Dosin Pak was born in Seoul, South Korea. He moved to U.S, and graduated from Columbia University in Chicago majoring in filmmaking. He started working for the Busan International Film Festival(BIFF) in 2001 as a foreign press coordinator. He also worked for another film festival in Korea, Jeonju International Film Festival in 2002. The same year, he came back to BIFF for Korean Cinema Coordinator. In 2005, he became a head manager of programming department for the festival. Two years later, he was in charge of one of the festival’s section called MIDNIGHT PASSION specializing in genre or commercial films for the festival. He was also in charge of Asian Film Academy (AFA), the educational program for new talents in Asia run by the festival from 2013 to 2018. Now, he is a programmer covering North American regions for the festival and a head of Jiseok Research Institute in BIFF.