Yu Jun-sang

Acting

Yu Jun-sang

Born 1969-11-28 · Seoul, South Korea

Yoo Jun-sang (Korean: 유준상; born November 28, 1969) is a South Korean actor and singer. Yoo is best known for starring in the Hong Sang-soo films Ha Ha Ha (2010), The Day He Arrives (2011), and In Another Country (2012). He was also praised for his supporting roles in Wide Awake (2007) and Moss (2010), and gained newfound popularity in 2012 because of the TV drama My Husband Got a Family. Aside from film and television, Yoo is also active in musical theatre, notably in The Three Musketeers, Jack the Ripper, and The Days. He is also one of the main characters in two seasons of The Uncanny Counter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yu Jun-sang, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds poster
8.1

Having died unexpectedly, firefighter Ja-hong is taken to the afterlife by 3 afterlife guardians. Only when he passes 7 trials over 49 days and proves he was innocent in human life, he’s able to reincarnate, and his 3 afterlife guardians are by his side to defend him in trial.

Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds

2017

Right Now, Wrong Then poster
7.0

By mistake, film director Ham Chunsu arrives in Suwon a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, Chunsu stops by a restored, old palace and meets an artist named Yoon Heejung. Together, they go to Heejung's workshop to look at her paintings, have Sushi with Soju for dinner, and get close. Later, they go to another café and have more drinks with Heejung's acquaintances. When asked if he is married, Chunsu is forced to reveal the fact that he is, and Heejung gets deeply disappointed...

Right Now, Wrong Then

2015

Touch poster
6.0

A story about a three-part family with lots of stories to tell and the first episode of the '3 life parts' that is completed henceforth.

Touch

2012

Tell Me Something poster
6.2

Detective Cho, a cop on the edge, is mourning his mother's recent death while under investigation for graft; on top of that he is suddenly put in charge of a seemingly-impenetrable mystery.

Tell Me Something

1999

Soar Into the Sun poster
6.6

Tae-hun causes trouble for the his unit with his antics. He does not take much seriously until a dogfight leaves a pilot dead and another missing. Tae-hun and the other members of his unit launch a rescue mission to prevent a war from breaking out.

Soar Into the Sun

2012

Honest Candidate 2 poster
6.3

As a politician, Joo Sang-Sook (Ra Mi-Ran) attempted to run for the fourth time as a member of the nationally assembly. After visiting her grandmother, Joo Sang-Sook was unable to tell a lie. Now, Joo Sang-Sook attempts to return to the political world.

Honest Candidate 2

2022

Nobody's Daughter Haewon poster
6.5

Facing her mother’s departure and the weight of a secret affair with her professor, college student Haewon drifts through a series of encounters and dreams, blurring the lines between her desires and reality.

Nobody's Daughter Haewon

2013

Moss poster
6.9

A city boy visits a remote village to find out the reason behind his father's strange death. The locals are watching his every move and are eager to see him leave. As he starts to investigate, the village's sinister secrets begin to unravel.

Moss

2010

In Another Country poster
6.1

A young woman and her mother run away to the seaside town of Mohang to escape their mounting debt. The young woman begins writing a script for a short film in order to calm her nerves: There are three women named Anne, and each woman consecutively visits the seaside town of Mohang. A young woman tends to the small hotel by the Mohang foreshore owned by her parents. A certain lifeguard can be seen restlessly wandering up and down the beach that lies nearby. Each Anne stays at this small hotel, receives some assistance from the owner's daughter, and ventures onto the beach where they meet the lifeguard.

In Another Country

2012

The Target poster
7.0

At the same time as murder suspect Yeo-hoon is brought unconscious to the emergency room following a shooting incident, an assailant breaks into the house of Tae-jun, the emergency room's doctor in charge, and kidnaps his wife. The kidnapper calls the doctor and tells him to bring Yeo-hoon to him. To retrieve his wife, Tae-jun has no option but to save the patient and sneak him away before the police can notice.

The Target

2014

My Name poster
8.3

South Korea, 1998: While the country moves closer towards democracy, Young-oak remains at odds with his female-connotated name while attending a boy's school where the air is thick with testosterone. The young man is struggling to fit in and find a new name among corrupt teachers and the teenagers' violent power games, which are as subtle as they are extreme. Behind his mother Jeong-sun's seemingly unflappable exterior, a past long repressed is reemerging, which she is reluctant to face. Yet confrontation is unavoidable – and it leads back to the national tragedy surrounding the Jeju Uprising of April 3rd, 1948.

