Youn Yuh-jung

This is a Korean name; the family name is Youn.
Youn Yuh-jung
Born June 19, 1947
Gaesong-bu, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
Other names Yoon Yeo-jeong
Occupation Actress
Years active 1966โ€“present
Spouse(s) Jo Young-nam (1975-1987; divorced)
Korean name
Hangul ์œค์—ฌ์ •
Hanja ๅฐนๆฑ่ฒž
Revised Romanization Yun Yeo-jeong
McCuneโ€“Reischauer Yun Yว’-chว’ng

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
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•œ Choi Ha-won
Tto Sun Yi, a College Girl ์—ฌ๋Œ€์ƒ ๋˜์ˆœ์ด Yeodaesaeng Ttosuni Jeong In-yeob
1978 The Day and Night of a Korean-American ์ฝ”๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ์นธ์˜ ๋‚ฎ๊ณผ ๋ฐค Komelikan-ui najgwa bam Hong Ui-bong
1985 Mother ์—๋ฏธ Eomi Mrs. Hong Park Chul-soo
1990 Be a Wicked Woman ์ฒœ์‚ฌ์—ฌ ์•…๋…€๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋ผ Cheonsayeo agnyeoga doela Kim Ki-young
1995 An Experience to Die For ์ฃฝ์–ด๋„ ์ข‹์€ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ Jugeodo Joeun gyeongheom Choi Yeo-jung Kim Ki-young
2003 A Good Lawyer's Wife ๋ฐ”๋žŒ๋‚œ ๊ฐ€์กฑ Baramnan Gajok Hong Byeong-han Im Sang-soo
2004 Springtime ๊ฝƒํ”ผ๋Š” ๋ด„์ด ์˜ค๋ฉด Ggotpineun bomi omyeon Hyun-woo's mother Ryu Jang-ha
2005 The President's Last Bang ๊ทธ๋•Œ ๊ทธ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค Geuttae Geusaramdeul Yoon-hee's mother/Epilogue narration Im Sang-soo
2006 Maundy Thursday ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋“ค์˜ ํ–‰๋ณตํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ Woorideului Haengbokhan Sigan Sister Monica Song Hae-sung
2007 The Old Garden ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ์ •์› Oraedoin Jeongwon Hyun-woo's mother Im Sang-soo
Hwang Jin-yi ํ™ฉ์ง„์ด Hwang Jini Old woman Jang Yoon-hyun
2008 A Tale of Legendary Libido ๊ฐ€๋ฃจ์ง€๊ธฐ Garujigi Old woman Shin Han-sol
2009 Actresses ์—ฌ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋“ค 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 ์†Œ๊ธˆ Pureun Sogeum Madame Kang Lee Hyun-seung
List (short film) ๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ Hong Sang-soo
2012 The Taste of Money ๋ˆ์˜ ๋ง› Don-eui Mat Baek Geum-ok Im Sang-soo
In Another Country ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋‚˜๋ผ์—์„œ Dareun Narayeseo Park Sook Hong Sang-soo
2013 Behind the Camera ๋’ท๋‹ดํ™”: ๊ฐ๋…์ด ๋ฏธ์ณค์–ด์š” Herself E J-yong
Boomerang Family ๊ณ ๋ นํ™”๊ฐ€์กฑ Goryeonghwa Gajok Mom Song Hae-sung
2014 Hill of Freedom ์ž์œ ์˜ ์–ธ๋• Jayuui Eondeok Gu-ok Hong Sang-soo
2015 Salut d'Amour ์žฅ์ˆ˜์ƒํšŒ Jangsusanghwe Im Geum-nim Kang Je-gyu
Grandmother Gye-choon ๊ณ„์ถ˜ํ• ๋ง Gyechunhalmang Gye-choon Chang

