Youn Yuh-jung
Youn Yuh-jung | |
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Born |
Gaesong-bu, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea | June 19, 1947
Other names | Yoon Yeo-jeong |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1966โpresent |
Spouse(s) | Jo Young-nam (1975-1987; divorced) |
Korean name | |
Hangul | ์ค์ฌ์ |
Hanja | ๅฐนๆฑ่ฒ |
Revised Romanization | Yun Yeo-jeong |
McCuneโReischauer | Yun Yว-chวng |
Youn Yuh-jung (born June 19, 1947) is a South Korean actress. In a film and television career spanning nearly 40 years, Youn is best known for starring in Kim Ki-young's Woman of Fire (1971) and Im Sang-soo's The Housemaid (2010).
Career
Youn Yuh-jung was a freshman at Hanyang University majoring in Korean Language and Literature, when she passed the open auditions held by TBC in 1966. She dropped out of college, and made her acting debut in the television drama Mister Gong in 1967.[1] Youn shot to stardom in 1971 with two memorable portrayals of femme fatales. Her first film, Kim Ki-young's Woman of Fire became a critical and commercial hit, for which she won Best Actress at the Sitges Film Festival. This was followed by the MBC period drama series Jang Hui-bin where she played the titular infamous royal concubine. Kim was considered Korea's first style-conscious, experimental director, and Youn didn't balk in playing risque, provocative characters that explore the grotesque in the female psyche in further collaborations with him such as The Insect Woman (1972) and Be a Wicked Woman (1990).[2] Audiences found Youn's fast way of speaking and atypical appearance refreshing and she frequently took roles in TV dramas depicting a modern woman of the new generation, notably in Stepmother (1972) written by Kim Soo-hyun.
At the peak of her career, Youn retired after she married singer Jo Young-nam in 1975, then immigrated to the United States. In 1984, she returned to Korea and permanently resumed her acting career. She and Jo divorced in 1987.[3]
Making such a stellar comeback after taking a long break was an unusual feat for a Korean middle-aged actress.[2] Though most actresses her age played cliched self-sacrificing mothers or coarse ajummas, Youn's acting range led to her being cast in more complex, stylish, and independent roles. In A Good Lawyer's Wife (2003), she drew critical acclaim for her nonchalant acting as a mother-in-law who neglected her husband dying of liver cancer and enjoyed extramarital affairs. Her frank and confident persona again manifested itself in E J-yong's mockumentary Actresses (2009).[4][5][6][7] Youn continued playing supporting roles in film and television, notably her award-winning scene-stealing turn in The Housemaid (2010). She reunited with director Im Sang-soo for the fourth time in The Taste of Money (2012), as a cruel chaebol heiress at the center of the drama that unfolds and touches upon the themes of corruption, greed and sex. Youn said, "I don't mind being called an old actress, but I do worry about how to carry on my acting career without looking like an old fool."[8]
In 2013, she was cast against type as a loving mother to three loser children in Song Hae-sung's Boomerang Family.[9] Later in the year, Youn gained renewed mainstream popularity after appearing in her first ever reality show Sisters Over Flowers, a backpacking travel show shot in Croatia.[10]
