Jung Won-joong

Acting

Jung Won-joong

Born

1960-10-26 (65)

Place of birth

South Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

45 titles

Jung Won-joong (정원중) is a South Korean actor.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 18 titles

Obsessed poster
6.7

A secret, passionate affair happens in the summer of 1969 between Colonel Jin Pyeong, trapped in a loveless marriage with Soo Jin, and Jong Ga Heun, the Chinese-Korean wife of Captain Kyung Woo Jin.

Obsessed

2014

Illang: The Wolf Brigade poster
6.3

In 2029, an elite police squad combats an anti-reunification terrorist group while another enemy lurks nearby.

Illang: The Wolf Brigade

2018

Steel Rain poster
7.1

Amid a coup, a North Korean agent escapes south with the country's injured leader in an attempt to keep him alive and prevent a Korean war.

Steel Rain

2017

Detective K: Secret of the Lost Island poster
6.4

Joseon's top detective Kim Min attempts to track down those responsible for circulating massive amounts of counterfeit silver bullion in Joseon. He also tries to find the missing sibling of a young girl.

Detective K: Secret of the Lost Island

2015

The Chronicles of Evil poster
7.2

A detective accidentally kills a man and disposes of the body to protect his career. The next day he sees that someone has hanged the corpse from a crane for all to see. He takes charge of the murder investigation to protect himself and find out who did it.

The Chronicles of Evil

2015

The Attorney poster
7.8

Song 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

Sunny poster
7.8

Seven girls become good friends in high school, then events pull them apart for 25 years. When one of the friends lies dying in a hospital, she wishes to see each of them one last time.

Sunny

2011

Innocent Witness poster
7.8

An old man is found dead, and his housekeeper is charged with the murder. Her defense attorney is surprised to learn the only witness to the crime is a teenage girl with autism.

Innocent Witness

2019

The Taste of Money poster
5.5

The assistant of a wealthy socialite reveals her husband's salacious affair. The fallout entangles him in a web of sex, love and deceit that could threaten his life and career.

The Taste of Money

2012

Master poster
6.9

Korea’s biggest network marketing scam reveals a far greater network of corruption and conspiracy lurking underneath.

Master

2016

Cheer Up, Mr. Lee poster
8.0

Chul-soo is a man with an intellectual disability. One day, Chul-soo finds out that a young girl, Saet-byul, who is in hospital is his daughter. And soon, Saet-byul sneaks out of the hospital and travels by herself to a faraway city for her friend's birthday. As Chul-soo accompanies Saet-byul's journey, friendship develops between the two.

Cheer Up, Mr. Lee

2019

Long Live the King poster
6.5

Jang Se-chool is the boss of a gang. He has been in love with Kang So-hyun for the past 3 years, even though she constantly rejects him and tries to push him away. Having had enough, she tells him that she can't be with him because she wants to be the first lady of Korea.

Long Live the King

2019

The Client poster
6.9

Kang Seong-hee, a famous lawyer, takes up a case wherein he has to defend a man who is the main suspect in his wife's death. However, a formidable public attorney tries to test his mettle in court.

The Client

2011

Unbowed poster
6.7

Inspired by the true story of Kim Kyung-ho, a math professor who was arrested for shooting a crossbow at the presiding judge of his appeal against unfair dismissal.

Unbowed

2011

Familyhood poster
6.1

An aging actress is desperate to become a mother. In menopause and too controversial for legal adoption, she decides to illegally adopt from a pregnant teenager while publicly faking pregnancy. The ensuing media circus at first revitalizes her career but then threatens to grow out of control and destroy everything she cares about.

Familyhood

2016

Sin of a Family poster
5.5

Detective Cho is incompetent and always fails to be promoted. His only pleasures in life are spying on neighbors who are having affairs or binge drinking. One day, Cho comes across the corpse of what seems to be a child on a nearby mountain and he decides to investigate the case, thinking that this is his last chance to impress his boss. Cho enlists the help of his partner, Detective Lee, and together the two embark upon an investigation that will test their professional judgement. The more they learn about the case, the more they come to suspect that the poverty-stricken father of the dead child is their killer. But the case goes off course when the two begin to sympathize with him.

