Born in 1972, Kim Jungyoung was a member of a playgroup at Sangmyung University before she joined the theater company Han River in 1995. With Han River, Kim would participate in many productions, most of them original plays that were confronting heads-on the prevailing social and political concerns of the time. She moved to the big screen upon seeing as casting call for Kim Kiduk’s <Real Fiction> (2000) that immediately caught her attention, intrigued as she was by t...
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Born in 1972, Kim Jungyoung was a member of a playgroup at Sangmyung University before she joined the theater company Han River in 1995. With Han River, Kim would participate in many productions, most of them original plays that were confronting heads-on the prevailing social and political concerns of the time. She moved to the big screen upon seeing as casting call for Kim Kiduk’s <Real Fiction> (2000) that immediately caught her attention, intrigued as she was by the acting challenge a film shot as a unique long take would present. After that first experience, she was offered minor roles in the melodrama <Bungee Jumping Of Their Own> (2001) and the indie sensation <Waikiki Brothers> (2001). She then reunited with Kim Kiduk for <Bad Guy> (2002) and <Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter And Spring> (2003), winner of the NETPAC award at the Locarno International Film Festival that year. While she remains first and foremost dedicated to her stage career, she still ventures onto the big screen occasionally, when her schedule allows it, appearing in such movies as <Thread of Lies> (2013), <The Piper> (2014), <MEMOIR OF A MURDERER> (2016) and <LOST TO SHAME> (2016). She was seen starring alongside Chun Woohee in the indie film <Our Body> (2018), and she participated in <KIM JI-YOUNG, BORN 1982> (2019) and <THE DAY I DIED : UNCLOSED CASE> (2020). More recently, she impressed once again with her turn as a single mother who tries to help her daughter after she becomes a victim of revenge porn in the indie drama <Gyeong-ah’s Daughter> (2022).
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