Park Jin-woo

Acting

Park Jin-woo

Born

1973-03-20 (53)

Place of birth

South Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

54 titles

Park Jin-woo (born March 20, 1973) is an actor, known for Memories of Murder (2003), The Chaser (2008), The Host (2006), and My Royal Nemesis (2026).

Known for

Agent Kim Reactivated poster
8.5

When an unassuming dad's daughter goes missing, he dusts off his old black-ops skills to track her down — only to attract the wrong kind of attention.

Agent Kim Reactivated

2026

My Demon poster
8.5

A pitiless demon becomes powerless after getting entangled with an icy heiress, who may hold the key to his lost abilities — and his heart.

My Demon

2023

Memories of Murder poster
8.1

A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with conflicting methods race against time to unravel the violent mind of the killer in a futile effort to solve the case.

Memories of Murder

2003

My Royal Nemesis poster
8.8

A Joseon-era villain doomed to die opens her eyes in modern-day Seoul — where a ruthless chaebol heir may be her last chance to rewrite her fate.

My Royal Nemesis

2026

Stranger poster
8.2

Hwang Shi Mok underwent brain surgery as a child to curb his violent temper, which left him devoid of emotions. Hwang becomes a prosecutor known for his piercing intelligence and logic, but he is ostracized because he lacks empathy and social skills. He is also one of only a handful of upright prosecutors who have refused to take bribes. One day, he encounters a stabbing victim while investigating corruption. He meets Lieutenant Han Yeo Jin at the crime scene. They join forces to root out corruption at the prosecutors’ office and solve a serial murder case.

Stranger

2017

The Host poster
7.0

A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.

The Host

2006

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

Miss Fortune poster
6.4

Ji-hye is a once-successful and beautiful swindler, who recently begins failing with her cons and dreams of changing her small-job life. Before her retirement, she decides to take on one last job which could change her whole life: seducing the son of a wealthy art broker family to steal the golden treasure hidden in their se- cret mansion. With the help of her daughter Ju-young, she succeeds in earning the trust of the family but it turns out to be a never ending battle. Can Ji-hye and Ju-young find the legendary treasure and start a new life?

Miss Fortune

2023

Collectors poster
7.2

To acquire ancient artifacts for a private collector, a cunning grave robber and his band of ingenious thieves carry out a series of risky heists.

Collectors

2020

Oh! My Gran poster
5.6

A man's daughter is the victim of a brutal hit-and-run car accident. The only witness is the man's dementia-ridden old mother who barely remember any details. The two must work together to find the culprit.

Oh! My Gran

2020

Exist Within poster
6.9

Eun-soo dreams of being a professional writer but in reality, has been jobless for quite a long time. While she is looking for materials to submit a contest exhibition, she gets sick of the annoying noise from upstairs and she wonders what is going on. She begins to watch over the owner of the upstairs and the guy Ho-kyung lives right upstairs, also realizes that Eun-soo is keeping her eyes on him. Eventually, Eun-soo witnessed the staggering truth. Another annoying noise again, the story is only able to exist in imagination, could it be real?

Exist Within

2022

2010s · 20 titles

Tunnel poster
7.3

A man is on his way home when the poorly constructed tunnel he is driving through collapses, leaving him trapped leaving himself for the unexpected whilst emergency services struggle to help.

Tunnel

2016

High Society poster
5.6

The story of the journey of married couple up the social latter. The husband is professor at Seoul National University who is running for the National Assembly, and his wife is a painter.

High Society

2018

A Girl at My Door poster
6.9

Sent from Seoul to serve in a remote coastal village, a policewoman gets involved in the life of a mysterious teenage girl who is abused by both her father and her grandmother.

A Girl at My Door

2014

Confidential Assignment poster
6.8

When a crime organization from North Korea crosses borders and enters South Korean soil, a South Korean detective must cooperate with a North Korean detective to investigate their whereabouts.

Confidential Assignment

2017

Hwayi: A Monster Boy poster
7.4

After being kidnapped as a small child and raised by the five men who abducted him, a teenage boy is now forced to join their life in crime.

Hwayi: A Monster Boy

2013

For the Emperor poster
5.8

A former professional baseball player becomes entangled in loan-sharking and mob connections after a fixing scandal ejects him from his sport. When his girlfriend vanishes he is forced to confront his mentor and enter a deadly battle.

For the Emperor

2014

Eungyo poster
6.7

A reclusive elderly poet feels the fire of his youth when gamine schoolgirl Eun-gyo enters his life, to the chagrin of the old man's assistant.

