Youn Yuh-jung

Q: Has Youn Yuh-jung won any major awards?

Yes, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in 'Minari' in 2021, along with several other prestigious awards throughout her career.

Q: What was Youn Yuh-jung's first film?

Her film debut was in 'The Woman of Fire' in 1971, which marked the beginning of her prolific acting career.

Q: How many children does Youn Yuh-jung have?

Youn Yuh-jung has two children. One of her children is actress Youn Yuh-jung, who has also made a name for herself in the industry.

Q: What is Youn Yuh-jung's estimated net worth?

Youn Yuh-jung's estimated net worth is around 5 million USD, reflecting her successful career in acting.

Q: What acting style is Youn Yuh-jung known for?

Youn Yuh-jung is known for her emotive and nuanced performances, often bringing depth and authenticity to her characters.

Q: What television shows has Youn Yuh-jung appeared in?

She has appeared in several popular Korean dramas, including 'Dear My Friends' and 'The Beauty Inside', showcasing her versatility as an actress.

Q: What are some career highlights for Youn Yuh-jung?

Some highlights include her Oscar win for 'Minari', her role in 'The Housemaid', and her extensive work in both film and television over the decades.

Known for

Pachinko (2022–)

IMDb 8.3 / 10

2022– / Drama / N/A

Follow the hopes and dreams of four generations of a Korean immigrant family beginning with a forbidden love and crescendos into a sweeping saga...

Beef (2003)

2003 / Documentary, Music / 103mins

A documentary on the evolution of MC battles from verbal one-upmanship to street warfare.

Name

Youn Yuh-jung

Height

5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)

Born

18 August 1947, Gangwon-do, South Korea

Spouses

Lee Jae-hyung (1974–2020)

