Choi Won-young

Choi Won-young

Born: January 10, 1976
in South Korea
Choi Won Young (born Choi Seong Wook) is a South Korean actor. After making his acting debut in Sex Is Zero, Choi has appeared in both film and television. But his most notable roles have been in the TV dramas While You Were Sleeping and A Hundred Year Legacy, as well as the low-budget crime thriller Your Time Is Up, which premiered at the 2012 Busan International Film Festival.

In December 2013, Choi became engaged to actress Shim Yi Young whom he met while playing a married couple in the series A Hundred Year Legacy. The couple got married on February 28, 2014, at the Grand Ballroom of the COEX Walkerhill Hotel in Samseong-dong and on June 22, 2014, they welcomed their first child, a daughter. June 14, 2017 couple welcomed their second daughter.

Movies for Choi Won-young...

Title: Twinkling Watermelon
Character: Eun-gyeol's Father
Released: September 25, 2023
Type: TV
A CODA (child of deaf adult) student born with a gift for music crash lands at an unfamiliar place after time traveling through a suspicious music shop. There, he forms the band Watermelon Sugar with other mysterious youths.
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Past Lives
Title: Past Lives
Character: Nora's Dad
Released: June 2, 2023
Type: Movie
Nora and Hae Sung, two childhood friends, are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
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Title: The First Responders
Character: Ha Young-doo
Released: November 12, 2022
Type: TV
A police station and a fire station adjoining each other cooperate in combating crime and fire in the most brutal and tragic cases.
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Title: Under the Queen's Umbrella
Character: King Lee Ho
Released: October 15, 2022
Type: TV
A spirited queen tries to rein in her rowdy sons in order to make one of them the next king of Joseon, while her competitors vie to snatch the throne.
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Title: The Golden Spoon
Character: Hwang Hyeon-do
Released: September 23, 2022
Type: TV
Would you trade your poor but loving family for a life of riches? When Seung Cheon gets his hands on a magical spoon that allows him to switch lives with his rich best friend, he thinks it’s a no-brainer. But life-altering decisions are always accompanied by a sense of doubt, and with only three chances to change his mind, Seung Cheon has to decide which of his two possible futures is worth keeping.
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Title: Europe Outside Your Tent
Character: Self
Released: August 3, 2022
Type: TV
Yoo Hae-jin for 'Three Meals a Day: Fishing Village' demonstrates his hidden aspects as a camping master introducing to the audience a new paradigm of traveling Europe. Along with Jin Seon-kyu, Park Ji-hwan, and Yoon Kyun-sang, the four brothers travel Europe as the wheels roll.
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Title: O’PENing
Character: Kim Kang-su
Released: May 2, 2022
Type: TV
O'PENing is the new name of Drama Stage which has been broadcasting the winning work of the O'PEN storyteller contest. The franchise will continue to make meaningful steps to introduce and support new writers to see the light of the world and diversify content genres.
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Yaksha: Ruthless Operations
Title: Yaksha: Ruthless Operations
Character: Lee Chan-young
Released: April 8, 2022
Type: Movie
Nicknamed after a human-devouring spirit, the ruthless leader of an overseas black ops team takes up a dangerous mission in a city riddled with spies.
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Title: Moonshine
Character: Lee Shi-heum
Released: December 20, 2021
Type: TV
About human love against the backdrop of the most powerful alcohol prohibition period in the Joseon. The private prosecutor who comes to Seoul to raise the family, a poor man and his wife who start to make drinks to pay off their debts, and the prince who keeps going over the wall to drink; the drama is about three people who can end each other's lives fatefully encountering in front of a secret liquor warehouse.
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Title: Reflection of You
Character: An Hyeon-seong
Released: October 13, 2021
Type: TV
A thriving painter's enviable life begins to fray at the edges when a bright young woman she once befriended resurfaces as a shell of her former self.
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Title: Youth of May
Character: Hwang Hee-tae (adult)
Released: May 3, 2021
Type: TV
A budding love story between a medical student and a nurse takes place in May 1980, during a time of civil unrest and military oppression in Gwangju.
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The Book of Fish
Title: The Book of Fish
Character: Jeong Yak-jong
Released: March 31, 2021
Type: Movie
In 1801, after a new king ascended the throne, a scholar Jeong Yak-jeon who served the late king is exiled to Heuk-san Island. There he meets Chang-dae, a young fisherman who is a huge admirer of Confucianism and has a wide knowledge about the sea.
