Youn Yuh-jung retrospective; her career, life and filmography

지금의 윤여정을 있게한 그녀의 삶과 필모그래피 Youn Yuh-jung is the first South Korean actress to ever win an Oscar. However, outside Korea, not many people know who she is. With this in mind, our arts and culture correspondent Kim Bo-kyoung takes a look at her life and her rich body of work that brought her to this historic moment. As Youn Yuh-jung picks up the Oscar for ’Best Supporting Actress,’... she becomes the first South Korean actress to ever do so,... and only the second Asian actress in 64 years. Her unusual grandmother character in “Minari“ is different to other stereotypical Korean grandmothers in movies sometimes mischievous, other times serious.
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