
Acting
Shim Yi-young
Born
1980-01-31 (46)
Place of birth
Seoul, South Korea
Known for
Acting
Credits
46 titles
Known for
7.5A mermaid from the Joseon period ends up in present-day Seoul, where she crosses paths with a swindler who may have ties to someone from her past.
The Legend of the Blue Sea
2016
7.3A woman born in Korea navigates her way through love, war, politics and national loyalties to become a powerful empress in China's Yuan dynasty.
Empress Ki
2013
9.0Baek Jong Won is here again to help out an industry. This time, he goes all out to promote local food. He visits various regions and learn about their local produce. By creating different meals with these ingredients, Mr. Baek is able to sell them in rest stops. Yang Se Hyeong, Kim Hee Chul, and Kim Dong Jin are here to assist.
Delicious Rendezvous
2019
8.2Love Alarm is an app that tells you if someone within a 10-meter radius has a crush on you. It quickly becomes a social phenomenon. While everyone talks about it and uses it to test their love and popularity, Jojo is one of the few people who have yet to download the app. However, she soon faces a love triangle situation between Sun-oh whom she starts to have feelings for, and Hye-young, who has had a huge crush on her.
Love Alarm
2019
6.3O'PENing is the new name of Drama Stage which has been broadcasting the winning work of the O'PEN storyteller contest. The franchise will continue to make meaningful steps to introduce and support new writers to see the light of the world and diversify content genres.
O’PENing
2022
7.3After a nearly-fatal accident, a divorced woman undergoes a head-to-toe transformation with help from a wealthy stranger to get revenge on her ex.
Birth of a Beauty
2014
Film credits
2020s · 4 titles
7.5A leader of the opposition party in 1980s South Korea struggles to outwit the government who, unbeknownst to him, has placed a surveillance team in the house next door. Based on the life of Kim Dae-jung, the 8th President of South Korea.
Best Friend
2020
7.3In-young, a high school student who is alone due to her parents' sudden death, is forced out because of her overdue rent and stays hidden in the Korean Dance Art Troupe where she belongs. In-young, who is still living bravely and brightly despite the sad situation, is caught by the director of the art troupe who is known for being rough, and the director who could not put In-young in the art troupe eventually begins to live with her.
It's Okay!
2025
8.5Being a teenager is hard! How are you meant to navigate hormones, crushes, annoying family and schoolwork? But Jay’s got it even harder: joining a new school and trying to understand their body as they go through puberty as an intersex person. Luckily, they’ve got the support of old friend Sera, and a burgeoning new friendship with popular boy Wooram. But as hormones rage, the trio’s friendship becomes a very messy love triangle. Who will Jay choose and does who they’re attracted to dictate who they are?
XX+XY
2022
3.0A fairy tale writer Yonghee lives a soulless living after losing his wife. He has been unable to enter the room for a long time where his wife used to paint, as he has hyperventilation symptoms whenever he enters the room. One day, strange sounds are heard from the room. As he courageously opens the door, water is leaking from the ceiling. In the room, a kitten that Jane secretly has hidden has lived there. Moreover, Roan, a carpenter who comes to repair the ceiling, suggests to make this abandoned room into a cat room. What will Yonghee choose?
Cat Kiss
2025
2010s · 8 titles
4.7After discovering her husband Jiseok's affair, Soyoung befriends his mistress, hiding her true intentions as she quietly enters the woman's life.
Love, In Between
2010
5.3When raw gold is discovered deep in the woods, a group of gold hunters arrive to mine it. Several neighbors in the area witness the hunters by chance and find themselves in danger. Among the witnesses, hunter Ki-sung risks his life to protect the other witnesses and engages the gold hunters in a cat-and-mouse game of death.
The Hunt
2016
3.8Four female friends reunite after 15 years and old resentments resurface. Soon afterwards, one of them is found dead. The police tries to determine whether it was suicide or murder.
A Culprit Among Friends
2012
7.3Troubled celebrity Choong-Ui (Lee Hong-Ki) gets into trouble with the law. Choong-Ui is then forced to do volunteer work at a health-care facility for the terminally ill that is about to be closed down. While working at the hospice, Choong-Ui is able to come to terms with his own psychological wounds and, at the same time, help the patients to continue with their dreams.
Rockin' on Heaven's Door
2013
6.0Funded by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea. If You Were Me 5 takes a close look at the violent nature hidden behind our eyes. 5 directors- Kang Yi Kwan, Boo Ji Young, Yoon Sung Hyun, Kim Dae Seung and Sin Dong Il disclose how closely ordinary events of society connect with our eyes. There is a hidden sexual violence beyond our eyes and the power of a controlled society works through the power beyond the eyes. Not only the violence of the eye itself, also limited the ability of individuals to see, the matter of the eye intervenes in various relationships between the individual and groups. The film demonstrates how sharp the eye has become in a society with developing technology.
If You Were Me 5
2011
10.0A devoted wife and mother, Soon-ok suddenly learns that she has a terminal illness and is given less than a year to live. She pauses to think about the family she will leave behind: a completely helpless husband, a kind son who cares about nothing except his mother, and a daughter too busy to attend to anything but her own affairs. Soon-ok begins to prepare a gift for her family -- the opportunity to bring them together for a final farewell. Once fractured and separated, the family comes to learn that death does not have to be the antithesis of life, but can be its affirmation and awakening.
