Kim Young-woong

Acting

Kim Young-woong

Born

1971-02-20 (55)

Place of birth

Busan, South Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

40 titles

Kim Young Woong is a South Korean actor.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 6 titles

The Roundup: Punishment poster
7.2

'Monster Cop' Ma Seok-do investigates an illegal online gambling business led by a former STS Baek and an IT genius CEO Chang. Ma proposes an unexpected alliance to Jang and begins hunting down the criminals.

The Roundup: Punishment

2024

Hansan: Rising Dragon poster
6.5

In 1592, admiral Yi Sun-sin and his fleet face off against the might of the invading Japanese navy and its formidable warships. As the Korean forces fall into crisis, the admiral resorts to using his secret weapon, the dragon head ships known as geobukseon, in order to change the tide of this epic battle at sea.

Hansan: Rising Dragon

2022

Love My Scent poster
4.9

Changsu happens to get a special perfume. The perfume has a special thing that appeals to women. Ara is also attracted to the perfume and meets Changsu. But with the advent of enigmatic characters trying to identify the perfume, everything gets twisted.

Love My Scent

2023

10-Day Lover poster
5.0

A woman is prompted to reconsider her current relationship when the reappearance of a decade-old unfulfilled love sparks a secret 10 day romance.

10-Day Lover

2023

First Soul, Song Written Again poster
8.1

In 1992, Min-young, a member of the university protest music group Wildflower Sound, joins forces with the ideological study circle Flag to support workers at Samhyung Industries, who are striking after going six months without pay. On the day of the strike, riot police launch a violent crackdown. Workers and student musicians alike are beaten and dragged away. In response, fellow students form a resistance line to rescue them. The standoff escalates into a massive clash between citizens and police—broadcast live on national news. Compelled by something greater, Min-young steps onto the stage and cries out: "We are not rioters!" A roar of unified voices rises and echoes across the nation. “Arise, you who live—The day is coming!”

First Soul, Song Written Again

2025

Work to Do poster
5.0

Joon-hee, a fourth-year assistant manager at Hanyang Heavy Industries gets assigned to the human resources department. As the shipyard suffers a dearth of orders, the creditors instruct the HR to restructure the company. Although reluctant to do so, the team supposes that it is inevitable for keeping the company afloat. The HR proceeds to make the restructuring as smooth and efficient as possible. In an attempt to set the criteria for dismissal in company’s favor, the team first tries to elect employee's representatives who will cater for the demands of management. Some of the so-called blacklisted employees who are well aware of the conventional procedure start to put on a brake…

Work to Do

2024

2010s · 12 titles

The Thieves poster
6.8

A gang of South Korean thieves team up with a Hong Kong crew to steal a diamond necklace from a heavily-guarded casino safe in Macau. As the cops close in, old betrayals — and misunderstandings — resurface.

The Thieves

2012

Veteran poster
6.9

When an old collaborator gets severely injured, a veteran policeman tries to figure out the way to bring to justice the ultimately suspected aggressor, a spoiled young executive, heir to a mega corporation, who believes he is above the law.

Veteran

2015

Love 911 poster
7.4

A 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

Pandora poster
7.5

When an earthquake hits a Korean village housing a run-down nuclear power plant, a man risks his life to save the country from imminent disaster.

Pandora

2016

Dark Figure of Crime poster
6.6

A serial killer is caught for his seventh murder. A cop tries to solve the first six cases with the killer's help, but starts to suspect that he has ulterior motives. Based on a true story.

Dark Figure of Crime

2018

Toxic Desire: Addiction poster
5.2

Psychiatrist Joon-sang is a well-known doctor. He is level-headed with his patients, but he's got a painful past. He'd witnessed his wife kill herself because she was raped. He'd suffered insomnia along with guilt and sadness until a beautiful girl Ji-soo comes along. She tells him every man who's loved her died and that someone was watching her. She seduces Joon-sang. A detective suspects Ji-soo to be involved with a recent murder case and asks Joon-sang for her medical records... Falling in love with something dangerous and the end of which is unknown!

Toxic Desire: Addiction

2014

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

Lost Flower: Eo Woo-dong poster
5.1

A triangular relationship between Eo Woo-dong, her husband Lee Dong, and fantasy character Moo-gong, highlights on the first half of the Joseon Dynasty and portrays the contradicted life of the high class people, criticizing the modern day Korean society.

Lost Flower: Eo Woo-dong

2015

Fatal Intuition poster
5.7

Desperate for revenge, a young man enlists the aid of a medium to help him track down his sister's killer.

Fatal Intuition

2015

How to Use Guys with Secret Tips poster
6.4

An overworked woman tries to improve her standing with men using a self-help video.

