Ban Hyo-jung

Acting

Ban Hyo-jung

Born

1942-11-27 (83)

Place of birth

한국, 대구

Known for

Acting

Credits

44 titles

Ban Hyo-jung (반효정), born Ban Man-hee (반만희), is a South Korean actress.  She was born in Daegu, South Korea, while it was under Japanese rule, hence her birthplace is sometimes listed as Japan.

Known for

Ugly Alert poster
9.0

Gong Joon-soo is a man who's had a rough life and early on had to fend for himself. He takes the blame for a murder his younger sibling commits and serves time in prison. There he learns to sew and acquires a trade. With his newly acquired skills, Joon-soo goes to work for Na Do-hee at a fashion company. Do-hee has inherited her job because her grandfather built the company. But even though she inherited her position, she is serious about doing a good job and is something of a workaholic.

Ugly Alert

2013

The Third Marriage poster
5.8

Love and marriage bloom in a game of truth with a woman who lives a fake life and a woman who tries to reveal it.

The Third Marriage

2023

Hometown Over the Hill poster
NR

By depicting the dreams of people living in farming villages, this drama also reveals problems that today’s residents of rural areas face, such as a growing number of biracial children from international marriages and the cutthroat competition to survive.

Hometown Over the Hill

2007

My Merry Marriage poster
6.4

A delightful family drama that asks the true meaning of 'happiness' by showing various aspects of marriage such as divorce, remarriage, and single life, and brings about empathy and laughter from all generations. Maeng Gong Hee is a contract designer at Jayce Fashion. Having inherited her strong mother's spirit and her former detective father's athletic ability, she is a rare wild woman these days who has the guts to survive even if she were to be stranded on a deserted island. Gu Dan Soo is the grandson of Jayce Fashion Chairman Hwang Ik Seon and born to a wealthy father and a poor mother. Dan Soo, who was living as a free spirit in a foreign country, comes to Korea according to his grandmother's plan to make a successor to the chairman out of him and he reunites with childhood friend Maeng Gong Hee once again.

My Merry Marriage

2024

어여쁜 당신 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

어여쁜 당신

2005

My Dearest Nemesis poster
8.2

Baek Su-jeong leads a planning team at a renowned department store. She meets her new boss, Ban Ju-yeon, her first love from an online game 16 years ago, stirring up memories of when he confessed his feelings but she rejected him.

My Dearest Nemesis

2025

Film credits

Series credits

Ugly Alert poster
9.0

Gong Joon-soo is a man who's had a rough life and early on had to fend for himself. He takes the blame for a murder his younger sibling commits and serves time in prison. There he learns to sew and acquires a trade. With his newly acquired skills, Joon-soo goes to work for Na Do-hee at a fashion company. Do-hee has inherited her job because her grandfather built the company. But even though she inherited her position, she is serious about doing a good job and is something of a workaholic.

Ugly Alert

2013

The Third Marriage poster
5.8

Love and marriage bloom in a game of truth with a woman who lives a fake life and a woman who tries to reveal it.

The Third Marriage

2023

Hometown Over the Hill poster
NR

By depicting the dreams of people living in farming villages, this drama also reveals problems that today’s residents of rural areas face, such as a growing number of biracial children from international marriages and the cutthroat competition to survive.

Hometown Over the Hill

2007

My Merry Marriage poster
6.4

A delightful family drama that asks the true meaning of 'happiness' by showing various aspects of marriage such as divorce, remarriage, and single life, and brings about empathy and laughter from all generations. Maeng Gong Hee is a contract designer at Jayce Fashion. Having inherited her strong mother's spirit and her former detective father's athletic ability, she is a rare wild woman these days who has the guts to survive even if she were to be stranded on a deserted island. Gu Dan Soo is the grandson of Jayce Fashion Chairman Hwang Ik Seon and born to a wealthy father and a poor mother. Dan Soo, who was living as a free spirit in a foreign country, comes to Korea according to his grandmother's plan to make a successor to the chairman out of him and he reunites with childhood friend Maeng Gong Hee once again.

My Merry Marriage

2024

어여쁜 당신 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

어여쁜 당신

2005

My Dearest Nemesis poster
8.2

Baek Su-jeong leads a planning team at a renowned department store. She meets her new boss, Ban Ju-yeon, her first love from an online game 16 years ago, stirring up memories of when he confessed his feelings but she rejected him.

My Dearest Nemesis

2025

Until We Fall in Love poster
10.0

A drama about a woman in her 20s who is attracting family members from large families who are scattered like sand grains. After the death of her husband, who was a lawyer, she ran a glasses company and raised her four brothers and sisters.

