Im Ye-jin

Im Ye-jin

Born: January 24, 1960
in Seoul, South Korea
Im Ye-jin (born Im Ki-hee) is a South Korean actress. As a teenage actress, she reached the peak of her popularity in the 1970s with the "Really Really" film trilogy, which include Never Forget Me, I Am Really Sorry and I Really Really Like You. She is currently active in television.

As Im grew older, she remained active on television and the occasional film, in supporting roles as ajummas, aunts or mothers. As if coming full circle, she played one of the adult characters in a 2010 musical theatre adaptation of her early hit I Really Really Like You.

Agency: YG entertainment (2014).

Married to Choi Chang Wook(1989), TV director and producer at MBC.

Movies for Im Ye-jin...

Title: Beauty and Mr. Romantic
Character: So Geum-ja
Released: March 23, 2024
Type: TV
A love story about an actress falls to the bottom overnight, and a producer's effort to try and get her back on her feet because he loves her. A cheerful family drama that reveals the truth of the case and restores love and justice through revenge and a family's desire going through confusion due to family conflicts.
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Title: Young Lady and Gentleman
Character: Jang Mi-Sook
Released: September 25, 2021
Type: TV
Lee Young Kook is a widower with three children. He still hasn’t gotten over the death of his wife. He decides to hire Park Dan Dan as a live-in tutor for his kids and he becomes attracted to her. Meanwhile, Park Dan Dan has bright and positive personality despite her harsh situation.
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Title: Love Scene Number
Character: Park Jung-Seok's mother
Released: February 1, 2021
Type: TV
Four women each come to a crossroads in life and love. Du Ah is a 23-year-old university student involved in a polyamorous relationship. An elementary school teacher, Ha Ram is in her late twenties and feeling a change of heart right before her wedding day. At 35, Ban Ya, an adjunct instructor, questions whether her ‘pretend relationship’ is transforming into something real. Chung Kyung, a furniture designer in her forties, discovers her husband is having an affair. The four women, each going through a different turning point in their lives, contemplate what they truly want from dating and love. What does ‘love’ mean to each of them?
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Trade Your Love
Title: Trade Your Love
Character: Hae-joo's mother
Released: February 27, 2019
Type: Movie
Sung-seok and Hae-joo, who have been under pressure of marriage, devise a scheme at their first meet; a fake wedding. They reach an agreement under the desire of not only being free from their parents’ meddling but carrying their secret future plan. Sung-seok plans to run away with his lover who has a kid and Hae-joo plans to start her new career abroad after their planned marriage. However, their families get too much excited about this news more than their expectation and their near-flawless plan starts to become a mess.
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Title: My Only One
Character: So Yang-ja
Released: September 15, 2018
Type: TV
A woman's life gets twisted one day because of her biological father who shows up after 28 years of absence. He had been thoroughly hiding his identity, afraid that he might be an obstacle in his daughter's life. The father and daughter meet the "only ones" in their lives and put back together the pieces of their broken hearts.
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Title: Cheol Soo and O2
Released: February 14, 2018
Type: TV
'Cheol Soo and 02' deals with the material called 'Humanoid Robot' and is based on a virtual future of 2030, when artificial intelligent robots are everyday. A middle-aged man who lost his wife in a sudden traffic accident draws a story about a robot that resembles his young wife.
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Title: The Best Hit
Character: Kaesy
Released: June 2, 2017
Type: TV
Yoo Hyun-Jae is a member of a popular idol group. He has a lot of fans and he is a scandal maker. Meanwhile, Lee Ji-Hoon is an aspiring singer. He pretends to be studying for his civil servant exam, but he is actually struggling to become an idol.
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Title: The Liar and His Lover
Character: Kim Soon-Hee
Released: March 20, 2017
Type: TV
Kang Han-Kyeol is a great yet sullen composer who becomes inspired by the voices of others and keeps his identity secret from people. He meets Yoon So-Rim, a high school student who possesses beautiful singing, whilst under his secret identity, and she falls in love with him. Adaptation of the manga by Kotomi Aoki under the same name, which has been running since 2009.
