Lee Eun-ju

Lee Eun-ju had this rare quality where you couldn't take your eyes off her even in a crowded frame — and her filmography in just a few short years backs that up completely. Bungee Jumping of Their Own showed she could hold the emotional weight of a genuinely strange, beautiful love story without flinching, and then she turned around and matched Jung Woo-sung beat for beat in Tae Guk Gi, one of the most viscerally intense Korean war films ever made. She was 24 when she died in February 2005, which means we're essentially talking about the work of a teenager and a very young adult — and it already had that much depth and range. It's one of those careers that makes you feel the loss more sharply the older you get, because you can see exactly what kind of actress she was becoming.

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Name (English)

Lee Eun-ju

Name (Japanese)

イ・ウンジュ

Reading

い・うんじゅ

Born

December 22, 1980 – February 22, 2005

Origin

Gunsan, North Jeolla, South Korea

Occupation

actor / film actor / singer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Monkey

University

Dankook University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Eun-ju
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A5
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q284094

Tags

• North Jeolla
• actor
• film actor
• singer

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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