Sin of a Family

2011

Intimate Enemies poster
5.2

Four strangers discover a bag full of money which belongs to a corrupt politician. Instead of using the money for themselves, they decide to join forces to take down corrupt conglomerates.

Intimate Enemies

2015

The Vampire Lives Next Door to Us poster
5.7

A vampire living in a morgue encounters a drowned girl whose fate may be entwined with his own.

The Vampire Lives Next Door to Us

2015

2000s · 8 titles

Scandal Makers poster
7.2

Former teen idol Nam Hyeon-soo is now in his thirties and working as a radio DJ. One day a young woman named Jeong-nam shows up and claims to be his own daughter. She also has a son whom she claims to be Hyeon-soo's grandson. Their relation is proven via DNA tests by Hyeon-soo's brother. This leads to Hyeon-soo attempting to avoid a scandal concerning him having children "unknown" to the media.

Scandal Makers

2008

Volcano High poster
6.0

Kim is expelled from his eighth school and finds himself at Volcano High where students fight to possess a treasured ancient document. Kim, who must resist from using his Chi, is caught in the middle.

Volcano High

2001

Running Wild poster
6.2

A homicide detective joins forces with a prosecutor to avenged the murder of his half-brother. The aggressive detective and the by-the-book prosecutor must put aside their differences in order to find the killer.

Running Wild

2006

The President's Last Bang poster
6.5

On October 26, 1979, President Park Chung-hee, who had ruled South Korea since 1961, was assassinated by his director of intelligence. The film depicts the events of that night.

The President's Last Bang

2005

Arang poster
5.6

Veteran detective So-young and her rookie partner Hyun-gi happen onto an incendiary homicide case. They discover that the present case is somehow related to the mysterious death of a girl ten years previously.

Arang

2006

Libera Me poster
5.4

An arsonist is terrorizing Seoul and the fire investigators are hot on his trail.

Libera Me

2000

Public Enemy Returns poster
6.6

Kang Chul-jung has been a detective fighting crime for 15 years and is at it again against a mob boss who recruits young kids to do his dirty work.

Public Enemy Returns

2008

The Anarchists poster
4.9

Set in 1920s Shanghai, the film recounts the activities of a group of young Koreans trying to destabilize Japanese control of their penninsula. Through an anti-occupation terrorist campaign, the five men hope to inspire a resurrection throughout their penninsular homeland.

The Anarchists

2000

1990s · 3 titles

Series credits

Nonstop poster
5.3

Nonstop is a South Korean slice-of-life sitcom that broadcast its first season in 2000 on MBC. It continued with 5 more seasons. The series was popular for its cast of teen idols, many who debuted through the show..

Nonstop

2000

Reply 1988 poster
8.7

Take a nostalgic trip back to the late 1980s through the lives of five families and their five teenage kids living in a small neighbourhood in Seoul.

Reply 1988

2015

The Heirs poster
7.8

After a chance encounter in LA, two teens from different social backgrounds reunite at an exclusive high school attended by Korea's über rich.

The Heirs

2013

Agency poster
6.7

A self-made executive navigates the cutthroat world of advertising, stopping at nothing — no matter how calculating — to become the head of her agency.

Agency

2023

Brilliant Heritage poster
6.0

A stepmother takes revenge on four spoiled brothers. The father feels betrayed by his sons who are always after his money. This twisted family shows conflict and the true meaning of being a family. The story revolves around Buruna Noodles and the owner of the restaurant. Each son and their wives have different dreams, but they all want one thing.

Brilliant Heritage

2020

Law School poster
7.8

Following the case of the murder of a professor at South Korea's top prestigious law school, professors and students become suspects in the murder.

