Youn Yuh-jung
Birthday: Born in 1947-06-19 in Gaeseong, Gyeonggi, Korea
Deathday: Alive
Youn Yuh-jung (born June 19, 1947) is a South Korean actress. In a film and television career spanning nearly 40 years, Youn is best known for starring in Kim Ki-young's Woman of Fire (1971), Im Sang-soo's The Housemaid (2010), The Taste of Money (2012), and Minari (2020) for which she gained international fame along with numerous awards from this performance, winning an award each from Critics Choice, SAG, BAFTA, and Academy Awards for her supporting performance.
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허준
Character: Sung In-cheol's wife
Hur Jun is a 2000 TV biographical drama broadcast by the South Korean TV channel MBC. It was aired by Taiwan Television in 2002 and Hong Kong's TVB in 2005, after the finale of "Dae Jang Geum". Because of the similarities between the two main characters of the show, "Hur Jun" has often been called the male version of "Dae Jang Geum". Also worth noting is the fact that the original title of the show was never used outside South Korea. In Taiwan, the title was re-worked to become "The Way of Medi...
우리가 정말 사랑했을까
Character: Choi Hye-ja
Did We Really Love? is a South Korean drama series broadcast by MBC in 1999. Starring Korean superstar Bae Yong Joon, the series portrays the struggles between love, happiness, and the pursuit of material success....
슬픔이여 안녕
Character: Lee Yeon-sim
This is a story about the unconditional and all-forgiving love of four brothers who after years of fighting and hatred pull together and reconcile to revive their father's business. The four brothers, each representing different generations, symbolize ordinary people living in today's world: Han Sung-jae, the soft-hearted but incapable oldest brother in his 50s, who shoulders the heavy burden of being the head of the family; Han Sang-kyu, the accomplished but selfish second brother in his 40s, w...
사랑하는 사람아
Character: Yoon Min Ja [Aunt]
Yoon Seok Joo is a producer who abandons his common law wife, Seo Young, to attain success. They have a daughter together but he later betrays Seo Young when he marries a rich man's daughter, Lee Jung Min. Lee Sang Min is an owner of a film company and is a new film director. He is also Jung Min's half brother. Sang Min will be a rival to Seok Joo in work and in love for Seo Young. Yoon Hyun Joo lost her dad at a young age and went through serious hardships and became a successful architect and ...
The Oscars
Character: Self
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar....
맨땅에 헤딩
Character: Ae Ja
Drama about a man trying to achieve what is thought to be impossible: fulfilling his dreams of being a great soccer player. He meets Kang Hae Bin, a sports agent who tries to live her life away from the influence of her rich father....
여왕의 교실
Character: Yong Hyun-ja
A lot of stories unfold when Ms. Ma, a cold-hearted witch, becomes a homeroom teacher at an elementary school....
프로듀사
Character: Self
A rookie producer joins the Korean Broadcasting System to be near his secret crush and enters the madcap world of network TV, where ratings rule....
더킹 투하츠
Character: Bang Yang-seon (the Queen Mother)
Set in the constitutional monarchy in an imaginary South Korea, South Korea's Crown Prince Lee Jae Ha is forced to join the World Officers Competition, WOC, by his brother. There, he meets North Korea's strongest female devil instructor Kim Hang Ah....
그들이 사는 세상
Character: Oh Min-suk
Song Hye Gyo plays a PD Joo Joon Young who has bold and unstoppable personality. Hyun Bin also plays a promising drama PD Jung Ji Oh. This drama focuses on TV stations by portraying the love and struggle of these 2 PDs during filming their respective projects as well as unfolding male and female staffs' love stories and marriages....
집으로 가는 길
Character: Bam Soon-jung
A simple yet heartwarming story of a three-generation family, The Road Home portrays the love and conflicts between family members running a general hospital. It explores the lives of the grown-up children who each have their own problems to solve, and the way they cope with their aging parents.Yoo Min-soo is the eldest son of the hospital's CEO. His wife Jang Mi-ryung bears a child out of wedlock but raises it with maternal love.Hiro, a Japanese model, confesses his love for Ji-soo, Min-soo's s...
디어 마이 프렌즈
Character: Oh Choong-nam
Life is ever-delightful — and ever-challenging — for a group of friends in their twilight years as they rediscover themselves through love and family....