Television series

Year English title Hangul Romanization Role Network
1967 Mister Gong ๋ฏธ์Šคํ„ฐ ๊ณต TBC
1970 ๊ฐ•๋ณ€ ์‚ด์ž MBC
River of Love and Sorrow ์‚ฌ๋ž‘๊ณผ ์Šฌํ””์˜ ๊ฐ• MBC
Maria Park ๋ฐ•๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์•„ MBC
1971 Jang Hui-bin ์žฅํฌ๋นˆ Jang Hui-bin Hui-bin Jang MBC
1972 Rainbow ๋ฌด์ง€๊ฐœ President Han's daughter MBC
Daewongun ๋Œ€์›๊ตฐ Daewongun Empress Myeongseong MBC
Stepmother ์ƒˆ์—„๋งˆ Eun-hye MBC
1976 Girl's High School Days ์—ฌ๊ณ  ๋™์ฐฝ์ƒ MBC
1984 MBC Bestseller Theater "๊ณ ๊น”" MBC ๋ฒ ์ŠคํŠธ์…€๋Ÿฌ๊ทน์žฅ - ๊ณ ๊น” MBC
1985 Mom's Room ์—„๋งˆ์˜ ๋ฐฉ MBC
1986 First Love ์ฒซ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ Cheot Sarang MBC
1987 Love and Ambition ์‚ฌ๋ž‘๊ณผ ์•ผ๋ง Song Hye-joo MBC
1988 Sand Castle ๋ชจ๋ž˜์„ฑ Kim Jin-ae MBC
People from Wonmi-dong ์›๋ฏธ๋™ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค MBC
1989 Fetters of Love ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์˜ ๊ตด๋ ˆ KBS2
์ฒ ์ƒˆ MBC
Sleepless Tree ์ž ๋“ค์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๋‚˜๋ฌด Jamdeulji Anneun Namu Dance school teacher MBC
1990 ๊ฒ€์ƒ์ด์˜ ๋‹ฌ KBS2
Betrayal of the Rose ๋ฐฐ๋ฐ˜์˜ ์žฅ๋ฏธ Ok-sun MBC
1991 What Is Love ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ด ๋ญ๊ธธ๋ž˜ Sarangi Mwogilrae Han Shim-ae MBC
Another Happiness ๋˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ํ–‰๋ณต MBC
1992 Bun-rye's Story ๋ถ„๋ก€๊ธฐ Bunryegi Bun-rye's mother SBS
Gwanchon Essay ๊ด€์ดŒ ์ˆ˜ํ•„ SBS
Women's Room ์—ฌ์ž์˜ ๋ฐฉ MBC
1993 How's Your Husband? ๋Œ์˜ ๋‚จํŽธ์€ ์–ด๋– ์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? Daekui Nampyeoneun Eoddeoshimnikka Song Eun-nyeo SBS
To Live ์‚ฐ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ Pung-gae's mother SBS
1994 Farewell ์ž‘๋ณ„ Lee Shin-ae SBS
1995 Men of the Bath House ๋ชฉ์š•ํƒ•์ง‘ ๋‚จ์ž๋“ค Noh Hye-young KBS2
Your Voice ๊ทธ๋Œ€ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ Eon-nyeon-yi SBS
MBC Best Theater "Hospice Ajumma" ํ˜ธ์Šคํ”ผ์Šค ์•„์คŒ๋งˆ Jung-sook MBC
1996 Temptation ์œ ํ˜น Yuhok KBS2
๊ฐ„์ด์—ญ Ganyiyeok Gangneung restaurant owner MBC
Open Your Heart ๊ฐ€์Šด์„ ์—ด์–ด๋ผ Gaseumeul Yeoleora Choi Soon-joo MBC
1997 The Reason I Live ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ด์œ  Bar madam Son MBC
Woman Next Door ์ด์›ƒ์ง‘ ์—ฌ์ž SBS
MBC Best Theater
"Bok-soon's Boomerang"
MBC ๋ฒ ์ŠคํŠธ๊ทน์žฅ - ๋ณต์ˆœ์”จ์˜ ๋ถ€๋ฉ”๋ž‘ Actuary Bok-soon MBC
1998 Firstborn ๋ง์ด Choi Sook-ja MBC
Love Is All I Know ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ ๋ฐ–์—” ๋‚œ ๋ชฐ๋ผ MBC
Hong Gil-dong ํ™๊ธธ๋™ Hong Gil-dong In-ok's mother SBS
Lie ๊ฑฐ์ง“๋ง Geo-jit-mal Yoon Young-hee KBS2
Crush ์ง์‚ฌ๋ž‘ Jjak Sarang KBS2
1999 KAIST ์นด์ด์ŠคํŠธ Kaiseuteu Professor of Mechanical Engineering SBS
Did We Really Love? ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ •๋ง ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ–ˆ์„๊นŒ Uriga Jeongmal Saranghaesseulkka Choi Hye-ja MBC
Who Are You ๋‹น์‹ ์€ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์‹œ๊ธธ๋ž˜ Jung Shin-ae SBS
Hur Jun ํ—ˆ์ค€ 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 ์ž๊พธ๋งŒ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋„ค Lee Ok-bun SBS
2001 Stock Flower ๋น„๋‹จํ–ฅ๊ฝƒ๋ฌด Bidanhwang Ggotmo Ahn Jung-hee KBS2
