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At Kling's Busan panel, filmmakers say AI still needs traditional craft: 'You need experts to prevent everything looking the same'

At Kling's co-hosted Busan panel, the AI studio MooAm said it only hires AI artists who have directed live action. The session was vendor-hosted and interpreted, Kling backed Kim Sung-soo's short on undisclosed terms, and no recording was found.

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At the Busan film market on Oct 11, Kling AI co-hosted a panel of filmmakers who use its video tools, and the strongest message from its own stage was about old skills. Harry Hyun, CEO of the Korean AI studio MooAm, said AI images start to look alike because "everyone is using the same lighting, same everything," as Deadline reported. Her studio now hires only AI artists who have directed at least one live-action short, according to Variety, and its directing team includes an "AI coordinator" who decides which shots get generated and keeps them consistent.

Director Kim Sung-soo (12.12: The Day) told the room he will "never go back" to the way he used to make films. He also made his eight-minute Kafka short, Worm Train, with a nine-person crew that shot part of it conventionally, and with production support from Kling on terms nobody has disclosed. In an interview with the Korean outlet OhmyNews, he said tools like Kling, Veo and Higgsfield are built for what "99 out of 100 people would like" and produce "something strange" when you ask for the unusual (our translation).

Kling co-hosted the session and paid for two English write-ups about Kim, and no recording of the interpreted panel was found, so each quote is one outlet's rendering of it.

In practice, a live-action short on your reel is now the entry ticket at one Korean AI studio, and the strange idea the model resists is the one worth your hours.

Source: Deadline, Variety, OhmyNews, PD Journal, Oct 11 to 15, 2026.

Provenance — Deadline — Kling AI panel; Variety — Kim Sung-soo: AI 'shows what's in your imagination'; Variety — Hong Jae Cheol on AI-native studios · Status: verified: MEDIUM (two sources, but panel commentary)
Kling's Busan panel made the case for old film skills

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On Kling's stage, Kim Sung-soo sold AI filmmaking. Off it, he said the tools serve '99 out of 100 people'

At Kling's co-hosted panel in Busan, director Kim Sung-soo said he will never go back to old methods, yet he made his eight-minute short with a nine-person crew and Kling production support on undisclosed terms. Off the stage he said tools like Kling, Veo and Higgsfield fail on anything unusual, and MooAm said it only hires AI artists who have directed live action.

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Illustration of a small film crew in silhouette on a subway carriage set, a camera operator on a dolly, a director leaning toward a monitor and an editor at a laptop, with gray screens and tracking marks outside the windows

A young office worker wakes up as a giant, oozing insect, and he still has to get to work on the subway. That is the premise of Worm Train, an eight-minute short inspired by Kafka's Metamorphosis, and for a while this year its director, Kim Sung-soo, thought it could not be made. The AI tools he tried could not show a giant insect crashing into a packed train crowd, so around March he shelved it.

Kim is not a hobbyist testing a new app. He directed 12.12: The Day and Asura: The City of Madness, and on Sunday 11 October he sat on a panel at the Asian Contents & Film Market in Busan and told the room he had once thought AI would destroy the industry. "I don't think so any more," he said, according to Deadline. Variety has him going further: "I'll never go back to the way I used to make films."

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