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Kim Yun-jin (김윤진)

by Liz | Friday, August 3, 2007

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Kim+Yun+Jin Kim Yun jin (김윤진)Koreans call her a World Star because she’s known all over the globe for portraying Sun Kwon in the hit series Lost. Born in Seoul, Yun-jin migrated to the US with her family when she was 10 and grew up in New York.

After earning a degree in drama at Boston University, Yun-jin devoted herself to fulltime acting. The theatre and TV actress managed to get several minor parts on MTV, in soaps and on the off-Broadway stage. In 1996, producers of a Korean TV show in Manhattan called and persuaded her to return to Korea to appear in a TV drama. She accepted, and the rest, as they say, is history.

The 34-year-old made her film debut in the movie Shiri (1999), which turned out to be Korea‘s first blockbuster and the highest-grossing film in the history of Korean cinema. Her sexy assassin role in the movie not only made her a household name in Korea, but also made her a star in Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

And of course, we all know her as Sun – the quiet, plain Jane wife of Daniel Dae Kim’s Kwon Jin-soo. Sun may be a simple and conservative dresser but boy, can Yun-jin vamp it up in real life (pic from U.K. Arena’s Oct 2006 issue!).

Yun-jin appeared in Maxim in March 2007 and was dubbed the “Korean Julia Roberts”. Apart from that, she penned a book about her struggles and triumph in Hollywood. The book entitled The World is Your Drama was launched in June 2007 in Korea.

Name: Kim Yun-jin
Date of birth: Nov 7, 1973
Height: 170cm
Weight: 50kg


Movies:

  • Diary of June (2005)
  • Ardor (2002)
  • Yesterday (2002)
  • Mr Iron Palm (2002)
  • Rush! (2001)
  • Moyuru Tsuki: The Legend of Gingko (2000)


TV:

  • Two Sisters (2008, post production)
  • 2007 AZN Asian Excellence Awards
  • Lost (2004-2007)
  • With Love (1999)
  • Shiri (1999)
  • Wedding Dress (1998)
  • Beautiful Vacation (1996, mini-series)

Can’t get enough of Yun-jin? Then surf on to her official website.

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  • Anonymous

    Please reveal the truth about
    Lost star Yunjin kim’s rumors and scandals..

    Is it true that Yunjin kin did
    not really write the book herself and someone else wrote it about her???

    Is it also true that she lied
    and exagerated about her extream fame and
    success in korea ???

    The scandals and rumors are going
    around that Yunjin kim is not
    and never was ” Korea’s Julia Robert”. Is this true?

    Did she lie about her age too?

  • Liz

    Wow, what a request Anonymous :-) . We are flattered actually.

    However, unless we get to interview Miss Kim to clear the rumours and scandals, I’m afraid we will only know so much.

    We will try our best to surf the Hallyu for the truth, but no guarantees, OK? Hwaiting!

  • Liz

    Hello Anonymous, after a little surfing around, this is what I’ve discovered about Kim Yun-jin in reference to your questions:

    1) Miss Kim wrote the book herself. No mention if she used a ghost writer, but I think she really did pen the diary-like book herself.

    The Korea Times article: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/
    www/news/art/2007/07/142_6044.html

    2) What did she say about her fame, again? If she has been going around saying that she starred in the 1999 Korean blockbuster Shiri / Swiri, and she was at the height of her career in Korea before giving up everything to break into Hollywood and succeeded through hit TV series Lost…then darn her for telling the truth!

    3) Well, according to Digital Chosunilbo, People magazine dubbed Miss Kim “Korea’s Julia Roberts”.

    I did not see the issue, but you can find the news item here:

    http://english.chosun.com/w21data/
    html/news/200510/200510200007.html

    Also, keep in mind that in the entertainment industry, nothing actually lasts.

    Look at Britney, dubbed the Princess of Pop in her heydays and is now more known as a pop tart than a pop star.

    4) Unless someone provides me with an official document belonging to Miss Kim such as her passport or birthcert, then I have no way of telling if she was really born in 1973. I’ll just take her word for it ;-) .

  • Anonymous

    Kim Yunjin gain her fame, profound recognition as very successful World famous Korean Porn Star than as a Lost star character Sun.
    She is well known now as the richest and famous world’s
    korean Porn star

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Kim yunjin pose in this photo
    portraying as a sex pervert…
    very inspiriing

  • Anonymous

    Kim YunJin definitely the worst looking among all the korean actress…because of too much make up.
    She looks better natural!
    Sorry!

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