My Name

2026

Fists of Legend poster
7.1

Three men who share a past participate in a mixed martial arts reality show where they have to fight against other contestants to win the prize money.

Fists of Legend

2013

The Map Against the World poster
6.6

Kim Jeong-ho's father died due to an erroneous map. Because of this, Kim Jeong-ho has a strong desire to make his own map. He begins a complete block map of Joseon.

The Map Against the World

2016

The Boys poster
6.2

In 1999, a robbery-murder case occurs in a small supermarket in Samnye, Jeonbuk province. The police investigation quickly narrows down to three boys from the neighborhood, and these boys are falsely accused of being murderers overnight and are imprisoned without understanding what is happening. The following year, veteran detective Hwang Joon-cheol is newly appointed as the head of Crime Investigation Division. He receives a tip about the real culprits and embarks on a reinvestigation to clear the boys' names. However, the interference of the detective responsible for the case at the time, Choi Woo-sung, leads to everything falling apart, and Hwang is demoted. Sixteen years later, the sole witness of the case and daughter of the victim, Yoon Mi-sook, and the boys return to Hwang, seeking justice...

The Boys

2023

Hotel by the River poster
6.4

An aging poet summons his estranged sons to the hotel he is staying at because he feels his death is near; meanwhile, he encounters two women staying at the hotel.

Hotel by the River

2019

The Last Blossom poster
7.8

A middle-aged housewife must look after her husband, children and senile mother-in-law at the same time. Her life changes when she learns that she has cancer and is dying.

The Last Blossom

2011

Nightmare poster
4.7

Hye-jin's homecoming should have been a joyous occasion. She was especially happy to see her childhood friend again, the shy Eun-ju. However, when a secret is revealed, harsh words are exchanged. These words deeply affect Eun-ju and,in the next scene, we see her plummeting from a 30-story building. In a flashback provided by Seon-ae, we learn that the ghost of Eun-ju is hunting down all of Hye-jin's friends and killing them. Is this possible or is a more worldly force at work? What is this mysterious tape that everyone is asking about?

Nightmare

2000

My Favorite Love Story poster
7.0

Near future in Seoul, Oliver and Claire are abandoned helper robots stuck in a rut. One day, Claire knocks on Oliver’s door to borrow a charger and they grow closer since then. Oliver hoping to meet his former owner again and Claire dreaming of seeing fireflies, the two decide to leave for Jeju Island. During the unexpected journey, they end up finding themselves falling in love. However, the joy of love soon fades away as Claire helplessly breaks down. With sad ending waiting for them, the two robots learn what love can bring.

My Favorite Love Story

2025

Like You Know It All poster
5.8

A South Korean art house film director is first invited to serve on the panel of a film festival, then to guest lecture at a film school.

Like You Know It All

2009

The Day He Arrives poster
6.9

A film director who no longer makes films arrives in Seoul to meet a close friend. When the friend doesn't show up, he wanders the city aimlessly for three days, grabbing drinks and meeting women, with each day playing out like a version of the last.

The Day He Arrives

2011

Wedding Campaign poster
6.0

A 38-year-old single man, Hong Man-Taek is a petty farmer still living with his mother. Seeing a neighbor married to an Uzbekistan bride and frightened by the fact that his own grandson will never get married, Man-Taek's grandfather decides to send Man-tek to Uzbekistan to find a bride.

Wedding Campaign

2005

Yourself and Yours poster
6.3

While a South Korean man wanders the city in search of the woman he just broke up with, she successively meets and flirts with two men who claim to have met her before.

Yourself and Yours

2016

Ha Ha Ha poster
6.3

Over drinks, two friends agree to swap fond memories of their recent trips to the same seaside town. As the stories unfold in flashback, it becomes evident their accounts take place at the same time and with the same people.

Ha Ha Ha

2010

Angry Painter poster
3.3

A mysterious man, "Painter" is a chaser, who is always with "Driver." Driver is in a relationship with an Estonian girl, who works at the US soldier’s club. She was drifting several regions because of her father’s gambling debt. One day a soldier goes mad for their relationship, and kill her and her boyfriend in front of Painter. Being so angry Painter turns into a mad creature and mysterious power leads him to Estonia.

Angry Painter

2015

Behind the camera

Light As a Feather poster
NR

An NGO worker in South America returns to Korea. During her month-long stay in Korea, she tries to spend as much time as possible with him, but the man is busy with his work at the TV station. They become disappointed with each other, and start quarrelling frequently. The woman now spends more time alone at home. Actor Yu Junsang has directed and starred in this film about two people who struggle to accept their differences. Although they are together, they are two different people who see the same things from different perspectives.