Youn starred in two leading roles in 2015: Kang Je-gyu's Salut d'Amour about the romance between an elderly supermarket employee and a flower shop owner, and Grandmother Gye-choon about a Jeju Island female diver who reunites with her long-lost granddaughter.[11][12][13][14]
Filmography
Film
Year | English title | Hangul | Romanization | Role | Director |
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1971 | Woman of Fire | ํ๋ | Hwanyeo | Myeong-ja | Kim Ki-young |
1972 | The Insect Woman | ์ถฉ๋ | Chungnyeo | Myeong-ja | Kim Ki-young |
1973 | Love and Hatred | ๋ค์ ๋คํ | Choi Ha-won | ||
Tto Sun Yi, a College Girl | ์ฌ๋์ ๋์์ด | Yeodaesaeng Ttosuni | Jeong In-yeob | ||
1978 | The Day and Night of a Korean-American | ์ฝ๋ฉ๋ฆฌ์นธ์ ๋ฎ๊ณผ ๋ฐค | Komelikan-ui najgwa bam | Hong Ui-bong | |
1985 | Mother | ์๋ฏธ | Eomi | Mrs. Hong | Park Chul-soo |
1990 | Be a Wicked Woman | ์ฒ์ฌ์ฌ ์ ๋ ๊ฐ ๋๋ผ | Cheonsayeo agnyeoga doela | Kim Ki-young | |
1995 | An Experience to Die For | ์ฃฝ์ด๋ ์ข์ ๊ฒฝํ | Jugeodo Joeun gyeongheom | Choi Yeo-jung | Kim Ki-young |
2003 | A Good Lawyer's Wife | ๋ฐ๋๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ | Baramnan Gajok | Hong Byeong-han | Im Sang-soo |
2004 | Springtime | ๊ฝํผ๋ ๋ด์ด ์ค๋ฉด | Ggotpineun bomi omyeon | Hyun-woo's mother | Ryu Jang-ha |
2005 | The President's Last Bang | ๊ทธ๋ ๊ทธ์ฌ๋๋ค | Geuttae Geusaramdeul | Yoon-hee's mother/Epilogue narration | Im Sang-soo |
2006 | Maundy Thursday | ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ค์ ํ๋ณตํ ์๊ฐ | Woorideului Haengbokhan Sigan | Sister Monica | Song Hae-sung |
2007 | The Old Garden | ์ค๋๋ ์ ์ | Oraedoin Jeongwon | Hyun-woo's mother | Im Sang-soo |
Hwang Jin-yi | ํฉ์ง์ด | Hwang Jini | Old woman | Jang Yoon-hyun | |
2008 | A Tale of Legendary Libido | ๊ฐ๋ฃจ์ง๊ธฐ | Garujigi | Old woman | Shin Han-sol |
2009 | Actresses | ์ฌ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๋ค | Yeobaewoodeul | Herself | E J-yong |
2010 | Ha Ha Ha | ํํํ | Ha Ha Ha | Moon-kyeong's mother | Hong Sang-soo |
The Housemaid | ํ๋ | Ha-nyeo | Byeong-sik | Im Sang-soo | |
2011 | Hindsight | ํธ๋ฅธ ์๊ธ | Pureun Sogeum | Madame Kang | Lee Hyun-seung |
List (short film) | ๋ฆฌ์คํธ | Hong Sang-soo | |||
2012 | The Taste of Money | ๋์ ๋ง | Don-eui Mat | Baek Geum-ok | Im Sang-soo |
In Another Country | ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋๋ผ์์ | Dareun Narayeseo | Park Sook | Hong Sang-soo | |
2013 | Behind the Camera | ๋ท๋ดํ: ๊ฐ๋ ์ด ๋ฏธ์ณค์ด์ | Herself | E J-yong | |
Boomerang Family | ๊ณ ๋ นํ๊ฐ์กฑ | Goryeonghwa Gajok | Mom | Song Hae-sung | |
2014 | Hill of Freedom | ์์ ์ ์ธ๋ | Jayuui Eondeok | Gu-ok | Hong Sang-soo |
2015 | Salut d'Amour | ์ฅ์์ํ | Jangsusanghwe | Im Geum-nim | Kang Je-gyu |
Grandmother Gye-choon | ๊ณ์ถํ ๋ง | Gyechunhalmang | Gye-choon | Chang |
Television series
Year | English title | Hangul | Romanization | Role | Network |
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1967 | Mister Gong | ๋ฏธ์คํฐ ๊ณต | TBC | ||
1970 | ๊ฐ๋ณ ์ด์ | MBC | |||
River of Love and Sorrow | ์ฌ๋๊ณผ ์ฌํ์ ๊ฐ | MBC | |||
Maria Park | ๋ฐ๋ง๋ฆฌ์ | MBC | |||
1971 | Jang Hui-bin | ์ฅํฌ๋น | Jang Hui-bin | Hui-bin Jang | MBC |
1972 | Rainbow | ๋ฌด์ง๊ฐ | President Han's daughter | MBC | |
Daewongun | ๋์๊ตฐ | Daewongun | Empress Myeongseong | MBC | |
Stepmother | ์์๋ง | Eun-hye | MBC | ||
1976 | Girl's High School Days | ์ฌ๊ณ ๋์ฐฝ์ | MBC | ||
