
Acting
Jo Min-ki
Born — Died
1965-11-05 — 2018-03-09
Place of birth
Seoul, South Korea
Known for
Acting
Credits
32 titles
Known for
7.7Infinite Challenge has been reported as the first "Real-Variety" show in Korean television history. The program is largely unscripted, and follows a similar format of challenge-based Reality Television programs, familiar to the audiences in the West, but the challenges are often silly, absurd, or impossible to achieve, so the program takes on the aspect of a satirical comedy variety show, rather than a more standard reality or contest program. In order to achieve its comedic purposes its 6 hosts and staff continuously proclaim, the elements of this show are the 3-Ds, Dirty, Dangerous, and Difficult.
Infinite Challenge
2005
8.5A story of a 25-year-old Go Hajin who is transported back in time to the Goryeo Dynasty. She then wakes up in the body of Lady Hae Soo and finds herself amongst the ruling princes of the Wang Family.
Scarlet Heart: Ryeo
2016
10.0Sang-min wants success in life, and in pursuit of success, he abandons his ten-year relationship with Ja-yeong to marry his boss’ daughter, Min-ju. Ja-yeong finds herself pregnant and raising a child alone. When Sang-min finds out, the battle over custody of child begins. This drama became a number one hit and captured more than 30% of viewers during its broadcast while unraveling the mysteries of waiting, forgiveness and above all - the value of love.
Yellow Handkerchief
2003
6.0The fate of two brothers diverge after the murder of their coal miner father, with one joining the mob and the other becoming a successful lawyer.
East of Eden
2008
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
4.0A drama about seven siblings, all of them are orphans and not blood-related, love each other more than real siblings. They will go through many hardships together. Baek Won is the leader of seven orphans who band together to make their own family. Meanwhile, Do Young is the prosecutor who falls in love with her.
Golden Rainbow
2013
Film credits
2010s · 4 titles
7.4A doctor tries to woo a grieving, widowed firefighter in her attempt to get him to testify on her behalf in a medical malpractice case.
Love 911
2012
7.8Song Woo-seok is a lawyer with no clients. When his friend's son is falsely accused of a crime and tortured, he takes up the case and the course of his life changes for good.
The Attorney
2013
5.0Il-bum works hard to pay off his daughter’s hospital bills but one day gets fired for being wrongly accused as a molester. After series of failures, Il-bum finds a job at a PR company which provides free entertainment to old women in exchange for buying their products. Il-bum feels shameful to play dirty tricks on old women but he has no other choice. Despite his initial concerns, Il-bum starts to feel a sense of worth entertaining old women. A new team member, Ok-nim joins and Il-bum becomes a good friend to her, making her feel warm and safe which she never gets from her own son. But, the joy of their friendship won’t hold long when Il-bum’s debt reaches beyond help.
Clown of a Salesman
2015
3.0The tragic genius poet Lee Sang had dual expressions of despair and longing. It's an expression captured perfectly in the portrait of the likeness of Lee Sang. Painted by his friend Koo Bon-woong, the painting reappears in an art gallery alleyway in the 1970s. Soon, the story unfolds about Koo Bon-woong and Lee Sang, the vagrants who started with him, and the imperial secrets buried in the 1930s.
Lee Sang That Lee Sang
2013
2000s · 2 titles
5.3Seon-hwa is a new student at an elite medical school, and she is initiated into a dissection class headed by Dr. Han along with five other students, including her boyfriend Ki-beom. After the first class the students all start to share the same nightmare involving a one-eyed surgeon, and one by one they start to be murdered, the victims being discovered with their hearts removed. Seon-hwa and Ki-beom are convinced that these events are related to a beautiful cadaver with a rose tattoo on her breast, and they begin an investigation to uncover her identity.
Cadaver
2007
6.0Lee Dae-ro Can't Die (이대로, 죽을 순 없다, also known as Short Time) is a 2005 South Korean action film about a corrupt police officer who is told he has only three months to live, and plots his own death so his wife can collect his insurance policy.
Lee Dae-ro Can't Die
2005
1990s · 6 titles
4.8Song Yeon-Hwa, a reporter of a weekly entertainment magazine, is 27 years old. Though she is almost kissed by her boy friend several times, she has refused without particular reasons. Then she lost her boy friend. Now knowing her shilly-shally is the reason of her lost love, Song Yeon-Hwa loses daily rhythm all in a furry. One day Han Kyeong-Hyeon, who seems to be a playboy, came to work with her as a photographer. Seating next seat Kyeong-Hyeon nags her chattering all kinds of things and wedging in every occasion. Yeon-Hwa, who suffers from aftermath of lost love, submits resignation with a burst due to nagging and scolding of editor-in-chief.
First Kiss
1998
7.0A college freshman majoring in drama finds herself falling in love with a chain-smoking guest lecturer at her school despite their substantial age difference.
First Love
1993
6.0One foggy spring day, the 12-year-old Hyeok-su meets the young Eun-hye and determines then and there that he will love her for the rest of his life. Many years later, Hyeok-su is preparing to enter college when he rescues a woman from assault. It turns out to be Eun-hye. Despite the passage of time, neither had forgotten the other and they renew their relationship. However, fate places another smitten man in Eun-hye's life. He is also determined that he will marry Eun-hye. Eventually, Eun-hye is forced to choose between them.