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Title: Video Star
Character: Self
Released: July 12, 2016
Type: TV
Four female hosts blend quick quips and laughter with candor as they invite celebrity guests to open up about their lives.
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Time Renegades
Title: Time Renegades
Character: Vice Principal
Released: April 13, 2016
Type: Movie
A high-school teacher in 1983 and a detective in 2015 join forces through their dreams to change the perilous fate of the woman they both love—30 years apart.
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Title: Yeah, That's How It Is
Character: Lee Tae-Hee
Released: February 13, 2016
Type: TV
This drama is about a story of a big family.
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Title: Splash Splash Love
Released: December 13, 2015
Type: TV
Dan-Bi is a senior high school student. She has a special ability which allows her to transport to anywhere on rainy days. For her university entrance exam, Dan-Bi can't deal with the pressure and runs off to a playground. Without knowing why, she goes into a puddle and finds herself transported to the Joseon period. There, she meets Lee Do. He is a young King of the Joseon period. Lee Do is in a difficult situation due to droughts and the spread of an epidemic.
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Title: The Producers
Character: Park Bong-soon
Released: May 15, 2015
Type: TV
A rookie producer joins the Korean Broadcasting System to be near his secret crush and enters the madcap world of network TV, where ratings rule.
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Title: Rosy Lovers
Character: So Geum-ja
Released: October 18, 2014
Type: TV
A family drama about a college student couple who unintentionally becomes parents and realize the true meaning of love and life. Jang Mi is an immature mama’s girl who grew without experiencing any hardship in life. Unlike her parents’ will to marry her off to a promising man they choose for her, Jang Mi has the hope to marry someone she falls madly in love with. As she dates healthy and innocent engineering student Cha Dol, she slowly begins to realize the meaning of love.
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Title: Marriage, Not Dating
Character: Na So-nyeo
Released: July 4, 2014
Type: TV
A romantic comedy about a man who doesn't want to get married and a woman who has no luck in marriage prospect. Gong Ki Tae is a successful bachelor who keeps getting pressured by his family to settle down. He then comes up with a plan to introduce Joo Jang Mi, whom he thinks will never be approved by his family.
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Title: Can We Fall in Love, Again?
Character: [Ji Hyun's mother-in-law]
Released: January 6, 2014
Type: TV
Jung Wan, Sun Mi, and Ji Hyun were high school classmates. It's been 20 years since graduation and as they turn 39, the three friends are leading completely different lives, although they are as close as sisters. Jung Wan was the first to get married but is now divorced, while Sun Mi chose a career over marriage and is now a successful interior designer, but is desperately lonely. Ji Hyun married a successful businessman and seems to be a good wife and mother, but feels like she is dying inside. What happens when love comes knocking on their doors once again? Jung Wan tries to throw herself into work to forget her ex but meets a new man. Sun Mi is desperate to get married before she turns 40. Ji Hyun, tired of her dull marriage, reunites with her first love who tempts her heart once more. Love has come once again to these three women in their late 30s. Can they fall in love again?
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Title: Princess Aurora
Character: Wang Yeo-ok
Released: May 20, 2013
Type: TV
Oh Ro-ra is a 25-year-old woman whose family owns Chunwang Foods, a large food conglomerate. Both of her parents are in their seventies and a 20-plus age difference exists between Ro-ra and her three other male siblings - Wang-sung, Geum-sung and Soo-sung. As the youngest child of a wealthy family, Ro-ra is charming, uber-confident and seemingly a spoiled material girl, but there's more to her than meets the eye. Unafraid to speak her mind, she intervenes to salvage her 50-year-old second brother's marriage by getting rid of his mistress who had lied about getting pregnant. One day, she falls head over heels for Hwang Ma-ma, an irritable novelist and perfectionist. But he has one flaw that could torpedo their relationship.
