Known for Acting
Born
November 1, 1959 (age 66)
Birthplace
Paju, South Korea
Filmography
38 films, 55 shows


Mismatch
2026 · 1h 41m
country: South Korea
Bong-soo loses his memories from an accident, which disables him to recognize his family. Due to this condition, and his ever-increasing odd behaviors, his relationships get mixed up. He treats his wife as his daughter and mistakes her daughter for a friend. Ironically, his friends and family start to accept the situation as they derive some comfort and warmth from it.


Risk Society
2025 · 1h 40m
country: South Korea
Young-gil, a courier driver, wins a lot of money at a casino and proposes to Harim. After a while, he entrusts the truck to the pawnbroker Jeong-seop and returns to Seoul, losing even the 10 million won he borrowed. Young-gil eventually loses 10 million won borrowed from Harim's mother. Hitchhiking with a promise to get to Harim quickly, Young-gil gets into Jin-su's car. Yeong-gil rolls around Jin-su in the field to steal his handbag and car. Young-gil, who decides to drive to Samcheok as an apology and suggestion for Jin-su, finds the body of Jeong-seop in the trunk of his car.


Silver Apricot
2025 · 1h 59m
country: South Korea
Jung-seo, who is planning on getting married, wins an apartment subscription, which is almost like winning a lottery. Not being able to pay the deposit, she makes a begrudging visit to her father for money, who had divorced her mother without paying any alimony. But when she meets his new family, everything gets messed up due to different desires of each of them. In the unexpected chaos, Jung-seo gradually faces what they really want, and most importantly, what she wants deep inside herself.


The Distributors
2022 · 1h 41m
country: South Korea
A crime thriller about a man who spent a night with a strange woman who doesn't even know his name before getting married.


Female Wars: The Man Who Moved In
2016 · 1h 42m
country: Unknown
Min-jeong lives a simple but happy life until it's in ruins because of the man that moves in next to her. The man is Deok-man, someone she wants to erase from her memories. She knows what he's up to next and she plans to take revenge on him.


Heartbreak Hotel
2015 · 1h 27m
country: South Korea
John (Kang Ji-Hwan) travels to Los Angeles and saves a gang boss. He also meets Sarah (Yoon Jin-Seo), the girlfriend of the gang boss. John and Sarah fall for each other.


Quo Vadis
2014
country: South Korea
The church is the body of Christ. In Greece, the church embodied a philosophy. Then in Rome, it became an institution. Spreading throughout Europe, it became one with the culture there. Traveling to the US, the church became a business. And when it arrived in Korea, it became a conglomerate. The top five largest churches in the world are located in Korea. However, Christ has long been absent in the nation. So then, what is the church? Who is Jesus Christ? What kind of world do Christians want? If the church is indeed the body of Christ, then we must ask the questions point-blank. Where do we stand in all this? And where exactly are we headed? Korean churches—“Quo Vadis?” Korean society—“Quo Vadis?”


Revivre
2014 · 1h 29m
country: South Korea
A middle-aged man who has recently lost his wife to cancer indulges in fantasies about a young woman at his work, in the new film from Korean master Im Kwon-taek.


26 Years
2012 · 2h 15m
country: South Korea
Three relatives of victims come together to get revenge on a murderer twenty-six years after the massacre. The man had killed groups of people in the 1980 Gwangju murders.


Rememberance of MB
2012
country: South Korea
The public yearns for a hero who will solve the economic crisis, and MB bursts onto the scene. However, what made voters excited now makes them disappointed. How the then voters were seen from the MB’s perspective? A political documentary that makes people laugh and cry.


The Concubine
2012 · 2h 2m
country: South Korea
Living a torturous life of poverty and barely able to survive, Hwa-yeon decides to offer herself as one of the king’s concubines. Once inside the royal palace, two men are immediately seized by the woman - the Grand Prince Seong-won, a megalomaniacal ruler drunk with power and lust, and Kwon-yoo, who has everything to lose if his desire for Hwa-yeon is exposed.


