Yu Jaemyeong, born in 1973, honed his skills as a member of the Society for Research in Dramatic Art at the Busan University before joining the company Open Scene in 1997 and taking part in a production of Jang Jin’s <Clumsy People>. In 2004, he established Theatre Bae.Kwan.Gong (which stands for the Korean “Actor, Audience and Space”) in Busan. Even though he landed a few bit parts on the big screen before, with a first role in <The Last Witness> (2001) an...More

Yu Jaemyeong, born in 1973, honed his skills as a member of the Society for Research in Dramatic Art at the Busan University before joining the company Open Scene in 1997 and taking part in a production of Jang Jin’s <Clumsy People>. In 2004, he established Theatre Bae.Kwan.Gong (which stands for the Korean “Actor, Audience and Space”) in Busan. Even though he landed a few bit parts on the big screen before, with a first role in <The Last Witness> (2001) and notable appearances in <Bloody Tie> (2006) and <Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time> (2011), his film career really took off when, with more than a hundred performances under his belt, he decided to try his chance in Seoul. He received his first big role in <Code Name : Jackal> (2012) and was particularly active in 2014, with no less than seven screen appearances. Nevertheless, frustrated with the feeling that he was treading water, he started to contemplate going back to Busan. That’s when he was given the role of the father of one of the protagonists in <Reply 1988> (2015-2016), a TV series that would become a cultural phenomenon in Korea. This was the push he desperately needed to relaunch his career, as he started receiving more roles for television. He made notable appearances in the historical series <Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth> (2016-2017) and <Strong Girl Bong-soon> (2017), and before he knew it, he got his first leading role in the thriller film <A Day> (2017), which attracted a respectable 1.1 million viewers. Quickly thereafter, he starred alongside Bae Doona and Cho Seungwoo in the critically acclaimed hit thriller series <Stranger> (2017). The next year, he could be seen in some of the most eagerly anticipated Korean films of 2018, namely the historical drama film <FENGSHUI> (2018) and the crime drama <DRUG KING> (2017), and he was part of the main cast of the independent drama <Youngju> (2018). After subsequent credits in <The Beast> (2019) and <Bring Me Home> (2019), he co-starred alongside Yoo Ahin in the critically acclaimed indie dark comedy <Voice of Silence> (2020). 2020 also saw him land one of the main roles in the youth series <Itaewon Class> (2020). In 2022, he appeared in the political drama <Kingmaker> (2021).Less