Cho Jae-hyun

Acting

Cho Jae-hyun

Born

1965-06-30 (61)

Place of birth

Seoul, South Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

54 titles

Known for

Running Man poster
8.2

These days, as variety shows are gradually disappearing, this is one of Korea’s representative variety shows that has been responsible for Sunday evenings for over 10 years. This program features numerous stars and members going around various places, playing games, and completing missions. In particular, among the many fun elements of variety shows, this one focuses solely on laughter. Open your eyes! Big fun is coming in! Open your mouth! Big laughter is coming in! Open your heart! Useful lessons are coming in!

Running Man

2010

Kim Je-dong's Talk to You poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kim Je-dong's Talk to You

2015

Whisper poster
6.9

Shin Young-Joo is a female detective with charisma and Lee Dong-Joon is a righteous judge. They uncover corruption at the nation's biggest law firm Taebaek.

Whisper

2017

Scandal: A Shocking and Wrongful Incident poster
5.9

Detective Ha Eun-joong uncovers a shocking secret; Ha Myung-geun, the man he believed was his father, had actually kidnapped him as a child. Myung-geun had lost his own son in a building collapse, and as revenge against the man responsible, Jang Tae-ha, he abducted Tae-ha's son and raised him as his own. In the aftermath of revenge, Eun-joong searches for the truth and becomes caught between his two fathers and the woman he loves, Woo Ah-mi.

Scandal: A Shocking and Wrongful Incident

2013

Gye Baek, Warrior’s Fate poster
6.0

Set in the Baekje kingdom in the mid-7th century, the drama chronicles the life and times of the storied warrior General Gyebaek who is remembered in history for leading Baekje's last stand against the Silla in the Battle of Hwangsanbeol.

Gye Baek, Warrior’s Fate

2011

Solomon's Perjury poster
7.0

A 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

Film credits

2010s · 8 titles

The Fatal Encounter poster
7.1

Late 18th-century Joseon dynasty. The King is beleaguered and surrounded by traitors of the ruling elite. They plan to assassinate and replace him with a puppet. But the King has some aces up his sleeve that may help him defeat them all.

The Fatal Encounter

2014

Moebius poster
6.6

A wife, overwhelmed with hatred for her husband, inflicts an unspeakable wound on their son, as the family heads towards horrific destruction.

Moebius

2013

The Influence poster
4.7

To keep their values, characters are at a critical juncture to act upon their promises throughout time.

The Influence

2010

Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River poster
7.0

In the late Joseon Dynasty, Bongyi Kim Seon-dal is the best conman who sells water from the Taedong River.

Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River

2016

The Kick poster
5.1

Korean family made up of taekwondo experts moves to Thailand, where they set up a taekwondo gym. However, one member of the family, Taeju, wants to become a famous pop singer instead. The family becomes famous after stopping treasure robbers.

The Kick

2011

The Weight poster
5.2

Jung is a mortician at the morgue, who has to rely heavily on medicine for his severe tuberculosis and arthritis. Despite his illness, cleaning and dressing the dead is a noble and even beautiful work. His life over there is both a reality and a fantasy while the corpses are his models and friends for his paintings, his sole living pleasure. Why this morbid hobby? Jung was adopted by a horrible woman who used him as a slave for her dress shop. The natural son of the woman is younger than Jung and has a strange desire. He wants to transform his male body into a female one. Despite the love and hate relationship Jung has with his brother and burdened with the weight of life and the difficulties he has to deal with at his job, Jung endures the pain and prepares a last gift for his brother...

The Weight

2013

El Condor Pasa poster
4.9

A Catholic priest takes a young girl under his wing but is devastated when she is suddenly raped and killed. Even more affected by the incident is her much older sister who, in the absence of their parents, had been acting as the girl’s maternal guardian. The priest wants to console the woman though he is nowhere closer to getting over his own grief. A bizarre journey between the two ensues which includes a pilgrimage to Peru.

El Condor Pasa

2013

A Korean in Paris poster
5.3

Korean newlyweds are on their honeymoon in Paris. Strolling in the Pigalle area, the young bride sees in a red dress in a store window and she enters the shop. Her husband goes to buy cigarettes while he waits for her. When the man comes back his wife has disappeared. Not speaking a word of French he desperately searches for her. A search that will turn into a free fall into a world ruled by illegality, prostitution, drugs, a universe with its own codes and punishments

A Korean in Paris

2016

2000s · 14 titles

The Isle poster
6.9

Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and occasionally her body to the fishing tourists. One day she falls in love with Hyun-Shik, who is on the run from the police, and rescues him with a fish hook when he tries to commit suicide.