How to Use Guys with Secret Tips

2013

Le Grand Chef 2: Kimchi Battle poster
6.6

"Le Grand Chef 2" begins with the Korean president visiting the Japanese Prime Minister and becoming involved in a heated debate over the origins of kimchi. The Japanese Prime Minister makes the bold claim that kimchi is an original Japanese dish which sets off the Korean president. Upon the Korean's president return home he sets upon a globalization plan for kimchi, which includes a nationwide "Kimchi Contest". Then, a lady named Jang-eun (Kim Jung-Eun) and her step-brother Sung-Chan (Jin Goo) compete in the Kimchi dish contest, with both siblings using their mother's kimchi recipe.

Le Grand Chef 2: Kimchi Battle

2010

Mom Came Over the Sea poster
NR

Junsu (Ham Wonjin) wanders the streets of Korea after his mom leaves for Japan to earn money, while at home, his alcoholic dad (Kim Youngwoong) fights with him over his complications from his mother's absence. By chance, he comes across a Korean-Chinese Woman (Lee Seonjoo) who similarly has come to Korea to earn money for her family in China.

Mom Came Over the Sea

2011

2000s · 5 titles

Series credits

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

When Life Gives You Tangerines poster
8.8

In Jeju, a spirited girl and a steadfast boy's island story blossoms into a lifelong tale of setbacks and triumphs — proving love endures across time.

When Life Gives You Tangerines

2025

The Game Caterers poster
8.7

A webseries where Na Young Seok, a variety show producer, caters people his iconic games from 'New Journey to the West'.

The Game Caterers

2021

Vincenzo poster
8.5

During a visit to his motherland, a Korean-Italian Mafia lawyer gives an unrivaled conglomerate a taste of its own medicine with a side of justice.

Vincenzo

2021

My Royal Nemesis poster
8.7

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

Partners for Justice poster
7.2

Baek Beom has worked as a forensic doctor for 10 years. He has a bad personality, but he is excellent with his work. Baek Beom does not open his mind to other people. Eun Sol is a rookie prosecutor with a warm heart. She has a bright personality and she comes from wealth family background. The forensic doctor and prosecutor work together to solve cases.

Partners for Justice

2018

Tale of the Nine Tailed 1938 poster
8.1

The Nine-tailed fox makes a crash landing in the year 1938, an era of chaos, and he struggles to return to the present.

Tale of the Nine Tailed 1938

2023

Undercover Miss Hong poster
8.3

A retro office comedy depicting the chaotic events that unfold in the late 1990s when Sammo Hung, a 30-year-old elite securities supervisor who only cares about work, goes undercover as a 20-year-old high school graduate employee at a securities firm where suspicious money flows are detected.

Undercover Miss Hong

2026

Goodbye Earth poster
6.0

As an asteroid hurtles towards Earth with nothing to stop it, one determined teacher fights to keep her former students safe — no matter the cost.

Goodbye Earth

2024

Happiness poster
8.1

A new type of deadly virus spread throughout the city, and the apartment where has different social classes of people is sealed off. With the fear of the virus, and the conflicts of the different classes, the residents have to spend and survive in the new habitation.

Happiness

2021

Lovely Horribly poster
5.9

An actor and a screenwriter find their lives entwined by more than just work as the drama they're writing starts to play out in their real lives.

Lovely Horribly

2018

The First Night with the Duke poster
8.0

Reincarnated as a minor character in a novel, Cha Seon-taek unexpectedly spends a night with Prince Kyungsung, sparking an intense and unexpected romance.

The First Night with the Duke

2025

Good Partner poster
7.9

Cha Eun-kyung, a 17-year veteran divorce lawyer, faces a personal crisis when her own marriage is threatened while working alongside rookie lawyer Han Yu-ri, whose differing values lead to tension as they navigate their complex cases at Law Firm Daejung.

Good Partner

2024

Melo Movie poster
7.5

A movie buff falls for an aspiring director, igniting a romance that fizzles out too soon. When their paths cross again, can love find its way back?

Melo Movie

2025

Never Give Up poster
4.4

A young entrepreneur finds an unlikely partner, and friend, in a middle-aged breadwinner as they live together in the home of an enigmatic loan shark.

Never Give Up

2022

Parole Examiner Lee poster
9.0

Parole Examiner Lee follows lawyer Lee Han Shin, who becomes a parole officer responsible for making final decisions on inmate paroles. Lee Han Shin is determined to prevent inmates who show little remorse for their crimes from obtaining paroles through money, connections, or deceitful tactics.

Parole Examiner Lee

2024

One Sunny Day poster
7.4

Kim Ji-ho is a broken hearted man who winds up in Jeju Island for a work project but he keeps running into a girl. Both of them get robbed and have to sleep in the same guest house. They depend on each other for a day as his wallet and her phone got stolen. As they stay in Jeju Island, she heals his broken heart and they fall in love.

One Sunny Day

2014