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name: "Jung Yu-mi"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "18 January 1983"
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average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T08:38:20.208278+00:00"
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# Jung Yu-mi

Actor. Born 18 January 1983 in Busan, South Korea.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 18 January 1983, Busan, South Korea
- **Also known as:** 정유미, Jung Yumi, Jung Yoo-mi, Jeong Yu-mi, Yu-mi Jeong, Jeong Yoo-mi, 鄭有美, チョン・ユミ, 郑有美, 鄭裕美, Jung Yoo Mi, Чон Ю-мі
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q486077, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1869756/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/127720

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Train to Busan*](https://film.one/film/train-to-busan.md) (84)

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## Fi1m on Jung Yu-mi

> Jung Yu-mi makes ordinary women worth attending to, even when a film has louder things to show us. We rate her directness and her feeling for an ensemble, particularly when *Train to Busan* puts both under pressure.

In *Train to Busan* (2016), Jung Yu-mi's Sung-gyeong is considerate in circumstances that hardly encourage it. She fits into Yeon Sang-ho's ensemble without making the character's decency feel like a special announcement. We were moved by the father-daughter relationship, because the film gives its passengers enough care and attention to make their danger matter. Jung's place in that group tells us something useful about her appeal: she can make an ordinary woman worth watching amid considerable commotion.

Her career has moved between independent films and commercial work rather than leaving one behind for the other. After the early features *Blossom Again* (2005) and *Family Ties* (2006), the repeated work with Hong Sang-soo is especially important. Films such as *Our Sunhi* (2013) give us characters negotiating relationships and their understanding of themselves. Jung brings straightforwardness and vulnerability to that work, allowing uncertainty without making the women seem helpless. We value the directness: it gives us a reason to attend to their difficulties without requiring the films to make every encounter momentous.

*Silenced* (2011) and *Train to Busan* belong to the commercial side of that career, with the latter bringing wider international recognition. Jung has described Sung-gyeong as more considerate than she would be herself in the same situation. That is a useful distinction when discussing an actor so often praised for seeming natural: the character's kindness still has to be acted. The thriller's blunt class commentary is a limitation; the care taken with its passengers is why we recommend it anyway. Jung's ability to work within an ensemble matters here, where close-quarters action could so easily reduce the people to obstacles.

Leading roles in *Kim Ji-young: Born 1982* (2019) and *Sleep* (2023) give her greater responsibility for holding our attention. One is a social drama, the other a horror-thriller concerned with motherhood and paranoia. Those choices offer different demands for an actor whose quietness need not mean a lack of strength. Start with *Train to Busan*, provided blunt social commentary will not spoil a tense, affecting thriller for you.

## Biography

Jung Yu-mi is a South Korean actress. She graduated from the Seoul Institute of the Arts and made her feature film debut in Blossom Again (2005).

She is known for roles in Family Ties (2006), Silenced (2011), Train to Busan (2016) as Sung-gyeong, Psychokinesis (2018), Kim Ji-young: Born 1982 (2019), and Sleep (2023). She has appeared in several films by director Hong Sang-soo, including Oki's Movie (2010) and Our Sunhi (2013).

Jung has received awards including Best Supporting Actress at the Blue Dragon Film Awards for Family Ties.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Train to Busan* (2016), Fi1m 84, as Sung-gyeong — [page](https://film.one/film/train-to-busan.md)

## Also known for

- *A Bittersweet Life* (2005), Mi-ae
- *Silenced* (2011), Seo Yoo-jin
- *What's Wrong with Secretary Kim* (2018), Young Joon's friend
- *Psychokinesis* (2018), Director Hong
- *Sleep* (2023), Soo-jin
- *Love Untangled* (2025), Cafe Owner's Wife
- *Wonderland* (2024), Seo Hae-ri
- *In Another Country* (2012), Wonjoo

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