Korean independent documentaries have emerged on the international stage at the beginning of the new century. Because of policy support, an increasing number of excellent independent documentaries have stand out in the world and have aroused widespread attention. The expansion of overseas markets in culture export has made the development platform of Korean independent documentary films more diversified and open-ended. Creators are also struggling to develop themselves in this benign environment, director Seung-jun Yi is one of them. Seung-jun Yi accumulated rich practical experience through a variety of early social work, and also formed his own unique aesthetic and personal creative techniques in the process. This article uses the documentary films of Seung-jun Yi as the main director as the research content, deeply analyzes the works, refines his creative methods, and explores the true creation, creative style, audio-visual aesthetics and creative value of him, then summarize the unique experience in the internationalization of independent documentary films to help our personal creation.

The first chapter of this article mainly introduces the background.Firstly,starting from the objective context, discussing the reasons for the emergence of Korean documentary films and the impact on the creators.Secondly, analyzing the personal background and the creation Origin of Seung-jun Yi, a "non-academic" creator. Finally, focusing on the director’s focus and analyze the director’s choice of themes for politics, sports, and marginalized groups, including continuous attention to disadvantaged groups, exploration of sports themes, and reflect politics itself and self- politics attitude by films.

The second chapter focuses on the analysis of Seung-jun Yi’s personal creation of truth. Seung-jun Yi is good at grasping objective facts, true representations and subjective interventions. He cleverly combines the essence of the period and the aesthetics of art to polish the three most significant authentic dimensions of the film: historical reality, spatial reality and character reality. The first section mainly analyzes the three aspects of the work’s root-seeking feelings, image reprocessing and work positioning, summarizes the reflection and control of historical truth in the director’s works; the second section analyzes the attribution of appearance of real private and public spaces in Seung-jun Yi’s works,summarizes the director's choice and use of real space; the third section shows the reality of the characters in creation from two aspects:the realness of the external actions and the realism of the inner emotions, then further extends the proper subjective connection of Seung-jun Yi.