Blue Mist ํ‘ธ๋ฅธ ์•ˆ๊ฐœ Pureun Angae Mi-soon KBS2
Hotelier ํ˜ธํ…”๋ฆฌ์–ด Hotelrieo Yoon Bong-sook MBC
Soon-ja ์ˆœ์ž Soon-ja Go Chang-daek SBS
MBC Best Theater "Walking With II" ๋™ํ–‰II Donghaeng II Geum-nyeo MBC
This Is Love ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์€ ์ด๋Ÿฐ๊ฑฐ์•ผ Lee Jung-ja KBS1
I Like Dong-seo ๋™์„œ๋Š” ์ข‹๊ฒ ๋„ค Choi Jong-sook KBS2
2002 Ruler of Your Own World ๋„ค ๋ฉ‹๋Œ€๋กœ ํ•ด๋ผ Ne meotdaero haera Jung Yoo-soon MBC
Affection ์ • Jeong Ms. Uhm SBS
Who's My Love? ๋‚ด์‚ฌ๋ž‘ ๋ˆ„๊ตด๊นŒ Nae Sarang Nogulkka? In-ae KBS2
2003 Dal-joong's Cinderella ๋‹ฌ์ค‘์”จ์˜ ์‹ ๋ฐ๋ ๋ผ Daljungssiui Cinderella Pal-soon KBS1
Pearl Necklace ์ง„์ฃผ๋ชฉ๊ฑธ์ด Yoon Hae-myung KBS2
One Million Roses ๋ฐฑ๋งŒ์†ก์ด ์žฅ๋ฏธ Baekmansongi Jangmi Choi Geum-ja MBC
Rose Fence ์žฅ๋ฏธ์šธํƒ€๋ฆฌ Mrs. Heo KBS2
On the Prairie ์ € ํ‘ธ๋ฅธ ์ดˆ์›์œ„์— Jeo Pureum Jowonwiae Kim Jeom-hee KBS2
2004 Ireland ์•„์ผ๋žœ๋“œ Aillaendeu Shi-yeon's mother MBC
War of the Roses ์žฅ๋ฏธ์˜ ์ „์Ÿ Jangmiui Jeonjaeng Heo Young-shim MBC
Drama City "Our Ham" ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํ–„ Uri Ham Grandma KBS2
2005 Becoming a Popular Song ์œ ํ–‰๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋ฆฌ Oh Sook-young KBS2
Be Strong, Geum-soon! ๊ตณ์„ธ์–ด๋ผ ๊ธˆ์ˆœ์•„ Gutseeora Geumsunah Geum-soon's grandmother MBC
A Farewell to Sorrow ์Šฌํ””์ด์—ฌ์•ˆ๋…• Seulpeumiyeo Annyeong Lee Young-shim KBS2
Love and Sympathy ์‚ฌ๋ž‘๊ณต๊ฐ Sarang Gongkam Hee-soo's mother SBS
2006 Love Truly ์ง„์งœ ์ง„์งœ ์ข‹์•„ํ•ด Jinjja Jinjja Joahae Goo Hyang-sook MBC
Pure in Heart ์—ด์•„ํ™‰ ์ˆœ์ • Yeol Aheup Sunjeong Yoon Myung-hye KBS2
What's Up Fox? ์—ฌ์šฐ์•ผ ๋ญํ•˜๋‹ˆ Yeowooya Mwohani Jo Soon-nam MBC
2007 The Person I Love ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์•„ Saranghaneun Saramah Yoon Min-ja SBS
The Golden Age of Daughters-in-Law ๋ฉฐ๋Š๋ฆฌ ์ „์„ฑ์‹œ๋Œ€ Myoneuri Jeonseongshidae Seo Mi-soon KBS2
2008 Chunja's Happy Events ์ถ˜์ž๋„ค ๊ฒฝ์‚ฌ๋‚ฌ๋„ค Chunjane Kyeongsanatnye Yang Boon-hee MBC
Worlds Within ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์„ธ์ƒ Keudeuli Saneun Sesang Oh Min-sook KBS2
2009 The Road Home ์ง‘์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ธธ Jibeuro Ganeun Gil Nam Soon-jung KBS1
Heading to the Ground ๋งจ๋•…์— ํ—ค๋”ฉ Maen Ddange Heding Ae-ja MBC
2010 Golden Fish ํ™ฉ๊ธˆ๋ฌผ๊ณ ๊ธฐ Hwanggeum Mulgoki Jo Yoon-hee MBC
Home Sweet Home ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์šด ๋‚˜์˜ ์ง‘ Jeulgeowoon Naui Jib Sung Eun-sook MBC
2011 Can You Hear My Heart? ๋‚ด ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๋“ค๋ฆฌ๋‹ˆ Naemaeumyi Deulrini Hwang Soon-geum MBC
2012 My Husband Got a Family ๋„์ฟจ์งธ ๊ตด๋Ÿฌ์˜จ ๋‹น์‹  Neongkuljjae Gulleoon Danshin Uhm Chung-ae KBS2
The King 2 Hearts ๋”ํ‚น ํˆฌํ•˜์ธ  Deokingtuheocheu Bang Young-sun MBC
2013 The Queen's Classroom ์—ฌ์™•์˜ ๊ต์‹ค Yeowangui Kyosil Yong Hyun-ja MBC
Sisters Over Flowers ๊ฝƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋ˆ„๋‚˜ Ggotboda Nuna Herself tvN
2014 Wonderful Days ์ฐธ ์ข‹์€ ์‹œ์ ˆ Cham Joheun Sijeol Jang So-shim KBS2

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Nominated work Result
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

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