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Title: My Dangerous Wife
Character: Kim Yoon Cheol
Released: October 5, 2020
Type: TV
Sim Jae-Kyeong is smart, kindhearted and wealthy. She is married to Kim Yoon-Cheol. They have been married for the past 6 years. Sim Jae-Kyeong enjoys her happy marriage life with her husband, but she becomes involved in a mysterious kidnapping case. Her husband, Kim Yoon-Cheol is a popular chef. He has a good looking appearance and cheerful personality. He has an ordinary marriage life with his wife, but he feels Sim Jae-Hyeong is awful and gets bored with his marriage. Meanwhile, Jin Sun-Mi works at Kim Yoon-Cheol’s Italian restaurant. She has a special relationship with Kim Yoon-Cheol. She will do anything to get what she wants.
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Oh! My Gran
Title: Oh! My Gran
Character: Detective Kang
Released: September 2, 2020
Type: Movie
A man's daughter is the victim of a brutal hit-and-run car accident. The only witness is the man's dementia-ridden old mother who barely remember any details. The two must work together to find the culprit.
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Title: Alice
Character: Seok Oh-won
Released: August 28, 2020
Type: TV
It’s the year 2050 and time travel exists thanks to Alice, the mechanism through which the intriguing practice is made possible. But a rumor based on a prophecy beings to spread about time travel coming to an end. When You Min Hyuk and Yoon Tae Yi are sent to the year 1992 to find out about the prophecy, Tae Yi realizes she’s pregnant and decides to stay in the past by herself. She changes her name to Park Sun Young and eventually gives birth to a beautiful son named Park Jin Gyeom, whose mental health suffers due to radiation exposure. Fast forward to the year 2010, and Sun Young is murdered by someone. 10 years after her death, her son Jin Gyeom is on a mission to find who is responsible for his mother’s death. But while searching, he runs into Yoon Tae Yi, a physics professor who looks exactly like this mother. What will become of these individuals caught tragically between time and space?
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Title: Mystic Pop-up Bar
Character: Team Leader Gwi
Released: May 20, 2020
Type: TV
At this mysterious late-night food cart run by an equally mysterious woman and her part-timer, customers are provided a space for respite and counseling through their dreams. But most importantly, everyone here is treated equally—living or dead.
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Title: Delicious Rendezvous
Character: Himself
Released: December 5, 2019
Type: TV
Baek Jong Won is here again to help out an industry. This time, he goes all out to promote local food. He visits various regions and learn about their local produce. By creating different meals with these ingredients, Mr. Baek is able to sell them in rest stops. Yang Se Hyeong, Kim Hee Chul, and Kim Dong Jin are here to assist.
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Jesters: The Game Changers
Title: Jesters: The Game Changers
Character: Hong Yoon-sung
Released: August 21, 2019
Type: Movie
A gang of clowns is hired by an unpopular king to serve as propagandists who fabricate positive rumors and stage miracles to improve his personal image.
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Title: The Nokdu Flower
Character: Hwang Seok-Joo
Released: April 26, 2019
Type: TV
Set during the period of the 1894 Donghak Peasant Revolution against the Japanese, the drama tells the story of two half-brothers, one illegitimate and low born, and one, part of the pro-Japanese ruling elite, who find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.
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Title: Doctor Prisoner
Character: Lee Jae-Joon
Released: March 20, 2019
Type: TV
An ace doctor in a university hospital is wrongfully accused of a medical malpractice incident and gets ousted from the hospital. He then applies to work at a prison, where he plans to make personal connections with all the big shots in prison with the ultimate goal of getting revenge against the hospital that kicked him out.
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Title: SKY Castle
Character: Hwang Chi-young
Released: November 23, 2018
Type: TV
For the families living at Sky Castle, an exclusive residential community that's home to Korea's elite, their children’s success means everything.
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Title: 따로 또 같이
Released: October 14, 2018
Type: TV
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Title: Where Stars Land
Character: Han Jae Young [Yeo Reum's father]
Released: October 1, 2018
Type: TV
This series follows people who work diligently at Incheon International Airport. Lee Soo Yeon graduated from prestigious KAIST. He begins work at Incheon International Airport and gives himself a goal of six months to get used to working there. Lee Soo-Yeon is a mysterious man who keeps people at a distance. There, he meets Han Yeo Reum. She is a new employee in the passenger service team. She wants to be a perfectionist, but her reality is a little different. She makes a lot of mistakes.