Children

2, including actress Youn Yuh-jung

Parents

Youn Jae-sook, Youn Jeong-hee

Estimated Net Worth

5 million USD

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2025	Movie The Wedding Banquet Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris and running out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their...	Ja-Young	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2024	TV Sohn's Questions	Self	Not rated
2024	Movie Earl. Earl. profiles the inspiring and complex life of an unknown, brilliant American composer. Earl's story crosses boundaries from classical music...	Self	Not rated
2024	Movie Dog Days Min-sang, a meticulous planner and tidy single man, is frustrated daily by his tenant, Jin-young, a veterinarian who turns his...	Min-seo	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2023	TV Nattering with Nah	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2023	TV BEEF A road rage incident between two strangers — a failing contractor and an unfulfilled entrepreneur — sparks a feud that...	Chairwoman Park	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2022	TV Youn's Unexpected Journey Youn Yuh-jung spends days in L.A. continuing her global acting career after Minari and Pachinko. Lee Seo-jin joins the show...	Self	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2022	TV Pachinko This sweeping saga chronicles the hopes and dreams of a Korean immigrant family across four generations as they leave their...	Older Sunja	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2022	TV The Boys Presents: Diabolical From some of the most unhinged and maniacal minds in Hollywood today comes this animated anthology series, a collection of...	Sun-Hee (voice)	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2021	Movie Heaven: To the Land of Happiness In order to find the last happiness of his life, inmate 203 escapes from prison. Nam-sik is poor and sick....	Ms. Yoon	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2021	Movie Be a Wicked Woman Two housewives, wounded by their husbands' betrayals, meet by chance. They decide to carry out "exchange murders" and work towards...	Ms. Choi	TMDB 3.0 / 10
2021	Movie Minari A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of...	Soonja	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2021	TV Next Entertainment, Visionary	Self	Not rated
2021	TV Youn Stay A spin-off of “Youn’s Kitchen,” the upcoming reality program is set in a traditional Korean guesthouse in South Jeolla Province....	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2020	Movie Lucky Chan-sil With the death of her long-time director, Chan-sil, a film producer, is now unemployed. While working as a cleaning lady...	Grandmother	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2020	Movie Beasts Clawing at Straws A struggling restaurant owner, caring for his sick mom, finds a bag of cash in a sauna locker, while a...	Soon-ja	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2019	TV Never Twice An old stately inn stands in the heart of Seoul. It may be old, discolored, and weathered, but Nakwon Inn...	Bok Mak-Rye	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2019	TV Modern Korea The documentary series were made to look back on Korea’s modern history. It tells stories of specific moments in time...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2019	TV The Kelly Clarkson Show Kelly Clarkson presents the biggest newsmakers and names in film, television and music; as well as emerging new talent and...	Self	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2018	TV You Quiz on the Block Yoo Jae-suk and Jo Se-ho who enter ordinary people's everyday lives, chat with them, and give them surprise quizzes! The...	Self	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2018	Movie Keys to the Heart An older brother is a washed-up boxer. His younger brother is a genius pianist with physical disability. The brothers make...	In-sook	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2017	TV Master In The House Almost everyone has a question regarding life and the goal of life. In order to find the answer, the four...	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2017	Movie Ladies Of The Forest Soon-shim, a spinster from an unknown planet, comes to the Earth to find her husband. However, no man is in...	Soon-shim	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2017	TV Youn's Kitchen Follow the cast in their journey to Gili Trawangan, a tropical island in Indonesia, where they open a pop-up restaurant...	Self	TMDB 8.9 / 10
2016	Movie The Bacchus Lady So-young, an elderly prostitute working in Seoul, tries to take care of a young Korean-Filipino child she meets in a...	So-young	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2016	Movie Canola A girl who went missing after an accident returns 10 years later and reunites with her grandmother.	Gye-choon	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2016	TV Dear My Friends Life is ever-delightful — and ever-challenging — for a group of friends in their twilight years as they rediscover themselves...	Oh Choong-nam	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2015	Movie Right Now, Wrong Then By mistake, film director Ham Chunsu arrives in Suwon a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the...	Kang Deoksoo	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2015	Movie Intimate Enemies Four strangers discover a bag full of money which belongs to a corrupt politician. Instead of using the money for...	Yeo-jung	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2015	TV Sense8 One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world,...	