Eungyo

2012

Architecture 101 poster
7.3

When Seung-min was on his first year at the Academy of Architecture, he met Seo-yeon. She was a musician student, and Seung-min totally fell in love with her. Years have passed, and now he meets Seo-yeon again - she asks him to rebuild her father's old house.

Architecture 101

2012

Rampant poster
6.8

Ancient Korea, 17th century. While the paranoid King Lee Jo of Joseon, vassal of the Qing dynasty, feels surrounded by conspirators and rebels, a dark evil emerges from the bowels of a merchant ship and the exiled Prince Lee Cheung returns to the royal court, ignoring that he will have to lead the few capable of defeating the ambitious humans and the bloody monsters who threaten to destroy the kingdom.

Rampant

2018

Secret Reunion poster
6.4

Two spies share a secret bond, despite their loyalties. A North Korean assassin is sent to Seoul to kill a dissident, but instead he teams up with a South Korean agent in search for revenge.

Secret Reunion

2010

Fists of Legend poster
7.1

Three men who share a past participate in a mixed martial arts reality show where they have to fight against other contestants to win the prize money.

Fists of Legend

2013

A Company Man poster
7.0

A contract killer becomes disenchanted with his line of work and spares the lives of his two latest would-be-victims. But the assassination company he works for has no intentions of letting him quit.

A Company Man

2012

The Truth Beneath poster
6.8

For 15 days, a politician and his wife navigate a scandal after their daughter goes missing on the eve of the national elections.

The Truth Beneath

2016

Inside Men poster
7.0

A disgruntled henchman teams up with an ambitious prosecutor to bring down a leading presidential candidate and the news editor behind him who is truly pulling the strings.

Inside Men

2015

The Prison poster
7.1

An imprisoned ex-police inspector discovers that the entire penitentiary is controlled by an inmate running a crime syndicate and becomes part of the crime empire.

The Prison

2017

The Plan Man poster
7.0

The Plan Man is about a man who lives everything according to plan until he meets a woman who wasn't a part of it.

The Plan Man

2014

The Spies poster
6.9

Kim, a North Korean spy, lives in South Korea for 22 years and is contacted unexpectedly by his superior. His team plans to complete an earlier mission and steal the target's large stockpile of cash.

The Spies

2012

Lucid Dream poster
6.4

Dae-ho, an investigative journalist, seeks to track down the whereabouts of his son who was abducted three years ago. With the help of a detective and a psychiatrist friend, he will retrace his memory of the incident through the use of lucid dreaming techniques.

Lucid Dream

2017

Man of Men poster
6.5

The friendship between a lawyer who will do anything to make money and a nursing home volunteer.

Man of Men

2019

Troubleshooter poster
6.7

Kang Tae-sik is a private detective who would do anything for money. One day, he gets framed for a murder by a ruthless boss of the criminal underworld and a mysterious caller watches and controls his every move. He must use a wide array of techno-gadgetry at his disposal to clear himself and exact revenge within 24 hours given to him.

Troubleshooter

2010

2000s · 12 titles

Memories of Murder poster
8.1

A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with conflicting methods race against time to unravel the violent mind of the killer in a futile effort to solve the case.

Memories of Murder

2003

The Host poster
7.0

A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.

The Host

2006

The Chaser poster
7.8

Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp, who's in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same client, whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.

The Chaser

2008

A Bittersweet Life poster
7.4

Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-woo to a simple errand while he is away on a business trip; to shadow his young mistress, Hee-soo, for fear that she may be cheating on him with a younger man with the mandate that he must kill them both if he discovers their affair.

A Bittersweet Life

2005

The Good, the Bad, the Weird poster
7.2

The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. The Good (a bounty hunter), the Bad (a hitman), and the Weird (a thief) battle the army and the bandits in a race to use a treasure map to uncover the riches of legend.

The Good, the Bad, the Weird

2008

Three... Extremes poster
6.8

Features an anthology centred on the experiences of a witch doctor, a film-maker and a disgruntled extra determined to take revenge on him, and a novelist as well as her twin sister.

Three... Extremes

2004

Searching for the Elephant poster
4.9

Friends since childhood, three young professionals struggle with their compulsions—schizophrenia, sex addiction, and infidelity.

Searching for the Elephant

2009

A Man Who Was Superman poster
7.4

A snobbish producer makes a documentary about the extraordinary behavior of her neighbor who believes himself to be Superman.

A Man Who Was Superman

2008

Rules of Dating poster
5.9

Choi arrives at a new high school to work as a student-teacher. During her first day at work, the teacher that she is assigned to work with, Lim, hits on her in a very brash way.

Rules of Dating

2005

Private Eye poster
6.2

The story takes place in occupied Korea at the start of the 20th century, where a young student in medicine discovers the murdered body of the son of a government official. Being scared of being accused, he decides to hire Hong Jin-ho (a detective) to help him find the murderer before the police accuse him of the murder.

