Born in South Korea, Soon-Mi Yoo studied German Literature at Yonsei University before earning an M.F.A. in Photography at the Massachusetts College of Arts where she is currently a member of the Film/Video faculty. Yoo's films embrace and expand avant-garde and essayistic modes of non-fiction cinema, reopening forgotten, often suppressed, chapters of modern history in order to explore the still unresolved conflicts and collective memories that continue to haunt and define the Korean Peninsula.
She has an M.A., German Literature, Yonsei University, Korea; 1984 - B.A., German Literature, Yonsei University, Korea