Min-Jung	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2015	TV The Producers A rookie producer joins the Korean Broadcasting System to be near his secret crush and enters the madcap world of...	Self	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2015	Movie Salut d'Amour Sung-chil works at the Jang-soo Store which is owned by Jang-soo. Sung-chil is stubborn and has a bad temper, but...	Geum-nim	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2014	TV Three Meals a Day: Jeongseon Village Celebrities are chosen to live for three days a week in a rural setting. They are required to use their...	Self	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2014	Movie Hill of Freedom Kwon returns to Seoul from a restorative stay in the mountains. She is given a packet of letters left by...	Innkeeper	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2014	TV Wonderful Days Dong-Suk grew up as a smart young boy, but came from a poor family background. He is now a successful...	Jang So-sim	TMDB 3.9 / 10
2013	TV Noonas Over Flowers Singer/Actor/MC Lee Seung Gi accompanies four of Korea's top actresses—Yoon Yeo-Jung, Kim Ja-Ok, Kim Hee-Ae and Lee Mi-Yeon—on a trip...	Self	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2013	TV The Queen's Classroom A lot of stories unfold when Ms. Ma, a cold-hearted witch, becomes a homeroom teacher at an elementary school.	Yong Hyun-ja	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2013	Movie Boomerang Family Based on an original written by Cheon Myeong-gwan, a 48 year-old movie director moves into the house where his mother...	Mother	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2013	Movie Behind the Camera An odd director leaves for Hollywood to shoot a film via Skype and cellphones. 14 actors and actresses are devastated...	Self	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2012	Movie In Another Country A young woman and her mother run away to the seaside town of Mohang to escape their mounting debt. The...	Park Sook	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2012	Movie The Taste of Money The assistant of a wealthy socialite reveals her husband's salacious affair. The fallout entangles him in a web of sex,...	Baek Geum-ok	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2012	TV The King 2 Hearts Set in the constitutional monarchy in an imaginary South Korea, South Korea's Crown Prince Lee Jae Ha is forced to...	Bang Yang-seon (the Queen Mother)	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2012	TV My Husband Got a Family My Husband Got a Family centers on a working woman named Cha Yoon-hee as her husband, who was put up...	Uhm Chung-ae	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2012	TV 重複刪除	嚴清愛	Not rated
2011	Movie List While waiting at a seaside town with her mother for a relative, a young woman creates a list of things...	Mi-hye's Mother	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2011	Movie Hindsight A young assassin is sent to kill a retired mob boss. But things get complicated when she begins to like...	Madame Kang	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2011	TV Can You Hear My Heart? Can You Hear My Heart is a South Korean television drama broadcast by MBC starring Hwang Jung-eum, Kim Jae-won and...	Hwang Soon-geum	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2010	TV Home Sweet Home Kim Jinseo and Mo Yoonhee are high school classmates and rivals whose different family backgrounds shaped their characters and their...	Sung Eun-sook	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2010	Movie The Housemaid Eun-yi is hired as a maid in a mansion owned by a wealthy businessman. He quickly starts seducing his employee...	Byeong-sik a.k.a. Miss Cho	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2010	Movie Ha Ha Ha Over drinks, two friends agree to swap fond memories of their recent trips to the same seaside town. As the...	Moonkyung's Mother	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2010	TV Golden Fish Golden Fish is a 2010 South Korean television series starring Park Sang-won, Lee Tae-gon, Jo Yoon-hee, and So Yoo-jin. The...	Cho Yoon-hee	Not rated
2009	Movie The Actresses When six famous Korean actresses gather for a Vogue fashion photo shoot, egos collide in funny and touching ways in...	Youn Yuh-jung	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2009	TV Heading to the Ground Drama about a man trying to achieve what is thought to be impossible: fulfilling his dreams of being a great...	Ae Ja	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2009	TV The Road Home A simple yet heartwarming story of a three-generation family, The Road Home portrays the love and conflicts between family members running a...	Bam Soon-jung	TMDB 4.0 / 10
2008	TV Worlds Within Song Hye Gyo plays a PD Joo Joon Young who has bold and unstoppable personality. Hyun Bin also plays a...	Oh Min-suk	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2008	TV Chunja's Happy Events Chunja's Happy Events, also called Happy Events at Chunja's or Chunja's Special Day, was a Korean TV drama that aired...	Yang Boon-hee	Not rated
2008	Movie A Tale of Legendary Libido A monk gives an impaired man the secret to a strong arousal. The man had been teased and tortured until...	Old Woman	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2007	TV Daughters-in-Law Daughters-in-Law is a South Korean drama that aired from July 28, 2007 to January 20, 2008 in Korea by KBS2...	Seo Mi-soon	Not rated
2007	Movie Hwang Jin Yi Although born a daughter of an aristocratic family, Jin-yi discovers the secret behind her birth and enters into a life...	Old Woman	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2007	TV The Person I Love A ruthless producer's pursuit of success shatters his family, igniting romantic and professional rivalries as five siblings navigate love, betrayal,...	Yoon Min-ja	TMDB 3.0 / 10
