Lee Chae-kyung

Acting

Lee Chae-kyung

Born 1975-01-22 · Ulsan, South Korea

After debuting in the musical Empress Myeongseong in 1999, Chae Kyung worked for eight years as an actor for the renowned Seoul Performing Arts Company until 2007. For over 20 years, she has appeared in over 100 musicals, plays, TV shows and films including Horror Stories (2012), She Was Pretty (2015), Guardian (2016), Hide-and-Seek (2016), 100 Days My Prince (2018), Hotel del Luna (2019), and #Alive (2020). Originally a physical education major in college, she applies the same discipline in preparation for her roles as an actor. With utmost dedication to her craft, her powerful performances can be seen both on the stage and silver screen. @chaekyung_lee_

Acting credits

Even If This Love Disappears Tonight poster
8.5

A high school girl wakes up each day with no memory of yesterday. When she agrees to date a shy classmate, can their love grow with every new beginning?

Even If This Love Disappears Tonight

2025

#Alive poster
7.2

As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.

#Alive

2020

Isle Child poster
NR

When a Korean-American adoptee discovers his birthmother is terminally ill, he must decide whether to preserve his American identity or uncover his vague past.

Isle Child

2025

Pepper poster
NR

When the Korean goddess of birth visits a maternity ward to grant a couple their son, an unforeseen ghost alters her plan.

Pepper

2018

Humming poster
NR

Humming centers around the relationship between a sound engineer and a supporting actor working on the post-production of an unfinished film, along with the anecdote of a deceased actor.

Humming

2026

Prism of Gray Rock poster
NR

A woman who has shut out the light of her emotions, Doah. Amid a bitter divorce and custody battle, she locks every feeling into darkness using the "Gray Rock" strategy. As a school counselor, she heals students’ wounds while hardening her own pain into cold stone, concealing cracks in her identity between a demanding mother and an emotionally numb workplace. Everything holds—until a single outburst during a visit with her daughter fractures her armored shell.

Prism of Gray Rock

2025

Gyeong-ah's Daughter poster
5.0

Kyung-ah works as a caregiver and lives alone. The only one she can rely on is her daughter, Yeonsu, but it's hard to see her after her independence. Meanwhile, Yeonsu, who was suffering from his ex-boyfriend, argues with him again and heads home. After Yeonsu left, Kyung-ah receives a shocking message.

Gyeong-ah's Daughter

2022

Overman poster
6.5

Do-hyun, an artistic gymnastics player, is living with his mother suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. He decides to quit gymnastics, and he meets a beautiful girl at the library after he got sentenced to community service. They get closer and share their secrets and worries. Can they become ‘the Overman’ creating a new life?

Overman

2016

Georgia poster
9.0

When the police refuse to investigate their daughter’s alleged suicide, two computer-illiterate parents decide to design a protest banner. Based on the infamous Miryang case in South Korea which shocked the nation in 2004 and continues to fuel public outrage even today.

Georgia

2021