The Isle

2000

Bad Guy poster
6.5

A pimp enforcer takes revenge on a woman who rejected his advances by tricking her into prostitution, but complications arise.

Bad Guy

2002

Sword In The Moon poster
5.3

Kingdom of Joseon, ancient Korea. A usurper has conquered the throne. His ministers are being systematically eliminated by a mysterious assassin. An arrogant master swordsman is in charge of putting an end to the carnage.

Sword In The Moon

2003

Address Unknown poster
7.1

Romances end in blood and the frail hopes of individuals are torn apart in a vile karmic continuity of colonialism, civil war and occupation. After surviving Japanese colonization, Korea became the first war zone of the Cold War. The legacy of war remains today in this divided country.

Address Unknown

2001

Romance poster
5.5

Yoon-hee is harassed by her husband's excessive obsession and crazy love so much that even breathing is painful. Her sudden suicide attempt fails when someone takes her in his arms and saves her.

Romance

2006

Love, So Divine poster
6.5

Kyu-sik is a seminary student, who one day falls during a church service, dropping a precious, pope-blessed relic. As punishment, he and his comic relief friend Seon-dal are sent away to a small church in rural Korea to work in a sort of priest limbo until they get their act together.

Love, So Divine

2004

Hanbando poster
6.4

The President of South Korea races against time to prove the seal on documents from long dead King Gojong is fake by charging outspoken historian Choi Min-jae, and a descendant of the royal bloodline Kim Yu-shik, to find the long lost seal in order to prove that the Japanese claim to railroads is false, a claim that will stop the reunification of the two Koreas.

Hanbando

2006

Father and Son: The Story of Mencius poster
6.3

MAENG Sa-seong excelled at his old school. However, at a new school located in an affluent neighborhood, the situation completely changes, and students make fun of him for being from a not-so-rich family. On the other hand, Hyun-jeong living next door to him is the best high school student in the country and never feels timid with anyone. MAENG Sa-seong is a daddy’s boy, for his father is so dedicated to him, while Hyun-jeong is bright and always confident, growing up without her father. Will Mr. MAENG succeed in forcing Kang-du, a redneck rogue, to move out?

Father and Son: The Story of Mencius

2004

Interview poster
5.4

A story of a filmmaker who falls in love with a woman he interviews for his film. The film presents the evolution of a relationship which shifts from the objective to the subjective, and from lies to truth.

Interview

2000

Beyond the Years poster
6.3

A drama centered on brother-and-sister musicians trained to perform the epic Korean poems known as pansori.

Beyond the Years

2007

Prison World Cup poster
6.0

With the new millenium, the U.N. human rights committee proposes the first Prisoner's World Cup, putting forth the slogans of Liberty, Equality, and Harmony. Corrections wardens across Korea are thrown into a dilemma over whether to let their prisoners participate or not. The Hope Team is one of the most unlikely soccer teams in the world with a total of 75 previous convictions and an average of 6 for each player. With promises of leaves and reduced sentences, the team members are motivated to the hilt. They pool their various criminal talents to play, fight, and poison their way to the finals despite a prejudiced referee and two of the team's members having been bought off by the opposing team. But when their leader, the only condemned man among them, breaks out of jail, the team is thrown into chaos and they learn some more about hope.

Prison World Cup

2001

Marine Boy poster
5.6

Marine Boy is the story of a former national swimmer who finds himself in debt, and out of desperation is employed as a mule by a gangster boss, smuggling drugs by sea.

Marine Boy

2009

The Executioner poster
6.1

An execution scheduled to be carried out in 12 years creates a hostile and stifling atmosphere among guards in one jail. This has profound effects on the dehumanization of Jae-kyoung, a young, newly appointed guard who nonetheless happens to find that a cold-blooded colleague of his, Jong-ho, has some humane traits. Written by Pusan International Film Festival winning screenwriter Young Ok Kim.

The Executioner

2009

Mokpo the Harbor poster
5.5

A detective goes undercover and poses as a gangster to infiltrate a powerful criminal organization connected to a large drug deal.

Mokpo the Harbor

2004

1990s · 10 titles

Girls' Night Out poster
5.5

Three best friends meet and boldly talk about sex together. Their characters are as different as their lifestyles. One works at a hotel, one at a design firm and the other is a graduate student. The conversations alter their lives as they begin to have different sexual relationships than before.

Girls' Night Out

1998

Wild Animals poster
5.8

Two Korean ex-pats in Paris are recruited by a French mobster. The duo find themselves at war with their mobster recruiters and each other.

