Known for Acting
Jang So-yeon is a South Korean actress.
Born
January 28, 1980 (age 46)
Birthplace
Seoul, South Korea
Filmography
39 films, 23 shows


Ransomed
2023 · 2h 12m
country: South Korea
In Beirut 1986, during the Lebanese civil war a Korean diplomat is taken hostage without a trace. Two years pass and long forgotten, a young diplomat Min-jun receives a phone call proving that the hostage is still alive. With the given mission, Min-jun is sent to Beirut to save the hostage with a bag of ransom money.


Peninsula
2020 · 1h 56m
country: South Korea
A soldier and his team battle hordes of post-apocalyptic zombies in the wastelands of the Korean Peninsula.


Crazy Romance
2019 · 1h 55m
country: South Korea
A love story between Jae-hoon, who couldn't let go of his ex-girlfriend, and Seon-young, who is splitting up with her boyfriend. The couple got trouble and were hurt by love.


A History of Jealousy
2019 · 1h 34m
country: South Korea
The day before Soo-min’s big concert day, her college friends Won-ho, Sun-ki, Hong, and Jin-sook gather to celebrate Soo-min. Talking about their old memories and having fun seems like a happy moment of old friends. But soon when Soo-min leaves to the bathroom, Jin-sook starts a disturbing story about Soo-min that she has been sexually abused by her dad and brother after her mom’s death. As all friends are shocked, one by one starts to talk about Soo-min’s whole secrets as if they know everything about her without knowing Soo-min is overhearing their conversation. It drives Soo-min to the irrevocable revenge with secrets behind.


High Society
2018 · 1h 59m
country: South Korea
The story of the journey of married couple up the social latter. The husband is professor at Seoul National University who is running for the National Assembly, and his wife is a painter.


The Soup
2018 · 1h 53m
country: South Korea
An ex-con enters a house without being invited to live with a married couple with intellectual disabilities and their seven-year-old daughter.


The End of April
2017 · 2h
country: South Korea
Hyun-jin, moved into a worn-down apartment in a small town, has trouble sleeping at night due to the noise from her next-door neighbor.


The Wailing
2016 · 2h 36m
country: South Korea
A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.


Veteran
2015 · 2h 3m
country: South Korea
When an old collaborator gets severely injured, a veteran policeman tries to figure out the way to bring to justice the ultimately suspected aggressor, a spoiled young executive, heir to a mega corporation, who believes he is above the law.


Clown of a Salesman
2015 · 1h 44m
country: South Korea
Il-bum works hard to pay off his daughter’s hospital bills but one day gets fired for being wrongly accused as a molester. After series of failures, Il-bum finds a job at a PR company which provides free entertainment to old women in exchange for buying their products. Il-bum feels shameful to play dirty tricks on old women but he has no other choice. Despite his initial concerns, Il-bum starts to feel a sense of worth entertaining old women. A new team member, Ok-nim joins and Il-bum becomes a good friend to her, making her feel warm and safe which she never gets from her own son. But, the joy of their friendship won’t hold long when Il-bum’s debt reaches beyond help.


Gangnam Blues
2015 · 2h 15m
country: South Korea
Jong-dae and Yong-ki make a living by picking up paper and empty bottles. Both then join different gangster clan and becomes involved in a struggle of political interests over development in Gangnam, Seoul.


My Dictator
2014 · 2h 8m
country: South Korea
Sung-geun is an untalented actor who makes a living playing minor roles. He happens to land on the role as Kim Il-sung, the former leader of North Korea, for the rehearsal of the South-North Korea Summit. Sung-geun becomes passionately immersed in his role, motivated by his son who looks up to him. However, the summit is not realized, and Sung-geun ends up lost in the delusion that he really is Kim Il-sung.


Another Family
2014 · 2h
country: South Korea
Taxi driver Sang-gu is an ordinary father who has made a happy family. Due to their unfortunate financial circumstances, he is sorry that he cannot afford to send his daughter Yoon-mi to university like other parents. Yet, with a bright smile on her face, Yoon-mi tells her father that she will one day buy him a new car and pay college tuition fees for her younger sibling. However, less than two years after Yoon-mi begins her job at a large corporate company, she gets seriously ill and returns home. Sang-gu is heartbroken to see his young daughter in such a condition.


Modern Family
2012 · 2h 5m
country: South Korea
Under the name of family, we complete our own modernity. 4 talented directors unfold 4 different portraits about family, the most heart-warming, yet the most heart-aching word in the Modern era.


Fighting Family
2012 · 1h 18m
country: Unknown
Show hostess Yeon-jeong, who has been pushed out from works in her workplace, and overwhelmed by her junior colleagues because of her pregnancy with her second child, eventually decides to have an abortion since both her body and mind have been devastated. Then, her husband Min-hyeok drops a bombshell: he will take care of childbirth and child rearing himself.


Silenced
2011 · 2h 5m
country: South Korea
Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.


Head
2011 · 1h 40m
country: South Korea
Dr. KIM Sang-chul who is a world renowned genius medical scientist is killed by himself and his head is cut and missing in his funeral. While a dispatch rider, Hong-je, delivers Dr. KIM’s head, he is kidnapped by Baek-jung and his elder sister, Hong-joo goes head to head with him to save Hong-je!! As far as she chases him, the forces into the background of Dr. KIM’s head are revealed and Hong-joo is in danger. Can a reckless but loyal female journalist save her bro and take the scoop what she wants so eagerly?


Officer of the Year
2011 · 1h 57m
country: South Korea
Two police stations from neighboring precincts are in constant fierce competition with each other, including for the Officer of the Year award. But then a high-profile case forces them to work together.