Spring, Snow
2012
3.0Dreams and hopes we had when we were young. Are they just dreams frozen like still pictures? Hyeonsu has been a part-time lecturer for 10 years. He used to dream of becoming a photojournalist but now his only dream is to become a full-time professor. But he has no financial ability to look good to other professors. He’s been married for 10 years and his wife is his only family. Eunsu appears in front of him after 20 years. She’s the one who taught him to take photos and also his first love. He’s shaken by her but finds out that she’s also applying for the full-time professor position he’s longing to get…
Still Picture
2012
6.0On-yoo is an adult childhood cancer survivor. When he's not practicing with his boy band, Oh-yoo often volunteers at the hospital's pediatric cancer ward. One day, he recognizes the familiar face of an overdose patient.
It's Time to Love
2013
2000s · 6 titles
5.9A young woman living in the South Korean town of Paju recalls the last 8 years of her life, since a young man on the lam escaped to it from Seoul and married her older sister.
Paju
2009
5.5A repressed artist receives ritual abuse from those who pass him as he paints portraits in the park. Gradually becoming more frustrated, anger builds up within the artist, leading him to embark upon a quest to gain revenge on all those who have humiliated him.
Real Fiction
2000
6.8A gangster's quest for revenge is sidetracked by an encounter with his target's mother in this deeply-felt hybrid of a crime thriller and a family drama.
Cruel Winter Blues
2006
4.8The story begins with the tale of a classic Korean story of romance about a princess named Pyun-gang whose husband, On-dal dies. Then we flash forward to a mother who has brought her haunted daughter (also named Pyun-gang) to a psychic, who informs her that her daughter is haunted by the ghost of the princess . He then goes on to say that the girl must marry her On-dal by her 16 birthday and produce a child within a year otherwise she will die. The family treats it skeptically until years later, Pyun-gang has several near-death experiences and is immediately spooked, convinced she is going to die. As luck would have it, soon thereafter, a new transfer student joins Pyun-gang's class. His name is On-dal, and he's intelligent, handsome and rich which really doesn't make the prospect of high school marriage such a tough deal for Pyun-gang, what with her impending death and all.
Marrying School Girl
2004
3.7Bong-ja is perfectly happy in her monotonous life of making and selling seaweed rolls near a train station. However, when a free spirited teenage girl enters her life and takes over her home, Bong-ja begins to feel the stirrings of love as disaster brews.
Bongja
2000
5.5Dae-kyu works hard to contribute Korean music industry's development: unfortunately, this hard work is for an illegal distributor, dealing in pirated albums.
Cracked Eggs and Noodles
2005
Series credits
7.5A mermaid from the Joseon period ends up in present-day Seoul, where she crosses paths with a swindler who may have ties to someone from her past.
The Legend of the Blue Sea
2016
7.3A woman born in Korea navigates her way through love, war, politics and national loyalties to become a powerful empress in China's Yuan dynasty.
Empress Ki
2013
9.0Baek Jong Won is here again to help out an industry. This time, he goes all out to promote local food. He visits various regions and learn about their local produce. By creating different meals with these ingredients, Mr. Baek is able to sell them in rest stops. Yang Se Hyeong, Kim Hee Chul, and Kim Dong Jin are here to assist.
Delicious Rendezvous
2019
8.2Love Alarm is an app that tells you if someone within a 10-meter radius has a crush on you. It quickly becomes a social phenomenon. While everyone talks about it and uses it to test their love and popularity, Jojo is one of the few people who have yet to download the app. However, she soon faces a love triangle situation between Sun-oh whom she starts to have feelings for, and Hye-young, who has had a huge crush on her.
Love Alarm
2019
6.3O'PENing is the new name of Drama Stage which has been broadcasting the winning work of the O'PEN storyteller contest. The franchise will continue to make meaningful steps to introduce and support new writers to see the light of the world and diversify content genres.
O’PENing
2022
7.3After a nearly-fatal accident, a divorced woman undergoes a head-to-toe transformation with help from a wealthy stranger to get revenge on her ex.
Birth of a Beauty
2014
6.5Pi Seon Ju works as an interior designer in a small neighborhood. She is married to Jeon Nam Jin, who is an ambitious architect. Although Pi Seon Ju is devoted to her husband, her husband falls in love with Jin Sang A, who will become the successor of an architecture company. To further pursue his love and ambitions, Jeon Nam Jin demands a divorce from Pi Seon Ju. After their divorce, Pi Seon Ju decides to start her new life. Meanwhile, architect Kim So U is married to Jin Sang A. Unlike Jin Sang A, he is satisfied with a stable situation rather than being fueled with ambition. Due to his wife's affair with Jeon Nam Jin, Kim So U gets divorced. After meeting Pi Seon Ju, Kim So U experiences a turning point in his life.