1984 | MBC Bestseller Theater "๊ณ ๊น" | MBC ๋ฒ ์คํธ์ ๋ฌ๊ทน์ฅ - ๊ณ ๊น | MBC | ||
1985 | Mom's Room | ์๋ง์ ๋ฐฉ | MBC | ||
1986 | First Love | ์ฒซ์ฌ๋ | Cheot Sarang | MBC | |
1987 | Love and Ambition | ์ฌ๋๊ณผ ์ผ๋ง | Song Hye-joo | MBC | |
1988 | Sand Castle | ๋ชจ๋์ฑ | Kim Jin-ae | MBC | |
People from Wonmi-dong | ์๋ฏธ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค | MBC | |||
1989 | Fetters of Love | ์ฌ๋์ ๊ตด๋ | KBS2 | ||
์ฒ ์ | MBC | ||||
Sleepless Tree | ์ ๋ค์ง ์๋ ๋๋ฌด | Jamdeulji Anneun Namu | Dance school teacher | MBC | |
1990 | ๊ฒ์์ด์ ๋ฌ | KBS2 | |||
Betrayal of the Rose | ๋ฐฐ๋ฐ์ ์ฅ๋ฏธ | Ok-sun | MBC | ||
1991 | What Is Love | ์ฌ๋์ด ๋ญ๊ธธ๋ | Sarangi Mwogilrae | Han Shim-ae | MBC |
Another Happiness | ๋ ํ๋์ ํ๋ณต | MBC | |||
1992 | Bun-rye's Story | ๋ถ๋ก๊ธฐ | Bunryegi | Bun-rye's mother | SBS |
Gwanchon Essay | ๊ด์ด ์ํ | SBS | |||
Women's Room | ์ฌ์์ ๋ฐฉ | MBC | |||
1993 | How's Your Husband? | ๋์ ๋จํธ์ ์ด๋ ์ญ๋๊น? | Daekui Nampyeoneun Eoddeoshimnikka | Song Eun-nyeo | SBS |
To Live | ์ฐ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ | Pung-gae's mother | SBS | ||
1994 | Farewell | ์๋ณ | Lee Shin-ae | SBS | |
1995 | Men of the Bath House | ๋ชฉ์ํ์ง ๋จ์๋ค | Noh Hye-young | KBS2 | |
Your Voice | ๊ทธ๋ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ | Eon-nyeon-yi | SBS | ||
MBC Best Theater "Hospice Ajumma" | ํธ์คํผ์ค ์์ค๋ง | Jung-sook | MBC | ||
1996 | Temptation | ์ ํน | Yuhok | KBS2 | |
๊ฐ์ด์ญ | Ganyiyeok | Gangneung restaurant owner | MBC | ||
Open Your Heart | ๊ฐ์ด์ ์ด์ด๋ผ | Gaseumeul Yeoleora | Choi Soon-joo | MBC | |
1997 | The Reason I Live | ๋ด๊ฐ ์ฌ๋ ์ด์ | Bar madam Son | MBC | |
Woman Next Door | ์ด์์ง ์ฌ์ | SBS | |||
MBC Best Theater "Bok-soon's Boomerang" |
MBC ๋ฒ ์คํธ๊ทน์ฅ - ๋ณต์์จ์ ๋ถ๋ฉ๋ | Actuary Bok-soon | MBC | ||
1998 | Firstborn | ๋ง์ด | Choi Sook-ja | MBC | |
Love Is All I Know | ์ฌ๋ ๋ฐ์ ๋ ๋ชฐ๋ผ | MBC | |||
Hong Gil-dong | ํ๊ธธ๋ | Hong Gil-dong | In-ok's mother | SBS | |
Lie | ๊ฑฐ์ง๋ง | Geo-jit-mal | Yoon Young-hee | KBS2 | |
Crush | ์ง์ฌ๋ | Jjak Sarang | KBS2 | ||
1999 | KAIST | ์นด์ด์คํธ | Kaiseuteu | Professor of Mechanical Engineering | SBS |
Did We Really Love? | ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ ๋ง ์ฌ๋ํ์๊น | Uriga Jeongmal Saranghaesseulkka | Choi Hye-ja | MBC | |
Who Are You | ๋น์ ์ ๋๊ตฌ์๊ธธ๋ | Jung Shin-ae | SBS | ||
Hur Jun | ํ์ค | Heo Jun | Sung In-chul's wife | MBC | |
2000 | Tough Guy's Love | ๊ผญ์ง | Kkokji | Kim Bok-nyeo | KBS2 |
I Want to Keep Seeing You | ์๊พธ๋ง ๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ๋ค | Lee Ok-bun | SBS | ||
2001 | Stock Flower | ๋น๋จํฅ๊ฝ๋ฌด | Bidanhwang Ggotmo | Ahn Jung-hee | KBS2 |
Blue Mist | ํธ๋ฅธ ์๊ฐ | Pureun Angae | Mi-soon | KBS2 | |
Hotelier | ํธํ ๋ฆฌ์ด | Hotelrieo | Yoon Bong-sook | MBC | |
Soon-ja | ์์ | Soon-ja | Go Chang-daek | SBS | |
MBC Best Theater "Walking With II" | ๋ํII | Donghaeng II | Geum-nyeo | MBC | |
This Is Love | ์ฌ๋์ ์ด๋ฐ๊ฑฐ์ผ | Lee Jung-ja | KBS1 | ||
I Like Dong-seo | ๋์๋ ์ข๊ฒ ๋ค | Choi Jong-sook | KBS2 | ||
2002 | Ruler of Your Own World | ๋ค ๋ฉ๋๋ก ํด๋ผ | Ne meotdaero haera | Jung Yoo-soon | MBC |
Affection | ์ | Jeong | Ms. Uhm | SBS | |
Who's My Love? | ๋ด์ฌ๋ ๋๊ตด๊น | Nae Sarang Nogulkka? | In-ae | KBS2 | |
2003 | Dal-joong's Cinderella | ๋ฌ์ค์จ์ ์ ๋ฐ๋ ๋ผ | Daljungssiui Cinderella | Pal-soon | KBS1 |
Pearl Necklace | ์ง์ฃผ๋ชฉ๊ฑธ์ด | Yoon Hae-myung | KBS2 | ||