Wild Animals

1997

The Eternal Empire poster
6.5

This film depicts the struggles of the Royal Party and the Old Party to obtain political power. In 1800, The Royal Party insisted that the political power should be centralized to the King, but the other party (The Old Party) insisted that the political power should be centralized to the majority of the ministers. One day, official Jang was ordered by the King to arrange and edit the record of the former King Yeongjo. All of a sudden, Jang dies. Soon it was disclosed that Jang was killed by the Old Party because of their connection with the book. For this incident , the King tried to get rid of key members of the Old Party, but the Old Party resists the King's will. What was in the book? Who was involved? Why? The political intrigue will keep you on the edge of your seat.

The Eternal Empire

1995

Crocodile poster
6.3

Under the Han River lives Crocodile, a rugged member of the lumpenproletariat who exists from schemes and stealing. His position as a scavenger of society undermines South Korea’s boasts of its newfound economic position as an Asian Tiger. One day, Crocodile finds a girl floating in his river.

Crocodile

1996

Passion Portrait poster
6.7

Failing to enter the university of his choice, a young man is forced to enter a local college, but a series of disappointments causes him to give up his studies and begin a life of aimless travel.

Passion Portrait

1991

The Face poster
8.0

A poor girl marries into a wealthy family, but after the birth of her first child, she discovers that she is unhappy in her marriage and is forced to make a series of difficult decisions.

The Face

1999

Man Market poster
9.0

Yeong-chun becomes a gigolo after the woman he thought he loved left him. The reason she left was because Yeong-chun lacked money. He jumps at a chance to make quite a bit of money off a middle-aged woman, but what must he do in return?

Man Market

1990

Wind Echoing in My Being poster
7.0

A young man living alone in his attic, wishes to publish a book of his dreams. He records his dreams on a small tape recorder while he falls in and out of sleep. Then when he awakens, he writes of these dreams on paper. His dreams consist mainly of memories and recollections of his youth.

Wind Echoing in My Being

1997

Cutting the Sorrow With a Knife Stuck in the Chest poster
4.0

A man accepts a job on a shrimp fishing boat unaware that he is being set up for slave labor along with the rest of the crew of social outcasts.

Cutting the Sorrow With a Knife Stuck in the Chest

1992

Karuna poster
NR

In 1943, Yang Chunsoo, a descendant of a Koryo celadon maker, lives in a small village in the countryside, His younger son, Jongil, makes pottery without his father's approval in order to marry Poonim. When Chungsoo finds this out, he breaks every ceramic piece that his son has made. Poonim, without the money that was supposed to be given by Jongil leaves the village, angry and frustrated. Seven years later, when the Korean war erupts, Jongil returns to the village as an officer of the triumphant communist army. Later his elder brother, Jongsik, returns to the village as a South Korean army officer, Chunsoo stabs himself in the eye in order to stop the two brothers from fighting. The two brothers are, however, executed as scapegoats of an ideology. Twenty years later, Jinhyung, Chunsoo's grandson, takes over his grandfather's pottery business. He then learns about h is ancestor's mysterious past.

Karuna

1996

Series credits

Running Man poster
8.2

These days, as variety shows are gradually disappearing, this is one of Korea’s representative variety shows that has been responsible for Sunday evenings for over 10 years. This program features numerous stars and members going around various places, playing games, and completing missions. In particular, among the many fun elements of variety shows, this one focuses solely on laughter. Open your eyes! Big fun is coming in! Open your mouth! Big laughter is coming in! Open your heart! Useful lessons are coming in!

Running Man

2010

Kim Je-dong's Talk to You poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kim Je-dong's Talk to You

2015

Whisper poster
6.9

Shin Young-Joo is a female detective with charisma and Lee Dong-Joon is a righteous judge. They uncover corruption at the nation's biggest law firm Taebaek.

Whisper

2017

Scandal: A Shocking and Wrongful Incident poster
5.9

Detective Ha Eun-joong uncovers a shocking secret; Ha Myung-geun, the man he believed was his father, had actually kidnapped him as a child. Myung-geun had lost his own son in a building collapse, and as revenge against the man responsible, Jang Tae-ha, he abducted Tae-ha's son and raised him as his own. In the aftermath of revenge, Eun-joong searches for the truth and becomes caught between his two fathers and the woman he loves, Woo Ah-mi.

Scandal: A Shocking and Wrongful Incident

2013

Gye Baek, Warrior’s Fate poster
6.0

Set in the Baekje kingdom in the mid-7th century, the drama chronicles the life and times of the storied warrior General Gyebaek who is remembered in history for leading Baekje's last stand against the Silla in the Battle of Hwangsanbeol.

