YU Jae-myeong, born in 1973, first thought of becoming an actor when he was in high school, but his parents and teachers convinced him to go to university and so he ended up attending a College of Biotechnology. It didn’t take him long however to come across the drama club of his school. Having become obsessed with acting, he would spend the greater part of his time working for the club and rehearsing performances, so much so that he eventually graduated ten years after he...More

YU Jae-myeong, born in 1973, first thought of becoming an actor when he was in high school, but his parents and teachers convinced him to go to university and so he ended up attending a College of Biotechnology. It didn’t take him long however to come across the drama club of his school. Having become obsessed with acting, he would spend the greater part of his time working for the club and rehearsing performances, so much so that he eventually graduated ten years after he entered college, much to his parents’ dismay. In 2004, he established the company Theater 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 bigger role in <Code Name : Jackal> (2012) and was particularly active in 2014, with no less than seven screen appearances. That same year, he was cast in the period drama film <The Tiger> (2015). 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; he started receiving more roles for television, making 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 Doo-na and CHO Seung-woo in the critically-acclaimed hit thriller series <Stranger> (2017). He then took roles in some of the most eagerly anticipated Korean films of 2018, the historical drama film <Feng Shui> (2018) and crime drama <DRUG KING> (2017).Less