *The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil* (2019), Production Design
- *Money* (2019), Production Design
- *The Drug King* (2018), Production Design
- *Intimate Strangers* (2018), Production Design
- *Illang: The Wolf Brigade* (2018), Production Design
- *The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion* (2018), Production Design
- *V.I.P.* (2017), Production Design
- *A Taxi Driver* (2017), Production Design
- *Reset* (2017), Production Design
- *The Age of Shadows* (2016), Production Design
- *The Last Princess* (2016), Production Design
- *The Great Actor* (2016), Production Design
- *Missing You* (2016), Production Design
- *Inside Men* (2015), Production Design
- *Veteran* (2015), Production Design
- *The Fatal Encounter* (2014), Production Design
- *New World* (2013), Production Design
- *Day Trip* (2012), Production Design
- *Doomsday Book* (2012), as Art Direction
- *Nameless Gangster* (2012), Production Design
- *Night Fishing* (2011), Production Design
- *I Saw the Devil* (2010), Production Design
- *Woochi: The Demon Slayer* (2009), Production Design
- *Private Eye* (2009), Production Design
- *The Good, the Bad, the Weird* (2008), as Man in Inn · Production Design — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-good-the-bad-the-weird.md)
- *The City of Violence* (2006), as Art Direction
- *Lady Vengeance* (2005), Production Design, Art Direction
- *The Freaking Family* (2005), Production Design
- *Come Tomorrow* (2003), Production Design
- *Natural City* (2003), Production Design
- *The Spy* (1999), as Art Direction

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