---
name: "Ryu Seong-hie"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ryu-seong-hie"
fi1m_id: "ryu-seong-hie"
imdb_id: "nm1091794"
tmdb_id: 10109
wikidata_id: "Q29906008"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "13 November 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-09-30T21:30:30.830271+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."
---

# Ryu Seong-hie

## Identity

Ryu Seong-hie

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ryu-seong-hie
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ryu-seong-hie
- **IMDb ID:** nm1091794
- **TMDB ID:** 10109
- **Wikidata ID:** Q29906008
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryu_Seong-hie, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29906008, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1091794/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10109

Production designer. Born 13 November 1968 in South Korea.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 13 November 1968, South Korea
- **Active:** 2003–present
- **Also known as:** 류성희, Seong-hie Ryu, Ryoo Sung-hee, Ryu Seong-hee
- **Frequently works with:** [Park Chan-wook](https://film.one/person/park-chan-wook.md), [Bong Joon Ho](https://film.one/person/bong-joon-ho.md), [Byun Hee-bong](https://film.one/person/byun-hee-bong.md), [Jeong Seo-kyeong](https://film.one/person/chung-seo-kyung.md), [Lim Seung-yong](https://film.one/person/syd-lim.md), [Park Hae-il](https://film.one/person/park-hae-il.md), [Song Kang-ho](https://film.one/person/song-kang-ho.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 88 (2), 2010s 85 (1), 2020s 80 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 84 to 80 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 4 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Thriller 5, Crime 2, Drama 2, Mystery 2, Romance 2, Comedy 1
- **Screen time:** 11 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $139m across 5 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryu_Seong-hie, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29906008, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1091794/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10109

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Decision to Leave*](https://film.one/film/decision-to-leave.md) (82)
- **Disney+:** [*No Other Choice*](https://film.one/film/no-other-choice.md) (78)

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

## Biography

Ryu Seong-hie is a South Korean production designer and art director. She studied ceramics at Hongik University in Seoul, earning a bachelor's degree and a master's in industrial crafts, before completing a master's in production design at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. She began working in film in 2001.

Ryu has collaborated frequently with directors Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon-ho. Her credits include production design on *Oldboy* (2003), *Memories of Murder* (2003), *The Host* (2006), *Mother* (2009), *The Handmaiden* (2016), *Decision to Leave* (2022) and *No Other Choice* (2025). In 2016 she became the first Korean recipient of the Vulcain Prize for Technical Artistry at the Cannes Film Festival for her work on *The Handmaiden*.

She received the inaugural Camellia Award at the 2024 Busan International Film Festival for her contributions to women in film.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, koreajoongangdaily.joins.com, festival-cannes.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *No Other Choice* (2025), Fi1m 78, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/no-other-choice.md)
- *Decision to Leave* (2022), Fi1m 82, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/decision-to-leave.md)
- *The Handmaiden* (2016), Fi1m 85, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-handmaiden.md)
- *Memories of Murder* (2003), Fi1m 91, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/memories-of-murder.md)
- *Oldboy* (2003), Fi1m 85, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/oldboy.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

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

- *No Other Choice* (2025), Production Design — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/no-other-choice.md)
- *When Life Gives You Tangerines* (2025), series, Production Design
- *Alienoid: Return to the Future* (2024), Production Design
- *Mask Girl* (2023), series, Production Design
- *Little Women* (2022), series, Production Design
- *Alienoid* (2022), Production Design
- *Decision to Leave* (2022), Production Design — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/decision-to-leave.md)
- *The King's Letters* (2019), Production Design
- *The Handmaiden* (2016), Production Design — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/the-handmaiden.md)
- *Assassination* (2015), Production Design
- *Ode to My Father* (2014), Production Design
- *The Attorney* (2013), Production Design
- *Behind the Camera* (2013), Production Design
- *The Front Line* (2011), Production Design
- *Late Autumn* (2011), Production Design
- *Mother* (2009), Production Design
- *Thirst* (2009), Production Design, Art Direction
- *Hansel & Gretel* (2007), Production Design
- *I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK* (2006), Production Design
- *The Host* (2006), Production Design
- *A Bittersweet Life* (2005), Production Design
- *Three... Extremes* (2004), Production Design
- *Oldboy* (2003), Production Design — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/oldboy.md)
- *Memories of Murder* (2003), Production Design — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/memories-of-murder.md)
- *No Blood No Tears* (2002), Production Design
- *Flower Island* (2001), Production Design
- *The Brigands of Rattlecreek*, Production Design

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- CST Award of the Technical Artist 2016: CST Award of the Technical Artist (won), for *The Handmaiden*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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