Law School

2021

Winter Sonata poster
8.4

A woman, who is about to marry her longtime lover, encounters a man who looks just like her first love.

Winter Sonata

2002

Room No. 9 poster
6.2

Eulji Hae-Yi, a lawyer at a big law firm, is a kiss-up to those with power, but looks down upon those who are poor. When she meets death-row convict Jang Hwa-Sa in room 9 in the prison visitation area, their bodies are exchanged.

Room No. 9

2018

Graceful Family poster
7.3

Mo Seok-hee is an only child and her father runs the large company MC Group. She is beautiful, smart and rich. Mo Seok-hee appears like she is arrogant, but she struggles over her mother’s death. Her mother was killed 15 years ago. Meanwhile, Heo Yoon-do is a lawyer, but he doesn’t even have an office. He solves small problems of neighborhood residents at a restaurant. He is full of love. Miraculously, Heo Yoon-do is headhunted to join the TOP team at MC Group. The TOP team manages the affairs of the family who runs the MC Group. Their job includes covering up immoral or illegal behaviors done by the family.

Graceful Family

2019

Love in Sadness poster
4.3

The essence of love is fading and is evermore harder to do. In this day and age, will there be love that is woeful and forlorn just for the sake of love itself? Love in Sadness is a love story that encapsulates the mythical-like fate of love that is so coveted that it ignores all bounds. In it, love outweighs what the world thinks, ignores the pain and anguish with it, and pursues its destiny. In the drama, Ma Ri is a beautiful girl, married into wealth with a seemingly perfect life. Ironically, her husband, In Wook, who looks like a more than ideal husband, is an obsessive lunatic who is also violently abusive. When he pushes her too far, she reaches out for help from Jung Won, an honest, smart, handsome plastic surgeon. And when he agrees to help her escape from her husband's hands, they fall in love. But In Wook, who is consumed by his obsession for her, isn't going to let her get away from his grasp. Watch as these two characters struggle to stay on their arduous road to love.

Love in Sadness

2019

Friend, Our Legend poster
4.0

Based on the 2001 film, Friend, Our Legend expands and retells Kwak Kyung-taek's semi-autobiographical rough-and-tumble tale about four childhood friends coming of age in the tough streets of Busan in the 1970s and 1980s. As they enter into manhood, best friends Dong-soo and Joon-seok become enemies and bitter rivals in the city's underworld of gangs.

Friend, Our Legend

2009

Delicious Proposal poster
5.0

Hyo Dong, the son of a struggling Chinese restaurant owner, falls in love with Hee Ae, who, unbeknownst to Hyo Dong, is the daughter of a ruthless rival who is out to destroy his father's restaurant. Hyo Dong and Hee Ae are in the same cooking class as Shin Ae, a poor girl who dreams of owning a successful restaurant despite having a tough life.

Delicious Proposal

2001

Spy poster
7.3

The fictional story begins after the execution of real-life North Korean general Jang Sung-taek. One day an order comes down from North Korea, reactivating erstwhile spy Park Hye-rim who has spent decades in South Korea as an ordinary housewife. She is given the mission to turn and bring in her own son, Kim Seonu. Cool-headed, quick-witted genius Seonu is an information analyst on North Korea working for the NIS. His girlfriend Yoon-jin is a tour guide for Chinese tourists who cannot speak Chinese, and they fell in love when Seonu helped her translate. Hye-rim is suddenly forced to choose between her son and country, and risks her life to see the choice through.

Spy

2015

Real School poster
4.0

A sitcom about a group of students who have a phobia of English. They are enrolled in a "Secret Class" that is known for a high success rate of teaching students English. Each student has their own 'secrets' and problems with studying English.

Real School

2011

최강! 울엄마 poster
NR

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최강! 울엄마

2007

Loss:Time:Life poster
2.4

An omnibus drama that tells the story of people who earn 'lost time' just before dying. The characters tackle the difficult question, "If there is something you could do right before you die, what would you do?".

Loss:Time:Life

2015