Yoon So-Yi
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Yoon So-yi is a South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
n actress.
Biography
Yoon So-yi debuted as a model in Graffiti Magazine in 2001. After a few years of print and commercial modeling, she auditioned for Ryu Seung-wanRyu Seung-wan
Ryu Seung-wan is a South Korean film director.-Early life:Ryu Seung-wan was born in 1973 in Onyang, a small town in Chungcheong Province. With the choice of domestic films mostly limited to propaganda and hostess films due to extreme government censorship, young Ryu often opted for the more...
's action comedy Arahan
Arahan
Arahan is a 2004 South Korean film. The film was the third feature film directed by Ryu Seung-wan and stars the director's brother Ryu Seung-beom along with Yoon So-Yi...
in 2004. Based on a popular South Korean comic, Arahan
Arahan
Arahan is a 2004 South Korean film. The film was the third feature film directed by Ryu Seung-wan and stars the director's brother Ryu Seung-beom along with Yoon So-Yi...
explored the consequences of unleashing an ancient evil spirit into a modern city, with Yoon's character part of a hidden school of ancient masters who train a naive young policeman to fight this evil force. Yoon underwent strict training for six months in a film action school, where she had to overcome her phobia of heights. The film was a relative commercial success, with one review describing her as "tall and attractive in an excellently non-cutesy way." She received a Best New Actress nomination at the 2004 Blue Dragon Film Awards
Blue Dragon Film Awards
The Blue Dragon Film Awards is an annual awards ceremony that is presented annually by Sports Chosun for excellence in film in South Korea....
.
Yoon next starred in the TV drama Say You Love Me, a dark, twisted love story between four people. This led to a friendship with her co-star Kim Rae-won, with whom she starred in a series of advertisements for Samsung
Samsung
The Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea...
Digital Plaza. When Kim later launched his own management company Bless Entertainment, she would also join his stable of stars.
After playing Jung Joon-ho
Jung Joon-ho
Jung Joon-ho is a South Korean actor, who gained fame in the 2000 series, Women Like You, . His recent hits are The Last Scandal of My Life and IRIS. Jung Jun-ho has a passionate interest in singing...
's love interest in The Twins, Yoon was cast in Shadowless Sword
Shadowless Sword
Shadowless Sword is a 2005 South Korean film. A martial arts epic filmed in China, the film follows the exploits of the last prince of the Balhae Kingdom, who hides his identity in a small village until he is called to battle invaders from Khitan...
, a wuxia
Wuxia
Wuxia is a broad genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists. Although wuxia is traditionally a form of literature, its popularity has caused it to spread to diverse art forms like Chinese opera, manhua , films, television series, and video games...
martial arts epic set in ancient China. In the role of a beautiful young swordswoman who protects the future king, Yoon says that she was inspired by Anita Mui
Anita Mui
Anita Mui Yim-fong was a popular Hong Kong singer and actress. During her prime years she made major contributions to the cantopop music scene, while receiving numerous awards and honours. She remained an idol throughout most of her career, and was generally regarded as a cantopop diva...
in The Heroic Trio
The Heroic Trio
The Heroic Trio is a 1993 Hong Kong action film directed by Johnny To, starring Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung, and Anita Mui as the titular trio. Other cast include Damian Lau, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Paul Chun, James Pak and Yan Yee Kwan...
, and that the strong-willed female character appealed to her. She learned wushu
Wushu (sport)
The sport of wushu is both an exhibition and a full-contact sport derived from traditional Chinese martial arts. It was created in the People's Republic of China after 1949, in an attempt to nationalize the practice of traditional Chinese martial arts...
for three months in Korea, then wire action from the Chinese stunt team.
In 2006 she became part of the ensemble cast of Goodbye Solo, written by renowned drama writer Noh Hee-kyung. Even though her dramas do not attract a large number of viewers, Noh has gained a cult following for her in-depth portrayal of ordinary characters, taking a more human natural approach through realistic and yet emotional lines. Goodbye Solo featured seven characters of different generations and backgrounds, as they reflect on human relationships and nature. Yoon would later work again with mostly the same crew in the 2-episode TV special Several Questions That Make Us Happy.
Goodbye Solos writer Noh and veteran actress Bae Jong-ok
Bae Jong-ok
-Education:Bae has a bachelor's degree in Theater from Chung-Ang University, a master's degree from Chung-Ang University's Graduate School of Mass Communications, and a doctorate from Korea University's Graduate School of Journalism and Mass Communication....
introduced Yoon to Join Together Society (JTS), a Seoul-based Buddhist international relief agency (Yoon herself is a Buddhist). Since then she has been extremely active in charity work for JTS, spearheading street fund drives and various programs to benefit underprivileged children in North Korea and developing countries.
