Kyeon Mi-ri

Acting

Kyeon Mi-ri

Born

1964-12-25 (61)

Known for

Acting

Credits

37 titles

Kyeon Mi-ri is a South Korean actress and singer. She is best known for her role as the antagonist Lady Choi in the hit period drama Dae Jang Geum. She made her acting debut in 1984 and has since become active in television dramas, most notably as the arrogant and ambitious Lady Choi in the 2003 period drama Dae Jang-geun (or Jewel in the Palace). In 2009, she ventured into the music industry and released her first album titled Happy Women, consisting of mainly trot songs. Kyeon is married to a businessman named Lee Hong Heon. Her daughters Lee Yu-bi and Lee Da-in are actresses. Kyeon is also a part of the Hwanggan Kyeon clan, which makes her a descendant of Gyeon Hwon, who was the first k…

Known for

Radio Star poster
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

MBC Bests Theater poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

MBC Bests Theater

1991

Jewel in the Palace poster
8.5

Orphaned Jang-geum becomes the first female physician in the Joseon Dynasty and her determination is tested when people around her start showing their true faces.

Jewel in the Palace

2003

Jumong poster
7.4

Jumong  examines the life of Jumong Taewang, founder of the kingdom of Goguryeo. Few details have been found in the historical record about Jumong, so much of the series is fictionalized.

Jumong

2006

Lee San, Wind in the Palace poster
7.5

At the young age of 11, Lee San witnesses his father Crown Prince Sado's death, but he does not lose his cheerfulness with his strong heart and a gentle personality. He even inherits his grandfather's intelligence, King Yeongjo, and a warm view toward humans. Lee San, who is good at both studying and martial arts, becomes the next king after Yeongjo. Song Yeon is the woman King Jeongjo loves. Song Yeon is talented in painting thanks to her father from a flower garden. While running errands in the royal art department, she enters the palace and establishes a relationship with Lee San. Will Lee San be able to overcome various schemes, stand up against maligning forces, and ascend as a king? And will he be able to achieve love with Song Yeon despite their difference in status?

Lee San, Wind in the Palace

2007

Just Like Today poster
NR

A family drama about a generation of young people who have their own concerns relating to employment and school fees, and three sets of couples who are hometown friends who wonder about the meaning of life.

Just Like Today

2011

Film credits

Series credits

Radio Star poster
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

MBC Bests Theater poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

MBC Bests Theater

1991

Jewel in the Palace poster
8.5

Orphaned Jang-geum becomes the first female physician in the Joseon Dynasty and her determination is tested when people around her start showing their true faces.

Jewel in the Palace

2003

Jumong poster
7.4

Jumong  examines the life of Jumong Taewang, founder of the kingdom of Goguryeo. Few details have been found in the historical record about Jumong, so much of the series is fictionalized.

Jumong

2006

Lee San, Wind in the Palace poster
7.5

At the young age of 11, Lee San witnesses his father Crown Prince Sado's death, but he does not lose his cheerfulness with his strong heart and a gentle personality. He even inherits his grandfather's intelligence, King Yeongjo, and a warm view toward humans. Lee San, who is good at both studying and martial arts, becomes the next king after Yeongjo. Song Yeon is the woman King Jeongjo loves. Song Yeon is talented in painting thanks to her father from a flower garden. While running errands in the royal art department, she enters the palace and establishes a relationship with Lee San. Will Lee San be able to overcome various schemes, stand up against maligning forces, and ascend as a king? And will he be able to achieve love with Song Yeon despite their difference in status?

Lee San, Wind in the Palace

2007

Just Like Today poster
NR

A family drama about a generation of young people who have their own concerns relating to employment and school fees, and three sets of couples who are hometown friends who wonder about the meaning of life.

Just Like Today

2011

Backstreet Rookie poster
7.7

It tells an unpredictable 24-hour love story of the four-dimensional innocent girl Jung Saet Byeol who was once a troublemaker and the adorkable caring male store manager, Choi Dae Hyun, in the context of a convenience store. They have met each other accidentally 4 years ago, back then Saet Byeol asked Dae Hyun to buy cigarettes for them. Until now, Saet Byeol comes to the convenience store Dae Hyun runs for a part-time job, their hilarious romantic story starts.

