Yum Jung-ah

Yum Jung-ah is, to me, a masterclass in reinvention. Starting as a beauty pageant titleholder, she could have coasted on image alone, but instead she built a genuinely formidable acting career. Her icy presence in A Tale of Two Sisters and her ferocious matriarch in Sky Castle show a range that keeps deepening with age. I find her especially compelling because she belongs to that rare class of performers who grow more interesting, not less, as the years pass. She commands the screen with a quiet authority that younger actors spend decades trying to acquire.

Name (English)

Yum Jung-ah

Name (Japanese)

ヨム・ジョンア

Reading

よむ・じょんあ

Born

July 28, 1972 (age 54)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rat

Origin

South Korea

Occupation

actor / film actor / beauty pageant contestant / stage actor / television actor

High school

Sangmyung High School

University

Chung-Ang University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yum%20Jung-ah
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A8%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%82%A2
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q489326

Tags

• actor
• film actor
• beauty pageant contestant

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.