Kim Soo-yong (born September 23, 1929) is a South Korean film director. Kim made his debut in 1958 with A Henpecked Husband and directed more than 100 movies through 1999 with Scent of Love (2000). He made many popular commercial films of the past decades, such as Sad Story of Self Supporting Child (a.k.a. Sorrow in the Heavens) (1965) as well as some 50 literary movies based on popular Korean novels such as The Sea Village (1965) and Mist (1967).