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Title: Oh, the Mysterious
Character: Jang Pil-Sung
Released: November 27, 2017
Type: TV
Il Seung was wrongly accused of a crime and imprisoned, and has spent ten years on death row. He manages to break out of prison and somehow becomes a fake cop, then sets out to find a hidden stash of 100 billion won (nearly 100 million dollars) on behalf of criminals who will supply him with a new identity upon receipt. He has three days to find the cash and begin his new life.
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Title: Mad Dog
Character: Joo Hyun-Ki
Released: October 11, 2017
Type: TV
Choi Kang-Woo is a former detective, but he now works as a veteran insurance investigator. He leads a team that attempts to reveal insurance fraud cases.
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Title: While You Were Sleeping
Character: Nam Chul Doo [Hong Joo's father]
Released: September 27, 2017
Type: TV
Burdened with visions of the future in their dreams, a young woman and two men try to prevent horrible events before they actually happen.
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Title: Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth
Character: An Ji-Gong
Released: December 19, 2016
Type: TV
An elite group of young warriors trained in morals and martial arts finds love and friendship in Silla during Korea’s ancient Three Kingdoms period.
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Title: The Gentlemen of Wolgyesu Tailor Shop
Character: Sung Tae-Pyung
Released: August 27, 2016
Type: TV
Depicts the trials and tribulations of four men who work at Laurel Tree Tailor Shop.
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Title: Come Back Alive
Character: Cha Jae-guk
Released: February 24, 2016
Type: TV
A man is worked to death, but he comes back to the living world in the attractive body of another man for a limited amount of time. Lee Hae Joon is a perfect man with good looking appearance. He works as a section chief in the women’s apparel section at a department store. His body is actually possessed by the spirit of Kim Young Soo who was worked to death. Meanwhile, Hong Nan is a beautiful woman, but her spirit is possessed by a tough guy, Han Ki Tak. At the same time, Shin Da Hye is a beautiful housewife, but her husband suddenly dies. She falls into a love triangle with Lee Hae Joon and a promising store employee Jung Ji Hoon.
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Title: Twenty Again
Character: Kim Woo-Cheol
Released: August 28, 2015
Type: TV
Due to an unplanned pregnancy, Ha No Ra married young and dropped out of school. But after two decades as a housewife, she finally gets the chance to experience college, alongside her 20-year-old son Kim Min Soo and his girlfriend Oh Hye Mi. Further complicating things, No Ra already has a strained student-teacher relationship, as her husband Kim Woo Chul and her first love Cha Hyun Suk wind up being her professors.
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Looking for My Family
Title: Looking for My Family
Character: Tae-seong
Released: June 25, 2015
Type: Movie
The story begins with Tae-seong (Choi Won-yeong) and Yeon-hee (Ryoo Hye-won) heading for the child care facility with the hope of meeting the child they lost 6 years ago. They are divorced now but they were a married couple and had a child. They should have been happy but Tae-seong and Yeon-hee weren't. Min-goo (Kang San) is also confused about this situation. He's happy that he found his parents whom he thought never existed but he's also very careful about the situation. The three of them spend a night at a motel around the center. Tae-seong suggests to Yeon-hee, now that they found Min-goo, to forget about the past and live together again as a family. However, Yeon-hee refuses. Not only that, the next morning, she leaves without a word to Tae-seong and Min-goo. Tae-seong isn't sure he can take care of Min-goo so he returns the child to the child care center and runs back to Seoul. Can these three become a family again?
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Title: I Remember You
Character: Lee Joon-ho/Lee Joon-yeong
Released: June 22, 2015
Type: TV
This drama is a romantic thriller that centers around a criminal profiler, Lee Hyun who previously work as a consultant at the police department in New York. After he returns to south Korea, he’s in charge of a special criminal investigation team. Due to his special insight, he can analyze the crime scene and the suspect at one glance. He works together with an elite detective, Cha Ji An to solve the crimes and they develop a romantic relationship.
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Title: Kill Me, Heal Me
Character: Ahn Gook
Released: January 7, 2015
Type: TV
Cha Do-hyun is a rich heir to a family company with one major problem. Due to suppressed childhood trauma, he suffers from dissociative identity disorder manifested in 7 unique personalities who are out of his control. In order to overcome this disorder in secret, he hires a first year medical resident to help him heal by killing off each personality one by one.
