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Shin Neung-kyun (Korean: 신능균; born 1939), also known as Nelson Shin, is a South Korean and American animation director of North Korean origin who is the founder and president of AKOM. He is known for having directed the animated films The Transformers: The Movie, Empress Chung, and The Frog Kingdom. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nelson Shin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Nelson Shin is a Korean-American animation director and the founder of the production studio AKOM, known for his long-standing career in the international animation industry.
He is best known for directing The Transformers: The Movie (1986) and the historical animated feature Empress Chung, which achieved significance as the first animated film to be produced as a joint effort between North and South Korea.
AKOM is the animation studio established by Shin that has provided production services for many high-profile Western animated television series.