Mun Ka-young

Acting

Mun Ka-young

Born

1996-07-10 (30)

Place of birth

Karlsruhe, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

53 titles

Mun Ka-young (born July 10, 1996) is a South Korean actress. She was born in Karlsruhe, Germany to South Korean parents; her family moved back to Korea when she was 10 years old. She began her acting career in 2006 as a child actress, appearing in both film and television. She used to be part of SM (in S.M. Culture & Contents) and acted in some productions in link with SM artists such as TVXQ 's Max Changmin in "Mimi" (2014) and with EXO in "EXO Next Door" (2015). In 2018, she started to gain popularity with "Tempted" as the second lead female actress. In 2019, she got the first lead role in "Welcome to Waikiki 2" and in 2020, she gained even more recognition with her lead role in the drama…

Known for

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

True Beauty poster
8.3

After being bullied and discriminated because of her ugly looks, a high school girl transforms herself into a gorgeous "goddess" and quickly rises to fame after mastering the art of makeup via online tutorial videos.

True Beauty

2020

KBS Drama Special poster
7.4

Forget the existing one-act dramas! Short but impactive! KBS Drama Special presents high quality single episode dramas. Dramas are the broadcast content with the widest public appeal. KBS Drama Special will produce short dramas of far-reaching impact involving at times a serious social message, unique emotions or perspectives. It will stay abreast of modern viewership.

KBS Drama Special

2010

The Devil Wears Prada 2 poster
7.0

Andy Sachs returns to Runway as Miranda Priestly navigates a new media landscape and Runway's position within. The duo reconnect with former assistant Emily Charlton, now the head of a luxury brand that possesses funding which could ensure Runway's survival.

The Devil Wears Prada 2

2026

Salon Drip poster
4.5

Tea time talk show with Salon owner Jang Do Yeon. A comfortable world of endless aristocratic-like conversations in the realm of wit!

Salon Drip

2023

Welcome to Waikiki poster
7.8

Kang Dong-Goo dreams of becoming a movie director, but he is cynical due to bad luck. Cheon Joon-Ki wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and become an actor, but he is now just a minor actor. Bong-Doo-Sik came to Seoul to become a scenario writer, but things have not been easy for him.

Welcome to Waikiki

2018

Film credits

2010s · 6 titles

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

Killer Toon poster
6.7

A web-comic artist finds that a series of murders are occurring that have a disturbing resemblance to the images in her work.

Killer Toon

2013

Eclipse poster
6.3

Yoon-jae moves to a new high school and starts hanging out with Se-joon, a mysterious student. Needing money for his sickly mother, Yoon-jae accepts a job offer by Se-joon. However, he doesn't exactly know what it is.

Eclipse

2016

Island poster
6.0

A pensive man visits an empty house. A neighbor tells him the house is haunted but he ignores it. Park Jinseong's second feature that takes place in Jeju Island gazes into the pain of life.

Island

2015

Twenty Again poster
5.0

A female eye doctor and a male film director run into each other on the airplane to Milan. The two were lovers in the past, and are now in their middle ages. After their chance encounter in Torino, they travel around Tuscany together, appreciating the works of Caravaggio. They begin to notice they are hiding their own wounds from each other. In Korea, he goes to her eye clinic, and they confess love to each other for the first time. In the end, they go their separate ways.

Twenty Again

2016

Dancing the Waltz Alone poster
3.2

Min-Sun (Mun Ka-Young) and Gun-Hee (Yeo Hoi-Hyeon) first met at a waltz class and have dated for the past 8 years. Min-Sun is now an intern at a large company and Gun-Hee works at a mid-size company. Somehow, they become competitors for a job.

Dancing the Waltz Alone

2017

2000s · 6 titles

Black House poster
6.1

Jun-oh, an insurance claims agent, faces off with a client who he suspects of committing murders with the intention of collecting insurance premiums.

Black House

2007

Bloody Reunion poster
6.7

Mi-ja, who has been taking care of a retired teacher, Ms. Park, invites several of her former students to her house 16 years after their graduation. Since the end of her teaching career, Park has been residing in the countryside, suffering from an illness while an ex-student, the kind and pretty Mi-ja cares for her.

Bloody Reunion

2006

Our Town poster
5.4

A writer kills his landlady and stages the body to look like the work of an active serial killer. Anxious that the police might figure out the truth, he decides to insert himself into the investigation using his detective friend.

