Choi Won-young
Also Known As: 최원영, Choi Won-yeong, 崔元英, Choi Sung-wook, Choi Seong-wook, 최성욱, Choi Seong-uk, Choi Seong-wuk, Choe Won-young, Choe Won-yeong, Choe Seong-wook, Choe Seong-uk, چوی وون-یونگ, چوی وون یونگ
Biography: Choi Won Young (born Choi Seong Wook) is a South Korean actor. After making his acting debut in Sex Is Zero, Choi has appeared in both film and television. But his most notable roles have been in the TV dramas While You Were Sleeping and A Hundred Year Legacy, as well as the low-budget crime thriller Your Time Is Up, which premiered at the 2012 Busan International Film Festival. In December 2013, Choi became engaged to actress Shim Yi Young whom he met while playing a married couple in the series A Hundred Year Legacy. The couple got married on February 28, 2014, at the Grand Ballroom of the COEX Walkerhill Hotel in Samseong-dong and on June 22, 2014, they welcomed their first child, a daughter. June 14, 2017 couple welcomed their second daughter.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: South Korea
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Birthday: January 10, 1976
Age: 49 years old
Gender: Male
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Past Lives
Overview: After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-02
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Yaksha: Ruthless Operations
Overview: Nicknamed after a human-devouring spirit, the ruthless leader of an overseas black ops team takes up a dangerous mission in a city riddled with spies.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-04-08
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Land of Happiness
Overview: October 26, 1979, a presidential assassination shakes the nation. Taking on the defense of Park Tae-joo, the secretary involved in the presidential assassination, lawyer Jung In-hoo enters what would be South Korea's most notorious political trial. Despite Park Tae-joo facing a predetermined sentence due to his military status, Jung In-hoo fights tirelessly to ensure a fair trial, enraged by the trial's unfair proceedings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-08-14
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Grape Candy
Overview: Sun-joo is busy preparing for her upcoming wedding. But her fiancée Ji-hoon plans to go on a business trip with the beautiful writer So-ra who turns out to be Sun-joo’s best friend from before. With all the doubts and jealousy, she lies to So-ra and accompanies her in place of Ji-hoon. But on their way she realizes that the memory about their dearly friend Yeo-eun, who died in a tragic accident, are quite different. What really happened to them? Can they reveal the untold truth?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-09-06
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Sex Is Zero
Overview: Eun-sik tries to pass the state exam while studying in college after his military service. One day, he meets a beautiful woman Eun-hyo, and his life changes.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-12-12
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The Plan Man
Overview: The Plan Man is about a man who lives everything according to plan until he meets a woman who wasn't a part of it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-01-09
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Confession of Murder
Overview: A serial killer reappears 15 years after his murder spree with a book detailing his crimes. The resentful cop who failed to catch him before is assigned to protect him. The families of the victims plan revenge. And as the media circus spirals out of control, a masked man called "J" appears claiming to be the real killer.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-11-08
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Cheaters
Overview: Seok-ho, a self-styled playboy with a beautiful wife, is fooling around with Ji-yeon, a voluptuous photographer, but pines for Chae-young, a college student who appears to be the most virtuous girl in all of Korea. But it turns out that Chae-young, who frustrates her suitor at every turn, is not so chaste after all. The plot thickens as Seok-ho's best friend Young-su, outwardly awkward and shy, sets his sights on Ji-yeon, not realizing that she is already involved with his best buddy.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-03-22
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Love in Magic
Overview: The story is of a playboy who has, through an unavoidable circumstance, run into a woman from his past. Woo Ji Hoon makes a living as a magician and nothing is easier for him than attracting beautiful women. He has an irresistible charm that draws all females to his side like a magnet - all but one, the charming teacher Koo Hee Won. Ji Hoon tried to make her his latest love possession but was bluntly turned down. As luck would have it both Hee Won and Ji Hoon can't resist the temptation of arranging a blind date on the Internet setting in motion a firework of hilarious consequences.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-05-20
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To Catch a Virgin Ghost
Overview: Seok-tae runs away with a huge diamond of his gang and comes to Sisily, a peaceful village. Yang-e runs after him to get the diamond back and finds Seok-tae's trail in Sisily. But all the town people lie about everything. These people turn out to be scarier than a ghost!
