Career
Beak wrote and directed the thrillers Tube (2003) and The Chronicles of Evil (2015). Beak was a television producer and an ad producer, being involved in 50 commercials from 1993 to 1996. In 1996, he was an assistant director on Channel 69 (1996) and three years later, he was involved in the scriptwriting and production of Kang Je-gyu"s blockbuster Shiri (1999).
He made his directorial feature debut with the subway-set thriller Tube (2003).
His second feature The Chronicles of Evil (2015) starring Son Hyun-joo, also a thriller, was a hit with more than 2.1 million admissions. According to Beak, the film succeeds as a thriller despite its familiar plot line is that the film "closely focuses on the emotional lines of the characters rather than the external events themselves." The of Korea JoongAng Daily praises the film "is a palm-sweating thrill ride filled with unexpected plot twists - worth the watch in itself.".
