Gim Jin-uk

Acting

Gim Jin-uk

Born 1995-04-12 · South Korea

Gim Jin-uk (김진욱, born 1995) is a South Korean actor trained in acting at Dongseo University. He began his career on stage, performing in several theatre productions before moving into film and web‑based projects. Known for his strong physical presence and training in action and movement, he works across theatre, independent film, and drama.

Acting credits

Exhuma poster
7.7

After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.

Exhuma

2024

Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy poster
7.1

Kim Dok-ja, an ordinary man in his 20s, is the only reader of an obscure web novel titled "Three Ways to Survive the Apocalypse". After having read the last chapter, the novel suddenly becomes reality, and its omnipotent hero Yu Jung-hyeok appears before Kim. As the only person who knows how to survive in this world, Kim and his companions strive to save the world by writing his own, new ending.

Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy

2025

Alienoid poster
6.9

Gurus in the late Goryeo dynasty try to obtain a fabled, holy sword, and humans in 2022 hunt down an alien prisoner that is locked in a human's body. The two parties cross paths when a time-traveling portal opens up.

Alienoid

2022

Alienoid: Return to the Future poster
6.7

Ean has a critical mission to return to the future to save everyone. However, she becomes trapped in the distant past while trying to prevent the escape of alien prisoners who are locked up in the bodies of humans. Meanwhile, Muruk, who helps Ean escape various predicaments, is unnerved when he begins sensing the presence of a strange being in his body. Traveling through the centuries, they are trying to prevent the explosion of the haava.

Alienoid: Return to the Future

2024

My Daughter Is a Zombie poster
7.2

Jung-hwan is a gruff but loving zookeeper who specializes in training wild beasts. His teenage daughter, Soo-ah, is going through puberty and a full-blown dance obsession. Their days are full of bickering and bonding... until one day, Soo-ah becomes infected by a zombie virus that has swept across the globe. Refusing to give up on his daughter, Jung-hwan takes her to a quiet seaside village called Eunbong-ri, where his mother Bam-soon lives. In a world obsessed with rooting out the infected, Soo-ah shows strange signs of awareness - responding to music, her grandmother's sharp taps with a back scratcher, and even faint traces of human language. Determined to protect her at all costs, Jung-hwan draws on his years of experience training tigers and begins a secret mission to tame and retrain... his zombie daughter.

My Daughter Is a Zombie

2025

Audition 109 poster
5.5

A young man from Busan moves to Seoul to become an actor, only to find himself struggling to make ends meet. Lines get tangled, his Seoul accent gets worse, and even love doesn't go his way.

Audition 109

2026

Mad Dance Office poster
5.7

Kuk-hee, a by-the-book district office civil servant, has lived a flawless, tightly scheduled life. With a promotion imminent and her daughter's future secured, everything is going according to plan. Until it all unravels—her promotion is taken, her daughter disappears, and an unexpected emptiness sets in. Searching for balance again, Kuk-hee ends up in the last place she ever expected: a flamenco dance studio.

Mad Dance Office

2026