Scent of a Man
1998
6.0No synopsis available yet.
An Idiot Lover
1992
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Girl for Love and The One for Marriage
1993
NRThe life and death of famous Korean singer, Yun Sim-deok in the 1920s.
Praise of Death
1991
Series credits
7.7Infinite Challenge has been reported as the first "Real-Variety" show in Korean television history. The program is largely unscripted, and follows a similar format of challenge-based Reality Television programs, familiar to the audiences in the West, but the challenges are often silly, absurd, or impossible to achieve, so the program takes on the aspect of a satirical comedy variety show, rather than a more standard reality or contest program. In order to achieve its comedic purposes its 6 hosts and staff continuously proclaim, the elements of this show are the 3-Ds, Dirty, Dangerous, and Difficult.
Infinite Challenge
2005
8.5A story of a 25-year-old Go Hajin who is transported back in time to the Goryeo Dynasty. She then wakes up in the body of Lady Hae Soo and finds herself amongst the ruling princes of the Wang Family.
Scarlet Heart: Ryeo
2016
10.0Sang-min wants success in life, and in pursuit of success, he abandons his ten-year relationship with Ja-yeong to marry his boss’ daughter, Min-ju. Ja-yeong finds herself pregnant and raising a child alone. When Sang-min finds out, the battle over custody of child begins. This drama became a number one hit and captured more than 30% of viewers during its broadcast while unraveling the mysteries of waiting, forgiveness and above all - the value of love.
Yellow Handkerchief
2003
6.0The fate of two brothers diverge after the murder of their coal miner father, with one joining the mob and the other becoming a successful lawyer.
East of Eden
2008
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
4.0A drama about seven siblings, all of them are orphans and not blood-related, love each other more than real siblings. They will go through many hardships together. Baek Won is the leader of seven orphans who band together to make their own family. Meanwhile, Do Young is the prosecutor who falls in love with her.
Golden Rainbow
2013
7.9An aimless man finds new resolve when he is wrongfully accused of murder and has only two weeks to save his sick daughter.
Two Weeks
2013
6.9Despite a 200-year-old treaty between humans and vampires, both races still don't get along. Amidst the looming tension, Jung Jae Min, a posh yet kindhearted high school student, quickly falls for the mysterious new girl Baek Ma Ri. But can Ma Ri conceal her true vampire identity and give love an honest chance? If these star-crossed lovers can find the courage to make the leap, Jae Min and Ma Ri may just be the key to a final resolution between humans and vampires...
Orange Marmalade
2015
5.9A tough female police officer who suffers from depression falls in love with a young multimillionaire whom she initially believed was a parking attendant. Instead of counting her lucky stars, she is taken aback by how rich he is. Officer Cha Bong-sun is a peculiar woman who defies the rigid social hierarchy and rails against it. And Seo Jae-hee, the millionaire boyfriend, is a peculiar man who falls in love with this quirky police officer. They fall passionately in love with each other. A crazy sort of love. A story about people, relationships and love.
Me too, Flower!
2011
NR"Ad Madness" is a youth drama that aired on KBS 2TV from May 4, 1999 to January 13, 2000. It is a youth drama that depicts the friendship, frustration, and love of young people who gather in a university advertising circle.
Ad Madness
1999
NRSet in 1975, Jok-ji, who became an orphan, lives in the house of his uncle, Jun-tae, who is a teacher at the school of his three brothers, Hyeon-tae, the second son, a police officer, and the savage and always troublesome third-brother's house.
Tough Guy's Love
2000
NRThe KBS youth drama is about the lives of the staff and students in Sewon Arts High School.
School 4
2001
NRIt was aired on KBS2TV from May 20, 2002 to July 23, 2002, every Monday and Tuesday at 21:50 PM.
거침없는 사랑
2002
NRWife Returns is a South Korean television series starring Kang Sung-yeon, Jo Min-ki, Yoon Se-ah, Park Jung-chul, and Kim Mu-yeol. It aired on SBS from November 2, 2009 to April 16, 2010 on Mondays to Fridays at 19:20 for 116 episodes. The melodrama deals with a broken family, betrayal, adultery and revenge with a dash of violence. Wife Returns revolves around a woman who gets revenge on the husband of her identical twin sister. The sister was forced to leave her husband and their child by her mother-in-law. The series was part of the "Wife Trilogy," which includes Temptation of Wife and Two Wives.
Wife Returns
2009
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Angel's Kiss
1998
No synopsis available yet.
Inspector Park Moon Su
2002
4.0No synopsis available yet.
노란손수건
2003
NRPark Tae-joon is an intelligent law student and a filial son to his parents who runs a mill. His has a younger brother, Tae-soo not quite as academic still quite smart and a known brat in town, and a younger sister, the kind and gentle hearted Sun-hee. From the same town as Tae-Joon, Kim Mi-ja, his love interest is sick and tired of living in poverty and desires to leave their small town for a better life. One day after their father’s death, the family learns that they will lose their home as a pledge due to an assurance their father has made before his death. From the poverty stricken post war era of the 1950s to the modern times of Korea, this TV-series follows a family and the surrounding characters who rode the drastic changes with passion.
Love and Ambition
2006
NRNo synopsis available yet.
My Wife is Back
2009
No synopsis available yet.
City Men and Women
1996