Shotgun Love
2011 · 1h 52m
country: Hong Kong
Sang-yeol, a 30-something loser stuck in a dead-end job as a home-shopping model, is able to marry the girl of his dreams - his modeling colleague So-yeon - when he discovers she's pregnant with his child. But after marriage an even bigger discovery awaits: the child isn't his - in fact he's still a virgin, and he might even be gay...


My Father
2007 · 1h 47m
country: South Korea
A U.S. soldier comes to Korea and tracks down his biological father in jail.


Mr. Wacky
2006 · 1h 37m
country: South Korea
In order to inherit his grandfather's fortune, an incorrigible playboy agrees to teach high school for two years in Mr. Wacky, a bland, mostly irritating comedy from newbie director Kim Dong-Wook. To its credit, the film improves considerably in its second half, but by that time, some will likely find that it's a case of too little, too late.


Face
2004 · 1h 32m
country: South Korea
A serial killer is burning away the flesh of his victims with acid, leaving only the bones behind. The police turn to Hyun-min, a former forensic sculptor adept in reconstructing faces by examining and interpreting skulls. With the victim's bones in his house, Hyun-min's daughter begins to experience disturbing visions. As he races against time to find the answers and save his daughter, the deadly truth behind these victims reveals a sinister conspiracy that threatens everyone involved.


The Road Taken
2003 · 1h 48m
country: South Korea
Kim Sunmyung, a man with communist beliefs who refused to recant his ideals, would ultimately serve more than 42 years in prison. Based on a true story, the film tells of personal conviction and dignity.


R.U. Ready?
2002 · 1h 48m
country: South Korea
Six people from different backgrounds find themselves fighting for their lives when they are swept up into a fantasy adventure in a theme park, where the dangers are real, the supernatural is the norm, and escape is next to impossible. They must pool their resources and skills in order to survive the jungle setting, if they are ever to return to their own world.


Bet On My Disco
2002 · 1h 46m
country: South Korea
When her father has a terrible accident a girl is forced to work as a hostess in a popular disco bar owned by a powerful gangster. Her brother tries to free her, but the gangster refuses and instead sets the brother, a bad dancer, an impossible challenge: if he wants to free his sister, he must win an upcoming disco contest!


4 Toes
2002 · 1h 31m
country: Unknown
The story involves four friends who become gangsters. As the film progresses they gain power and eventually find their way to Seoul. Being well-known as tough guys, Audie, Haetae, Lecaf and Gak Granger are high school classmates who took a pledge of brotherhood. Lecaf who is good at studying goes to Seoul right after the high school graduation, while his "brothers" gradually build up their power in the gang and get a chance to go to Seoul.


Public Enemy
2002 · 2h 18m
country: South Korea
A notorious dirty cop makes an honest attempt to catch a serial killer who even murdered his own parents.


The Humanist
2001 · 1h 35m
country: South Korea
Te-o begins life as a lonely son of a high-ranking officer. He buys his friends with money and ice cream. Eventually two of these boys, the orphans Euglena and Amoeba, become real friends. Years later, Te-o abandons his overseas education and returns home. He finds Euglena making a living as an artist the hulking Amoeba had suffered a head injury which has arrested his mental development. After drinking, the three friends are stopped by a police officer. The police officer is accidently killed by a garbage dumpster and, even though the Te-o, Euglena, and Amoeba are innocent, the policeman's partner demands that they pay 20 million dollars in return for their freedom. From there is becomes a comedy of kidnapping, corruption, and chaos.


Dream of a Warrior
2001 · 1h 40m
country: South Korea
When Dean a young detective, falls for a woman who seems to appear only in his dreams. When Dean discovers his amour is the real-life daughter of a Dr. Jang and that the been trapped in a time warp, he journeys back in time to save her. But first he must fend off a few hordes of superhuman swordsmen.