An athlete in junior high, Yoon was a Sports Model major at Dongduk Women's University
Dongduk Women's University
Dongduk Women's University is a private university founded by Lee Suk Gu in Seoul, South Korea. It enrolls about 7,000 students, and employs around 200 instructors....
, but eventually dropped out due to showbiz commitments. She later enrolled in Dongguk University
Dongguk University
Dongguk University is a private, coeducational university in South Korea. It operates campuses in Seoul, in Gyeongju City, North Gyeongsang province and in Los Angeles, United States...
as a Theatre and Film major, slowing down her acting activities to focus on her studies and becoming known in the Korean press as one of the very few celebrity model students, with regular attendance and good grades. Yoon graduated in 2011.
Her next project Auction House attempted a different format from the standard serialized Korean drama. The twelve-episode season 1 had four directors and four writers, airing one episode every week, with each director producing his own segment in his own style, crossing genres. The episodic format was not a hit with Korean audiences (despite a season 2 focusing on plastic surgeons with a completely different cast).
Yoon played a former reporter struggling to adjust to life as a chaebol
Chaebol
Chaebol refers to a South Korean form of business conglomerate. They are global multinationals owning numerous international enterprises. The term is often used in a context similar to that of the English word "conglomerate"...
daughter-in-law in Glass Castle; the drama was a modest success. In 2009 she was cast as a last-minute replacement leading lady in the quirky Lee Jun-ki
Lee Jun Ki
Lee Jun Ki is a South Korean actor, model and singer, who Koreans regard as a quintessential kkonminam idol. He rose to fame as Gong-gil in The King and the Clown...
-starrer Hero
Hero (MBC)
Hero / Heroes is a South Korean comedic-action drama about Korea's top reporters and ordinary citizens fighting against the inequalities between society’s masses and its very elite. It is loosely based on a comic by Park Ji Suk and produced by Lee Jae Dong...
. Despite being praised as a well-acted and solid drama, Hero
Hero (MBC)
Hero / Heroes is a South Korean comedic-action drama about Korea's top reporters and ordinary citizens fighting against the inequalities between society’s masses and its very elite. It is loosely based on a comic by Park Ji Suk and produced by Lee Jae Dong...
received low ratings. Yoon's next film Try to Remember, about lovers in the past whose love transcends time and brings them together in the present day, premiered at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival
Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival
The Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival , or PiFan, is an international film festival held annually in July in Bucheon, South Korea...
.
She was cast as Queen Seondeok
Queen Seondeok of Silla
Queen Seondeok of Silla reigned as Queen of Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, from 632 to 647. She was Silla's twenty-seventh ruler, and its first reigning queen...
in a specially commissioned 20-minute film for the Gyeongju
Gyeongju
Gyeongju is a coastal city in the far southeastern corner of North Gyeongsang province in South Korea. It is the second largest city by area in the province after Andong, covering with a population of 269,343 people according to the 2008 census. Gyeongju is southeast of Seoul, and east of the...
World Culture Expo. Titled Byeongnucheon ("The Bracelet of Blue Tears"), the fantasy adventure aims to spearhead Korea's nascent stereoscopic film industry, and combines live action sequences with 3D animated computer graphics.
Her 2011 fusion sageuk Warrior Baek Dong-soo
Warrior Baek Dong-soo
Warrior Baek Dong-soo is 2011 SBS Historical television series in 29 episodes, aired beginning July 4, 2011, and continuing twice-weekly through October 10, 2011, set in the 18th century Joseon dynasty...
brought in high viewership ratings, topping its timeslot for 3 straight months.
Yoon recently joined the microblogging
Microblogging
Microblogging is a broadcast medium in the form of blogging. A microblog differs from a traditional blog in that its content is typically smaller in both actual and aggregate file size...
site Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
with the handle "soy00".
Dramas
- Color of Woman (Channel A, 2011)
- Warrior Baek Dong-sooWarrior Baek Dong-sooWarrior Baek Dong-soo is 2011 SBS Historical television series in 29 episodes, aired beginning July 4, 2011, and continuing twice-weekly through October 10, 2011, set in the 18th century Joseon dynasty...
(SBS, 2011) - HeroHero (MBC)Hero / Heroes is a South Korean comedic-action drama about Korea's top reporters and ordinary citizens fighting against the inequalities between society’s masses and its very elite. It is loosely based on a comic by Park Ji Suk and produced by Lee Jae Dong...
(MBCMunhwa Broadcasting CorporationMunhwa Broadcasting Corporation Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC (Hangul : 문화방송주식회사, Munhwa Bangsong Jushikoesa) is one of four major national South Korean television and radio networks. Munhwa is the Korean word for "culture". Its flagship terrestrial television...
, 2009) - Glass Castle (SBS, 2008)
- Auction House (MBCMunhwa Broadcasting CorporationMunhwa Broadcasting Corporation Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC (Hangul : 문화방송주식회사, Munhwa Bangsong Jushikoesa) is one of four major national South Korean television and radio networks. Munhwa is the Korean word for "culture". Its flagship terrestrial television...
