Kim Ja-ok

Acting

Kim Ja-ok

Born — Died

1951-10-11 — 2014-11-16

Place of birth

Busan, South Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

51 titles

Known for

High Kick Through The Roof poster
7.3

Two 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

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

No artwork available
NR

A drama depicting the lives of mature women called Ajumma.

More than Words Can Say

2000

Heaven and Earth poster
NR

Raised in a loving family but afraid of being hurt, an adopted son keeps his distance from those around him. His longtime friend, who deeply values family, stays by his side as their friendship gradually turns into love. As they grow closer, conflicts involving adoption, remarriage, marriage, and generational differences test their relationships. Through pain, reconciliation, and healing, they discover that family is built through love and understanding, not just blood.

Heaven and Earth

2007

Coffee Prince poster
8.1

An immature company heir falls for his hardworking new cafe employee, but there’s a catch: he thinks she’s a man, and he's... ok with it?

Coffee Prince

2007

My Lovely Sam Soon poster
8.5

An average pastry chef agrees to pose as a wealthy restaurant owner’s pretend girlfriend – but real feelings make things complicated.

My Lovely Sam Soon

2005

Film credits

1980s · 6 titles

1970s · 8 titles

Miss O's Apartment poster
7.0

Mi-yeong informs her boyfriend that she is becoming a prostitute to help her poverty striken family. Although she tries not to, she ends up falling in love with wealthy Dae-seon and moves into an apartment that he supplies. She is satisfied with this arrangement until she learns that Dae-seon's wife is her classmate.

Miss O's Apartment

1978

A Woman After a Killer Butterfly poster
5.6

A melodrama about a man who survives an attempted double suicide with a stranger while picnicking with friends. He goes on a cave expedition for a famous archaeologist where he discovers a skeleton several thousand years old. He meets the spirit of the skeleton in a dream, and then becomes romantically involved with the archeologist's daughter.

A Woman After a Killer Butterfly

1978

No artwork available
9.0

Cha's meeting with the beautiful Mi-yeong is misunderstood by his family. His wife, furious at his behavior, packs up and moves to Pusan while his son, disgusted with his father, leaves home for Seoul.

Miss O's Apartment 2

1979

Red Gate of Tragedy poster
8.0

A woman arrives in Korea and makes her way to her ancestral home to learn the mysterious history of an ornate silver dagger in her possession.

Red Gate of Tragedy

1979

The Woman Who Stole the Sun poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Woman Who Stole the Sun

1979

Water Lady poster
3.0

Jin-seok returns from the Vietnam war, injured and marries Sun-ok. But financial difficulties cause them to argue. One day, Sun-ok brings bamboo trees from her parents' home and succeeds in running a bamboo ware manufacturing company. Sun-ok has a stuttering problem and their son inherits the habit and he is sent to a special school. Meanwhile Jin-seok falls for Chu-wol and begins abusing Sun-ok...

Water Lady

1979

The Woman On The Ferris Wheel poster
NR

Kim Jeong-mi wanders the streets due to the death of her loving father and the remarriage of her mother, and is unexpectedly kidnapped by Park Man-soo. Jung-mi is imprisoned in Park Man-soo's apartment. She tries to get out of her apartment by Jeong-mi, but she can't get over Man-su's tactics, and she becomes a partner in the crime. Man-su sacrifices himself to save Jeong-mi, who is in her crisis, after her first crime fails. She finds that Jeong-mi discovers a different side of her Man-su, and she entrusts her body to Man-su without even feeling her love. Seok-gyu, Jeong-mi's ex-lover, encounters opposition from her parents due to the bankruptcy of her Jeong-mi's house. Man-su threatens Soo-kyung and Seok-gyu, who are trying to find her Jeong-mi. At Seok-gyu's plea to save her fiance, Jeong-mi again joins the plot of Man-su's big crime.

The Woman On The Ferris Wheel

1979

Under an Umbrella poster
5.0

Dong Won is a down-and-out artist who suffers from despair and dissatisfaction and suicidal tendencies. During a trip to Sorak mountain, he tries to kill himself. He falls in love with Sun Hee, the cabin owner's daughter. For a short time, he experiences true love. But they break up because of Sun Hee's mother. Dong Won becomes a fork crane driver but cannot escape his unhappiness. One day, he travels to Sorak mountain and meets Sun Hee and their son.

Under an Umbrella

1979

Series credits

High Kick Through The Roof poster
7.3

Two 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

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

No artwork available
NR

A drama depicting the lives of mature women called Ajumma.

More than Words Can Say

2000

Heaven and Earth poster
NR

Raised in a loving family but afraid of being hurt, an adopted son keeps his distance from those around him. His longtime friend, who deeply values family, stays by his side as their friendship gradually turns into love. As they grow closer, conflicts involving adoption, remarriage, marriage, and generational differences test their relationships. Through pain, reconciliation, and healing, they discover that family is built through love and understanding, not just blood.

Heaven and Earth

2007

Coffee Prince poster
8.1

An immature company heir falls for his hardworking new cafe employee, but there’s a catch: he thinks she’s a man, and he's... ok with it?

Coffee Prince

2007

My Lovely Sam Soon poster
8.5

An average pastry chef agrees to pose as a wealthy restaurant owner’s pretend girlfriend – but real feelings make things complicated.

My Lovely Sam Soon

2005

Merchant poster
7.8

No synopsis available yet.