Just Do It!
2000 · 1h 33m
country: South Korea
Drowning in debt and evicted from their house, a family of four comfort themselves with a few drinks at a food cart. The drunken father stumbles off to take a leak and gets hit by a truck. Their saving grace? Insurance! They find themselves with a slightly injured father, a handful of insurance money, and an ingenious new way to get rich quick. One by one, they find new ways to hurt themselves, making enough money to buy their dream house. Their luck almost runs out when an insurance investigator finds out the truth, but with a beautiful daughter and a very loose dressing gown, the family traps him and forces him to marry her. All five of them are determined to get one last big payoff… life insurance. The only question is, who dies?


The Siren
2000 · 1h 42m
country: South Korea
Joon-woo is a passionate fireman who always pursues danger. Hyun believes rational judgement is the only way to save people in danger. The first day at their work place, Joon-woo jumps into the fire to save stranded people in the building in spite of an evacuation order and Hyun tries to stop him. They came to fight. Meanwhile, Ye-rin loves Joon-woo more than he loves himself...


Dal Segno
2000 · 35m
country: South Korea
In the morning, taxi driver Ahn Seong-il, whose cab has gone missing, hears a suspicious account from a fellow driver who claims to have seen it at dawn. He goes to the location, but the taxi is nowhere to be found. Exhausted, Seong-il enters a motel room filled with deep memories of his vanished wife, where he encounters once again a young girl who lives there. (Jeonju International Film Festival)


End of the Century
1999 · 1h 42m
country: South Korea
An intricately put together story that brings to the screen Korea's most sensitive issues. Through the lives of various Seoulites, the film features an unfettered look into Korea's modern society by presenting them into four chapters - Moratorium, Amorality, Moral Hazard, and Y2K.


Tell Me Something
1999 · 1h 58m
country: South Korea
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.


Doctor K
1999 · 1h 47m
country: South Korea
Terminally ill patients are magically cured by a neurosurgeon who transfers their tumors to his own brain.


Paradise Lost
1998 · 1h 40m
country: South Korea
A couple fall deeply in love. Unfortunately, they are both already married to other people. The resulting affair leads to the man losing his job. Both divorce their spouses, but while travelling together, they decide that the only way for them to be perfectly happy is for them to commit double suicide.


No. 3
1997 · 1h 48m
country: South Korea
Tae-joo manages to rise in rank in a gang for saving the boss's life. However, prosecutor Dong-pal appears in front of him as his sworn enemy. Meanwhile, Jo-pil wants to get rid of Tae-joo's gang, training for revenge. The three men's goals intertwine.


The Real Man
1996 · 1h 47m
country: South Korea
A car salesman decides to escape from his mundane life so he steals a convertible from his boss and sets off on the highways of Korea in search of adventure.


A Petal
1996 · 1h 41m
country: South Korea
The story of a girl who experienced the Gwangju massacre at the age of 15, and its effect on her life in later years.


A Hot Roof
1995 · 1h 48m
country: Unknown
A Korean film about a group of women who end up barricaded on the roof of their apartment building in the middle of a heat wave.


To You, from Me
1994 · 1h 54m
country: South Korea
A failed writer given to plagiarism gets a buzz at the door from a bright young working girl with a highly original approach to life and sex and his life and work is totally thrown off balance.


The Taebaek Mountains
1994 · 2h 44m
country: South Korea
Based on the great river story, The Taebaek Mountains chronicles the lasting generational conflict between proprietors and peasants in South Korea.


The Fox With Nine Tails
1994 · 1h 55m
country: South Korea
A half-human/half-fox girl falls in love with an honest young man while trying to become a human-being.


For Go-chul
1993 · 19m
country: South Korea
Goh Jun-chul grew up with second-handed things from a young age. As an adult, he makes his living selling used cars. Having never had anything new, he is proud of his innocent girlfriend. But he starts to understand there are more important things in life than whether things are new or used. This realization helps Jun-chul to regain both love and hope.


Myong-Ja Akiko Sonia
1992 · 2h 18m
country: South Korea
The life of a woman through the tumultuous years of Korea's modern history.