Our Town

2007

Bunt poster
7.5

A mentally challenged boy, Dong-gu loves going to school to fetch water for his friends. But he is disappointed, when the school decides to install water purifiers instead.

Bunt

2007

Shadows in the Palace poster
6.9

Upon receiving the body of a maid in waiting who was said to have hung herself within the palace walls, dedicated doctor Chun-ryung begins to suspect foul play. Upon launching a personal investigation, however, Chun-ryung quickly discovers a labyrinthine maze of deception constructed by those with limitless power to conceal a valuable secret.

Shadows in the Palace

2007

Do You See Seoul? poster
6.7

In 1976 on a remote island, schoolteacher Eun-young wants to take her students on a field trip to a cookie factory in Seoul. Even though the parents don't like the idea, Eun-young succeeds in taking them. But once they arrive in the complicated city, students become fascinated with high-tech bicycles and get lost.

Do You See Seoul?

2008

Series credits

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

True Beauty poster
8.3

After being bullied and discriminated because of her ugly looks, a high school girl transforms herself into a gorgeous "goddess" and quickly rises to fame after mastering the art of makeup via online tutorial videos.

True Beauty

2020

KBS Drama Special poster
7.4

Forget the existing one-act dramas! Short but impactive! KBS Drama Special presents high quality single episode dramas. Dramas are the broadcast content with the widest public appeal. KBS Drama Special will produce short dramas of far-reaching impact involving at times a serious social message, unique emotions or perspectives. It will stay abreast of modern viewership.

KBS Drama Special

2010

Salon Drip poster
4.5

Tea time talk show with Salon owner Jang Do Yeon. A comfortable world of endless aristocratic-like conversations in the realm of wit!

Salon Drip

2023

Welcome to Waikiki poster
7.8

Kang Dong-Goo dreams of becoming a movie director, but he is cynical due to bad luck. Cheon Joon-Ki wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and become an actor, but he is now just a minor actor. Bong-Doo-Sik came to Seoul to become a scenario writer, but things have not been easy for him.

Welcome to Waikiki

2018

Sh**ting Stars poster
8.1

Frustrations and feelings collide when a dynamic PR executive finds herself working with her irksome nemesis — who happens to be a megastar client.

Sh**ting Stars

2022

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

Link: Eat, Love, Kill poster
7.7

Eun Gye-hoon, a famous chef, opens a restaurant in a town he lived when he was a little kid. In the past, he had a twin sister. But after a traumatic incident tat the hometown, the family lost her. He used to have a strong emotional link to his sister, able to synchronize with any kinds of feelings she was having. When Noh Da-hyun, a young woman in need of help, visits him one day, Gye-hoon starts to feel that strong link again.

Link: Eat, Love, Kill

2022

Don't Dare to Dream poster
8.1

A weather girl reunites with her old crush, a haughty reporter at her TV station. But this time, she has her eyes on someone else -- his best friend.

Don't Dare to Dream

2016

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

Find Me in Your Memory poster
8.0

A deep connection forms between a news anchor who remembers every moment he's ever lived and an actress who's lost the memories of her past.

Find Me in Your Memory

2020

Princess Ja Myung poster
4.6

Based on a famous tale of Korean folklore story about a princess of Nak Rang of Nangnang Kingdom and Prince Hodong of the Goguryeo Kingdom.

Princess Ja Myung

2009

Law and the City poster
7.7

Story of a lawyer who is known for his good appearance and straightforward personality and is working with Gyeongmin Law Firm for 9 years.

Law and the City

2025

Live Up to Your Name poster
7.0

Heo Im is an oriental doctor, acknowledged as the best in acupuncture and moxibustion in Joseon. His success is blocked due to his low status.

Live Up to Your Name

2017

The Interest of Love poster
6.1

Four men and women working at the same bank get entangled in a complicated romance as they discover how far they’re willing to go for love.

The Interest of Love

2022

Tempted poster
7.0

Love is just a game for a chaebol heir who agrees to a petty bet with his friends to seduce a college student — until he starts to fall for her.

Tempted

2018

Mirror of the Witch poster
6.6

Seo-Ri's mother Queen Sim was unable to have a child. She went to a shaman to help her have a child. With the help of shaman Hong-Joo's black magic, Queen Sim was able to have a boy and girl twins. The girl, Seo-Ri, was put under a curse and abandoned deep in the mountains. She meets Heo Jun, a young man, there.

