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Jibeuro the 18: Watch the film that won best picture at South Korea's Grand Bell Awards

  • halfprofapexupic
  • Aug 13, 2023
  • 2 min read


After his two-year mandatory military service, he starred in the legal drama Remember (2015), historical films Joseon Magician (2015) and Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River (2016) as well as historical drama The Emperor: Owner of the Mask (2017), romance comedy series I'm Not a Robot (2017), and SBS's high school drama My Strange Hero (2018).


In 2000 Yoo began his career as a child actor, first appearing in the television drama Daddy Fish.[7] He rose to stardom in his first film The Way Home, playing a bratty city boy who learns to appreciate country life when he's forced to spend the summer with his deaf-mute grandmother.[8] The low-budget film was a surprise box office hit in 2002, drawing more than 4 million admissions.[9] He was then affectionately labeled as "Nation's Little Brother".[10] Thereafter, Yoo also starred in animal movie Hearty Paws (2006) about a boy and his beloved dog, and Unforgettable (2008) about school children from a remote island who go on a field trip to a candy factory in Seoul during the 1970s.[11][12][13]




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He continued acting in television, appearing in Magic Warriors Mir & Gaon (2005), an adventure series for children. Yoo further built his filmography, playing younger counterparts of male protagonists in television dramas, including general Yi Sun-sin in Immortal Admiral Yi Sun-sin (2004), King Seongjong in The King and I (2007), and Gwanggaeto the Great in The Legend (2007).[14]


As his first post-army project, Yoo appeared in the music video for Naul's "You From the Same Time" in 2015.[33] He was next cast as a stubborn webcomic writer raising a cat in the TV adaptation of webtoon Imaginary Cat.[34][35] Yoo followed this by starring in the joseon-era romance film The Magician directed by Kim Dae-seung, in which he plays a circus magician who falls in love with a princess.[36] Yoo was then cast in SBS's legal thriller series Remember as a lawyer with hyperthymesia who defends his father on death row.[37]


In 2016, Yoo starred in the historical comedy film Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River as the titular character Kim Seon-dal.[38][39] In 2017, he starred in MBC's historical melodrama The Emperor: Owner of the Mask[40][41] and romantic-comedy I'm Not a Robot.[42] In 2018, he was cast in SBS's high school drama My Strange Hero.[43] In 2020, Yoo starred in the mystery thriller Memorist as a detective in the police force with the power to read people's memories.[44] 2ff7e9595c


 
 
 

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