Kim Yun-seok
Also Known As: 김윤석, Yoon-seok Kim, Yun-seok Kim, Kim Yoon-suk, Yoon-suk Kim, 金允錫, キム・ユンソク, کیم یون سئوک, 金允石, 金倫奭, Kim Yoon-seok
Biography: Kim Yoon-seok (김윤석) is a South Korean actor. He was born on January 21, 1968. Kim's theater background first led him to be cast in minor roles on film and television. His breakout role came as the villain in gambling film Tazza: The High Rollers (2006), but it was his performance as a pimp and ex-cop in surprise hit The Chaser (2008) that brought him acting awards and stardom in his forties. Kim has since become an acclaimed leading actor in Korean cinema, in films such as Running Turtle (2009), The Yellow Sea (2010), Punch (2011), and The Thieves (2012).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Busan, South Korea
Birthday: January 21, 1968
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Gender: Male
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Running Turtle
Overview: Jo Pil-seong, a rural detective with a gambling addiction, is on the brink of losing his job when he has his gambling winnings stolen by an escapee convict. Jo Pil-seong sets out to catch the fugitive and retain his money and dignity.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-06-11
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Woochi: The Demon Slayer
Overview: Spanning four centuries in Korea, this epic action-adventure concerns a powerful pipe and a trio of wizards who will do anything to protect it.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-12-23
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The Chaser
Overview: Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same client whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-02-14
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The Big Swindle
Overview: After being convicted for fraud, one month has passed since Choi Chang-Hyuk's release from jail. But this time around he's got an elaborate plan cooked up. It's the biggest bank heist in history that'll make any thief have a wet dream. The best five thieves come together to form a team.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-04-15
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Tazza: The High Rollers
Overview: Go-ni tries his best to worship Pyung Gyung-jang as his teacher, and promises to stop gambling after winning his money back. But people's desires are endless.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-09-28
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Oollala Sisters
Overview: Cho Eun-ja is the president of Club LaLa, which has been a family business for three generations. It used to be a very popular club but not anymore. Now the club is in heavy debt to Eun-ja. To bring back the old days of glory, Eun-ja tries desperately to keep the club afloat while the owner of Club Nemo wants to take over LaLa. Club Nemo is also a family business and the KIMs have been rivals with the Chos. KIM wants to put an end to their rivalry by buying LaLa and building a department store. So he sets traps to force Eun-ja to sell the club. He first makes Eun-ja take out a private loan and, he snatches the only popular singer and last hope of LaLa. LaLa is thrown in a state of turmoil as it ends up on the verge of bankruptcy. As the last resort to save the club, the four girls decide to stand on the stage themselves as a dancing group named "Oh! LaLa Sisters". Thanks to their fabulous performances, they finally become popular.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-04-26
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Punch
Overview: A deadbeat teacher helps an angry, aimless teenager find direction in life during his final year of high school.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-10-20
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Hwayi: A Monster Boy
Overview: After being kidnapped as a small child and raised by the five men who abducted him, a teenage boy is now forced to join their life in crime.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-10-09
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The Thieves
Overview: A gang of South Korean thieves team up with a Hong Kong crew to steal a diamond necklace from a heavily-guarded casino safe in Macau. As the cops close in, old betrayals — and misunderstandings — resurface.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-07-25
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The Yellow Sea
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-12-22
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Happy Life
Overview: Three old friends who used to be part of a rock band reunite at the fourth member's funeral. They decide to band back together with the deceased's estranged son serving as the new fourth member.
