The purpose of this study was to investigate the creative world of Kim Don-won, who is one of the greatest directors in the documentary history of South Korea. Kim made his debut with (1988) and has penetrated the history of documentaries in the nation for the last 30 years. The documentaries of South Korea have different characteristics for each period: enlightening and educational documentaries were dominant in the 1980s; self-reflective ones were the mainstream in the 1990s; and changes and diversity became the keywords of documentaries in the 2000s. While many documentaries were made according to the trend of each period, Kim s films have encompassed several of these characteristics of South Korean documentaries. His works are self-reflective and make an attempt at changing the directing approach while repeating the messages of reporting on the reality and enlightening the people. He has made movies that emphasize the humane aspects of individuals in addition to the community values based on the community movement of the poor in cities, religious faith, and people-oriented world view. His recent work (2007) was created nine years after his <63 Years On>(2008). It is one of the important works in his filmography in that it is a documentary in commemoration of the deceased Father Jung Il-woo, who had tremendous impacts on his life. The work captures the life of the deceased father that fought for common people through several individuals memories of him. This process reveals one of the problems with the South Korean society, which has a history of repeating violence by the power groups, which makes this film an enlightening work. It is, at the same time, a self-reflective one since the director himself appears as a narrator and reflects on his life in it. Rather than praising the achievements of the deceased father, it focuses on his humane aspects, which means that it repeats one of the characteristics of his creative world. It also makes new attempts including the narrator whose individuality is not emphasized and the narration in the form of a letter. These findings indicate that is a text to confirm the continuity and change of Kim s creative world.