Until We Fall in Love

1996

Our Golden Days poster
5.0

An interior designer has a one-sided crush on her former college senior – but his best friend is secretly in love with her.

Our Golden Days

2025

Rooftop Prince poster
7.5

Crown Prince Yi Gak finds that he has been transported from the Chosun Dynasty to modern-day Seoul. He meets Hong Se Na, who bears a striking resemblance to his dead wife, and is determined to solve the 300-year-old mystery of her death. With his own resemblance to the CEO’s grandson at the company where Se Na works, Gak assumes the identity of the young man to stay close to her. Can the Crown Prince navigate a modern corporation to find clues to his own time period?

Rooftop Prince

2012

Hi Bye, Mama! poster
8.1

Cha Yu-ri died in an accident five years ago, leaving her husband Cho Gang-hwa to raise their daughter by himself. She becomes a ghost and watches over them until one fateful day she is brought back to life by the deities and told she can become human again if she returns to her place in 49 days. Though her husband has remarried, so she must decide between her or his happiness as she slowly re-integrates back into her old lifestyle.

Hi Bye, Mama!

2020

Oh My Venus poster
8.1

Dumped by her boyfriend of 15 years for gaining weight, a lawyer gets help from a hotshot personal trainer to get in shape and turn her life around.

Oh My Venus

2015

Windy Mi Poong poster
6.1

The romance between a bright woman, Mi-Poong, who defected from North Korea and a man, Jang-Go, in Seoul who is a stickler for the rules. Conflicts also arise over a 100 billion won inheritance.

Windy Mi Poong

2016

My Healing Love poster
5.0

Im Chi-Woo never wanted to become a good daughter, a good daughter-in-law or a good wife, but she sacrifices herself to take care of her family. She is married to immature Park Wan-Seung and she works several part-time jobs to support her family. Under her difficult situation, she keeps smiling and maintaining her positive attitude. Choi Jin-Yoo is a divorcee and he has a daughter. He works hard and tries live positively for his daughter. He encounters a nightmare like scenario.

My Healing Love

2018

Dear Heaven poster
NR

Ji Young Sun, when she was very young, gave away her daughter Lee Ja Kyung after giving birth. She later remarries and creates a new family, but soon after, her husband dies leaving her behind with her stepson Gu Wang Mo and daughter Gu Seul Ah. Lee Ja Kyung now grown, after being orphaned once again as a child by the passing of her foster parents, lives a life of loneliness and lack of love. Her birth mother Young Sun comes to find her, but in order to keep her daughter Ja Kyung by her side, tries to match her up with her stepson.

Dear Heaven

2005

It's Beautiful Now poster
7.8

Three brothers search for marriage partners in order to win the apartment offered by their family elders.

It's Beautiful Now

2022

Sea of the Woman poster
3.0

Set in the 1960's and 1970's. Soo-In is a smart student who has never missed ranking at the top of her class. Due to her poor family situation, she begins to work at a factory instead of going to college. Nevertheless, she pursues her dream.

Sea of the Woman

2017

Save the Family poster
4.5

Jung Woo Jin is an ambitious doctor. After he failed in love, he no longer believes in true love. He views marriage as just a business. Meanwhile, Lee Hae Soo works as an assistant chef. She dreams of getting married to the right man and having a family. Then, Woo Jin falls in love with Hae Soo and He comes into conflict with love and ambition.

Save the Family

2015

Beautiful You poster
4.5

This is the story of various characters who learn about love, courage, healing and savior in the name of ‘family’ who stand by your side in times of hardships. This drama is a beautiful love story which will comfort your exhausted soul.

Beautiful You

2015

Brilliant Legacy poster
7.7

A series of misunderstandings and unfortunate events conspire to shatter the once-promising life of girl from an affluent family.

Brilliant Legacy

2009

Terms of Endearment poster
4.3

No synopsis available yet.

Terms of Endearment

2004

Perfect Marriage Revenge poster
8.0

Waking from a fatal accident to find herself in the past, Han Yi-joo teams up with Seo Do-guk to take revenge on the family who never loved her.

Perfect Marriage Revenge

2023

The Women of Our Home poster
NR

The Women of Our Home is a South Korean television series starring Jung Eun-chae, Jay Kim, Yoon Ah-jung and Choi Min-sung. It aired on KBS1 from May 16, 2011 to November 4, 2011 on Mondays to Fridays at 20:25 for 125 episodes.

The Women of Our Home

2011

Rosy Lovers poster
5.5

A 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

Samsaengi poster
3.0

When Sam-Saeng (Hong Ah-Reum) was a kid, she was very weak. She even had a near-death experience. Eventually, Sam-Saeng became an oriental doctor and grew as a real oriental doctor.

