Youn Yuh-jung

Acting

Youn Yuh-jung

Born

1947-06-19 (79)

Place of birth

Gaeseong, Gyeonggi, Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

78 titles

Youn Yuh-jung (Korean: 윤여정; pronounced [junjʌdʑʌŋ]; born June 19, 1947) is a South Korean actress. Youn gained attention on Korean television in the late 1960s and rose to prominence with the film Woman of Fire (1971). She retired in the mid-1970s after marrying and immigrating to the United States. However, she returned to acting in the late 1980s following her divorce. Known as the "Godmother of Chungmu-ro," Youn's notable films include The Housemaid (2010), The Taste of Money (2012), The Bacchus Lady (2016) and Canola (2016), as well as a series of matriarch roles in television dramas such as Men of the Bath House (1995), Be Strong, Geum-soon! (2005), Daughters-in-Law (2007), My Husband G…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 8 titles

Minari poster
7.3

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.

Minari

2020

The Wedding Banquet poster
6.7

Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris and running out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela in exchange for her partner Lee's expensive IVF. Elopement plans are upended, however, when Min's grandmother surprises them with an extravagant Korean wedding banquet.

The Wedding Banquet

2025

Beasts Clawing at Straws poster
7.0

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.

Beasts Clawing at Straws

2020

Dog Days poster
7.6

In a neighborhood of dog lovers, a pooch-hating landlord tries to befriend an architect for personal gain as she searches for her missing pup.

Dog Days

2024

Lucky Chan-sil poster
6.6

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.

Lucky Chan-sil

2020

Heaven: To the Land of Happiness poster
6.5

In order to find the last happiness of his life, inmate 203 escapes from prison. Nam-sik is poor and sick. These two men happen to meet and obtain a large amount of money. Nam-sik joins inmate 203's journey to find the last happiness.

Heaven: To the Land of Happiness

2021

Earl. poster
NR

Earl. profiles the inspiring and complex life of an unknown, brilliant American composer. Earl's story crosses boundaries from classical music to politics, education, cultural self-awareness, war, human rights, and even weapons of mass destruction. Most of all, it is a story of the profound power of music to change lives.

Earl.

2024

Be a Wicked Woman poster
3.0

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.

Be a Wicked Woman

2021

2010s · 16 titles

The Housemaid poster
6.3

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.

The Housemaid

2010

The Taste of Money poster
5.5

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.

The Taste of Money

2012

Canola poster
7.9

A girl who went missing after an accident returns 10 years later and reunites with her grandmother.

Canola

2016

Right Now, Wrong Then poster
7.0

By mistake, film director Ham Chunsu arrives in Suwon a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, Chunsu stops by a restored, old palace and meets an artist named Yoon Heejung. Together, they go to Heejung's workshop to look at her paintings, have Sushi with Soju for dinner, and get close. Later, they go to another café and have more drinks with Heejung's acquaintances. When asked if he is married, Chunsu is forced to reveal the fact that he is, and Heejung gets deeply disappointed...

Right Now, Wrong Then

2015

Boomerang Family poster
6.8

Three adult siblings move back in with their mother, bringing up old conflicts – can this dysfunctional family find a way to make things work?

Boomerang Family

2013

Salut d'Amour poster
7.9

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.

Salut d'Amour

2015

Keys to the Heart poster
8.0

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.

Keys to the Heart

2018

In Another Country poster
6.1

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, receives some assistance from the owner's daughter, and ventures onto the beach where they meet the lifeguard.

In Another Country

2012

Intimate Enemies poster
5.2

Four strangers discover a bag full of money which belongs to a corrupt politician. Instead of using the money for themselves, they decide to join forces to take down corrupt conglomerates.

Intimate Enemies

2015

Hindsight poster
6.5

A young assassin is sent to kill a retired mob boss. But things get complicated when she begins to like him.

Hindsight

2011

The Bacchus Lady poster
6.7

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.

The Bacchus Lady

2016

Hill of Freedom poster
6.7

Kwon returns to Seoul from a restorative stay in the mountains. She is given a packet of letters left by Mori, who has come back from Japan to propose to her. Kwon drops and scatters the letters, all of which are undated. When she reads them, she has to make sense of the chronology.

Hill of Freedom

2014

Ha Ha Ha poster
6.3

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.

Ha Ha Ha

2010

Behind the Camera poster
5.5

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.

Behind the Camera

2013

List poster
6.0

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.

List

2011

Ladies Of The Forest poster
6.5

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.

Ladies Of The Forest

2017

2000s · 8 titles

A Tale of Legendary Libido poster
5.7

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.

A Tale of Legendary Libido

2008

A Good Lawyer's Wife poster
5.7

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.

A Good Lawyer's Wife

2003

The President's Last Bang poster
6.5

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.

The President's Last Bang

2005

Maundy Thursday poster
7.0

Yu-jeong 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.

Maundy Thursday

2006

Hwang Jin Yi poster
6.5

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.

Hwang Jin Yi

2007

Springtime poster
7.7

A struggling musician takes a job teaching music to middle school children in a rural mining town.

Springtime

2004

The Old Garden poster
6.4

Political 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.

The Old Garden

2007

The Actresses poster
6.8

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.

The Actresses

2009

Series credits

The Kelly Clarkson Show poster
6.2

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.

