
Acting
Jung Bo-seok
Born
1961-06-14 (65)
Place of birth
Naju, South Jeolla, South Korea
Known for
Acting
Credits
58 titles
Jung Bo-seok, born on June 16, 1961, is a South Korean actor.
Known for
7.4Male celebs play make-believe as high schoolers, welcoming star transfer students every week and engaging in battles of witty humor and slapstick.
Men on a Mission
2015
5.5“Radio Star” is a South Korean music talk show where the guests and hosts talk openly and intimately about their lives, their pasts and their work. It is part of Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation's "Golden Fishery" programming block.
Radio Star
2007
8.1An eccentric, triple board-certified virtuoso surgeon leaves a top job in Seoul and ends up at a provincial hospital, where he mentors young doctors.
Dr. Romantic
2016
7.0As more and more people are getting used to eating dinner alone, Kang Ho-dong and Lee Kyung-kyu visit ordinary Korean families at dinner time and share their lives as they eat dinner together.
Let's Eat Dinner Together
2016
5.1An estranged daughter vows to take revenge on her father, who abandoned her and her mother.
Story of a Mermaid
2002
NRThe seventeenth season of the realistic drama about the thrills and sadness of working women in their 30s, centered around a single woman named Lee Young-ae.
Rude Miss Young Ae
2007
Film credits
2000s · 7 titles
6.0An anthology consisting of three horror shorts from different Asian directors: Memories by Kim Jee-woon, The Wheel by Nonzee Nimibutr, and Going Home by Peter Chan.
Three
2002
6.3Mi-young shows her boyfriend, Soo-hyun, to her two sisters. However, the sisters feel weird after the meeting, since both sisters immediately fall in love with Soo-hyun.
Everybody Has Secrets
2004
6.4When filmmaker Young-soo introduces writer Soo-jung to his friend Jae-hoon, he unintentionally creates a love triangle. While Jae-hoon pursues Soo-jung, Young-soo clashes with his crew. Yet, just as the story appears to end, it starts all over again, this time with plenty of variations.
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
2000
4.4A mild-mannered stamp maker searches for the man who slept with his wife. Disguised as a customer, he approaches the man.
Driving with My Wife's Lover
2007
4.2A story about a third-rate DJ who finds his relationship with his young son rapidly deteriorating.
Don't Tell Papa
2004
6.0S is a suicide designer who assists people to commit suicide according to a method of their own choosing. When a woman kills herself, her boyfriend decides to investigate, and discovers that S is behind the suicide...
My Right to Ravage Myself
2005
7.0A woman with amnesia wakes up in the middle of the road and tries to figure out what happened to her. Meanwhile a man is haunted by some strange figure in his lonely residence.
Memories
2002
1990s · 10 titles
7.3A monk rapes a beautiful young woman who visits his monastery. He quits the monastery, marries the woman, and they have kids. But she despises him all the while and devotes herself to tormenting him.
The Dream
1990
7.1A Korean film about a group of women who end up barricaded on the roof of their apartment building in the middle of a heat wave.
A Hot Roof
1995
6.7Two men fall in love with the same woman. One man is a thief and the other is a graduate student that wants to take her away from a tough environment.
Walking all the way to heaven
1992
6.7Failing to enter the university of his choice, a young man is forced to enter a local college, but a series of disappointments causes him to give up his studies and begin a life of aimless travel.
Passion Portrait
1991
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Stairway To Heaven
1992
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Straight
1990
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Korean National Flower
1995
NRA second-generation Korean-American woman, Jisoo, leaves her medical studies to pursue acting in New York. After experiencing trauma and alienation in LA’s vibrant but harsh subcultures: including scenes involving drug use and body art; she returns to her immigrant family’s life near Western Avenue. Her return coincides with the Rodney King riots, forcing her to confront identity, belonging, and the fragile ties between her American experiences and her Korean heritage.
Western Avenue
1993
6.5This 1990s South Korean movie focuses on a woman who is put on death row after killing her abusive husband.