One Million Roses | ๋ฐฑ๋ง์ก์ด ์ฅ๋ฏธ | Baekmansongi Jangmi | Choi Geum-ja | MBC | |
Rose Fence | ์ฅ๋ฏธ์ธํ๋ฆฌ | Mrs. Heo | KBS2 | ||
On the Prairie | ์ ํธ๋ฅธ ์ด์์์ | Jeo Pureum Jowonwiae | Kim Jeom-hee | KBS2 | |
2004 | Ireland | ์์ผ๋๋ | Aillaendeu | Shi-yeon's mother | MBC |
War of the Roses | ์ฅ๋ฏธ์ ์ ์ | Jangmiui Jeonjaeng | Heo Young-shim | MBC | |
Drama City "Our Ham" | ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํ | Uri Ham | Grandma | KBS2 | |
2005 | Becoming a Popular Song | ์ ํ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋๋ฆฌ | Oh Sook-young | KBS2 | |
Be Strong, Geum-soon! | ๊ตณ์ธ์ด๋ผ ๊ธ์์ | Gutseeora Geumsunah | Geum-soon's grandmother | MBC | |
A Farewell to Sorrow | ์ฌํ์ด์ฌ์๋ | Seulpeumiyeo Annyeong | Lee Young-shim | KBS2 | |
Love and Sympathy | ์ฌ๋๊ณต๊ฐ | Sarang Gongkam | Hee-soo's mother | SBS | |
2006 | Love Truly | ์ง์ง ์ง์ง ์ข์ํด | Jinjja Jinjja Joahae | Goo Hyang-sook | MBC |
Pure in Heart | ์ด์ํ ์์ | Yeol Aheup Sunjeong | Yoon Myung-hye | KBS2 | |
What's Up Fox? | ์ฌ์ฐ์ผ ๋ญํ๋ | Yeowooya Mwohani | Jo Soon-nam | MBC | |
2007 | The Person I Love | ์ฌ๋ํ๋ ์ฌ๋์ | Saranghaneun Saramah | Yoon Min-ja | SBS |
The Golden Age of Daughters-in-Law | ๋ฉฐ๋๋ฆฌ ์ ์ฑ์๋ | Myoneuri Jeonseongshidae | Seo Mi-soon | KBS2 | |
2008 | Chunja's Happy Events | ์ถ์๋ค ๊ฒฝ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ค | Chunjane Kyeongsanatnye | Yang Boon-hee | MBC |
Worlds Within | ๊ทธ๋ค์ด ์ฌ๋ ์ธ์ | Keudeuli Saneun Sesang | Oh Min-sook | KBS2 | |
2009 | The Road Home | ์ง์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ๊ธธ | Jibeuro Ganeun Gil | Nam Soon-jung | KBS1 |
Heading to the Ground | ๋งจ๋ ์ ํค๋ฉ | Maen Ddange Heding | Ae-ja | MBC | |
2010 | Golden Fish | ํฉ๊ธ๋ฌผ๊ณ ๊ธฐ | Hwanggeum Mulgoki | Jo Yoon-hee | MBC |
Home Sweet Home | ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ด ๋์ ์ง | Jeulgeowoon Naui Jib | Sung Eun-sook | MBC | |
2011 | Can You Hear My Heart? | ๋ด ๋ง์์ด ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ | Naemaeumyi Deulrini | Hwang Soon-geum | MBC |
2012 | My Husband Got a Family | ๋์ฟจ์งธ ๊ตด๋ฌ์จ ๋น์ | Neongkuljjae Gulleoon Danshin | Uhm Chung-ae | KBS2 |
The King 2 Hearts | ๋ํน ํฌํ์ธ | Deokingtuheocheu | Bang Young-sun | MBC | |
2013 | The Queen's Classroom | ์ฌ์์ ๊ต์ค | Yeowangui Kyosil | Yong Hyun-ja | MBC |
Sisters Over Flowers | ๊ฝ๋ณด๋ค ๋๋ | Ggotboda Nuna | Herself | tvN | |
2014 | Wonderful Days | ์ฐธ ์ข์ ์์ | Cham Joheun Sijeol | Jang So-shim | KBS2 |
Awards and nominations
Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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1969 | TBC Drama Awards | Best New Talent[15] | Mister Gong | Won |
1971 | 4th Sitges Film Festival | Best Actress | Woman of Fire | Won |
10th Grand Bell Awards | Best New Actress | Won | ||
8th Blue Dragon Film Awards | Best Actress | Won | ||
1992 | 19th Korean Broadcasting Awards | Best Female Talent[15] | Bun-rye's Story | Won |
2003 | 4th Busan Film Critics Awards | Best Supporting Actress | A Good Lawyer's Wife | Won |
2nd Korean Film Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Won | ||
2004 | 3rd Korean Film Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Springtime | Nominated |
2005 | KBS Drama Awards | Best Actress in a One-Act Special/Drama | Becoming a Popular Song | Won |
2010 | 18th Chunsa Film Art Awards | Best Supporting Actress | The Housemaid | Won |
