Kim You-jung

Kim You-jung is one of those rare performers who grew up entirely in the public eye and somehow came out the other side more talented than ever — not despite the pressure, but almost because of it. She started booking ads before she could tie her shoes, spent her childhood stealing scenes from adult co-stars in hit dramas, and by her mid-twenties had the kind of screen presence most actors spend decades chasing. I fell for her work in Love in the Moonlight opposite Park Bo-gum, where she played a girl disguised as a boy with such charisma it felt effortless, and 20th Century Girl on Netflix proved she can carry a quiet, melancholy romance all on her own. What I appreciate most is that she never coasted on the "Nation's Little Sister" goodwill — she kept leveling up, and her fans noticed.

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Name (English)

Kim You-jung

Name (Japanese)

キム・ユジョン

Reading

きむ・ゆじょん

Born

September 22, 1999 (age 27)

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Occupation

actor / film actor / model / stage actor / singer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rabbit

Filmography / notable works

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/you_r_love/
• Xhttps://x.com/kimuj0922
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20You-jung
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A6%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%20(%E5%A5%B3%E5%84%AA)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q486320

Tags

• actor
• film actor
• model

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.