Merchant

2001

No artwork available
NR

백만송이 장미는 매주 월,금 저녁 20시 25분에 방영되었던 KBS 일일 드라마이다. 백만송이장미는 2003년 10월 6일부터 2004년 6월 4일까지 방송을 하고 종영하였다.

One Million Roses

2003

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

This Is Love

2001

The Woman Who Married Three Times poster
5.0

A story about a woman and her two adult daughters. Older sister Oh Hyun-soo is a pet products designer, while younger sister Oh Eun-soo gets remarried after a failed marriage.

The Woman Who Married Three Times

2013

Ojakgyo Family poster
7.0

The story of a family with four sons who live together with their relatives on a farm near Seoul. Hwang Tae Hee is the third son and a policeman who falls in love with a girl named Baek Ja Eun. Baek Ja Eun is a haughty young woman who only believes in her pretty looks and is quick to flare up in anger.

Ojakgyo Family

2011

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

On the Prairie poster
NR

This is the story of a man, who has nothing to show except for siblings and true courage, and a woman, who has never experienced failure and who has only cared for herself inside a plentiful enclosure, who finds the true meaning of life and who becomes mature through the process of meeting and falling in love.

On the Prairie

2003

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Wang Rung's Land

2000

Attic Cat poster
7.6

Kyung Min, a law student, is in desperate straits, so he decides to take it upon himself to help Hye Ryun's poor friend, Jung Eun. This is the beginning of an extremely volatile friendship that somehow ends with the two of them living together under one roof, or to be more specific, living in a room on top of the roof of an old building. Kyung Min's bratty ways clashes with Jung Eun's simple living, as he steadily takes advantage of her kindness and good nature.

Attic Cat

2003

Noonas Over Flowers poster
8.2

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.

Noonas Over Flowers

2013

Single Dad in Love poster
2.9

Kang Poong-ho is a pest exterminator by day and a K-1/mixed martial arts fighter by night. He is a single father raising his 7-year-old son Kang San after the boy's mother, his first love Yoon So-yi, abandoned them to pursue her ambition of becoming a pianist. Despite life's trials, Poong-ho never loses his optimism and sense of humor. He meets and falls in love with Jeon Ha-ri, a bright and bubbly medical student from a wealthy family. An obstacle to their romance arises when they learn that Ha-ri's soon-to-be stepmother is none other So-yi and that it was Ha-ri's surgeon father Jeon Ki-suk who sponsored her piano studies abroad. As So-yi re-enters their lives, San is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Poong-ho is willing to go to any lengths to save his beloved son.

Single Dad in Love

2008

Can't Lose poster
5.5

Can't Lose is a 2011 South Korean romantic comedy television series, starring Choi Ji-woo and Yoon Sang-hyun, who play two bickering, married divorce lawyers who take out their frustrations on each other in and out of the courtroom. It aired on MBC from August 24 to October 20, 2011 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 18 episodes. It is a remake of the 2008 Japanese drama The Sasaki Couple's Merciless Battle.

Can't Lose

2011

My Beloved Sister poster
2.6

My Beloved Sister is a 2006 South Korean television series starring Song Yun-ah and Kim Sung-soo. It aired on MBC from August 12, 2006 to February 18, 2007 on Saturdays and Sundays at 19:55 for 55 episodes. Song stars as the titular older sister who must carry the family when the world is pulled out from under her.

My Beloved Sister

2006

Be Strong, Geum-soon! poster
7.7

This is a story of a young widow, Geum-Soon, who never becomes discouraged or blames other people - no matter what happens in her life. The viewers will get both hope and comfort by watching her do her best in everything she does.It is also a story of a family who loves and takes care of each other. You can always turn to your family and their love gives you the hope to get through the tough times. Sometimes, they seem to make your life more difficult, but they will always stand up for you and love you whatever you do.

Be Strong, Geum-soon!

2005

Several Questions That Make Us Happy poster
NR

The miniseries is composed of six different stories in a omnibus way, describing mondern society’s loneliness, misunderstanding between couples, trust with others, courtesy between lovers, and self-centered blame for others, etc. It is based on the sincere question why we are so unhappy and how I can make happiness.

Several Questions That Make Us Happy

2007

일과 사랑 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

일과 사랑

1993

Bad Housewife poster
3.0

Bad Housewife is a Korean drama series, produced and aired in 2005 by SBS. The show revolves around the lives of Koo Soo-han and Choi Mi-na, a married couple with a daughter, Song-yi and their neighbors and acquaintances. The show regularly made jokes about the stereotypical themes Korean dramas usually have, for example that one of the characters contracts a terminal disease. At the end of each episode there was also a skit called Useful Tips for Everyday Life.

Bad Housewife

2005

Tomato poster
7.0

A shoe designer and her rival compete for success, ambition, and love in the high-stakes world of fashion.

Tomato

1999

Countryside Chronicles poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Countryside Chronicles

1980

Invisible Man poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Invisible Man

2006

배반의 장미 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

배반의 장미

1990

The Royal Road poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Royal Road

1991

Apgujeong House poster
NR

The story follows the descendants of a once-wealthy aristocratic clan who struggle to maintain their identity and livelihood after generations of political upheaval and financial decline. In the present day, the family runs a traditional Korean restaurant, while dealing with everyday conflicts, generational clashes, and humorous situations involving their relatives and neighbors. The show mixes family drama and workplace comedy, focusing on how the old-fashioned values of the household collide with modern urban life.

Apgujeong House

2003

워킹맘 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

워킹맘

2008

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

어쩌면 좋아

2001

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

어디로 가나

1992