For Agnes
1991
4.0Chang, an international killer, is inflamed by dark tissue, so he clears his past and lives a peaceful life as a dentist. To such Chang, the criminal organization Triyard wants to borrow his power to find drugs that have evaporated in Korea. However, in resolute refusal of the car, he kidnaps his lover, Wing, and offers a condition of exchange for drugs.
The Fifth Man
1991
Series credits
7.4Male celebs play make-believe as high schoolers, welcoming star transfer students every week and engaging in battles of witty humor and slapstick.
Men on a Mission
2015
5.5“Radio Star” is a South Korean music talk show where the guests and hosts talk openly and intimately about their lives, their pasts and their work. It is part of Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation's "Golden Fishery" programming block.
Radio Star
2007
8.1An eccentric, triple board-certified virtuoso surgeon leaves a top job in Seoul and ends up at a provincial hospital, where he mentors young doctors.
Dr. Romantic
2016
7.0As more and more people are getting used to eating dinner alone, Kang Ho-dong and Lee Kyung-kyu visit ordinary Korean families at dinner time and share their lives as they eat dinner together.
Let's Eat Dinner Together
2016
5.1An estranged daughter vows to take revenge on her father, who abandoned her and her mother.
Story of a Mermaid
2002
NRThe seventeenth season of the realistic drama about the thrills and sadness of working women in their 30s, centered around a single woman named Lee Young-ae.
Rude Miss Young Ae
2007
7.3Two sisters, twenty-two and nine in age, lived all their lives with their father, deep in the country where even electricity is an unaffordable luxury. One day, after a bizarre turn of events, they end up in Seoul. The two sisters encounter a severe case of cultural shock as soon as they hit the city. Building forests, computers, department stores, subways, cell phone To 9-year old Shin-ae, who had never seen these before, Seoul is like a fantasy that can sometimes be difficult to fathom. Meanwhile, a peculiar family lives at a corner of a residential area in Seongbuk-dong. Sun-jae is the president of a small food company. At 72, Sun-jae falls head over heels in love just as his life is slowly winding down. His granddaughter Hae-ri shrieks every morning in the bathroom over her constipation. All the other members of this family have some sort of defect. The most invisible son-in-law in Seongbuk-dong, the EQ-deficient doctor, the perverted female teacher Come to think of it, every man living in this day and age harbors some kind of unique defect. This is why they shout confidently, "Only those of you who are perfect may throw stones at us!" is a sitcom portraying the uplifting comedic story of two sisters who begin to work at Sun-jae's house as maids and their episodes with members of this family. At the same time, it is a drama of these two girls blossoming into young women as they fall in love.
High Kick Through The Roof
2009
8.8A goofy group of townies stumbles into superpowers and fights rising evil as doomsday panic grows in this wild, turn-of-the-century action comedy.
The WONDERfools
2026
10.0A family drama about the entangled conflict, love, and reconciliation of the characters around them, centered on Mammal's eldest daughter Jin Ju and Eun Ju's sister Eun Ju, who grew up with her parents' love.
See and See Again
1998
8.0Lee Gwang Jae is the son of a rich family who is reckless and immature. His father dies and leaves behind large debts. Gwang Jae promises to pay off his debt for his father's honor, but it's not as easy as he thinks. Kim Young Ha supports Gwang Jae with her positive personality and love, giving encouragement to him whenever he needs it.
The Rich Son
2018
5.7This 100-episode epic drama vividly depicts the life of King Dae Jo-yeong and other heroes of the Balhae Kingdom, which dates back 1300 years ago.
The King Dae Joyoung
2006
A drama depicting the lives of mature women called Ajumma.
More than Words Can Say
2000
7.7Gifted with superhuman strength, a young woman returns to Korea to find her birth family — only to be entangled in a drug case that could test her power.