Gye Baek, Warrior’s Fate

2011

Solomon's Perjury poster
7.0

A 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

Cross poster
8.0

Kang In-Kyu’s father was brutally murdered 13 years ago. To take revenge on those who are responsible for his father’s death, he becomes a doctor. Kang In-Kyu volunteers at a prison medical office where the murderer is imprisoned.

Cross

2018

Jeong Do Jeon poster
5.1

Set between late Koryo Dynasty and early Choson Dynasty period. Jung Do-Jeon plans for the new country of "Choson" and new culture as an influential advisor to King Taejo. Jung Do-Jeon resistance among those that want to keep Koryo.

Jeong Do Jeon

2014

New Heart poster
7.5

Cardiac surgery is one of the most demanding and difficult forms of surgery, and it's not as lucrative as other medical careers, so when Lee Eun Seung and Nam Hye Suk are the only applicants to apply for a residency, they are accepted easily. Dr. Choi Kang Gook, the new head of Cardiovascular Surgery, has his doubts. Eun Seung has always dreamed of becoming a great cardiac specialist, but as an orphan coming from a small-town medical school, his skills are basic. Hye Suk, on the other hand, graduated from an elite medical school with top marks, but possesses an inflexible personality. Gradually, as they work together, a mutual respect dawns, and Eun Seung begins to be attracted to Hye Suk. But things get complicated when famous actor Lee Dong Gwon is admitted to the hospital, who has a romantic past with Hye Suk and aims to win her heart once more.

New Heart

2007

Punch poster
8.1

When Park Jung-hwan, the chief of the anti-corruption investigation team for the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, learns that he has a malignant brain tumor that gives him only 6 months to live, he decides to throw his final punch at the criminal world before he says farewell to life.

Punch

2014

Happy Together poster
8.5

Happy Together is a 1999 South Korean television series starring Lee Byung-hun, Song Seung-heon, Kim Ha-neul, Jo Min-su, and Jun Ji-hyun. It aired on SBS from June 16 to August 5, 1999 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes. Starring young actors who would go on to become Korean TV and film stars, the hit drama revolves around five children who were separated at the death of their parents, and the love, conflicts, and reconciliation that these siblings go through when they meet again as adults.

Happy Together

1999

The Master of Revenge poster
7.2

When Moo-Myung was young, he had an once-in-a-lifetime event. He walked into orphanage by himself. To take revenge, he attempts to become a God of Noodles.

The Master of Revenge

2016

School 3 poster
NR

The students from a luxurious residential neighborhood, the apartment complexes where the middle class resides, and the underdeveloped residential street all go to the same school and learn in the same classroom. The new semester begins, and Da In, a naïve girl, transfers to school from the countryside. Although she's raised by a single mom, she's a very cheerful literary girl. Due to her pure mindedness, she's bullied by her classmates in the beginning, but Se Chan, a boy from a luxurious town, helps her. Se Chan used to be a bully, but he now hates bullying because of his painful memory. He is confused about whether he helped Da In because he liked her or just hated bullying. The story of how Da In survives in the school where the strata exists in her own cheerful way begins.

School 3

2000

Syndrome poster
6.8

Syndrome is a 2012 South Korean medical drama series, starring Han Hye-jin, Song Chang-eui and Park Gun-hyung. It is set in the world of neurosurgery where a medical student finds herself in a love triangle with two fellow doctors. The television series aired on jTBC from February 13 to April 17, 2012 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes.

Syndrome

2012

Legend poster
NR

Shinhwa is an SBS drama special that aired from September 9, 2001, to November 26, 2001.

Legend

2001

대추나무 사랑걸렸네 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

대추나무 사랑걸렸네

1990

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Love And Friendship

1993

Piano poster
7.3

Piano is about a father’s terrible love through a fantastical way, the unacceptable love between stepsiblings, and conflicts within a family.

Piano

2001

Snowman poster
7.0

Although at first unwillingly, Seo Yun Wook and Han Pil Seung later become the best of sister/brother-in-law. They depend on each other for help, trouble, and fun. Seo Yun Jung, Pil Seung's wife, is grateful at the happy relationship, but things go astray when Wook grows a greater affection for Seung. When Wook confesses her feelings for Seung, the two start to grow apart. Although they later end up in the same police department, they try hard to avoid each other, and Jung starts to realize the reason why. Cha Sung Joon is Wook's friend and the son of a rich hotel owner. Although he knows that Wook likes her brother-in-law, he never gives up his feelings for her. Things seem to turn out alright when Wook starts to date Cha and forget about Seung , but her sister Jung dies. The dangerous yet innocent love for her brother-in-law puts Wook in a terrible situation...how is love different in a family?

Snowman

2003

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