Youn needs no introduction in her home country because of her enviable resume with more than 40 credits to her name. The South Korean entertainment industry mainstay has done everything from film to TV across a score of genres over five decades.
These days, she’s better known for more PG-rated content but the older generation would remember Youn for her extremely risqué roles in a number of critically praised, experimental films by late director Kim Ki-young, including The Insect Woman (1972) and Woman of Fire (1971). Unconventional in both the way she looks, speaks, and acts, she broke the mould of the typical actress.
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Youn was also praised for making a stellar comeback after nearly a decade out of the spotlight, which was no easy feat for a middle-aged actress. Among some of her most notable works in the later stage of her career are The Housemaid (2010), The Taste of Money (2012), The Bacchus Lady (2016), and Canola (2016), and K-dramas Men of the Bath House (1995), Be Strong Geum Soon (2005), Daughters-in-Law (2007), My Husband Got a Family (2012), and Dear My Friends (2016).