Her filmography is so long and colorful that it is difficult to list them up. She was among the best movie stars in the 1960s and worked on several movies at the same time, which enriched Korea’s film history. The number of her movies reached 300 at end-1970s since her debut film, <Theatre of Youth>, in 1967. She enjoyed great popularity and worked with best directors in Korea but suddenly went to Paris for study and got married to the world’s famous pianist, [PAIK ...More

Her filmography is so long and colorful that it is difficult to list them up. She was among the best movie stars in the 1960s and worked on several movies at the same time, which enriched Korea’s film history. The number of her movies reached 300 at end-1970s since her debut film, <Theatre of Youth>, in 1967. She enjoyed great popularity and worked with best directors in Korea but suddenly went to Paris for study and got married to the world’s famous pianist, [PAIK Kun-Woo]. She did not retire from acting but put her career on hold. It was director [LEE Chang-dong] who brought back her to the silver screen after years of absence. [LEE Chang-dong] directed <Oasis> and <Secrete Sunshine>, which took Korea’s realism movies to a higher level. She played a 60-year-old Mija in director [LEE Chang-dong]’s fifth film, <Poetry> who started to write poems for the first time in her life, and her acting was as good as it gets. She portrayed a complicated inner world of a gentle, elegant woman who had disarming naiveté and won for Best Performance by an Actress at the 2010 Asia Pacific Screen Awards and [Blue Dragon Movie Awards]. Less