The Yellow Sea
2010 · 2h 36m
country: South Korea
A Korean man in China takes an assassination job in South Korea to make money and find his missing wife. But when the job is botched, he is forced to go on the run from the police and the gangsters who paid him.


Last Flashman
2010 · 1h 11m
country: South Korea
Bok-Nam (Park Yoo-Sun) is an elementary school student who feels like she just doesn't fit in. She lives with her family that consists of her grandmother (Kim Ji-Young) with Alzheimer's disease, mother (Lee Mi-Young) who runs a chicken restaurant, unemployed father (Lee Sung-Min) and bully older sister (Nam Bo-Ra). Bok-Nam is not happy with her family. One day, she begins to think that she is Flashman, who came from outer space, and she wants to return to her place of origin.


Wedding Dress
2010 · 1h 49m
country: South Korea
When a single mother learns that she has terminal cancer, she prepares her young daughter to live without her, while saying goodbye to others around her.


19-Nineteen
2009 · 1h 43m
country: South Korea
After graduating from high school Min-seo fails to get into college. He spends the next year cramming for his entrance exam once again. Jeong-hun a university student fresh out of high school school.


Castaway on the Moon
2009 · 1h 59m
country: South Korea
Mr. Kim is jobless, lost in debt and has been dumped by his girlfriend. He decides to end it all by jumping into the Han River – only to find himself washed up on a small, mid-river island. He soon abandons thoughts of suicide or rescue and begins a new life as a castaway. His antics catch the attention of a young woman whose apartment overlooks the river. Her discovery changes both their lives.
Re-Search
Re-Search
2008 · 20m
country: South Korea
A researcher's blind struggle for her thesis inside the engulfing white space creates the uncertainty of her own research.


My Dear Enemy
2008 · 2h 3m
country: South Korea
Hee-soo is desperate for money and finds her ex-boyfriend who owes her money. He goes around to various ex-girlfriends to get cash and she trails along to make sure he does not cheat her.


How To Live on Earth
2008 · 1h 33m
country: South Korea
There are three people: an alien woman who comes up to an alien husband and a government's assassin wife who has to kill the alien woman. The wife is an undercover agent who is in charge of national top secrets. To her, her poet husband is like an alien. The husband has a key inside his head and the wife has a gun by her hand. Also the alien woman has purposeful love. Their mixed-up destiny does not just happen and the devil reveals his real shape and starts to kill people one by one.


Crossing
2008 · 1h 47m
country: South Korea
Yong-soo is an ex-soccer player who lives in a small coal-mine village in North Korea with his wife and young son, Joon. Although living in extreme poverty like many other families in North Korea, the family is happy just to be with each other. Then one day, Yong-soo's pregnant wife becomes critically ill. Let alone medicine, Yong-soo can't even find food for her in North Korea. So he decides to secretly cross the border to China hoping to find the medicine for his wife.


Life Track
2007 · 1h 39m
country: South Korea
A story about the relationships between the disabled man Xiangshu and a deaf-mute girl on the run from the police who takes refuge on his land.


Going by the Book
2007 · 1h 42m
country: South Korea
The chief of Sampo City Police Office, Seung-u, organizes a simulation of a bank robbery, but a by-the-book cop gets too caught up in the role playing in which the simulation doesn't go the way he had anticipated.


Unstoppable Marriage
2007 · 1h 55m
country: South Korea
Eun-ho and Ki-baek, rode a paraglider and had an minor accident. They grew up and live in the different backgrounds so that they fight like a cat and dog over everything. Even though they hate each other, at the same time, they come to fall for each other and become a couple. The only matter is to obtain each family’s consent.


Seducing Mr. Perfect
2006 · 1h 49m
country: South Korea
A Korean company analyst rear-ends an American man's car then discovers he's her new boss. Unlucky at love, she begins to take romance lessons from him in order to seduce him.


Over the Border
2006 · 1h 49m
country: South Korea
After learning that his grandfather is alive and living in Seoul, a North Korean musician must leave his fiancee behind and accompany his family to South Korea.


Way to Go, Rose
2006 · 1h 27m
country: South Korea
On their second anniversary of marriage, Kang Nam-dae and Jang Young-mi get bored with their routine sex. They visit a motel to re-live their first night and record it on a video camera. Nam-dae spoils the moment by bringing up their mutual friend Jae-guk whom Young-mi had dated previously. After reading Jae-guk's book and realizing he truly loved her, she leaves Nam-dae. Two years later, they meet again and go to see Jae-guk.


Inner Circle Line
2006 · 1h 35m
country: South Korea
Young residents of Seoul meet, separate, wait and dream by the Inner Circle Line of the Seoul subway system.


Blossom Again
2005 · 1h 55m
country: South Korea
A 30-year-old teacher at a private school in Seoul falls in love with a teenage student in one of her night classes.


Red Eye
2005 · 1h 36m
country: South Korea
A supernatural story about a mystic events occurring on the train, which had the route similar to the train which crashed many years ago.


Mr. Gam’s Victory
2004 · 1h 53m
country: South Korea
A relief pitcher for the worst team in the league seizes the unlikely opportunity to work nine innings against the star starting pitcher of the league's best team when no one else wants to face him.


Desire
2002 · 1h 25m
country: South Korea
A couple is set in their monotonous life until the husband has a homosexual affair with a young male prostitute. Suspicious of her husband, the wife seeks the truth and eventually ends up in bed with the same young man. Their desire has a new meaning.


Take Care of My Cat
2001 · 1h 52m
country: South Korea
When one girl from five close school friends moves to Seoul after school is over, the other four try and deal with the loss of her moving and them drifting apart.