She is Yoon Yeo-jung, who plays the role of "Sunja" in Pachinko!
As an actor, Yoon Yeo-jung made a new history with the movie "Minari" (director: Jung Yi-sak), right? At the 93rd Academy Awards held in 2021, the best supporting actress award she received for the movie "Minari" was the first Academy Award that "Korean Actor" won!!
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Just the previous year, Bong Joon-ho's "Parasite" won the first Korean film award for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best International Feature Film, but there was no award for actors...
"Minari" a low-budget independent film that cost $2 million, stood out for the director's light and moving directing skills.
In recognition of the outstanding acting skills of famous actors such as Yoon Yeo-jung, Steven Yeon and Han Ye-ri, it became one of the major works of "Oscar Race" the following year after its release.
A spectacular parade of awards shows the power of "Minari" The film won more than 90 awards at awards and film festivals around the world, including the 2021 Golden Globe Best Foreign Language Film Awards, the British Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress, and the SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Above all, "Minari" was a work that Yoon Yeo-jong contributed greatly. Although it was a low-budget film, Yoon Yo-jung, who was moved by the sincerity of the scenario, decided to appear, and the choice of a famous actor added extra weight to the film. In interviews conducted after the movie's release, Yoon Yeo-jong decided to film the movie for a small amount of money, and expressed his affection for the movie through rumors that she bought plane tickets with her own money.
Another global project that Yoon Yeo-jung chose after "Minari" is the original series "Pachinko" of OTT Apple TV Plus. "Pachinko" is a story that begins with forbidden love and depicts an unforgettable chronicle of war and peace, love and separation, victory and judgment. It is based on a bestselling novel by the New York Times of the same name written by Korean-American writer Lee Min-jin. In "Pachinko," she played the old age of a strong woman who is unyielding to all odds.
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In "Pachinko," Yoon Yeo-jung takes the center stage with extraordinary charisma and weight in the gap between young actors. In the turbulent modern history, she played a universal and special human image of an era represented by the character "Sunja" The life, achievement, and resentment of Koreans who have been through the Japanese colonial era and have protected their families through discrimination and poverty are expressed through the face and eyes of old actor Yoon Yeo-jung. Sunja's youth was played by Korean rookie actor Kim Min-ha.
Pachinko, which was released on Apple TV Plus from the 25th of last month, has been receiving good reviews since its release. Time Magazine praised the "spirit and flow of the novel beautifully," and Empire Magazine said, "We strongly insist that the ever-changing and rich side of life is in 'Pachinko' and it is very beautiful, the most satisfying TV show of the year." The LA Times also said, "Pachinko" properly shows what melodrama should be like, and New York magazine responded enthusiastically, saying, "I want to see 'Pachinko' forever." Currently, the work maintains 98 percent of its freshness in Rotten Tomatoes a week after its release.
If the enthusiasm for "Pachinko" continues, Korean actors who appeared in "Pachinko" are likely to show their presence once again at the U.S. awards ceremony, as was the case with "Squid Game" this year. If that happens, Yoon Yeo-jung, the actor who will probably receive the most attention, is expected to be "Oscar Winner" (Academy Award winner). One of the reasons why attention is being paid to whether Yoon Yeo-jung will be able to continue the success of "Mina-ri" through the global project "Pachinko"
Who is Yoon Yeo-jung?
She is a South Korean actress and actress
19 June 1947 (74 years old) @2022
Hanyang University (Korean Literature)
Has no religion
1966 TBC's 3rd public recruitment talent debut
Order of Cultural Merit
She is a 74-year-old senior actor in 2022 and has been in her 56th year since her debut. To this day, she is still active in both starring and supporting roles, commercial and independent films. Among the actresses who are recognized for their excellent acting skills in Korea, she has shown a perfect performance by playing several unconventional characters.
Although she is generally known for her demanding, strict, conservative mother-in-law roles and her nagging, stubborn, grandmother-like image, she shows a variety of performances in the movie ranging from charismatic roles like taste of money to subtle colors like powder. She has a very wide spectrum, from the role of a friendly grandmother who cares so much for her grandchildren to a grandmother who sells sex to the elderly for money.
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She also shows quite excellent technical speed control that creates the flow of the play even though she does not come to the front. This is the result of her planning and researching her own realistic direction from the beginning. She said she was strongly opposed to the acting of established actors who showed performances that were maximized and separated from reality due to excessive movements and makeup during her rookie days.
Her acting skills have been recognized around the world, winning the Best Supporting Actress Award and the Best Supporting Actress Award at the British Academy Awards for the first time in Korea. She established her unrivaled position as an actor, wide spectrum, and original identity, making her one of the world's best actors.
