---
name: "Lim Seung-yong"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/syd-lim"
fi1m_id: "syd-lim"
imdb_id: "nm1367410"
tmdb_id: 10105
wikidata_id: "Q107534326"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "20 October 1970"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-18T07:55:18.999742+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."
---

# Lim Seung-yong

## Identity

Lim Seung-yong

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/syd-lim
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** syd-lim
- **IMDb ID:** nm1367410
- **TMDB ID:** 10105
- **Wikidata ID:** Q107534326
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syd_Lim, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107534326, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1367410/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10105

Producer. Born 20 October 1970 in South Korea.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 20 October 1970, South Korea
- **Active:** 2003–2016
- **Also known as:** Syd Lim, Seung-yong Lim, 임승용, Lim Syd, Lim Seung Young
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 producing
- **Frequently works with:** [Park Chan-wook](https://film.one/person/park-chan-wook.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 85 (1), 2010s 85 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syd_Lim, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107534326, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1367410/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10105

## Biography

Syd Lim, also credited as Lim Seung-yong or Im Seung-yong, is a South Korean film producer and occasional actor. He is the founder and CEO of Yong Film (a label under CJ ENM since 2023) and has previously worked at Walt Disney Korea and established SIO Film.

Lim began producing with *The Humanist* (2001) and gained prominence with Park Chan-wook's *Oldboy* (2003), on which he also served as planner and appeared as an actor. He has maintained a long collaboration with Park, producing *The Handmaiden* (2016), which won a BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language. Other notable productions include *The Beauty Inside* (2015), *Luck-Key* (2016), *Heart Blackened* (2017) and executive producer roles on *The Call* (2020) and *20th Century Girl* (2022).

Lim graduated from Yonsei University with bachelor's and master's degrees in Korean literature.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *Oldboy* (2003), Fi1m 85, as Rude Man — [page](https://film.one/film/oldboy.md)

### Produced (1) — the average rests on these

- *The Handmaiden* (2016), Fi1m 85, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-handmaiden.md)

## Complete filmography (28)

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

- *Cattle Run* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Reawaken Man: The Red* (2026), Producer
- *Romantics Anonymous* (2025), series, Executive Producer
- *My Name Is Loh Kiwan* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Believer 2* (2023), Executive Producer
- *20th Century Girl* (2022), Executive Producer
- *The Call* (2020), Executive Producer
- *Heart Attack* (2020), Producer
- *Cheer Up, Mr. Lee* (2019), Executive Producer
- *The Beauty Inside* (2018), series, Executive Producer
- *Believer* (2018), Executive Producer
- *Heart Blackened* (2017), Producer
- *Luck-Key* (2016), Producer
- *The Handmaiden* (2016), Producer — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/the-handmaiden.md)
- *The Beauty Inside* (2015), Producer
- *The Target* (2014), Producer
- *Mr. XXX-Kisser* (2012), Producer
- *Couples* (2011), Producer
- *The Servant* (2010), Producer
- *The Righteous Thief* (2009), Producer
- *Big Bang* (2007), Producer
- *Project Makeover* (2007), Producer
- *The Beast and the Beauty* (2005), Producer
- *Crying Fist* (2005), Producer
- *Oldboy* (2003), as Rude Man · Producer — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/oldboy.md)
- *Spring Bears Love* (2003), Producer
- *The Humanist* (2001), Producer
- *In the Net*, series, Producer

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