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Title: 7th Grade Civil Servant
Character: Go Soo-ja
Released: January 23, 2013
Type: TV
Love and espionage collide in this drama of the National Intelligence Service’s rookie agents. Han Gil Ro realizes his dream of becoming an international man of mystery, after a childhood spent pouring over James Bond films. Kim Seo Won spices things up as a goofy, yet determined agent, but it's not all 007 glamor. Both Gil Ro and Seo Won must learn what it takes to uphold their sworn duty, even at the sacrifice of their happiness - and lives.
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Title: My Kids Give Me a Headache
Character: Ji Yoo Jung
Released: October 27, 2012
Type: TV
Childless Comfort is a 2012 South Korean television series, starring Lee Soon-jae, Kim Hae-sook, Yoo Dong-geun and Uhm Ji-won. It is about three generations of the Ahn family who are all living in one house in the suburbs of Seoul, and how they deal with the societal discrimination that their smart and highly educated, eldest granddaughter faces, when she became a single mother. It aired on cable channel jTBC from October 27, 2012 to March 17, 2013 on Saturdays and Sundays at 20:50 for 39 episodes. The series received consistently solid ratings, and its January 26, 2013 episode reached 7.955%, breaking the previous record of Reply 1997 to become the highest viewership ratings that a drama has received on Korean cable. It went on to break its own record for the February 24 episode, with another cable drama all-time rating high of 10.715%.
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Title: Immortal Classic
Character: Kang San-Hae
Released: March 17, 2012
Type: TV
"Immortal Classic" depicts a cooking competition. There are two families, one family runs a restaurant and the other family are achnowledged master chefs. The drama will depict the relationships, misunderstandings, forgiveness through 4 generations of these two families.
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Title: My Princess
Character: Kim Da-bok
Released: January 5, 2011
Type: TV
Seol is an ordinary college student who was adopted but is living a happy life on her own. Working part time, she happens to have an unpleasant first encounter with Hae Young, a diplomat and the only heir of the biggest conglomerate in Korea. One day, he hears shocking news from his grandfather. The Blue House announces that they will carry out a vote on rebuilding the royal house, and his grandfather asks him to find someone urgently, who later turns out to be Seol. Against his grandfather’s wishes to donate their family’s wealth to the country, Hae Young tries to stop Seol, but she ends up moving into the palace to become a princess of the royal house.
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Title: KBS Drama Special
Character: Kim Jin-sook
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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Secret Love
Title: Secret Love
Character: Yeon-yi's Mother
Released: March 25, 2010
Type: Movie
When her husband is left comatose after an accident, a distraught young bride develops an attraction to her spouse's identical twin.
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Title: The Road Home
Character: Yoo Yong-sun
Released: January 12, 2009
Type: TV
A simple yet heartwarming story of a three-generation family, The Road Home portrays the love and conflicts between family members running a general hospital. It explores the lives of the grown-up children who each have their own problems to solve, and the way they cope with their aging parents.Yoo Min-soo is the eldest son of the hospital's CEO. His wife Jang Mi-ryung bears a child out of wedlock but raises it with maternal love.Hiro, a Japanese model, confesses his love for Ji-soo, Min-soo's sister. But Ji-soo must later come to grips with the secrets behind her birth.
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Title: Boys Over Flowers
Character: Na Gong-joo
Released: January 5, 2009
Type: TV
Unassuming high school girl Jan-di stands up to — and eventually falls for — a spoiled rich kid who belongs to the school's most powerful clique.
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My Mighty Princess
Title: My Mighty Princess
Character: He-in
Released: June 26, 2008
Type: Movie
So-hwi is a martial arts prodigy and college student. Realizing that her superhuman strength is holding back her love life, she decides to quit martial arts to pursue handsome hockey player Joon-mo. But Joon-mo is in love with an older woman, and when So-hwi's mystical martial arts community comes under threat from an old enemy, Heuk-bong, her childhood friend Il-yeong must persuade her to return.
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Miss Gold Digger
Title: Miss Gold Digger
Character: Mi-Su's mother
Released: December 18, 2007
Type: Movie
Sin Min-joo is juggling relationships with four different men, adopting a different persona for each one. But her love life becomes increasingly tangled, and the men show their true colours when they find out how they've been manipulated.