, 2007) - Several Questions That Make Us Happy (KBS, 2007)
- Goodbye Solo (KBS, 2006)
- Say You Love Me (MBCMunhwa Broadcasting CorporationMunhwa Broadcasting Corporation Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC (Hangul : 문화방송주식회사, Munhwa Bangsong Jushikoesa) is one of four major national South Korean television and radio networks. Munhwa is the Korean word for "culture". Its flagship terrestrial television...
, 2004)
Films
- The Bracelet of Blue Tears (2011 GyeongjuGyeongjuGyeongju is a coastal city in the far southeastern corner of North Gyeongsang province in South Korea. It is the second largest city by area in the province after Andong, covering with a population of 269,343 people according to the 2008 census. Gyeongju is southeast of Seoul, and east of the...
World Culture Expo promotional film) - Try To Remember (2010)
- Shadowless SwordShadowless SwordShadowless Sword is a 2005 South Korean film. A martial arts epic filmed in China, the film follows the exploits of the last prince of the Balhae Kingdom, who hides his identity in a small village until he is called to battle invaders from Khitan...
(2005) - The Twins (2005)
- ArahanArahanArahan is a 2004 South Korean film. The film was the third feature film directed by Ryu Seung-wan and stars the director's brother Ryu Seung-beom along with Yoon So-Yi...
(2004)
Music videos
- Words That I Can Say (T-MaxT-MaxT-Max , stylized as T-MAX, T-Max is South Korean group under Planet905 Entertainment, formerly called as 2Step entertainment. T-Max is made from ‘Triple, Trinity’ and such which contains 3 meaning in the word’s first alphabet T. And will present the energy and talent till Max form phrase ’3 perfect...
, 2010) - A Girl's Love Story (Han So-ri, 2003)
- Rainbow (Cho Kyu-chan, 2002)
TV/Print/Online Ads
- Entia for Coreana (2002)
- SK TelecomSK TelecomSK Telecom Co., Ltd. or Sunkyoung Telecom is a South Korean wireless telecommunications operator, controlled by the SK Group, one of the country's largest chaebol. As a part of SK Group, SK stands for Sun Kyung.SK Telecom is a provider of mobile service in Korea, with 50.5% of the market share as...
June (2002) - HaitaiHaitaiHaitai is a Korean business, with its main business in retail and instant foods, especially confectionery, beverage and ice cream....
Green Tea Ice Cream (2003-2004) - Ziozia
- ZOOC
- NII (2003)
- Hair Pack Nano Therapy (2003)
- AnycallAnycallAnycall is a South Korean mobile phone brand established by Samsung Electronics in 1993. Like other mobile phone brands in South Korea, they provide technology such as cameras, internet access, and digital TV through Digital Multimedia Broadcasting.Samsung mobile phones are sold through the...
(2003) - LotteLotte ConfectioneryLotte Confectionery is a South Korean company headquartered in Yangpyeong-dong Yeongdeungpo-gu Seoul, Korea. It was established in 1967 and its plants are located in Seoul, Daejeon, Yangsan, Pyeongtaek and Siheung. It manufactures and sells more than 200 products to more than 70 countries. It is...
Iote Chocolate (2003) - GatoradeGatoradeGatorade is a brand of sports-themed food and beverage products, built around its signature product: a line of sports drinks. Gatorade is currently manufactured by PepsiCo, distributed in over 80 countries...
Ice (2004) - SamsungSamsungThe Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea...
Digital Plaza (2004-2006) - KOOlHaaS (2006)
- Paris Baguette
- CliniqueCliniqueClinique is a manufacturer of skincare, cosmetics, toiletries and fragrances, owned by the Estée Lauder Corporation.- History :In 1967, American Vogue magazine published an article called “Can Great Skin Be Created?”, written by beauty editor Carol Phillips with Dr. Norman Orentreich, discussing...
YES! campaign (2009) - Kiara (2011)
- Inti Placenta (2011)
- Sun Cruise Resort (2011)
Awards
- 2009 Asia Model Festival Awards: Special Model Award
- 2008 SBS Drama Awards: New Star Award (Glass Castle)
External links
- Mini-Homepage at CyworldCyworldCyworld is a South Korean social network service operated by SK Communications , a subsidiary of SK Telecom .Members cultivate relationships by forming Ilchon or "friendships" with each other through their minihompy....
- Fan Cafe at Daum
- Yun Soi at Bless Entertainment
- Yoon Soy at HanCinema
- Yun Soy at the Korean Movie DatabaseKorean Movie DatabaseThe Korean Movie Database is a South Korean online database of information related to Korean movies, animation, actors, television shows, production crew personnel and other film-related information. KMDb launched on February 2006 by Korean Film Archive...
- Yoon So-yi at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...