Samsaengi

2013

Pots of Gold poster
1.0

The drama explores love, marriage and divorce through a case of mistaken identity, while making good-humored fun of a middle class family and their pretensions.

Pots of Gold

2013

Bravo My Life poster
7.5

This drama is the story of three people, actors who fail to debut after seven years and their lives as they relate to a broadcasting station.

Bravo My Life

2017

Jang Hee Bin poster
NR

The first season of the Women of Legend Series tells the story of a young lady-in-waiting whose beauty catches the eye of the King and becomes his concubine. Quickly rising in the ranks and eventually giving birth to a son, her hunger for power drives her not only to maintain her position, but to become Queen.

Jang Hee Bin

1981

Memory poster
6.6

This drama is about a lawyer, Park Tae Suk who finds out that he has Alzheimer’s and puts his life on the line to fight one last case. The drama depicts his vigorous efforts trying to protect the precious value of the life and family love, while his memory starts fading away.

Memory

2016

49 Days poster
8.1

After an accident shatters her storybook life, a comatose woman gets a second chance at life when a reaper from above intervenes, at a cost.

49 Days

2011

Through the Waves poster
4.7

Due to the Korean war, Oh Bok-Sil’s family becomes separated lose everything. Not to be defeated, they live with strength as they suffer great hardships.

Through the Waves

2018

Game of Witches poster
6.8

Yu Kyung is a successful woman who is proficient enough to become an executive director of Chunha Group when she started as a secretary. She recently found out her daughter is alive, so she plans to get her back and take her revenge. Meanwhile, Hye Soo is a strong girl who faces challenges head-on. She has a daughter with Ji Ho, and she would do anything for her. However, she gets tragically betrayed by Ji Ho, the love of her life, over power and money. How will those two mothers end their fierce revenge?

Game of Witches

2022

Brain poster
7.8

Lee Gang Hun is a brilliant brain surgeon who will do anything for success. Haunted by the hardships he had growing up including his father’s death, he’s filled with ambition and hopes to prove himself to be the best when it comes to neurosurgery. Gang Hun’s arrogance and selfishness remind Professor Sang Cheol, the best brain surgeon at Chunha University Hospital, of his younger days. San Chul is an empathetic doctor who cares highly about his patients, and dislikes Gang Hun’s approach, but ultimately decides to mentor him, as the two are connected by a secret past. On the other hand, Gang Hun’s rival Jun Seok comes from a family of doctors who have always supported him. Despite this, Jun Seok has always felt inferior to Gang Hun. On top of that, his crush has feelings for Gang Hun instead of him. This is the story of three rival doctors at a prestigious hospital as they navigate their struggles, ambitions, and each other.

Brain

2011

Jang Nok Soo poster
2.5

This drama summarizes the relationship between Joseon tyrant Prince Yeonsan and the former gisaeng Jang Nok Su, who became Yeonsan's queen.

Jang Nok Soo

1995

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

Melody of Love poster
3.7

Drama series tells the story of three families who begin to appreciate the family and regret hurting others.

Melody of Love

2013

The Road Home poster
4.0

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 sister. But Ji-soo must later come to grips with the secrets behind her birth.

The Road Home

2009

The Unusual Family poster
6.3

Dan-Yi loves her hometown farming village. She arrives in Seoul to distributed farm products from her village at a good price. To make this happen, Dan-Yi begins work as a merchandiser at home shopping company "Good Morning Home Shopping." On the other hand, Dan-Yi's niece Sam-Wol does not care for her hometown farming village. She came to Seoul to achieve a better life. She works as a show host at the same company as Dan-Yi. She has to have whatever she wants.

The Unusual Family

2016

I'll Give You the Stars and the Moon poster
6.0

Family is like a haven to us. We love them even to pick the stars and the moon for them. In this drama, a family, whose members are all scattered away due to the conflicts, comes to realize that it’s each other that will best protect them from hardships. Seo Jin Woo is a surgeon who has a trauma from his younger days that causes surgery phobia, Han Chae Won works in food research and deeply in love of Jin Woo, and the ambitious Kyung Joo who abandoned Jin Woo to choose Min Hyuk. Together, they depicts the story of love and hate.

I'll Give You the Stars and the Moon

2012

Two Women poster
NR

The drama "Two Women" depicts a story where family, love, and desire intersect . Young-hae and Hye-jeong face painful memories from the past and present conflicts, forcing them to reflect on their lives. Young-ja plays a crucial role in tying the knots between their destinies, and through their individual choices and friendship, they discover the true meaning of family.

Two Women

1992

TV Novel: Eun Hui poster
1.0

No synopsis available yet.

TV Novel: Eun Hui

2013