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Title: Winter Bird
Released: September 15, 2007
Type: TV
Young Eun lived with a family ever since she was an orphan and then fell in love with Do Hyun who is 5 years older than her. However, Do Hyun's family did not approve of Do Hyun dating Young Eun. As a result, Young Eun eventually left Do Hyun and marries a doctor, Joo Kyung Woo. Although Kyung Woo acts like a gentleman, he is actually a mama's boy with multiple and complicated personalities. Though he treats Young Eun well, he believes everything his mother tells him and will turn on Young Eun at any moment. Jin Ah is a pediatric medical resident and falls for Do Hyun. But she is unsure of his relationship with Young Eun. Do Hyun decides to marry Jin Ah and after the wedding, Young Eun has had enough of Kyung Woo's mother. She decides to leave Kyung Woo. What will happen between Do Hyun and Young Eun? Will they realize they can't leave without the other?
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Dasepo Naughty Girls
Title: Dasepo Naughty Girls
Character: Poor Girl's mom
Released: August 10, 2006
Type: Movie
Based on the popular Internet novel, the film takes place in a school renowned for its sexual aberrations. The student body is comprised of sexually ambiguous teenagers, and the student president and vice-present flaunt their taste for S&M. Independent study and supplementary classes are done on homosexuality and transgenderism. But amidst this environment, there are some that just can't adapt.
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Sunday Seoul
Title: Sunday Seoul
Released: February 9, 2006
Type: Movie
"Sunday Seoul" is a film with three nonsensical episodes: THE WEREWOLF: A high school student Do-yeon who is the victim of bullying in school, is the main character of the first episode. He is not good at studying or at fighting. One day, an unexpected change happens to his body. THE VISITOR: On a pitch-black stormy night, a woman is visited by a stranger seeking shelter. The stranger eventually, is revealed as a serial killer on the run. THE YOUNG ADVENTURER: Seeking revenge for his father, a son embarks on a journey in which he encounters a young girl by chance and starts to learn martial arts.
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Title: Princess Hours
Character: Chae-kyung's mother
Released: January 11, 2006
Type: TV
When the South Korean Empire's emperor gets sick, the government tries to seek the princess for the prince Lee Shin. Although Lee Shin is already in love with a ballerina Hyo-rin, Lee Shin has to get married to an ordinary girl Chae-kyung.
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Title: Ireland
Character: Kwon Byung-Ran
Released: September 2, 2004
Type: TV
Ireland is a 2004 South Korean television series starring Lee Na-young, Kim Min-joon, Kim Min-jung and Hyun Bin. It aired on MBC from September 1 to October 21, 2004 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes.
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Title: Full House
Character: Dae-pyo
Released: July 14, 2004
Type: TV
Han Ji-eun is a naive writer who got swindled out of everything she owned including her house by her best friends. Stranded in China, She managed to borrow money from an actor Lee Young-jae to return to Korea. On her return, she found out that her house was bought by Lee Young-jae. In an attempt to get her possessions back, she entered in a contract marriage with Young-jae for one year. In spite of losing all, Ji-eun manages to be cheerful and takes things in strike and the business relationship between the two becomes personal as they start to rely and care for each other.
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Windstruck
Title: Windstruck
Character: Policewoman of Police Substation
Released: June 3, 2004
Type: Movie
Kyung-jin, a police officer who finds herself chasing down a suspected bag-snatcher on her day off. However, the man she catches turns out to be Myungwoo, a passer-by who was himself trying to apprehend the real criminal.
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The Classic
Title: The Classic
Character: Canteen Operator
Released: January 30, 2003
Type: Movie
Ji-hae's friend is having problems expressing her feelings to the boy she loves, so she asks Ji-hae to write e-mails to him in her name. As the boy falls in love with her letters, Ji-hae discovers the story of her mother's romance which is remarkably similar to her own circumstances.