The Kelly Clarkson Show

2019

You Quiz on the Block poster
8.3

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.

You Quiz on the Block

2018

MBC Bests Theater poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

MBC Bests Theater

1991

Pachinko poster
7.9

This sweeping saga chronicles the hopes and dreams of a Korean immigrant family across four generations as they leave their homeland in an indomitable quest to survive and thrive.

Pachinko

2022

Master In The House poster
6.5

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?

Master In The House

2017

BEEF poster
7.8

Minor conflicts spiral into consuming feuds between individuals, exposing pride, resentment, and hidden pain.

BEEF

2023

The Boys Presents: Diabolical poster
7.1

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.

The Boys Presents: Diabolical

2022

Sense8 poster
7.7

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."

Sense8

2015

The Oscars poster
7.1

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.

The Oscars

1953

Nattering with Nah poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nattering with Nah

2023

No artwork available
NR

It is a drama that gets the sympathy of an unspecified number of people and satisfies their needs.

사랑은 이런거야

2001

목욕탕집 남자들 poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

목욕탕집 남자들

1995

Pure in Heart poster
5.0

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.

Pure in Heart

2006

Never Twice poster
8.3

At an old inn, a diverse group of long-term guests confronts love, rivalry, and personal growth while forging unexpected connections.

Never Twice

2019

My Husband Got a Family poster
7.3

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.

My Husband Got a Family

2012

The Producers poster
7.4

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.

The Producers

2015

Daughters-in-Law poster
NR

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 explores whether modern life and ethos have improved the lives of daughters-in-law in various circumstances with a comedic tone.

Daughters-in-Law

2007

Three Meals a Day: Jeongseon Village poster
7.4

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.

Three Meals a Day: Jeongseon Village

2014

KAIST poster
NR

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.

KAIST

1999

KBS Drama Awards poster
8.0

The KBS Drama Awards is an awards ceremony presented by the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) for outstanding achievements in Korean dramas aired on its network. It is held annually on 31 December. The highest honor of the ceremony is the "Grand Prize", awarded to the best actor or actress of the year.

KBS Drama Awards

1987

Modern Korea poster
10.0

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

Modern Korea

2019

Who's My Love? poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Who's My Love?

2002

Dear My Friends poster
7.5

Life is ever-delightful — and ever-challenging — for a group of friends in their twilight years as they rediscover themselves through love and family.

Dear My Friends

2016

Wonderful Days poster
3.9

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.

Wonderful Days

2014

Next Entertainment,  Visionary poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Next Entertainment, Visionary

2021

The Queen's Classroom poster
6.5

A lot of stories unfold when Ms. Ma, a cold-hearted witch, becomes a homeroom teacher at an elementary school.

The Queen's Classroom

2013

Sohn's Questions poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sohn's Questions

2024

Chunja's Happy Events poster
NR

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.

Chunja's Happy Events

2008

Listen to My Heart poster
6.6

This is the love story of Cha Dong-joo, a man who's been rendered deaf after an accident but pretends he can hear, and Bong Woo-ri, a woman who's intelligent but pretends she's dim-witted to protect the dignity of her mentally disabled father. She has been looking for her step-brother, Bong Ma-roo, who ran away from home 16 years ago. What she soon finds out is that Jang Joon-ha, Cha Dong-joo's brother, is Bong Ma-roo himself.

Listen to My Heart

2011

Youn's Kitchen poster
8.9

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.

Youn's Kitchen

2017

Pearl Necklace poster
NR

진주 목걸이는 KBS 2TV에서 2003년 9월 20일부터 2004년 3월 14일까지 매주 토,일 저녁 19시 55분에 방영되었던 주말 드라마이다.

Pearl Necklace

2003

Golden Fish poster
NR

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.

Golden Fish

2010

What is Love? poster
NR

"What is Love" centers around two close families with sharply contrasting values. One consists of medical resident Lee Dae Bal, his mother and father and his younger sister Sung Shil and is conservative and patriarchic, the other consists of college student Park Ji Eun, her siblings Jung Eun and Jung Sup, her two maternal aunts and her parents. They are progressive, modern and utilitarian. This drama comically portrays the troubles that arise as these two families become quarrelsome in-laws by Ji Eun and Dae Bal's marriage and the conflicts that arise between Ji Eun and her in-laws, delivering a message about the importance of balancing traditional and progressive values.

What is Love?

1991

Home Sweet Home poster
5.0

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 suspicious circumstances, Jinseo finds herself becoming involved in the investigation. The process is complicated when the young homicide detective Kang Shinwoo becomes romantically interested in Jinseo.

Home Sweet Home

2010

Hur Jun poster
6.0

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 Medicine: The Epic Doctor Hur Jun". The first half of the title stuck, and was used by TVB when it aired "Hur Jun" in 2005.

Hur Jun

1999

The King 2 Hearts poster
7.0

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.

The King 2 Hearts

2012

Worlds Within poster
6.8

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.

Worlds Within

2008

Did We Really Love? poster
7.0

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.

Did We Really Love?

1999

Ruler of Your Own World poster
9.0

Ruler of Your Own World is an MBC Korean drama series. It was written by In Jung-ok and directed by Park Sung-soo.

Ruler of Your Own World

2002

Ireland poster
8.9

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.

Ireland

2004