2007	Movie The Old Garden Political activist Hyun-woo is released from prison after a 17-year stint. Journeying back to the village where he spent some...	Hyun-woo's Mother	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2006	Movie Maundy Thursday Yu-jeong is suicidal, yet she reluctantly goes to prison for volunteer work. There, she meets a prisoner who is waiting...	Sister Monica	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2006	TV Pure in Heart Yang Gook-hwa (Korean: 양 국화) is a nineteen-year-old country girl who leaves Yanbian and travels to Seoul because she is marrying Hong Soon-goo (Korean: 홍 순구),...	Myeong Hye	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2005	TV A Farewell to Sorrow This is a story about the unconditional and all-forgiving love of four brothers who after years of fighting and hatred...	Lee Yeon-sim	Not rated
2005	TV Be Strong, Geum-soon! This is a story of a young widow, Geum-Soon, who never becomes discouraged or blames other people - no matter...	Kim Jin-soon	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2005	Movie The President's Last Bang On October 26, 1979, President Park Chung-hee, who had ruled South Korea since 1961, was assassinated by his director of...	Mother	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2004	Movie Springtime A struggling musician takes a job teaching music to middle school children in a rural mining town.	Mother	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2004	TV Ireland Ireland is a 2004 South Korean television series starring Lee Na-young, Kim Min-joon, Kim Min-jung and Hyun Bin. It aired...	Shi Yeon's Mother	TMDB 8.9 / 10
2003	TV Pearl Necklace 진주 목걸이는 KBS 2TV에서 2003년 9월 20일부터 2004년 3월 14일까지 매주 토,일 저녁 19시 55분에 방영되었던 주말 드라마이다.	Yoon Hae-Myung	Not rated
2003	Movie A Good Lawyer's Wife A woman, married and with a child but becoming increasingly distant from her husband who is already cheating on her,...	Hong Byeong-han	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2002	TV Ruler of Your Own World Ruler of Your Own World is an MBC Korean drama series. It was written by In Jung-ok and directed by...	정유순	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2002	TV Who's My Love?	In-ae	Not rated
2001	TV 사랑은 이런거야 It is a drama that gets the sympathy of an unspecified number of people and satisfies their needs.	Lee Jung-Ja	Not rated
2001	TV Hotelier Hotelier is a 2001 South Korean television drama series set in Seoul Hotel, a fictional five-star hotel undergoing an expensive...	Yoon Bong-sook	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1999	TV Hur Jun Hur Jun is a 2000 TV biographical drama broadcast by the South Korean TV channel MBC. It was aired by...	Sung In-cheol's wife	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1999	TV Did We Really Love? Did We Really Love? is a South Korean drama series broadcast by MBC in 1999. Starring Korean superstar Bae Yong...	Choi Hye-ja	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1999	TV KAIST A situation drama on students of Korea Advanced Science and Technology. The story of love, agony and endless research of...	Professor	Not rated
1997	TV 내가 사는 이유	손미나	Not rated
1996	TV Open Your Heart A drama about Tae Min, a lifelong bachelor who runs a publishing company, and Yoo Da Young, a cute and...	Choi Soon Joo	Not rated
1995	TV 목욕탕집 남자들	Roh Hye-young	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1993	TV 산다는 것은	Unknown character	Not rated
1993	TV How's Your Husband?	Unknown character	Not rated
1992	TV 여자의 방	Unknown character	Not rated
1991	TV What is Love? "What is Love" centers around two close families with sharply contrasting values. One consists of medical resident Lee Dae Bal,...	Han Sim-ae	Not rated
1991	TV MBC Bests Theater	정혜	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1990	TV 배반의 장미	옥선	Not rated
1987	TV KBS Drama Awards The KBS Drama Awards is an awards ceremony presented by the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) for outstanding achievements in Korean...	Host	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1985	Movie Woman Requiem After the rape and subsequent suicide of a college student, her mother takes revenge on those responsible.	Ms. Hong	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1978	Movie The Day and Night of a Korean-American	Mrs. Hyun	Not rated
1973	Movie Tto Sun Yi, a college girl	Bok-nyeo	Not rated
1972	Movie Insect Woman A schoolgirl goes from braids to bouffant when her mother makes her a bar hostess/prostitute. She cures impotence for Professor...	Myung-ja	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1971	Movie Woman of Fire The lives of a composer and his wife, who live on a chicken farm, are thrown into turmoil when a...	Myeong-ja	TMDB 4.8 / 10
1953	TV The Oscars An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
TBA	Movie 남은정	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie Haesol: The Soul Guide's Journey In Korean funerary tradition, when a person dies, their soul must cross a river called Samdocheon within three days to...	Yoosun (voice)	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2009	Movie The Actresses When six famous Korean actresses gather for a Vogue fashion photo shoot, egos collide in funny and touching ways in...	Co-Writer Writing	TMDB 6.9 / 10

The Wedding Banquet

2025 / TMDB 6.7

Earl.

2024

Dog Days

2024 / TMDB 7.6

Heaven: To the Land of Happiness

2021 / TMDB 7.0

Be a Wicked Woman

2021 / TMDB 3.0

Minari

2021 / TMDB 7.3

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