내 마음이 들리니?
Character: Hwang Soon-geum
Can You Hear My Heart is a South Korean television drama broadcast by MBC starring Hwang Jung-eum, Kim Jae-won and Namgoong Min. It aired on MBC from April 2, 2011 to July 10, 2011 on Saturdays and Sundays at 21:45 for 30 episodes....
내 사랑 누굴까?
Character: In-ae
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호텔리어
Character: Yoon Bong-sook
Hotelier is a 2001 South Korean television drama series set in Seoul Hotel, a fictional five-star hotel undergoing an expensive expansion and renovation. The word "hotelier" means "a person who owns or runs a hotel." Starring Bae Yong-joon, Song Yun-ah, Kim Seung-woo and Song Hye-kyo, it aired on MBC from April 4 to July 7, 2001 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes. A Japanese remake later aired on TV Asahi in 2007....
카이스트
Character: Professor
A situation drama on students of Korea Advanced Science and Technology. The story of love, agony and endless research of the top brains in the field of science. It also presents a role model of a free, creative youth and their professors dictating what education should be. K.A.I.S.T stands for Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology....
아일랜드
Character: Shi Yeon's Mother
Ireland is a 2004 South Korean television series starring Lee Na-young, Kim Min-joon, Kim Min-jung and Hyun Bin. It aired on MBC from September 1 to October 21, 2004 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes....
삼시세끼 정선편
Character: Self
Celebrities are chosen to live for three days a week in a rural setting. They are required to use their own means to find food for and prepare three meals a day....
진주목걸이
Character: Yoon Hae-Myung
진주 목걸이는 KBS 2TV에서 2003년 9월 20일부터 2004년 3월 14일까지 매주 토,일 저녁 19시 55분에 방영되었던 주말 드라마이다....
넝쿨째 굴러온 당신
Character: Uhm Chung-ae
My Husband Got a Family centers on a working woman named Cha Yoon-hee as her husband, who was put up for international adoption, reunites with his biological parents. Yoon-hee faces the unexpected burden of having to build a relationship with her new-found in-laws....
즐거운 나의 집
Character: Sung Eun-sook
Kim Jinseo and Mo Yoonhee are high school classmates and rivals whose different family backgrounds shaped their characters and their paths towards love and success in adulthood. Jinseo develops a warm and cheerful personality as well as superior intellectual ability, while Yoonhee becomes a beautiful woman with fatal charm. Both women love Lee Sanghyun, an extremely kind but indecisive man who used to date Yoonhee but later married Jinseo. When Yoonhee's husband, Sung Eunpil, dies under suspicio...
내가 사는 이유
Character: 손미나
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열아홉 순정
Character: Myeong Hye
Yang Gook-hwa (Korean: 양 국화) is a nineteen-year-old country girl who leaves Yanbian and travels to Seoul because she is marrying Hong Soon-goo (Korean: 홍 순구), the third son in an average but respectable family. When she arrives in Seoul, however, she finds out that her fiancé has just died in a terrible car accident. Instead of returning to Yanbian, she decides to stay and create a new life in Korea while sending money back to her aunt and uncle....
꽃보다 누나
Character: Self
Singer/Actor/MC Lee Seung Gi accompanies four of Korea's top actresses—Yoon Yeo-Jung, Kim Ja-Ok, Kim Hee-Ae and Lee Mi-Yeon—on a trip to Croatia, a country with a strong exotic feel, beautiful natural scenery, and diverse cultural heritage....
윤식당
Character: Self
Follow the cast in their journey to Gili Trawangan, a tropical island in Indonesia, where they open a pop-up restaurant for 10 days. Viewers can see the heartwarming struggles the actors go through to start their business, enjoy the gorgeous island backdrop, and laugh at the humorous situations that arise throughout the show....
The Boys Presents: Diabolical
Character: Sun-Hee (voice)
From some of the most unhinged and maniacal minds in Hollywood today comes this animated anthology series, a collection of irreverent and emotionally shocking animated short films. Each episode plunges elbow-deep into unseen crevices of The Boys Universe....
