
Yoo Soon-woong
Actor · b. 1963 · Cheongju, North Chungcheong, South Korea
Yoo Soon-woong (born 1963 in Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea) is a South Korean actor and theatre director. He graduated from Unho High School and from Hanshin University, where he majored in Christian Education. He began performing extensively during his university years through madanggeuk, appearing on many stages and becoming known for his strong presence and expressive delivery. His solo play Yeomjaengi Yu-ssi (염쟁이 유씨), created with him as the central performer, premiered in 2004 and has since been staged in multiple long-running seasons. Yu Sun-ung is affiliated with the theatre group Art Factory Dure (예술공장 두레) and is particularly known for playing elderly characters.
Movies21
Movie7.2Science FictionMysteryIn the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor, police chief Bum-seok and officer Sung-ae are called to investigate a mysterious creature wreaking havoc on the community. But all is not as it seems, and perceptions can be misleading. What begins as ignorance plants the seed of disaster, escalating through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions.
Movie7.4HorrorMysteryA 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.
Movie6.1ThrillerDramaA university professor gradually succumbing to blindness is entranced by an obsessive love, in this modern-day adaptation of a classic Korean fairy tale.
Movie7.7DramaHistoryThough it places his own life in danger, a look-alike commoner secretly takes the place of a poisoned king to save his country from falling into chaos.
Movie6.8WarDramaAncient Korea, 17th century. The powerful Khan of the Jurchen tribe of Manchuria, who fights the Ming dinasty to gain China, becomes the first ruler of the Qing dinasty and demands from King In-jo of Joseon to bow before him; but he refuses, being loyal to the Mings. On December 14th, 1636, the Qing horde invades Joseon, so King In-jo and his court shelter in the mountain fortress of Namhan and prepare to defend the kingdom.
Movie8.3ComedyDramaA debt collector who looks intimidating, but actually has a warm heart, ends up becoming the guardian of a child, who has been left behind as collateral by her illegal immigrant mother.
Movie7.4DramaDreaming of making a way station for his sister and the villagers who have no choice but to commute along the dangerous train tracks every day, Joon-kyung sends many letters to the President, but with no reply. Ra-hee, who has a crush on Joon-kyung, does everything she can to help him meet the President.
Movie6.3CrimeActionA veteran gangster, Hee-su, is looking to retire from his crime family in the violent port town of Kuam, Korea. But an unexpected betrayal leads him down a bloody path where he gets caught in the middle of a mob war with deadly consequences.
Movie7.4DramaSeoul, South Korea, September 21st, 2008. Eight citizens, the first to intervene as jurors in the country's legal history, are randomly selected to examine a matricide case that appears to have been resolved due to the existence of apparently conclusive evidence.
Movie6.8DramaComedyA former arm-wrestling champion raised in the U.S. returns to South Korea for a tournament that could return him to glory, but he finds his life complicated by the appearance of the biological family he never knew.
Movie7.7DramaComedyIn mid '90s, 3 female high school-grad office workers take up English classes together to get promotions and they team up to uncover corruption within their company.
Movie7.5DramaTeenage girls suffer from conflicts from their parents' affairs. A baby from the affair is born, and the two families have to accept reality.
Movie6.9DramaA mysterious virus spreads out. Anyone infected feels the emotion of love, and the emotion amplifies until it kills the person in love. The pessimist Taek-seon, who likes nothing in life, is infected, and the researcher Gyun reaches her out to test her the medicine that he's developing. Soon Gyun finds out Taek-seon has special antibody, but Taek-seon slowly feels love to Gyun. Is this a real love or just a virus?
MovieDramaWelding engineer Cheol-taek is diagnosed with terminal cancer one day. This news begins to affect not only his only daughter Jeong-mi, who works as a bit-part actress, but also the lives of Hyun-sook, who had effectively divorced Cheol-taek and was enjoying retirement after finishing her career as a civil servant; Ok-nam, Hyun-sook's mother approaching her nineties; Cheol-taek's older brother Kwan-taek; and Kwan-taek's grandson Dong-min.