Mirror of the Witch

2016

Wang’s Family poster
6.0

Wang Subak, the eldest daughter of the Wang family, had married into a wealthy family. But after her husband Ko Minjung goes bankrupt, she and her family have to move back into her parents' home. Second daughter Hobak is also having financial difficulties with her jobless husband Heo Sedal, while third daughter Gwangbak suddenly decides to quit her stable job as a teacher to pursue her dream of becoming a writer. Navigating the pressures of their circumstances will test every member of the family as they struggle to find happiness and love.

Wang’s Family

2013

Heartstrings poster
7.2

Lee Gyu Won is the daughter of one of the top three maestros of pansori and is also a gayageum protégé herself. Following her grandfather’s wishes for her to study the gayageum, she enrolls as a major of gugak, or traditional Korean music. Lee Shin is unfriendly, yet a clever student in the Applied Music Department who also is the famed vocalist and talented guitarist of the handsome band named The Stupid. With charming looks equal to those of a handsome character in a romance comic and a cold, taciturn personality, he thinks gugak is boring and belittles it. As the vocalist Lee Shin and Gayageum Protégé Lee Gyu Won passionately confront each other to champion their respective music, they soon fall in love.

Heartstrings

2011

The Merchant: Gaekju 2015 poster
5.0

Many great men come from humble beginnings. During the end of the tumultuous Chosun Dynasty, Chun Bong Sam is a poor peddler who inherits a run-down inn. Through hard work and perseverance against a corrupt bureaucracy, Bong Sam achieves great success and becomes a powerful merchant. Can he help shape the way that industry and business should be done in the emerging modern era? It is based on the novel “Gaekju” by Kim Joo Young.

The Merchant: Gaekju 2015

2015

Delightfully Deceitful poster
5.9

After a decade behind bars, a brilliant con artist teams up with an empathetic lawyer — and together, they dig into the case that changed her life.

Delightfully Deceitful

2023

Yoobari Talkbari poster
NR

"Yoobari Talkbari" is a YouTube talk show segment hosted by South Korean actor Yoo Yeon-seok on his channel. Styled as a cozy coffee truck concept, the show features Yoo chatting with guest celebrities.

Yoobari Talkbari

2025

EXO Next Door poster
8.0

Ji Yeon-hee is an extremely shy, introverted 23-year-old girl with zero dating experience and a tendency to blush when talking to someone she likes. One day, four young men move into the house right next door to Yeon-hee's home, and to her surprise, they turn out to be Chanyeol, D.O, Baekhyun, and Sehun from her favorite boy band EXO, who are looking to lay low for a while. They hire her to clean their house part-time during the winter vacation and that's when Yeon-hee found out that Chanyeol was her long lost childhood friend and crush "Chan" and is the grandson of the house owner. As the story goes on, Yeon-hee soon becomes involved in a love triangle with Chanyeol and D.O.

EXO Next Door

2015

Bad Boy poster
5.9

Sim Geon Uk is a stuntman who’s secretly plotting revenge against Haeshinm Group, a large corporation to which Hong Tae Seong is the heir. As he works to destroy the family by first seducing the youngest daughter, Hong Mo Ne, he finds himself at a crossroads when Mun Jae In enters his life. Determined to correct the wrong, Geon Uk is about to risk it all and take down anyone who gets in his way.

Bad Boy

2010

Yu Hee, the Witch poster
5.3

As the director of her father's advertising company, Ma Yoo Hee is known as a witch for her ruthless, no nonsense character. After a string of failed attempts to hire a housekeeper, she (literally) runs into Chae Moo Ryong, ex-medical student turned aspiring chef. As a way to work off his debt for crashing into her car, he agrees to become her housekeeper and personal love affairs coach for one month. Gladly, he gives her a makeover that attracts both her old friend Johnny Kruger and her first love Joon Ha. Despite having a girlfriend, Sung Mi, Moo Ryong eventually finds himself falling for Yoo Hee.

Yu Hee, the Witch

2007

Boo Seungkwan's Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo poster
10.0

Come and play on MC Boo's first talk show! As long as you order, SEUNGKWAN will listen.