유 퀴즈 온 더 블럭
Character: Self
Yoo Jae-suk and Jo Se-ho who enter ordinary people's everyday lives, chat with them, and give them surprise quizzes! The talk and quiz show program will spotlight these people's lives and aims to gift them a refreshing, different kind of day. Recently they're also inviting celebrities & professionals to the show....
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Character: Self
Kelly Clarkson presents the biggest newsmakers and names in film, television and music; as well as emerging new talent and everyday people who are beacons of hope in their communities....
뜻밖의 여정
Character: Self
Youn Yuh-jung spends days in L.A. continuing her global acting career after Minari and Pachinko. Lee Seo-jin joins the show as her manager....
넥스트 엔터테인먼트, 비저너리
Character: Self
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나영석의 나불나불
Character: Self
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사랑이 뭐길래
Character: Han Sim-ae
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Sense8
Character: Min-Jung
One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as "Sensates."...
참 좋은 시절
Character: Jang So-sim
Dong-Suk grew up as a smart young boy, but came from a poor family background. He is now a successful prosecutor and comes back to his hometown for the first time in 14 years. There, he happens to meet his first love Hae-Won and falls in love with her all over again....
집사부일체
Character: Herself
Almost everyone has a question regarding life and the goal of life. In order to find the answer, the four young men with full of curiosity regarding their lives, Lee Seung Gi, Lee Sang Yun, Yuk Seong Jae, and Yang Se Hyeong, head to find their master to learn things and get a correct answer. They find the master and spend a day in the master’s place to learn things that they didn’t know, and wish to know. Whom will they get to meet? And what will they learn throughout the stay?...
두 번은 없다
Character: Bok Mak-Rye
An old stately inn stands in the heart of Seoul. It may be old, discolored, and weathered, but Nakwon Inn exudes old-world charms. As the typical cold uneventful winter comes to an end at the inn, guests start to arrive one by one as if each had promised to be present. Strangely and coincidentally, each one of them repeats Never Twice as they enter. The truth is, they all have a fateful reason to be there. What could have brought these individuals together? And what do they all have in common co...
KBS 연기대상
Character: Host
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모던코리아
Character: Self (archive footage)
The documentary series were made to look back on Korea’s modern history. It tells stories of specific moments in time weaving together relevant video clips from news broadcasts, dramas, shows and other documentaries...
Pachinko
Character: Older Sunja
Follow the hopes and dreams of four generations of a Korean immigrant family beginning with a forbidden love and crescendos into a sweeping saga that journeys between Korea, Japan and America to tell the unforgettable story of war and peace, love and loss, triumph and reckoning....
네 멋대로 해라
Character: 정유순
Ruler of Your Own World is an MBC Korean drama series. It was written by In Jung-ok and directed by Park Sung-soo....
황금물고기
Character: Cho Yoon-hee
Golden Fish is a 2010 South Korean television series starring Park Sang-won, Lee Tae-gon, Jo Yoon-hee, and So Yoo-jin. The daily drama aired on MBC on Mondays to Fridays at 20:15 from May 3 to November 11, 2010 for 133 episodes....
춘자네 경사났네
Character: Yang Boon-hee
Chunja's Happy Events, also called Happy Events at Chunja's or Chunja's Special Day, was a Korean TV drama that aired from May 19, 2008 to November 13, 2008 on MBC....
며느리 전성시대
Character: Seo Mi-soon
Daughters-in-Law is a South Korean drama that aired from July 28, 2007 to January 20, 2008 in Korea by KBS2 starring Kim Ji-hoon, Lee Pil-mo, Lee Soo-kyung and Seo Young-hee. It premiered on KBS2 every Saturday and Sunday at 19:55 for 54 episodes. The Korean title "며느리 전성시대" can be literally translated to "The Golden Age of Daughters-in-Law". This is an ironic reference to the fact that the traditional role of a Korean daughter-in-law was a life filled with thankless drudgery. This show explore...
목욕탕집 남자들
Character: Roh Hye-young
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윤스테이
Character: Self
A spin-off of “Youn’s Kitchen,” the upcoming reality program is set in a traditional Korean guesthouse in South Jeolla Province. It features the cast welcoming guests who are in Korea on business or for their studies but have not been able to fully experience the food and culture due to COVID-19 restrictions....