Her troubled youth
Yoon Yeo-jung is also known for her excellent script memorization and good concentration among actors, and even when she was young, she swept awards in eloquence and various writing competitions. Yoon Yeo-jung, who graduated from Ewha Girls' High School, a prestigious high school, and went to Hanyang University's Department of Korean Literature, served as a helper in the program hosted by Kim Dong-gun at the time as a part-timer to raise tuition fees. At that time, Kim Dong-gun recommended Yoon Yeo-jung to take the TBC talent open recruitment test, and in 1966, he passed the TBC talent open recruitment and became the third TBC talent. And she dropped out of college for her acting career. On becoming an actor, Yoon said, "For my mom, I was a star. So I thought he would be proud if he did something that stood out to others." In addition, talent at the time was a rising new job, and seeing Lee Soon-jae and Lee Nak-hoon from Seoul National University act as talents, she said she was encouraged to think that it was not an embarrassing job.
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According to the interview, she was not very attached to her acting career when she was in her 20s. On the contrary, she thought that she should leave the game as soon as possible, so she did not take a swimsuit pictorial that everyone had taken at the time.
She has already seen a promising career as an actress since her debut, but she is also a steady actress who has never had a major slump in her career until she took a break from her acting career due to marriage in the middle. However, when it comes to marriage, she has had one divorce. After marrying a Korean singer Cho Young-nam, she followed Cho Young-nam, who went to study at Trinity Theological University in Florida, the U.S., for 13 years as a housewife, and eventually divorced and returned to Korea as a single mother. Afterwards, Cho Young-nam appeared on a TV show and expressed his position on the incident. Yoon, who was 38 years old at the time, reportedly worked as a cashier at a grocery store in Florida and thought of supporting his two sons for a minimum wage of $2.75. She also said she thought working as a cashier was her only option because of language barriers and the shock of divorce. During her marriage, Cho Young-nam had a lot of flirtation, made no money, and eventually spent all the money Yoon Yo-jong had saved. So after Yoon resumed her acting career, she jumped into all kinds of movies to protect her two sons and herself. According to her expression, "There were more times when rice fell than when there was rice in the rice jar." Still, Yoon was very devoted during her marriage. In the 70s and 80s, it was difficult to find tofu in the United States, and it is said that she made tofu by grinding beans herself for Cho Young-nam, who likes tofu.
This is why Korean middle-aged people, who know the anecdotes of this time, have a bad feeling about Cho Young-nam, a singer who dominated an era, and many even treat him as human waste. Nevertheless, it is said that she is called a great big man because she has not gossiped about Cho Young-nam in any place so far, but in fact, she just hated Cho Young-nam so much that she didn't want to mention him. In fact, Cho Young-nam admitted on the TV show, "If Yoon Yeo-jung had opened her mouth, I would have been buried socially."
Everything about her
She is famous for her brilliance and intelligence among the actors. This is supported by testimonies poured out among actors of the same age, not just saying. Kim Young-ok, the oldest of the senior actors, is so brilliant that he says, "In my case, I can't let go of the script because I can't memorize it, but Yoon Yeo-jung is a very smart actress with great concentration and memorization skills". Senior actor Lee Soon-jae once said, "From an early age, Yeo Jung was a smart kid who was quick to absorb what his seniors said." Even if there are only three or four actors like Yoon Yeo-jung, the game will change for middle-aged actors,' he said in an interview.
Yoon Yeo-jung's grandmother is not remembered because she died during the Korean War when he was very young, but she said she remembered her great-grandmother because she lived longer. Immediately after the war, when supplies were scarce and poor, the great-grandmother took a bath with water already used by another family, and Yoon Yeo-jung said that she hated her great-grandmother because she thought it was dirty. In addition, her great-grandmother was said to have been sacrificed enough to skip her meal because she wanted to feed her grandchildren more. As Yoon Yeo-jung grew older, she realized how mean and foolish she was to her great-grandmother, and she is still heartbroken when she thinks of her great-grandmother. She did it thinking of her great-grandmother when she was acting Sunja in "Minari."
When she won the Best Supporting Actress award at the 93rd Academy Awards, media from other countries rushed to publish articles looking at Yoon, especially in Asia, including Japan, Taiwan, and Southeast Asian countries. One Taiwanese media outlet also misrepresented Yoon's debut in a film directed by Im Sang-soo. Although she has often made movies with Lim Sang-soo and Hong Sang-soo, as you know, Yoon's debut is far from that of Kim Ki-young, who directed the movie in the past. It is presumed that the reporter made a mistake in the process of writing the article because Lim Sang-soo was mentioned several times in the text of the article.
She is also famous for dressing well. Yoon Yeo-jung is the only actor of her age who is treated as a fashionista. First of all, she herself has been interested in clothes since she was young. At the age of Yoon Yeo-jung, she usually wears her own "grandmother look," but she seems to naturally pull off the trend without it. She once made herself a suit for her loved one. She seems to care a lot about her hairstyle, too. There is a scene where she has been using a straightener for 20 years on a TV show.
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