Born in 1970, Yoo Hai Jin joined the Mokhwa Repertory Company and started performing in bit roles. His first appearance in film was in <Blackjack> (1997), playing a foul-mouthed truck driver. His performances as gangsters in the cult comedy <Attack the Gas Station> (1999) and <Public Enemy> (2002) quickly established him as one of the most well-known and reliable character actors. He could be seen in the China-Korea coproduced action <Musa-The Warrior>...More

Born in 1970, Yoo Hai Jin joined the Mokhwa Repertory Company and started performing in bit roles. His first appearance in film was in <Blackjack> (1997), playing a foul-mouthed truck driver. His performances as gangsters in the cult comedy <Attack the Gas Station> (1999) and <Public Enemy> (2002) quickly established him as one of the most well-known and reliable character actors. He could be seen in the China-Korea coproduced action <Musa-The Warrior> (2001), but in the several years that came after he mostly appeared in comedies such as <Kick The Moon> (2001), <Jail Breakers> (2002), <Please Teach Me English> (2003), <Mapado: Island of Fortunes> (2005) and <Hi, Dharma 2 –Showdown In Seoul> (2004). Yoo found opportunities in increasingly weightier roles, and now has become a bona fide marquee name in the box office. He took distinctive roles, playing a suspicious villager in <Blood Rain> (2005), a blockhead who cannot stay away from gambling in <Tazza: The High Rollers> (2006), a county public officer who cannot stop bragging about himself in <Small Town Rivals> (2007), and the titular character’s pet dog in <Woochi> (2009). Yoo next appeared in films such as the Korean War drama <In Love And the War> (2011), the thriller <The Spies> (2012) and the virus outbreak film <Flu> (2013). Three films followed in 2014, including the melodrama <Obsessed> (2014), the crime sequel <Tazza: The Hidden Card> (2014) and the hit swashbuckler <The Pirates> (2014), for which he was given a Best Supporting Actor prize from the Grand Bell Film Awards. 2015 saw him star in two high profile thrillers, Ryoo Seungwan’s <Veteran> (2015) and Kwak Kyungtaek’s <The Classified File> (2015). After he headlined a film for the first time in the comedy <LUCK-KEY> (2016), which scored just short of 7 million admissions, he became a major box office magnet. He also played the South Korean counterpart to Hyun Bin’s North Korean detective in <Confidential Assignment> (2017). He then took on a meaty supporting role in <A Taxi Driver> (2017), one of the most-watched films ever in Korea with 12 million admissions, and he finished the year starring in the hit historical drama <1987: When the Day Comes> (2017). As one of the most celebrated comedy actors, Yoo also starred in the word-of-mouth hit comedy <Intimate Strangers> (2018). In 2019, he took a role in the period dramas <MAL·MO·E: The Secret Mission> and <The Battle: Road to Victory>. In 2021, he appeared as a cyborg in the space sci-fi film <SPACE SWEEPERS> (2020), and he reprised his role in the Chuseok holiday season chart topper <Confidential Assignment2: International>.Less