Light As a Feather

2021

Re-LOVE poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Re-LOVE

2022

Meet Saybika poster
NR

Ye, who had always had the same dreams, begins having diverse dreams after accidentally discovering a mysterious dictionary. Realizing that she was receiving signals from someone every time she opened the dictionary, Ye discovers that her dreams were actually signals from Rainy.

Meet Saybika

2026

Meet Saybika poster
NR

Ye, who had always had the same dreams, begins having diverse dreams after accidentally discovering a mysterious dictionary. Realizing that she was receiving signals from someone every time she opened the dictionary, Ye discovers that her dreams were actually signals from Rainy.

Meet Saybika

2026

Meet Saybika poster
NR

Ye, who had always had the same dreams, begins having diverse dreams after accidentally discovering a mysterious dictionary. Realizing that she was receiving signals from someone every time she opened the dictionary, Ye discovers that her dreams were actually signals from Rainy.

Meet Saybika

2026

Spring Song poster
5.0

One winter, Yu Jun-sang and Lee Jun-hwa, the two members of a band “J and Joy 20” get on a flight to Japan with an impulse to film a music video. They set off to Japan, without any actors or themes prepared and armed only with an ambitious plan to make a song for spring. As Japanese musical actor Nakagawa Akinori and two Korean actors Kim So-jin and Jung Soon-won gather together, a joyful production of the music video unfolds on a snowfield with Mount Fuji in the background.

Spring Song

2021

Spring Song poster
5.0

One winter, Yu Jun-sang and Lee Jun-hwa, the two members of a band “J and Joy 20” get on a flight to Japan with an impulse to film a music video. They set off to Japan, without any actors or themes prepared and armed only with an ambitious plan to make a song for spring. As Japanese musical actor Nakagawa Akinori and two Korean actors Kim So-jin and Jung Soon-won gather together, a joyful production of the music video unfolds on a snowfield with Mount Fuji in the background.

Spring Song

2021

Spring Song poster
5.0

One winter, Yu Jun-sang and Lee Jun-hwa, the two members of a band “J and Joy 20” get on a flight to Japan with an impulse to film a music video. They set off to Japan, without any actors or themes prepared and armed only with an ambitious plan to make a song for spring. As Japanese musical actor Nakagawa Akinori and two Korean actors Kim So-jin and Jung Soon-won gather together, a joyful production of the music video unfolds on a snowfield with Mount Fuji in the background.

Spring Song

2021

Things That I Learn From You poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Things That I Learn From You

2016

Things That I Learn From You poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Things That I Learn From You

2016

Things That I Learn From You poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Things That I Learn From You

2016

A Peaceful Mind Is Not Stillness poster
NR

After finishing a grueling shoot, Jun-sang heads to Mongolia in search of inner peace and tranquility. The journey to the desert is not easy, and Jun-sang struggles to figure out where he is going and which direction is the right one on the many roads he encounters. Upon hearing the sudden death of someone he met the day before he came to Mongolia, Jun-sang falls into deep thoughts about life and death. Did Jun-sang find peace when he reached the summit of the windy sand dunes? Boom Boom Boom, Did I find peace on the bumpy road?

A Peaceful Mind Is Not Stillness

2023

It's Not Over Yet poster
NR

Junsang, who participated in the Seoul Jazz Festival as a band “J n joy 20” is hurt by the people’s comments on the internet. He goes on his second musical trip with his bandmate Junwha to USA to write better songs, but doesn’t work out easily. On the way to Cleveland, the police pulls over their car and Junwha gets arrested due to unknown reason, Junsang gets left alone on the highway.

It's Not Over Yet

2019

It's Not Over Yet poster
NR

Junsang, who participated in the Seoul Jazz Festival as a band “J n joy 20” is hurt by the people’s comments on the internet. He goes on his second musical trip with his bandmate Junwha to USA to write better songs, but doesn’t work out easily. On the way to Cleveland, the police pulls over their car and Junwha gets arrested due to unknown reason, Junsang gets left alone on the highway.

It's Not Over Yet

2019

It's Not Over Yet poster
NR

Junsang, who participated in the Seoul Jazz Festival as a band “J n joy 20” is hurt by the people’s comments on the internet. He goes on his second musical trip with his bandmate Junwha to USA to write better songs, but doesn’t work out easily. On the way to Cleveland, the police pulls over their car and Junwha gets arrested due to unknown reason, Junsang gets left alone on the highway.

It's Not Over Yet

2019