Strong Girl Nam-soon
2023
8.1Giant is a 2010 South Korean television series starring Lee Beom-soo, Park Jin-hee, Joo Sang-wook, Hwang Jung-eum, Park Sang-min, and Jeong Bo-seok. It aired on SBS from May 10 to December 7, 2010 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 60 episodes. Giant is a sprawling period drama about three siblings' quest for revenge during the economic boom of 1970-80s Korea. Tragically separated during childhood, the three reunite as adults and set out to avenge their parents' deaths, their fates playing out against a larger tide of power, money, politics, and the growth of a city.
Giant
2010
7.8No synopsis available yet.
Merchant
2001
4.3Set during the Goryeo dynasty, Won, crown prince, has a sweet appearance hiding a lust for conquest. He is best friends with Rin, an elegant man of royal descent and Won's bodyguard. When beautiful San, the sole daughter of the wealthiest man in the nation, enters the lives of the two young men, the three at first become friends but a tragic romance ensues afterwards. Based on the novel of the same name by Kim Yi-Ryung.
The King in Love
2017
7.3The story of a man who fights against greed, and experiences every hardship and adversity known to man in order to make something of himself and find love.
Monster
2016
4.9Kim Jun is the son of an escaped palace slave, who was raised by monks. Years later, after being torn from his home during wartime, Kim Jun must renounce his pacifist ways to partake in a deadly game that could be his ticket to freedom from his masters, Choe Chung-heon's clan. During the Mongol invasions of Korea, Kim Jun rises in the ranks to become the top military official and eventually rules the Goryeo empire for 60 years in place of its king.
God of War
2012
3.2Joseon porcelain, the pinnacle of science and art in East Asia at the end of the 16th century. Jeong-i, the first female potter of Joseon and a woman of fire revered as the founder of Japan's Shintaro porcelain, known as the "Burning White Wave." Gwanghae, the turbulent Crown Prince who loved her yet had to let her go. This story portrays her fierce artistic spirit and love. Set against the backdrop of Joseon—the source of life itself, rather than Japan where the Buddhist pagoda was erected—it follows a life and love that burned like a flame.
The Goddess of Fire
2013
NRFour brothers living like a prince under the care of their father, need suddenly to adapt to their new life upon the death of their father and the bankruptcy of their company...
Funny Princes
2000
6.0Strangers living together at the Samkwang Villa get to know each other and even fall in love.
Homemade Love Story
2020
5.5A family drama about a college student couple who unintentionally becomes parents and realize the true meaning of love and life. Jang Mi is an immature mama’s girl who grew without experiencing any hardship in life. Unlike her parents’ will to marry her off to a promising man they choose for her, Jang Mi has the hope to marry someone she falls madly in love with. As she dates healthy and innocent engineering student Cha Dol, she slowly begins to realize the meaning of love.
Rosy Lovers
2014
8.8The series revolves around the thoracic surgery department of a hospital.
Heart Surgeons
2018
5.5A warm-hearted family drama about a three-generation family and their noodle factory that they operate in the outskirts of Seoul.
A Hundred Year Legacy
2013
6.7A romantic music coming-of-age drama about grandmother Oh Mal-soon, who turns into a 20-year-old Oh Doo-ri overnight and enjoys her shining prime once again.
Who Is She
2024
6.6This 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
7.7If you have a chance to enter top 1% super class at a cost of others’ happiness, what would you do? Employee’s net incomes are getting lower and lower but their employer’s salaries increases every year. In the age of rough economy, we are forced to believe prospective economy in the future. Then one day, someone lures you for dirty money. Just by juggling with some figures, you can get a glamorous life from a great deal of money and promotion as well as fancy sports car and luxurious pent house. Will you take this Golden Cross card that will lead you to a totally new world? Everyone wants to live well. Who has never dreamed of this kind of desires? However, what if you need the sacrificial lambs for your desires? Here was a banker who never compromised with the dirty desires. But the price of having this principle was high. For rejecting a dangerous suggestion, he had to pay for it with his life. Here is a son of the dead banker, who jumps into the world of Korean top 1% super class with the purpose of taking revenge for his family’s death. However, before long, the son confronts the moment of the same kind of choice like his father. Between his mission to taking revenge and the desire for a glamorous life filled with the power and money, which one will he choose in the end?