Movie6.9MusicDramaSuddenly learning she is terminally ill, Se-yeon asks her husband, Jin-bong the absurd task of helping her find her first love, and he unwillingly joins her search. Along their journey, Se-yeon and Jin-bong are reminded of the most glittering, beautiful moments of their lives.
Movie5.8ThrillerActionSet against the haunting backdrop of a small lake town, this chilling thriller unravels a meticulous revenge set over a period of 7 years, all beginning with the accidental death of an innocent girl.
Movie7.0DramaComedyHye-yeong receives a letter of notification that her father's grave should be forcibly removed due to modernization projects. Hye-yeong and the sisters are gathered in a long time, but only the brother cannot reach easily.
Movie6.5DramaPart I : A middle-aged woman gets off a bus at Muju Terminal. She passes through the town and walks into a forest. She starts to search for the vestiges of her life from beyond the grave. Part II : A young woman, Minjae, returns to her hometown of Muju and starts to work at the county office. Her mother is displeased that her daughter has returned to the hometown. One day, Minjae’s friend from college, Kyungyoon, who hadn’t been in touch for a while, comes to see her.
Movie5.0DramaComedyJenny is a gold digger who buys luxury goods with conned money. She runs away to a village in Mt. Jirisan and learns of a thousand-year-old wild ginseng wine that is rumored to be a cure-all. Jenny thinks stealing it from the ailing grandfather and grandson will be a piece of cake. However, from the moment she encounters Doen-jang, the boy who swings a hoe and does strange dances, things spiral out of control.
Movie6.8DramaFeeling stuck, young fisherman Yong-su sees no hope in his future - like a fish in a net. As a last resort, he plans an insurance scam by staging his disappearance, hoping to provide a better life for his Vietnamese wife and his ageing mother. At the centre of this scheme is his captain, Yeong-guk, who reluctantly reports Yong-su missing. However, when Yong-su’s mother refuses to connect her son’s disappearance with his death, the white lie snowballs into something harder to chew.
MovieDramaMiddle aged Jang-Pil lives in a small one room apartment in Shinrim-dong. In the past, he might have studied for his bar exam, but now he makes a living by collecting junk, managing the apartment building he lives in and also makes wooden dolls to sell. One day he lends money to a young man in the same apartment building, but the man ends up taking his job. Jang-Pil is also tricked by a woman he met in the neighborhood.
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TV8.2DramaComedyAfter suffering a fall from grace, a photographer returns to her hometown and bumps into her childhood friend — rekindling an unfinished romance.
TV8.1DramaSci-Fi & FantasyA lawyer bound by a centuries-old curse becomes entangled with a civil servant who holds the key to his freedom — igniting an unexpected romance.
TV7.7CrimeComedyThree con artists with different backgrounds, team up for a daring and adventurous scheme of revenge against the villains of this era.
TV7.3DramaDrained from her life in the city, a young cellist moves to a quiet small town, where she encounters an old friend who helps her heal and remake herself.
TV8.1DramaA budding love story between a medical student and a nurse takes place in May 1980, during a time of civil unrest and military oppression in Gwangju.
TV7.7DramaA convict who finds himself staring into the abyss is ordered to work at a facility for the terminally ill. Will the experience help reverse his unhappy destiny?
TV7.5DramaAfter getting dumped by her boyfriend and losing her mother in an accident, Yeo-reum decides to move to a small village to do nothing.
TV8.0CrimeKang In-Kyu’s father was brutally murdered 13 years ago. To take revenge on those who are responsible for his father’s death, he becomes a doctor. Kang In-Kyu volunteers at a prison medical office where the murderer is imprisoned.
TV4.1MysteryDramaThis drama tells a story that happened in an ordinary village in which a missing case occurs on the day of a wild boar hunting and the secrets of the villagers surrounding the case are being unfolded one by one.