JUNG Woo-sung has elements of rebellious youth even in his late 30s. He has a look that suits melodramas but has played mostly as a macho man from the early days in his career. <Beat> directed by [KIM Sung-soo] made him a rising young star and he magnified his gloomy image with his role as a lonely boxer in <City of the Rising Sun>. He received good reviews for his charismatic act in <Phantom, The Submarine >, Korea’s first movie based on a submarine, and...
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JUNG Woo-sung has elements of rebellious youth even in his late 30s. He has a look that suits melodramas but has played mostly as a macho man from the early days in his career. <Beat> directed by [KIM Sung-soo] made him a rising young star and he magnified his gloomy image with his role as a lonely boxer in <City of the Rising Sun>. He received good reviews for his charismatic act in <Phantom, The Submarine >, Korea’s first movie based on a submarine, and gained international fame for his role as a warrior in <MUSA-The Warrior>. Later he became an actor who has an earthly touch, rather than a starry actor. Starring in <Mutt Boy> directed by [KWAK Kyung-taek], who chisels away at the actor and uncovers the person within, JUNG descended from a movie star to become a real actor who has a firm footing in reality. He was concentrated on melodrama movies thereafter. He revealed great depth of sensibility in melodramas such as <A Moment to Remember>, <Sad Movie>, <Daisy>, <The Restless>, <A Good Rain Knows>. He returned to a testosterone-charged character with <The Good, The Bad, and The Weird> and took a familiar role as a debonair but strong man in <Reign of Assassins> directed by [John Woo]. Following a turn in the popular action TV drama <Athena: Goddess of War>, JUNG returned to Korean films to play his first ever villain in the popular 2013 thriller <Cold Eyes>. JUNG next appeared in the 2014 noir <The Divine Move>. Following that he was the lead in YIM Pil-sung’s long-awaited third feature, which turned out to be the erotic mystery-thriller <Scarlet Innocence>, an update of an old Korean fairy tale that saw him play a professor whose tryst with a student comes back to haunt him as he goes blind. 2015 began with melodrama <Remember You> alongside KIM Ha-neul, which marked a first for him as a feature producer. He followed this up with a pair a large-scale thrillers, first KIM Sung-su’s <Asura> and later HAN Jae-rim’s <The King> alongside ZO In-sung.
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