Yang Jung-ung will direct the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for Pyeongchang 2018 ©British Theatre Guide

Yang Jung-ung - a director best known for leading South Korean productions of William Shakespeare plays - will produce ceremonies at the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Games.

Yang will serve as executive producer for both the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, scheduled to take place on February 9 and 25 in 2018.

Another director, Koh Sun-woong, will adopt a similar role for the Paralympic Games

"Yang and Koh have been nominated as executive producers," a Pyeongchang 2018 official confirmed to the Yonhap news agency. 

"They will be officially appointed next month."

Dancers perform in the Pyeongchang 2018 segment of the Sochi 2014 Closing Ceremony ©Getty Images
Dancers perform in the Pyeongchang 2018 segment of the Sochi 2014 Closing Ceremony ©Getty Images

Musical director Park Kolleen and fashion designer Jung Ku-ho had previously held the positions before resigning from the post.

Yang, 48, is an award-winning theatre director who is chief executive of the Yohangza Theatre Company famed for its reinterpretation of Shakespeare plays.

In 2006, his production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream from the East" became the first South Korean company to perform at the Barbican in London in 2006.

Koh, also 48, has been named artist of the year by the Korean Association of Art Critics. 

His theater troupe "Mabangjin" is best known for staging traditional Korean opera and musicals.