MBC 베스트극장
Character: 정혜
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손석희의 질문들
Character: Self
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Movie Credits
Dog Days
Character: Yuh-jung
Min-sang, a meticulous planner and tidy single man, is frustrated daily by his tenant, Jin-young, a veterinarian who turns his newly mortgaged building into a mess. During another quarrelsome day with Jin-young, Min-sang encounters an elderly lady at the animal hospital, who turns out to be the world-renowned architect Min-seo. Desperate for Min-seo's approval for an ongoing project, Min-sang starts to persuade Jin-young and her cared-for puppy to impress Min-seo. Meanwhile, Hyun, the leader of ...
A Good Lawyer's Wife
Character: Hong Byeong-han
A woman, married and with a child but becoming increasingly distant from her husband who is already cheating on her, reluctantly enters a secret relationship with her neighbor, a teenage boy....
Boomerang Family
Character: Mother
Based on an original written by Cheon Myeong-gwan, a 48 year-old movie director moves into the house where his mother and 50 year-old brother lives until his sister moves in with her niece....
The Housemaid
Character: Byeong-sik
Eun-yi is hired as a maid in a mansion owned by a wealthy businessman. He quickly starts seducing his employee who seemingly has little choice but to comply with his sexual advances. Soon the women of the family plot against Eun-yi who must fight an equally devious battle to protect herself....
In Another Country
Character: Park Sook
A young woman and her mother run away to the seaside town of Mohang to escape their mounting debt. The young woman begins writing a script for a short film in order to calm her nerves: There are three women named Anne, and each woman consecutively visits the seaside town of Mohang. A young woman tends to the small hotel by the Mohang foreshore owned by her parents. A certain lifeguard can be seen restlessly wandering up and down the beach that lies nearby. Each Anne stays at this small hotel, re...
The Taste of Money
Character: Baek Geum-ok
The assistant of a wealthy socialite reveals her husband's salacious affair. The fallout entangles him in a web of sex, love and deceit that could threaten his life and career....
Behind the Camera
Character: Self
An odd director leaves for Hollywood to shoot a film via Skype and cellphones. 14 actors and actresses are devastated after being dumped by the director. Now, the 14 actors and actress prepare for the counterattack....
Hindsight
Character: Madame Kang
A young assassin is sent to kill a retired mob boss. But things get complicated when she begins to like him....
A Tale of Legendary Libido
Character: Old Woman
A monk gives an impaired man the secret to a strong arousal. The man had been teased and tortured until the travelling man decides to help him out....
Actresses
Character: Youn Yuh-jung
When six famous Korean actresses gather for a Vogue fashion photo shoot, egos collide in funny and touching ways in this ingenious mockumentary, where all actresses involved play (not so) fictional versions of themselves....
Hill of Freedom
Character: Innkeeper
Kwon, a language school instructor, stops by her old workplace and receives a thick envelope addressed to her. A Japanese instructor named Mori had proposed to her two years ago. She turned him down. Mori had immediately gone back to Japan, but now was back in Korea looking for her. The envelope enclosed letters he had written to her during his search through Seoul. After Kwon finishes the first letter in the lobby, she grows faint coming down the staircase and drops the letters. She gathers the...
Woman of Fire
Character: Myeong-ja
The lives of a composer and his wife, who live on a chicken farm, are thrown into turmoil when a femme fatale joins their household....
Maundy Thursday
Character: Sister Monica
Yujeong is suicidal, yet she reluctantly goes to prison for volunteer work. There, she meets a prisoner who is waiting for death penalty. The two quickly fall in love despite their differences, yet they do not have much time....
Springtime
Character: Mother
A struggling musician takes a job teaching music to middle school children in a rural mining town....
The Old Garden
Character: Hyun-woo's Mother
Activist Hyun-woo is released from prison after a 17-year stint. Journeying back to the village where he spent some time as a fugitive he recalls the time spent with Yoon-hee, a woman who gave him shelter and companionship....
Insect Woman
Character: Myung-ja
A schoolgirl goes from braids to bouffant when her mother makes her a bar hostess/prostitute. She cures impotence for Professor Lee and becomes his concubine. His entrepreneurial wife is initially shocked but soon accepts the arrangement and even gives the girl an allowance....