11th Busan Film Critics Awards | Best Actress | The Housemaid, Ha Ha Ha, Actresses | Won | |
43rd Sitges Film Festival | Maria Honorifica Award | N/A | Won | |
6th People Who Make the World Brighter Awards | Recipient, Culture and Arts category | N/A | Won | |
19th Buil Film Awards | Best Supporting Actress | The Housemaid | Won | |
47th Grand Bell Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Won | ||
8th Korean Film Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Won | ||
31st Blue Dragon Film Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Won | ||
12th Cinemanila International Film Festival | Best Actress | Won | ||
2011 | 8th Max Movie Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Won | |
5th Asian Film Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Won | ||
2012 | 21st Buil Film Awards | Best Supporting Actress | The Taste of Money | Nominated |
5th Korea Drama Awards | Grand Prize (Daesang) | My Husband Got a Family | Nominated | |
KBS Drama Awards | Top Excellence Award, Actress | Nominated | ||
Excellence Award, Actress in a Serial Drama | Won | |||
2013 | 50th Grand Bell Awards | Best Actress | Boomerang Family | Nominated |
2014 | KBS Drama Awards | Top Excellence Award, Actress | Wonderful Days | Nominated |
References
- โ ์ค์ฌ์ [Yoon Yeo-jeong]. Korean Movie Database (in Korean). Retrieved 2010-02-09.
- โ 2.0 2.1 "YOUN Yuh-jung". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2012-02-09.
- โ 1970๋ ๋ '์ถฉ๋ฌด๋ก ๋๋ฒจ ๋ฐ๊ทธ' ์ค์ฌ์ . The Dong-a Ilbo (in Korean). Retrieved 2010-02-09.
- โ Beck, Una (11 December 2009). "INTERVIEW: Yoon Yeo-jung - Part 1". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-12-19.
- โ Beck, Una (11 December 2009). "INTERVIEW: Yoon Yeo-jung - Part 2". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-12-19.
- โ Beck, Una (11 December 2009). "INTERVIEW: Yoon Yeo-jung - Part 3". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-12-19.
- โ Beck, Una (7 June 2010). "Yoon Yeo-jung's Movie Picks". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-12-19.
- โ Kim, Hyo-eun; Cho, Jae-eun (18 May 2012). "At 64, Yoon Yeo-jeong won't let age get in the way of a sex scene". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2012-11-20.
- โ Huh, Nam-woong (8 February 2013). "A FAMILY REUNION Shows the Happiness of a Troubled Family". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- โ Sunwoo, Carla (29 November 2013). "Hit travel show tries with 'sisters'". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- โ Jin, Eun-soo (20 March 2015). "Actors reunite 45 years later to play love birds". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2015-04-09.
- โ "Yoon Yeo-jeong, "Being an actress is selfish"". Newsis via Hancinema. 30 March 2015. Retrieved 2015-04-09.
- โ Lee, Seung-mi (14 April 2015). "Youn looks back on 40-year career". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2015-04-14.
- โ Kim, June (27 January 2015). "YOUN Yuh-jung and KIM Go-eun Play Family". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- โ 15.0 15.1 In South Korea, "talent" refers to television actor or actress.
External links
- Youn Yuh-jung Fan Cafe at Daum (Korean)
- Youn Yuh-jung at the Korean Movie Database
- Youn Yuh-jung at the Internet Movie Database
- Youn Yuh-jung at HanCinema
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