YOUN YUH-JUNG on how she came to buy her own dress for the oscars 

Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role:

Minari is truly the best. It grows anywhere, like weeds. So anyone can pick and eat it. Rich or poor, anyone can enjoy it and be healthy. Minari can be put in kimchi, put in stew, put in soup. It can be medicine if you are sick. Minari is wonderful, wonderful!

Youn Yuh-jung as Soonja in Minari (2020, dir. Lee Isaac Chung)

Minari (2020) dir. Lee Isaac Chung

John Cho will attend the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea on October 5, 2023. Other attendees include Youn Yuh-jung, Han Hyo-joo, and Song Joong-Ki on October 6th and 7th.

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YOUN YUH-JUNG for PRESTIGE photographed by Dennis Leupold (2022)

Never Twice. 8.5

Story: 8

Acting: 10

Chemistry: 10

Comparable to: Beautiful Love, Wonderful Life, (kdrama) ;Homemade Love Story (kdrama)

It’s a family story drama with 72 episodes (32min long). Is it worthwhile watching. Absolutely. It’s hella melodramatic though, so keep that in mind going in. You have a corrupt family, a somewhat vengeful widow, a suicidal couple, a golfer, two adults nearing their 50s who act like they’re in their 20s and a cute older couple. It can get a bit bonkers at times especially towards the later half, the ending had me rolling my eyes on how everyone ended up in one big happy family. And I mean EVERYONE. It’s still a really nice drama even with its ups and downs especially with the main leads who had a beautiful storyline that was written brilliantly for them. I mean the chemistry between the two. *chefs kiss*

Minari (2020) directed by Lee Isaac Chung

i've been watching youn's kitchen and now youn's stay and i'm so in love with the idea behind these shows. excellent work by na yeong seok and his team.

and i thought youn's kitchen s2 was so difficult but then i immediately started youn's stay and boy it is hell?? the place is so fkn huge for 5 people to run it. and wooshik running around the whole place, i feel so bad for him xD hope he got paid well for all this.

also youn yuh jung is incredibly funny.

Sunja ✨ ✨ ✨

She might seem shy or unexperienced but she never gives up, no matter the pain or shame.

Maybe there's a valuable life lesson hidden in this character.

Youn Yuh Jung and Yoon Kye Sang // Vogue Korea (Oct. 2016) (x)

Minari 미나리 (2020)

this was a few days before she presented at the oscars btw. legend

youn yuh jung.

❀ edits by kawaiinekoj (instagram/shop)

my oc for @no-humanity-forum. credits: flower texture by lou landauer.

I’m glad Woo-shik got someone to help him this time; he had to work *so* hard on Youn’s Stay. The new intern looks pretty cool, whoever he is 🤷‍♂️.

(Kinda weird that Youn Yuh-jung isn’t in this, but I suppose Oscar winners don’t do variety shows 😜.)

Pachinko (prod. Soo Hugh).

What’s so deeply impressive about Pachinko’s structure is its echoes of intergenerational trauma and how decisions made by one generation continue to shape the next wave of family history. How it uses language and regional dialects to express the repressed feelings of the characters’ dialogue adds so much depth to their layered emotions.