Ha Ha Ha
Character: Moon-kyung's Mother
Over drinks, two friends agree to swap fond memories of their recent trips to the same seaside town. As the stories unfold in flashback, it becomes evident their accounts take place at the same time and with the same people....
Hwang Jin Yi
Character: Old Woman
Although born a daughter of an aristocratic family, Jin-yi discovers the secret behind her birth and enters into a life in a brothel as a gisaeng....
Salut d'Amour
Character: Geum-nim
Sung-chil works at the Jang-soo Store which is owned by Jang-soo. Sung-chil is stubborn and has a bad temper, but he changes after meeting Geum-nim. Geun-nim runs a flower shop and her daughter Min-jung does not like her meeting Sung-chil....
The Wedding Banquet
Character: Grandmother
Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend and out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green card marriage with his friend Angela in exchange for expensive in vitro fertilization treatments for her partner, Lee. Plans change when Min’s grandmother surprises them with an elaborate Korean wedding banquet....
Canola
Character: Gye-choon
A girl who went missing after an accident returns 10 years later and reunites with her grandmother....
List
Character: Mi-hye's Mother
While waiting at a seaside town with her mother for a relative, a young woman creates a list of things she wants to do during her time there....
The Bacchus Lady
Character: So-young
So-young, an elderly prostitute working in Seoul, tries to take care of a young Korean-Filipino child she meets in a hospital and make ends meet. So-young's life takes a dark turn when several of her old clients try to reconnect with her....
Right Now, Wrong Then
Character: Kang Deok-soo
Chun-su arrives in Suwon one day earlier than scheduled. He has a special lecture to give the next day. Chun-su decides to visit a palace and meets Hee-jung there. Hee-jung is a painter and she lets Chun-su see her workroom with her paintings. In the evening, they go out eat and drink together. There, Chun-su reveals something unexpected to Hee-jung....
Keys to the Heart
Character: In-sook
An older brother is a washed-up boxer. His younger brother is a genius pianist with physical disability. The brothers make up through their mother who is full of stories of her past....
Woman Requiem
Character: Ms. Hong
After the rape and subsequent suicide of a college student, her mother takes revenge on those responsible....
Beasts Clawing at Straws
Character: Soon-ja
A struggling restaurant owner, caring for his sick mom, finds a bag of cash in a sauna locker, while a customs officer gets into trouble when his girlfriend runs off with money he borrowed from a loan shark....
Minari
Character: Soonja
A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home....
Be a Wicked Woman
Character: Ms. Choi
Two housewives, wounded by their husbands' betrayals, meet by chance. They decide to carry out "exchange murders" and work towards the perfect alibis. Under what they know to be perfect plans, they kill each other's husbands. Although the police are able to prove that they're guilty, these two women are found innocent by the court of law....
Lucky Chan-sil
Character: Grandmother
With the death of her long-time director, Chan-sil, a film producer, is now unemployed. While working as a cleaning lady at an actress' house, she meets a young man. Attracted to him, Chan-sil realises old anxieties are about to emerge: her already gone-youth, messed-up love life, and broken career....
The President's Last Bang
Character: Mother
On October 26, 1979, President Park Chung-hee, who had ruled South Korea since 1961, was assassinated by his director of intelligence. The film depicts the events of that night....
Ladies Of The Forest
Character: Soon-shim
Soon-shim, a spinster from an unknown planet, comes to the Earth to find her husband. However, no man is in sight. Soon-shim encounters Dal-rae, who was collecting wild greens on a mountain. One day, they save a deer from a hunter, and it wants to repay them by making their wish come true. This is an allegorical love story that comically depicts the journey of seeking true love and happiness....
Heaven: To The Land of Happiness
Character: Ms. Yoon
Two gentlemen meet by chance and decide to go on an adventure together. Their journey becomes a quest for happiness....
Intimate Enemies
Character: Yuh-jung
At a car accident site, Ji-Noo (Ryoo Seung-Bum), Na-Mi (Koh Joon-Hee), Jung-Sook (Ryoo Hyoun-Kyoung) and Yakuboo (Samuel Okyere) find a bag filled with money. They become involved in a dangerous case....
The Day and Night of a Korean-American
Character: Mrs. Hyun
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Tto Sun Yi, a college girl
Character: Bok-nyeo
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