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-08-13
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After the Opera
Overview: The cold and no-nonsense Director Han feels the stirrings of love for the first time when he meets Choon Hee. However, his subordinate Joong Do happens to be her first love, and he still has feelings for her. The two men begin a battle to win her heart.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-10-16
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The Outlaw
Overview: Detective Jung-soo faces the victims of brutal murders who were killed for no reason and this makes him outraged. During the investigation, he meets Ji-hyun who is the only survivor and marries her, but they cannot escape from her tragic past. One day, Jung-soo's partner, So-young, arrives at the crime scene where she finds Jung-soo crying out in sorrow with his wife and daughter in his arms who are found viciously murdered after they went missing. But as the police and the law let the suspect go because for lack of evidence, Jung-soo decides to take vengeance himself on those unpunished killers and the cruel world.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-03-18
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Shorts Meet Shorts
Overview: EXIT: Woo-hyun lives a small-time criminal life earning his life as a pick-pocket. He often pays attention to an arrow-shaped-tattoo of his girlfriend which is on the genital area. He calls it ‘the emergency exit.’ THE BODY: Jung-su and Young-sun are a young couple. One new year’s eve, a movie director visits the couple’s house. Only the strong wind of the sea and slow time cross the living room and three people sense something…alive. WALTZING ON THUNDER: Mi-jung just happens to meet a group of people who have survived from being struck by lightning. While becoming aware of her old wound, she takes part in a trip for lightning strikes ‘again’.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-11-21
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Looking for My Family
Overview: The story begins with Tae-seong (Choi Won-yeong) and Yeon-hee (Ryoo Hye-won) heading for the child care facility with the hope of meeting the child they lost 6 years ago. They are divorced now but they were a married couple and had a child. They should have been happy but Tae-seong and Yeon-hee weren't. Min-goo (Kang San) is also confused about this situation. He's happy that he found his parents whom he thought never existed but he's also very careful about the situation. The three of them spend a night at a motel around the center. Tae-seong suggests to Yeon-hee, now that they found Min-goo, to forget about the past and live together again as a family. However, Yeon-hee refuses. Not only that, the next morning, she leaves without a word to Tae-seong and Min-goo. Tae-seong isn't sure he can take care of Min-goo so he returns the child to the child care center and runs back to Seoul. Can these three become a family again?
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-06-25
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Oh! My Gran
Overview: A man's daughter is the victim of a brutal hit-and-run car accident. The only witness is the man's dementia-ridden old mother who barely remember any details. The two must work together to find the culprit.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-09-02
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Jesters: The Game Changers
Overview: A gang of clowns is hired by an unpopular king to serve as propagandists who fabricate positive rumors and stage miracles to improve his personal image.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-08-21
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In Love and the War
Overview: In June 1950, soon after the start of the Korean War, a troop of North Korean soldiers enter a small South Korean village. Captain Jeong-woong proclaims that they came to liberate the villagers but their true agenda is to ferret out the reactionaries. The villagers and Seol-hee, who is separated from her fiance on her wedding day, offer them heartfelt hospitality and cooperation to avoid falling out of the army's favor. Eventually friendships starts to build up between the soldiers and the villagers.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-04-27
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Your Time is UP
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Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-03-14
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Earth Rep Rolling Stars
Overview: A story about a group of trouble makers, who knew nothing about baseball and create a team to save the Earth from the best baseball team in the Universe, the "Devil's".
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-03-27
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The Book of Fish
Overview: When the scholar Jeong Yak-jeon is exiled to Heuksando Island during the Catholic Persecution of 1801, he decides to write a fish-based encyclopaedia.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-03-31
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tvN O'PENing: Don't Press the Peach
Overview: A year after Hae Sook's death, Ha Gu decides to reopen her mother's supermarket. One day, she meets Kang Soo, who turns out to be the one ruining all her peaches at the fruit stand. When Ha Gu caught him in action, out of nowhere, Kang Soo blurted out Hae Sook's name. Reminded of her mom, Ha Gu opens Hae Sook's old journal and finds traces of Kang Soo. Through encounters with Kang Soo, who has Alzheimer's, Ha Gu uncovers new truths about her mom and starts to understand Hae Sook's life not only as a mom but as a woman.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-07-13
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