Genres: Family Music
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-09-12
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Sea Fog
Overview: A fishing-boat crew takes on a dangerous commission to smuggle a group of illegal immigrants from China to Korea.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-08-13
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Tazza: The Hidden Card
Overview: Dae-gil has been skilled with his hands and has shown a strong desire for winning ever since he was a child. He will succeed his uncle and jump into the world of Tazza, risking his life in competition.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-09-03
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About Family
Overview: Mu-ok is the self-made owner of the established restaurant 'Pyongmanok' that has been drawing long lines of customers before social media existed. He is deeply troubled by his only son, Moon-seok, whom he hoped would inherit the family legacy, becoming a monk, leaving him with no one to carry on the family name. While Mu-ok is devasted by the thought that his family line would end with him, young kids come to his restaurant claiming Moon-seok as their father! Mu-ok, now given a chance to continue his family’s legacy, enjoys happiness like never before. Meanwhile, Moon-seok revisits his life before becoming a monk—and stumbles upon a shocking revelation…
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-12-11
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White Blast
Overview: At a remote train station covered in heavy snow, a station master Gap-su is facing the last day of his life-long dedication to the station. Devastated by the sudden layoffs, Gap-su keeps waiting for his young replacement, who still hasn’t yet come. As the hush reigns throughout the station, Gap-su sees the breaking news that dozens of convicts escaped from the overturned prison bus, and just then, a young man walks into the station claiming himself as the one Gap-su has been waiting for.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ko
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The Classified File
Overview: A detective and a fortune teller join forces to find a kidnapped child whom no one expects to be alive. Based on a true story.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-06-18
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C'est Si Bon
Overview: A beautiful socialite enters the lives of three bickering musicians and inspires them to write a series of hit love-songs.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-02-05
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The Priests
Overview: To save a girl in danger, a priest and deacon jump into a mysterious case.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-11-05
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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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Will You Be There
Overview: Soo-hyun comes across magical pills that allow him to go back and forth in time. 30 years to the past, young Soo-hyun meets future Soo-hyun and learns that his girlfriend will soon die because of him. In order to save her, the two Soo-hyuns try to change the past together, but a completely new and unexpected past is formed that leads to a new future.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-12-14
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South Bound
Overview: Hae-gap is a director who makes anti-government documentary films. One day, Hae-gap’s son, Na-ra, runs away from home, but Man-deok, a freeloader living in Hae-gap’s house ends up bringing him back. Later, Man-deok raids the head developer of Deul Island to stop its exploitation, and Na-ra helps and ends up getting caught. In order to bring Na-ra out from jail, Hae-gap signs to stop making anti-government films and moves to Deul Island with his family. Na-ra sees his father leading a good, quiet life there and starts opening up. But when a construction company charges in to clear-out the island and the islanders fall at risk of losing their homes, Hae-gap leads a strike against it and his family fall in grave danger...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-02-07
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The Fortress
Overview: Ancient 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.
Genres: War Drama History Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-10-03
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1987: When the Day Comes
Overview: In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police interrogation involving torture. Government of officials are quick to cover up the death and order the body to be cremated. A prosecutor who is supposed to sign the cremation release, raises questions about a 21-year-old kid dying of a heart attack, and he begins looking into the case for truth. Despite a systematic attempt to silence everyone involved in the case, the truth gets out, causing an eruption of public outrage.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-12-27
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All for Love
Overview: A romantic comedy which portrays the most beautiful period in the lives of different couples who have just fallen in love.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-10-07
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Dark Figure of Crime
Overview: A serial killer is caught for his seventh murder. A cop tries to solve the first six cases with the killer's help, but starts to suspect that he has ulterior motives. Based on a true story.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-10-03
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Running Wild
Overview: A grissled cop with tendencies towards excessive force teams up with an ambitious and righteous prosecutor to track down a dangerous crime boss whom they both want desperately to catch. But their quarry resorts to devious methods to stall their investigation and eventually turn them against each other. Now the stage is set for a dangerous triangle.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-01-13
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Like a Virgin
Overview: A chubby high school student participatee in a sports competition to win a cash prize for sex change surgery.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-08-31
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Another Child
Overview: Teenage girls suffer from conflicts from their parents' affairs. A baby from the affair is born, and the two families have to accept reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-04-11
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Escape from Mogadishu
Overview: Diplomats from the North and South Korean embassies in Somalia attempt a daring joint escape from Mogadishu when the outbreak of civil war leaves them stranded.
Genres: War Action Thriller Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-07-28
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Virus
Overview: A 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?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
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Kiss Me Much
Overview: The life of a happy family is thrown into turmoil when they are given 30 days to pay back a relative's massive debt or lose everything.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2001-08-31
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Noryang: Deadly Sea
Overview: The Imjin War reaches its seventh year in December of 1598. Admiral Yi Sun-shin learns that the Wa invaders in Joseon are preparing for a swift withdrawal following the deathbed orders of their leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Determined to destroy the enemy once and for all, Admiral Yi leads an allied fleet of Joseon and Ming ships to mount a blockade and annihilate the Wa army. However, once Ming commander Chen Lin is bribed into lifting the blockade, Wa lord Shimazu Yoshihiro and his Satsuma army sail to the Wa army’s rescue at Noryang Strait.
Genres: Action History Drama War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-12-20
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My Girl and I
Overview: Su-ho is a plain high school boy, and Su-eun is a bright and beautiful girl in the same school. For some unknown reason, Su-eun has a crush on the boy, and for equally mysterious reasons she rescues Su-ho in the sea though he doesn't know who actually saved him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-12-22
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The Young Lover
Overview: Jung-yub is besotted with his stepdaughter Yun-hee and their relationship goes beyond father-daughter boundaries. Yun-hee seeks to escape her father's shadow and biology teacher Eun-woo is her only ray of hope. She tries to take their relationship beyond that of student-teacher. Eun-woo is reluctant at first but soon falls for Yun-hee.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1994-10-29
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