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Title: Secret Door
Character: Chae Je-gong
Released: September 22, 2014
Type: TV
A re-imagining of the legendary tale of the troubled father-son relationship between King Yeongjo and his only son Prince Sado. While his father insists on a strong and centralized government, Crown Prince Sado promotes social justice and equality throughout the kingdom. Throughout eight fateful years, the strain on their relationship — both familial and political — eventually evolves into a total breakdown, ending with one of the most tragic stories in Joseon history.
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Title: Three Days
Character: Kim Do-jin
Released: March 5, 2014
Type: TV
Three shots are fired and the president of South Korea suddenly goes missing from his vacation villa. Three Days is a condensed-time thriller that follows the struggles of elite Blue House bodyguard Han Tae Kyung to find and protect the president. With the aid of local police officer Yoon Bo Won and fellow Blue House guards, will Han Tae Kyung be able to save the president before it’s too late?
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The Plan Man
Title: The Plan Man
Character: Kang Byung-soo
Released: January 9, 2014
Type: Movie
The Plan Man is about a man who lives everything according to plan until he meets a woman who wasn't a part of it.
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Shorts Meet Shorts
Title: Shorts Meet Shorts
Character: Dong-kyu
Released: November 21, 2013
Type: Movie
EXIT: Woo-hyun lives a small-time criminal life earning his life as a pick-pocket. He often pays attention to an arrow-shaped-tattoo of his girlfriend which is on the genital area. He calls it ‘the emergency exit.’ THE BODY: Jung-su and Young-sun are a young couple. One new year’s eve, a movie director visits the couple’s house. Only the strong wind of the sea and slow time cross the living room and three people sense something…alive. WALTZING ON THUNDER: Mi-jung just happens to meet a group of people who have survived from being struck by lightning. While becoming aware of her old wound, she takes part in a trip for lightning strikes ‘again’.
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Title: The Heirs
Character: Yoon Jae-ho
Released: October 9, 2013
Type: TV
After a chance encounter in LA, two teens from different social backgrounds reunite at an exclusive high school attended by Korea's über rich.
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Your Time is UP
Title: Your Time is UP
Character: Seok-ho
Released: March 14, 2013
Type: Movie
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Title: Love in Memory
Character: Ki Soo
Released: February 21, 2013
Type: TV
History tells of memories, the longings for love and healing.
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Title: A Hundred Year Legacy
Character: Kim Chul-gyu
Released: January 5, 2013
Type: TV
A warm-hearted family drama about a three-generation family and their noodle factory that they operate in the outskirts of Seoul.
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Confession of Murder
Title: Confession of Murder
Character: Jung Tae-suk
Released: November 8, 2012
Type: Movie
A serial killer reappears 15 years after his murder spree with a book detailing his crimes. The resentful cop who failed to catch him before is assigned to protect him. The families of the victims plan revenge. And as the media circus spirals out of control, a masked man called "J" appears claiming to be the real killer.
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Grape Candy
Title: Grape Candy
Character: Ji-hoon
Released: September 6, 2012
Type: Movie
Sun-joo is busy preparing for her upcoming wedding. But her fiancée Ji-hoon plans to go on a business trip with the beautiful writer So-ra who turns out to be Sun-joo’s best friend from before. With all the doubts and jealousy, she lies to So-ra and accompanies her in place of Ji-hoon. But on their way she realizes that the memory about their dearly friend Yeo-eun, who died in a tragic accident, are quite different. What really happened to them? Can they reveal the untold truth?
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Title: 아드레날린
Released: August 21, 2012
Type: TV
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Title: Law of the Jungle
Character: Self
Released: October 21, 2011
Type: TV
Law of the Jungle is a hybrid reality show combining elements of drama and documentary. The show is hosted by comedian Kim Byung Man, and each episode invites various celebrities from the various field. So far, many of idol stars and famous actors have appeared on the show. The show introduces viewers to exotic locations around the world where celebrities must work together in order to complete missions and survive. The cast celebrities travel to less habituated, natural places to survive on their own and experience life with local tribes and people. In each location, the guests are tasked to hunt and prepare their meals and also create shelter for the tribe. They sometimes confronted by many difficult challenges. Where will the tribe visit? And how will they survive on their own? Stay tuned to check out!
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Title: While You Were Sleeping
Character: Yoon Min-joon
Released: May 16, 2011
Type: TV
Oh Shin-young is a hospital cafeteria nutritionist with a bright personality, who is happily married to Yoon Min-joon, who works in the sales department of a food company. But while giving birth, Shin-young falls into a vegetative state induced by the hospital's chief obstetrician Go Hyun-sung. Hyun-sung is Min-joon's ex-girlfriend who is still in love with him, despite being married to Chae Hyuk-jin, the director of a food company and Min-joon's boss. When Hyuk-jin learns of his wife's betrayal, he plans his revenge.