Private Eye

2009

The Show Must Go On poster
6.5

A middle-aged gangster's lifetime of mistakes catch up with him as his personal and professional life is destroyed.

The Show Must Go On

2007

You Are My Sunshine poster
6.1

An old bachelor Seok-joong, who has no experience in dating, falls in love at first sight with a prostitute named Eun-ha. At first Eun-ha shows no interest in Seok-joong, but gradually she begins to be flattered by his devotion and eventually falls in love with him. They marry. However, one day, Eun-ha finds out that she is infected with HIV and decides to leave Seok-joong.

You Are My Sunshine

2005

Series credits

Agent Kim Reactivated poster
8.5

When an unassuming dad's daughter goes missing, he dusts off his old black-ops skills to track her down — only to attract the wrong kind of attention.

Agent Kim Reactivated

2026

My Demon poster
8.5

A pitiless demon becomes powerless after getting entangled with an icy heiress, who may hold the key to his lost abilities — and his heart.

My Demon

2023

My Royal Nemesis poster
8.8

A Joseon-era villain doomed to die opens her eyes in modern-day Seoul — where a ruthless chaebol heir may be her last chance to rewrite her fate.

My Royal Nemesis

2026

Stranger poster
8.2

Hwang Shi Mok underwent brain surgery as a child to curb his violent temper, which left him devoid of emotions. Hwang becomes a prosecutor known for his piercing intelligence and logic, but he is ostracized because he lacks empathy and social skills. He is also one of only a handful of upright prosecutors who have refused to take bribes. One day, he encounters a stabbing victim while investigating corruption. He meets Lieutenant Han Yeo Jin at the crime scene. They join forces to root out corruption at the prosecutors’ office and solve a serial murder case.

Stranger

2017

Player poster
7.7

The story about the revenge of four talented individuals in their respective fields who create an elite team to solve crimes.

Player

2018

My Dearest poster
8.4

A love-story between a noblewoman and a mysterious man who shows up in her hometown set in the 1600s during the Qing invasion.

My Dearest

2023

Dynamite Kiss poster
8.2

A passionate fling in Jeju ends abruptly — until fate reunites an heir and a young woman when she joins his company, disguised as a married mother.

Dynamite Kiss

2025

Military Prosecutor Doberman poster
7.4

An army prosecutor with ambitions of power and wealth finds his plans disturbed by an unyielding newbie with an agenda of her own.

Military Prosecutor Doberman

2022

Fated to Love You poster
8.3

An office worker has an unexpected one-night stand with a wealthy business heir. When she discovers she’s pregnant, will love – or heartbreak – follow?

Fated to Love You

2014

SBS Drama Awards poster
9.0

The hottest actors, producers, and writers gather together to celebrate the end of the year at the 2017 SBS Drama Awards. In 2017, there were many dramas that captured the heart of the viewers. What will be the show that has been loved the most by viewers? And who will be the best actor of 2017?

SBS Drama Awards

1992

The Veil poster
7.9

Han Ji-hyuk, an NIS agent gone MIA, returns after one year to join a new team as he searches for his lost past.

The Veil

2021

One Dollar Lawyer poster
7.6

Courts are not equally accessible to everyone and people lose trust in the judicial system. But here comes a lawyer with the best skills and a commission fee of just one dollar, committed to social justice and defending fundamental human rights. This extraordinary defense lawyer confronts blindfolded justice and highly paid opposing counsel for his clients' rights.

One Dollar Lawyer

2022

Possessed poster
6.0

A reluctant clairvoyant joins forces with a brusque police detective hiding a soft heart to help him solve criminal cases using her psychic abilities.

Possessed

2019

Dear My Room poster
6.1

The tale of Shim Eun Joo, a self-employed woman who is trying to redefine her life after winning a big project as an editorial designer and subsequently struggling on her own.

Dear My Room

2018

Dr. Park’s Clinic poster
7.7

Since young, Dr.Park worked and studied really hard to become a successful doctor. After he gets the license, he opens a clinic of his own, but struggles between the art of medicine and his business ability in a clinic without patients.

Dr. Park’s Clinic

2022

Taste of Love poster
NR

Celebrities looking for love share their views on dating and being single -- and embark on a journey to meet their soulmates.

Taste of Love

2018

tvN X TVING Short Drama Curation poster
NR

It presents five works that offer diverse perspectives on the meaning and scope of family, alternative families, and other topics for those living in the present age, and sometimes pose diverse questions. It hopes to bring you freshness and profound resonance, and to connect you with new connections.

tvN X TVING Short Drama Curation

2025