Yoon Jeong-hee

Yoon Jeong-hee strikes me as one of the quiet pillars of Korean cinema. Born in Gwangju in 1944, she went from a Miss Korea contestant to appearing in roughly 330 films after her 1967 debut, an output that is almost unimaginable today. What I admire most is the second act: her dignified late-career returns that proved her presence only deepened with age. A Korea University graduate, she carried intelligence into every role. Her passing in 2023 closed a remarkable chapter, but the sheer volume and grace of her work means her face will keep flickering on screen for generations.

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Name (English)

Yoon Jeong-hee

Name (Japanese)

ユン・ジョンヒ

Reading

ゆん・じょんひ

Born

July 30, 1944 – January 19, 2023

Origin

Gwangju, South Korea

Occupation

film actor / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Monkey

University

Korea University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoon%20Jeong-hee
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%B9%E9%9D%99%E5%A7%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q465263

Tags

• film actor
• actor

Last updated

November 2, 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.