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Yeo Woon-kay is a Actor Sud coréenne born on 25 february 1940 at Daegu (Coree du sud)
Yeo Woon-kay (February 25, 1940 - May 22, 2009) was a South Korean film actress and television personality. She was best known for Korean films such as Money’s Warfare, Bad Family and My Name is Kim Sam Soon.
Yeo began acting while in high school. She continued to act while attending Korea University, where she studied literature. She became known for her work in daehakgeuk, which is also called amateur student theater, during the 1950s and 1960s, alongside other contemporary Korean actors like Lee Soon-jae.
She made her professional theater debut with a theater troupe in 1962. From theater, she was able to transition to a successful television career. She often played the role of a grandmother or "grandmotherly figure" in roles beginning in her twenties. Examples of these characters included her roles in Toji in 1986 and Jewel in the Palace in 2003.
Ms.Yeo was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2007 while shooting the SBS movie The King and I. But she continued to act and began work on the KBS2 production of Jang-hwa and Hong-ryeon (The Tale of Two Sisters)., eventually quitting the production due to pneumonia, indicating the spread of cancer to her lungs.
Yeo entered the hospital intensive care unit in May 2009. Reports say that she fell into a coma and was placed on life support. She died around 8 P.M. on May 22, 2009, at the Incheon Catholic Medical Center in Incheon, South Korea, at the age of 69. Her funeral was held at the Yonsei University Severance Hospital.
Yeo was awarded the Life Achievement Award posthumously at the KBS Drama Awards in 2009.
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Nationality Coree du sud
Birth 25 february 1940 at Daegu (Coree du sud)
Death 29 may 2009 (at 69 years)
Birth 25 february 1940 at Daegu (Coree du sud)
Death 29 may 2009 (at 69 years)
Yeo Woon-kay (February 25, 1940 - May 22, 2009) was a South Korean film actress and television personality. She was best known for Korean films such as Money’s Warfare, Bad Family and My Name is Kim Sam Soon.
Yeo began acting while in high school. She continued to act while attending Korea University, where she studied literature. She became known for her work in daehakgeuk, which is also called amateur student theater, during the 1950s and 1960s, alongside other contemporary Korean actors like Lee Soon-jae.
She made her professional theater debut with a theater troupe in 1962. From theater, she was able to transition to a successful television career. She often played the role of a grandmother or "grandmotherly figure" in roles beginning in her twenties. Examples of these characters included her roles in Toji in 1986 and Jewel in the Palace in 2003.
Ms.Yeo was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2007 while shooting the SBS movie The King and I. But she continued to act and began work on the KBS2 production of Jang-hwa and Hong-ryeon (The Tale of Two Sisters)., eventually quitting the production due to pneumonia, indicating the spread of cancer to her lungs.
Yeo entered the hospital intensive care unit in May 2009. Reports say that she fell into a coma and was placed on life support. She died around 8 P.M. on May 22, 2009, at the Incheon Catholic Medical Center in Incheon, South Korea, at the age of 69. Her funeral was held at the Yonsei University Severance Hospital.
Yeo was awarded the Life Achievement Award posthumously at the KBS Drama Awards in 2009.
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Mapado 2: Back to the Island (2007)
, 1h51Genres Comedy
Actors Lee Moon-sik, Yeo Woon-kay, Kim Ji-young, Nam Ji-hyun, Lee Kyu-han, Kim Soo-mi
Roles Chairwoman
Rating56%
Former detective Chung-su takes a secre mission from an aged millionaire who wants to see his first love again before he dies. Knowing only that the woman's name is Kkotnim and that she now lives on Dongbaek Island, Chung-su sets sail only for a shipwreck to leave him stranded once more on Mapado, where five abusive old women gave him trouble two years earlier. Discovering that the former name of Mapado is in fact Dongbaek, he starts to investigate the women's pasts believing that one of them is Kkotnim.
Mapado (2005)
, 1h45Directed by Choo Chang-min
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Lee Moon-sik, Lee Jung-jin, Yeo Woon-kay, Kim Soo-mi, Oh Dal-soo, Seo Young-hee
Roles Chairwoman
Rating60%
A gangster and a corrupt police officer travel to the tiny remote island of Mapado to hunt down a young woman who has run off with a winning lottery ticket. Upon arriving, they discover that no one lives there except for five old women who have not once seen a man for 20 years. Both men soon experience a nightmare of hard labour and harassment.
Flame in Valley (1967)
, 1h20Genres Drama, War
Actors Shin Seong-il, Shin Young-kyun, Sunwoo Yong-nyeo, Ju Jeung-ryu, Do Kum-bong, Yeo Woon-kay
Roles Yang
Rating63%
In this melodrama, a man in a village in Jirisan hides a Communist soldier who has sneaked into the area. A widow, finding the soldier in the bamboo grove, visits him and carries on a sexual relationship with him. When she discovers she is pregnant, she commits suicide. When the villagers burn the woods to drive out remaining Communist guerillas, the man who has hidden the soldier perishes in an attempt to rescue him. It is also based on a novel.
, 1h34Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Yeo Woon-kay
A farmer in a community near Jirisan falls in love with and marries an itinerant performer. She plans to betray him by robbing him and leaving with her old boyfriend, another itinerant performer, when he comes to the village. Eventually she realizes she loves the farmer and stays with him.