Backstreet Rookie

2020

Reunited Worlds poster
7.7

Although born in the same year, two childhood friends end up being 13 years apart because they have aged surprisingly at different places (worlds) for some strange reason. Now Eom Hyeon Soo is a 31-year-old woman but Sung Hae Sung is still a 18-year-old boy. Cha Won Yooung is a chef also interested in Eom Hyeon Soo.

Reunited Worlds

2017

Three Sisters poster
6.0

Three Sisters is a daily drama about the lives of two generations of three sisters, portraying their relationships and the difficulties they face.

Three Sisters

2010

Hur Jun, The Original Story poster
3.5

Drama depicts the dramatic life of historical figure Heo Joon, who wrote the oriental medical textbook "Donguibogam" and became physician for King Seonjo.

Hur Jun, The Original Story

2013

Beautiful Gong Shim poster
6.9

Needing funds to study art abroad, Gong Shim rents out her rooftop room to a pro bono lawyer, who begins shaking up her otherwise dispiriting life.

Beautiful Gong Shim

2016

Pandora: Beneath the Paradise poster
5.2

Hong Taera gets trapped in a fate like that of Pandora in Greek mythology. With a perfect husband and a lovely daughter, Taera leads a life envied by all. However, her repressed memories resurface. She sets out to take revenge and protect her beloved family.

Pandora: Beneath the Paradise

2023

Who's My Love? poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Who's My Love?

2002

Han Myung-hoi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Han Myung-hoi

1994

Strong Heart poster
NR

Strong Heart is a South Korean talk show or talk battle broadcast by Seoul Broadcasting System. It airs on Tuesdays from 11:50 to Wednesdays 00:30. It is hosted by Lee Dong-wook and Shin Dong-yeop with Boom, Super Junior's Leeteuk and Eunhyuk as hosts of a special segment and regular guests along with Kim Hyo-jin, Jung Ju-ri and Yang Se-hyung, who are known as six-fixed guests. The program relaunched as a second season with Shin Dong-yeop and new hosts, actress, Kim Hee-sun, and singer, Yoon Jong-shin, in February 2013.

Strong Heart

2009

What Happens to My Family? poster
7.8

Every family has its issues but what happens when the patriarch in the family is not happy with the behaviors of his children? Cha Bong Soon does not intend to just sit back and take bad treatment from his three adult children – Cha Kang Shim, Cha Kang Jae and Cha Dal Bong – and decides to take legal action against them. With such chaos going on in her family, Kang Shim has a tough time focusing on her job as secretary to the president of Daeoh Company and constantly at odds with the president's son, Moon Tae Joo, the company director. Will Tae Joo get sucked into the Cha family drama as well?

What Happens to My Family?

2014

Huh Young Man's Food Travel poster
NR

Traveling across Korea to enjoy the heartiest meals, manhwa artist Huh Young-man invites guests to join him for tasty dishes and genuine conversation.

Huh Young Man's Food Travel

2019

Jang Hee Bin poster
1.8

A drama depicting the life of Jang Hee Bin, who raised up as a royal concubine in the midst of political struggle during the reign of King Sukjong (Joseon).

Jang Hee Bin

1995

Wonderful Mama poster
5.5

Wonderful Mama is a 2013 South Korean television series starring Bae Jong-ok, Jeong Yu-mi and Jung Gyu-woon. It premiered on April 13, 2013, and ended on September 22, 2013, airing on SBS every Saturday and Sunday at 20:40 for 48 episodes.

Wonderful Mama

2013

Revolutionary Love poster
6.8

Byun Hyuk is the younger son of a rich conglomerate family who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. The lack of difficulties in life contributed to the carefree and hopelessly positive mindset of his. One day, he meets a girl who is everything that he is not. This drama is a depiction of youth where they learn about love and friendship.