Boo Seungkwan's Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo

2025

Friend, Our Legend poster
4.0

Based on the 2001 film, Friend, Our Legend expands and retells Kwak Kyung-taek's semi-autobiographical rough-and-tumble tale about four childhood friends coming of age in the tough streets of Busan in the 1970s and 1980s. As they enter into manhood, best friends Dong-soo and Joon-seok become enemies and bitter rivals in the city's underworld of gangs.

Friend, Our Legend

2009

Who Are You poster
7.1

Detective Yang Shi-ohn wakes up from a six-year coma. She gets reassigned to the lost and found department, where she discovers that she's gained the supernatural ability to see ghosts connected to the objects left behind there. Along with her new partner, rookie cop Cha Gun-woo who's a hotheaded skeptic, Shi-ohn uses the information to solve cold cases. Gun-woo only believes in tangible things he can see, hear and touch, but he gradually comes to trust Shi-ohn, and together, the bickering partners help the spirits fulfill their dying wishes and unfinished business before passing on to the afterlife.

Who Are You

2013

The Page Turner poster
8.0

People talking about books.

The Page Turner

2019

La Dolce Vita poster
3.0

La 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

Delicious Love poster
4.0

A teen romantic comedy that tells the story of a chef named Sung Jun who is the best at his craft and has no flaws in the eyes of others, but he is simply hopeless when it comes to love. But when he meets a girl who eats everything deliciously, he falls in love at first sight.

Delicious Love

2015

Whale Star: The Gyeongseong Mermaid poster
NR

Set in 1926 under Japanese colonial rule, a young maid risks her life to save a wounded independence activist, only to be drawn into the dangerous world of resistance after losing her voice and traveling to Gyeongseong in search of justice. Amid espionage, betrayal, and awakening ideals, their lives and love become entwined with Korea’s fight for independence.

Whale Star: The Gyeongseong Mermaid

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The Reputable Family poster
1.5

The Reputable Family is a 2010 South Korean television series starring Cha In-pyo, Han Go-eun, Kim Sung-min, and Lee Hee-do. It aired on KBS1 from January 1 to February 21, 2010 on Saturdays and Sundays at 21:40 for 16 episodes. The historical drama revolves around the Choi family, a famous clan based in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province. After the death of the head of their family, Choi Jin-lip during the second Manchu invasion of Korea, his grandson Guk-seon vows to reclaim the honor of his clan. The Choi family must overcome obstacles and hardships both in their hometown Gyeongju, and in Hanyang. Many of the scenes were filmed at the Korean Folk Village in Seoul. The series failed to attract many viewers, receiving an average rating of 10.9%. But it was recognized as a well-made drama among critics.

The Reputable Family

2010

Mimi poster
4.3

Min-woo is a 28-year-old introverted writer of webcomics (or "webtoon") who has partial memory loss.One day, he finds a memo on his desk calendar, and because of it, writes a new webtoon titled December 8, which becomes an instant hit. But as the webtoon gets even more popular, Min-woo feels pressure from work and begins to suffer from severe headaches. He strives to recover his lost memories from the time he was an 18-year-old high school student, especially those of his first love, Mimi, as he unravels their mysterious fate.

Mimi

2014

Recipe for Youth poster
NR

Jeon Seong Ki works as a dating coach who is a professional at creating scandals. Cha Soo Bin is an entertainment reporter who disguises herself as a rookie actress. She pretends to need help on her road to stardom but is actually looking for juicy scoops. However, the process leads to Jeon Seong Ki finding true love.

Recipe for Youth

2021

Food-vengers poster
NR

The new program aims to combine eco-friendly cooking with fun cooking broadcasts. Through Food-vengers, top chefs and cast members will create and present new menus using leftover ingredients to promote zero-waste cooking.

Food-vengers

2020

Steal Heart Club poster
NR

A high-energy music survival series where real musicians compete through raw performances to form the next global band, proving that only those who truly captivate hearts will survive.

Steal Heart Club

2025

No artwork available
NR

A Michelin one-star Italian chef is transported 1,000 years into the past by a mysterious prophecy and finds himself in Silla, where he meets Princess Deok Yeong — a gifted gourmet, pure-blooded seonggol, and royal determined to become Silla’s first queen. When the ambitious princess challenges him to prove what true “taste” means, his modern culinary skills become his only way to survive in the ancient kingdom. As food brings two people from different eras closer, their encounter sparks a unexpected romance destined to transcend 1,000 years of time.

Seorabeol Knife

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