Rhee Min-jung

Rhee Min-jung is one of those performers who quietly built a serious foundation before the spotlight found her — she cut her teeth on stage in Jang Jin productions, which tells you she came up the disciplined, craft-first way, not just by being pretty in front of a camera. When Boys Over Flowers exploded in 2009, her role helped introduce her to a whole new audience, and then Smile, You the same year showed she could anchor a family drama with genuine warmth. A Sungkyunkwan University grad, she brings an intelligence to her characters that keeps them from feeling like stock roles. She's not the loudest name in Korean drama, but whenever she shows up in something, I find myself paying attention — there's a steadiness to her work that's hard to manufacture.

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Name (English)

Rhee Min-jung

Name (Japanese)

イ・ミンジョン

Reading

い・みんじょん

Born

February 16, 1982 (age 44)

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Occupation

actor / film actor / television actor / stage actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Dog

High school

Hyundai Senior High School

University

Sungkyunkwan University

• Official sitehttp://www.msteam.co.kr/rheeminjung
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/216jung/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Min-jung
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9F%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q496384

Tags

• actor
• film actor
• television actor

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.