Revolutionary Love

2017

All About Eve poster
8.4

This drama is about two girls, Jin Sun Mi and Heo Young Mi. Sun Mi had a nice childhood and grew up with lots of love from her father. Young Mi's mother left her when she was young and her father was a drunk who recently died. She had a hard childhood but never gave up and made it into college.

All About Eve

2000

Queen Inhyeon poster
NR

The eigth installment of 500 Years of Joseon Dynasty covers the reign of King Sukjong in the late 17th-early 18th Centuries.

Queen Inhyeon

1988

Golden Bride poster
8.0

A half korean and half Vietnamese girl marries a korean man for $1,500 in order to come to Korea to search for her real father who abandon her and her mother as her mother was gradually going blind due to an accident.

Golden Bride

2007

Gangnam Scandal poster
5.8

Eun So-yoo works as a stylist. She struggles to make enough money to pay for her mother’s operation fee. Due to a case, So-yoo gets involved with Choi Seo-joon . He is rich and from a chaebol family. So-yoo pretends to love him for his money, but she falls truly in love with him. Seo-joon has an in incurable disease. He is more interested in playing around than working and he doesn’t believe in true love.

Gangnam Scandal

2018

My Kids Give Me a Headache poster
7.0

Childless Comfort is a 2012 South Korean television series, starring Lee Soon-jae, Kim Hae-sook, Yoo Dong-geun and Uhm Ji-won. It is about three generations of the Ahn family who are all living in one house in the suburbs of Seoul, and how they deal with the societal discrimination that their smart and highly educated, eldest granddaughter faces, when she became a single mother. It aired on cable channel jTBC from October 27, 2012 to March 17, 2013 on Saturdays and Sundays at 20:50 for 39 episodes. The series received consistently solid ratings, and its January 26, 2013 episode reached 7.955%, breaking the previous record of Reply 1997 to become the highest viewership ratings that a drama has received on Korean cable. It went on to break its own record for the February 24 episode, with another cable drama all-time rating high of 10.715%.

My Kids Give Me a Headache

2012

TV Novel: Dear My Sister poster
NR

Bok Hee is a girl who studies very hard and works at a brewery. When she was 5-years-old, her parents' divorced and Bok Hee then lived with her mother. Her father died in a coal mine accident. Bok Hee came to brewery company Dukchun with her younger stepbrother after her mother married Song Byung-Man, the owner of Dukchun. Bok Hee addresses her mother as "aunt," to avoid getting her mother into trouble. Finally, people learn that Bok Hee is the daughter. Her stepbrother is sent off to an orphanage and Bok Hee leaves for Seoul. Joon Mo worked as a stuntman, but due to injury had to quit his job and come to Dukchun to work as a temporary teacher. Joon Mo meets Bok Hee for the first time when she peers through a classroom window in which he teaches. Joon Mo sees the passion in her eyes and becomes her mentor.

TV Novel: Dear My Sister

2011

Be Arrogant poster
4.0

Two ambitious women navigate the competitive fashion world by launching an online shopping mall, turning their dreams into a daring entrepreneurial adventure.

Be Arrogant

2014

The Wind Orchid poster
NR

The fourth episode of 500 Years of Joseon Dynasty covers the first half of the 16th Century, from the reign of Jungjong to Myeongjong.

The Wind Orchid

1985

Legends of Love poster
NR

A married woman in her early 30s seems to have a perfect life, but deep down, she hasn't forgotten her past love. Meanwhile, her ex-lover, a successful lawyer, hasn't been able to get over her either.

Legends of Love

2000

To Be With You poster
NR

A drama depicting the story of four sisters who have different views on marriage and life in the 70s and 80s.

To Be With You

2002

Housewife's Rebellion poster
10.0

Oh Sam Sook with her best years behind her, finally married reluctant bachelor Han Ji Won, and he was determined to keep living the bachelor life.

Housewife's Rebellion

2000

No artwork available
2.0

Sisters of the Sea was a Korean weekday morning TV drama that aired on MBC from August 1, 2005 to January 27, 2006. The series followed the lives of the Song sisters.

Sisters of The Sea

2005

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Well-Known Woman

2001

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Love and Sympathy

2005

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Aspen Tree

2000