Im Su-jeong

What I admire most about Im Su-jeong is her refusal to coast on the breakout buzz of A Tale of Two Sisters. She could have stayed the ethereal horror muse, but she kept choosing roles that let her show both fragility and a quiet steel, and the 2012 Blue Dragon Best Actress win felt like a reward for that patience rather than a flash in the pan. I find her low-key, work-first public persona genuinely refreshing in an industry built on noise. She is the kind of actor who lets the performances, not the press, do the talking, and I respect that enormously.

Name (English)

Im Su-jeong

Name (Japanese)

イム・スジョン

Reading

いむ・すじょん

Born

July 11, 1979 (age 47)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Goat

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Occupation

actor / film actor / television actor / fashion model

High school

Myungduk Girls' High School

Awards & achievements

• 2012 Blue Dragon Film Award for Best Actress
• 2003 Blue Dragon Film Award for Best New Actress

• Official sitehttp://imsoojung.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/soojunglim_/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Im%20Soo-jung
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%20(%E5%A5%B3%E5%84%AA)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q292723

Tags

• actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.