Golden Cross
2014
3.8In order to make sure that Koryo was free, Gong Min Wang married a woman he did not love. The Mongolians ruled Koryo so Gong Min Wang married the Mongolian princess in hopes that one day Koryo could be freed. Shin Don was a Buddhist priest who both Queen Nokuk and King Gong Min depended on for advice in ruling Koryo.
Shin Don
2005
Han Sang Jin is married to Kim Na Young and they have a 7 year old daughter, Min Joo. They live with his mom, younger brother, younger sister, and sister's daughter. One day, Sang Jin vanishes while on a business trip. He remains missing for over 7 years until one day he is spotted by his college friend, Nam Hyun Pil, at a ski resort. Min Joo, now 15, sees him as well but she just thinks he looks like her dad. Hyun Pil begins digging and finds out that the man is called Min Young Tae. Young Tae is married to Hyun Ja and they have a 3 year old son, Ung Pyo. Hyun Ja doesn't care about that all she knows is that he's her husband and the father of her child. Hyun Pil makes the hard decision to tell the truth to Na Young, to whom he's just proposed. The question is now which man will he live as, Han Sang Jin or Min Young Tae, since each man has a different wife.
Wife
2003
4.7Two women — best friends since high school — realize the limits of their friendship as secrets, jealousy and desire come between them.
Red Balloon
2022
NRNo synopsis available yet.
폭풍의 계절
1993
Four men are entangled in political intrigue in late 18th Century Joseon.
Ambition
1994
NRNo synopsis available yet.
여행남녀
2014
3.0La Dolce Vita is a 2008 South Korean television series. A dark melodrama with a fragmented narrative and voice-overs highlighting the characters' state of mind, it was hailed as a daring portrayal of middle-aged romance and adultery with elements of mystery and noir.
La Dolce Vita
2008
4.5After being frozen for 33 years, Man Soo finds himself awake in a cold body but he has enormous love in his heart. He meets Ha Da, who has turned into a cold-hearted human being after living in the city. Now that Man Soo is awake from his slumber, he embarks on a search for his long-lost love through time while Ha Da, whom he encountered, is discovering warmth in her heart.Will either of them find love? This TV show aims to weave a beautiful story of romance to uplift viewers who are dealing with a depressed economy and dim job prospects in a harsh society of today. (Source: MBC)
Frozen Love
2017
NRA dining consumer report in which celebrity food gourmets personally visit and evaluate the best restaurants—both online and offline—selected through big data analysis and local research.
Gourmet Club: Our Neighbourhood Restaurant Tour
2018
NRA drama that describes the social matters of bullying, school violence and such.
Ugly Cake
2012
NRWith Jung Bo-Seok playing an irresponsible, selfish prick of a father leaving his family to save his bacon during the Korean War, and super-talented Shim Eun-Kyung playing his daughter Jo Gyeongsuk, this 4 episode special mixes very dark and wicked comedy with tragedy in such a breezy, eclectic way that you wonder if you're really watching a Korean TV Drama, particularly considering how polished all this looks. Family love during the Korean War has never been this intelligent. Nor this funny.
Kangoku no Ohimesama
2009
10.0Chairman Yu is a tycoon who owns multiple hotel chains. He decides to hand his business down to his impulsive younger daughter, Hee-Jung, who studied hotel management in Switzerland. His older daughter, Su-Jung, is a concert pianist. Hee-Jung learns the business by starting at the bottom in the P.R. Department. She has a deep emotional scar from an incident where her first boyfriend was killed trying to save her life. To expand his business, Chairman Yu decides to build a resort town next to a casino in Sabuk, a deserted mine town in Kangwon Province. In the process, Chairman Yu's right-hand man is confronted by a local hoodlum (Jae-min) who wants to preserve his hometown the way it is. Jae-min's uncanny resemblance to Hee-Jung's dead boyfriend gets her involved in the business such that she has to go against her father in order to help Jae-min.
Life is Beautiful
2001
NRNo synopsis available yet.
JTBC 팩추얼 오늘부터 가족
2021