Desperate Mrs. Seonju
2024
5.6Sang-Tae is left with his two children after his wife passes away. Since that time, he lives with his two kids and parents-in-law. He works as a marketing team leader for a fashion brand. Mi-Jung works as an assistant manager at the same fashion company. 3 years ago, her husband had an affair with her friend and left her. She couldn't tell her kids the truth about their father and lied that their father went to work in America. To this day, the children still believe that their father is in America. Sang-Tae and Mi-Jung never thought about falling in love again, but they fall in love with each other.
Five Enough
2016
6.8A misunderstood loner is drawn out of his shell after transferring to another high school, where he comes across new ordeals -- and first love.
At Eighteen
2019
8.1Determined to escape a dead-end life, a gifted high school student turns to a world of serious crime to ensure he can pay for college.
Extracurricular
2020
5.0A suspicious housekeeper who never smiles works for a man and his four children who just lost their mother.
The Suspicious Housekeeper
2013
NRBarefooted Friends is a South Korean reality-variety show; a part of SBS's Good Sunday lineup, along with Running Man. It was first aired on April 21, 2013. The show is an "real outdoor hardship variety"; a spin on typical outdoor variety shows. The members experience "real happiness" with others through challenges. The words, Barefooted is supposed to mean essence, sincerity, and real hardships, where as Friends not only represents the cast, but the people that are met as well. It has garnered attention as being the come-back program for Kang Ho-dong, the main MC of the program, after leaving Good Sunday's X-man in April 2007.
Barefooted Friends
2013
8.1A budding love story between a medical student and a nurse takes place in May 1980, during a time of civil unrest and military oppression in Gwangju.
Youth of May
2021
6.3Yoon Ye Eun has been married for 7 years. She is a housewife and works hard taking care of the family on her husband, Lee Jin Sup's side. Her in-laws though give her a hard time, but she is positive and happy. Her husband's business is doing well and they move into a new house. However, she then finds out her husband is having an affair. Yoon Sang Eun is single and runs a small piano institute. While running her piano institute, she has fallen into debt. She meets Choi Jae Woong through a matchmaking agency. Choi Jae Woong proposes to enter into a contract marriage with Yoon Sang Eun and in return he will pay off her debts.
Happy Sisters
2017
1.3A story of love and conflict unfolds between married couples with different values and views on life.
Goddess of Marriage
2013
NRNo synopsis available yet.
My Mother Is a Daughter-in-law
2015
5.5A warm-hearted family drama about a three-generation family and their noodle factory that they operate in the outskirts of Seoul.
A Hundred Year Legacy
2013
7.0A home-searching romance story about a man who buys houses and a woman who lives in one. It follows the diverse stories of the editors of a home magazine.
Monthly Magazine Home
2021
6.4Even though Goo Hae-Ra is smart and beautiful, she is in miserable situation because of her family. Her older sister attempted suicide and her father passed away. The only way she can escape her situation is with money. She approaches Tae In-Joon. He is the second son of a shoe company owner. Tae In-Joon falls in love with Goo Hae-Ra.
Fate and Fury
2018
7.0A male student's body is found at school. Authorities assume that the student killed himself in a fall. Other students at the school hold a trial to uncover the truth behind his death.
Solomon's Perjury
2016
7.8A skilled but unempathetic neurosurgeon and a rookie police officer investigate mysterious patient deaths.
Beautiful Mind
2016
4.5This drama deals with the adversity overcoming of a new life as a young mother who has lived a hard life becomes a daughter of a chaebol. It is a story that happens when a young mother, who has lived in defiance with all her bad luck, becomes a chaebol daughter in the morning. It seems to be a drama that looks back on life and family.
My Wonderful Life
2020
7.1Wi Mae-ri is the cheerful, pragmatic girl who finds herself reluctantly being set up in an arranged marriage by her father. In order to avoid it, she enlists help from an indie rocker Kang Mu-gyul who pretends to be her husband.
Marry Me, Mary!
2010
6.9A coldhearted heiress, a man from her past and an ambitious new hire in her company all become entangled on a battleground for money and power.
White Nights
2016
5.5Hae-Jin is 36-years-old. She is married to Jin-Sang, who is 6 years younger than her, and they have a daughter Yoo-Ri. Hae-Jin runs a restaurant that she took over from her father-in-law. She supported her husband Jin-Sang while he studied to enter a university. Because of Hae-Jin, Jin-Sang is now attending a prestigious university, but he has an affair with Joo-Ri. She is the young daughter of a rich family. Hae-Jin becomes aware of her husband's affair, but she doesn't want a divorce. Meanwhile, Dae-Gu appears in front Hae-Jin. Dae-Gu is a drama series writer. He was once in demand for his screenwriting, but his popularity has waned. His marriage life is not doing well either.
Wanna Taste?
2019
6.0Jin Woo lives an ordinary life after he gave up on his dream of becoming a novelist. One day, he receives news that his senior who graduated from the same university passed away. He goes to the city of Andong and meets Mi Jin who works at a noodle shop there. Hiding the fact that he is married, he visits the noodle shop often. They walk around Andong and talk about a novel.
Noodle House Girl
2016
NRNo synopsis available yet.
따로 또 같이
2018
NRNo synopsis available yet.
오늘부터 엄마아빠
2013