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Title: See and See Again
Released: March 2, 1998
Type: TV
A family drama about the entangled conflict, love, and reconciliation of the characters around them, centered on Mammal's eldest daughter Jin Ju and Eun Ju's sister Eun Ju, who grew up with her parents' love.
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Released: November 20, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: MBC 베스트극장
Character: Hae-boon
Released: July 7, 1991
Type: TV
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Good Windy Days
Title: Good Windy Days
Character: Chun-sun
Released: November 27, 1980
Type: Movie
Three friends, Duk-bae, Chun-sik, and Kil-nam, work each at a suburban Chinese restaurant, a barbershop, and a motel. The three friends are clueless about their future. They just share the drinks and love stories. Kil-nam is in love with Jin-ok working at a hair salon and Chun-sik is after Yu who also works at the barbershop. Naive Duk-bae's mind is torn between Chun-sun who works at a factory and an uptown girl Myung-hi.
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Really I Like You
Title: Really I Like You
Character: Ji-young Choi
Released: September 2, 1978
Type: Movie
Ji-yeong has a biking accident and is aided by a boy who is practicing to become an Olympic marathon runner. The young man falls ill during a practice and is forced to give up his dream due to a previously undiagnosed heart disease. Ji-yeong wants to help him, but her parents don't allow it, so she steals a camera to pawn for the money for the boy's hospital bill.
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The First Snow
Title: The First Snow
Released: July 1, 1977
Type: Movie
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When We Grow Up...
Title: When We Grow Up...
Released: April 14, 1977
Type: Movie
Ye-won and Young-su are both seniors at high school. They need to enter the university at any cost. They make a promise to make it to the university and pursue the dreams of their life together. Though Ye-won passes the test with no problem, Young-su fails it. As Ye-won gets close with Deok-jin, Young-su loses his faith and falls into the deep delinquency. Ye-won couldn't let Young-su go astray so she decides to be with him.
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Really Sorry
Title: Really Sorry
Character: Jeong-ah Han
Released: November 20, 1976
Type: Movie
Yeong-su learns that Jeong-ah, a woman he thought dead, is alive and well but her parents will not allow him to see her because she is engaged to be married. When he does finally meet her, he cannot understand the attitude of his former high school sweetheart, not realizing that she is keeping a secret from him.
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I Really Have a Dream
Title: I Really Have a Dream
Released: July 29, 1976
Type: Movie
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Ever So Much Good!
Title: Ever So Much Good!
Released: July 3, 1976
Type: Movie
Seon-Hee, whose dream is to go to high school, gets a job as a housemaid in Jae-Yon's in Seoul. The family of the restaurant treats her as a member of the family. Seon-Hee solves the problems between Jae-Yong and his girlfriend, Yeo-Ju. On the day when Jae-Yong joins the military service, he ensures his love to Yeo-Ju. With the careful concern of the family, Seon-Hee comes true her dream of going to high school. Seon-Hee in her school uniform is full of hope and walks to school.
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Never Never Forget Me
Title: Never Never Forget Me
Character: Jeong-ah Han
Released: February 14, 1976
Type: Movie
Yeong-su and Jeong-ah experience many problems as their budding romance defies the strict rules of the co-ed highschool they attend. After graduation when it looks like they can be free to live their own lives, Yeong-su joins the military and their relationship will never be the same.
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Transgression
Title: Transgression
Released: November 9, 1974
Type: Movie
Chim-Ae, an orphan, is saved by an old monk of Seo San Temple, Mu Bul Dang while he is wandering in war fires. Then he enters the priesthood and trains himself a mountaineering asceticism. When he becomes an eminent young priest, the last trial to receive the mantle of the preceding abbot applies on him. The old monk sends the fairest of the fair, Myo-Hyang of cottage Ni Am to Chim-Ae to form a connection with her. But Chim-Ae quickly removes his earthly desires towards woman and goes through this hardship by fasting meditation. However the old monk recognizes that love sprouted between two youngsters and shows Chim-Ae the face of transgression which he mentally violated without hesitation to make Chim-Ae and Myo-Hyang go back to mundane existence.