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In Love and the War
Title: In Love and the War
Released: April 27, 2011
Type: Movie
In June 1950, soon after the start of the Korean War, a troop of North Korean soldiers enter a small South Korean village. Captain Jeong-woong proclaims that they came to liberate the villagers but their true agenda is to ferret out the reactionaries. The villagers and Seol-hee, who is separated from her fiance on her wedding day, offer them heartfelt hospitality and cooperation to avoid falling out of the army's favor. Eventually friendships starts to build up between the soldiers and the villagers.
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Earth Rep Rolling Stars
Title: Earth Rep Rolling Stars
Character: Jack (voice)
Released: March 27, 2011
Type: Movie
A story about a group of trouble makers, who knew nothing about baseball and create a team to save the Earth from the best baseball team in the Universe, the "Devil's".
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Title: KBS Drama Special
Released: May 15, 2010
Type: TV
Forget the existing one-act dramas! Short but impactive! KBS Drama Special presents high quality single episode dramas. Dramas are the broadcast content with the widest public appeal. KBS Drama Special will produce short dramas of far-reaching impact involving at times a serious social message, unique emotions or perspectives. It will stay abreast of modern viewership.
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The Outlaw
Title: The Outlaw
Character: Park Sung-chul
Released: March 18, 2010
Type: Movie
Detective Jung-soo faces the victims of brutal murders who were killed for no reason and this makes him outraged. During the investigation, he meets Ji-hyun who is the only survivor and marries her, but they cannot escape from her tragic past. One day, Jung-soo's partner, So-young, arrives at the crime scene where she finds Jung-soo crying out in sorrow with his wife and daughter in his arms who are found viciously murdered after they went missing. But as the police and the law let the suspect go because for lack of evidence, Jung-soo decides to take vengeance himself on those unpunished killers and the cruel world.
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Title: Definitely Neighbors
Character: Chae Ki-hoon
Released: March 13, 2010
Type: TV
Married couple Kim Sung-jae & Yoon Ji-yeong gets divorced. Prior to their divorce, the couple had an argument and their five year old son left the house. Their child died by a car accident. The guilt from their child's death weighted heavily on the parents and eventually they divorced because of this. As time goes on, the ex spouses meet again as neighbors ...
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Title: The Great Queen Seondeok
Character: General Gyebaek
Released: May 25, 2009
Type: TV
The life story of Queen Seondeok, the first queen of the Korean people during the Silla Dynasty.
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Cheaters
Title: Cheaters
Character: Seok Ho
Released: March 22, 2007
Type: Movie
Seok-ho, a self-styled playboy with a beautiful wife, is fooling around with Ji-yeon, a voluptuous photographer, but pines for Chae-young, a college student who appears to be the most virtuous girl in all of Korea. But it turns out that Chae-young, who frustrates her suitor at every turn, is not so chaste after all. The plot thickens as Seok-ho's best friend Young-su, outwardly awkward and shy, sets his sights on Ji-yeon, not realizing that she is already involved with his best buddy.
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Love in Magic
Title: Love in Magic
Character: Han Joon-seok
Released: May 20, 2005
Type: Movie
The story is of a playboy who has, through an unavoidable circumstance, run into a woman from his past. Woo Ji Hoon makes a living as a magician and nothing is easier for him than attracting beautiful women. He has an irresistible charm that draws all females to his side like a magnet - all but one, the charming teacher Koo Hee Won. Ji Hoon tried to make her his latest love possession but was bluntly turned down. As luck would have it both Hee Won and Ji Hoon can't resist the temptation of arranging a blind date on the Internet setting in motion a firework of hilarious consequences.
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To Catch a Virgin Ghost
Title: To Catch a Virgin Ghost
Character: Han-seok
Released: August 13, 2004
Type: Movie
Seok-tae runs away with a huge diamond of his gang and comes to Sisily, a peaceful village. Yang-e runs after him to get the diamond back and finds Seok-tae's trail in Sisily. But all the town people lie about everything. These people turn out to be scarier than a ghost!
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Sex Is Zero
Title: Sex Is Zero
Character: Park Chan-soo
Released: December 12, 2002
Type: Movie
Eun-sik tries to pass the state exam while studying in college after his military service. One day, he meets a beautiful woman Eun-hyo, and his life changes.
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The Land of Happiness
Title: The Land of Happiness
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie