Seo Young-Ju 서영주 Seo Young-Joo

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PROFILE

 

Name: 서영주/Seo Young-Joo/Seo Yeong-Joo I
Profession: Actor
Birthdate: February 16 1998
Star Sign: Aquarius
Height (2014):173 cm

 

Official Sites

Talent Agency: Finecut Entertainmet (since 2014)
Official FB Page:  http://www.facebook.com/fcseoyoungju
Daum Café (다음 카페) : http://cafe.daum.net/yeongju.com
Official Twitter: http://twitter.com/seoyoungju1
Official Website: http://www.finecutent.com/actor/profile.php?idx=153

 

 

 

 

Filmography

 

Nobody Knows (SBS 2020)
Beautiful World (JTBC 2019)
Rookie Historian Goo Hae-Ryung  (MBC 2019; ep. 3-4)
Girls Generation 1979 (2017)

Solomon's Perjury (JTBC 2016)
Hello Monster aka I Remember You (KBS2 2015) 
Golden Rainbow (MBC / 2013-2014)
May Queen (MBC / 2012)
I Love Lee Tae-Ri (TvN - 2012)
Fashion King (SBS / 2012)
A Thousand Days Promise  (SBS - 2011)
Gye-Baek (MBC / 2011)
Can You Hear My Heart (MBC / 2011)
First Marriage (SBS/ 2010)
Hero (MBC / 2009)

 

 TV Films and Drama Special

 

Snowy Path aka Snowy Road | 눈길 - Noongil ( KBS1 - 2015) - Kang Young-joo
Youth | 청춘  - Cheongchun (formerly: 18세 / 18 Se) (KBS2 2014) - Suk Joo
Family Portrait | 가족사진 -  Gajoksajin (SBS - 2012 - Chuseok Drama Special) - Han Jin Woo

Films:

 

Dong-hwa (2018)
Age of Shadows (2016)
The Treacherous  (2015)
Moebius   (2013)
Juvenile Offender (2012)
The Thieves (2012)
Bloody Innocent  (2010)
A Frozen Flower  (2008)

 

Theater Productions:

 

Equus   (2015)

 

 

Awards:

 

2012 14th Cinemanila International Film Festival: Best Actor (Juvenile Offender)
2012 25th Tokyo International Film Festival: Best Actor (Juvenile Offender)

 

Lee Eun Woo, Seo Young Joo, Kim Ki Duk in Venice (2013)

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Juvenile Offender (2012) Movie Review

Read full Review on Beyond Hollywood
 

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Juvenile Offender: Tokyo Review

Seo Young-Joo turns an award-winning performance as a teen law-breaker in South Korean Director Kang Yi-Kwan's nicely restrained second feature.

TOKYO -- Tightly written and delicately wrought, the affecting South Korean family drama Juvenile Offender, winner of the special jury prize at the recent Tokyo International Film Festival, wears its social conscience lightly.

The raw ingredients read like another big-screen indictment of a society that casually forsakes its weakest. But the second feature from director and co-writer Kang Yi-kwan, about the tricky reconciliation between a teenager on probation and the mother he thought was dead, emerges as a smart and involving dual character study that also won the best actor award in Tokyo for Seo Young-ju.  Further festival awards seem certain and the film will lure Korean audiences attuned to its restrained naturalism when it opens there on November 22.

Seo Young-ju, a regular on Korean TV dramas, embodies the growing pains of adolescence as 16-year-old Ji-gu, a young man hovering between rebellion and responsibility. Living with his sick grandfather, he falls in with the wrong crowd and ends up doing time at a juvenile detention center for burglary. When his grandfather dies, the institution manages to track down Ji-gu’s mom Hyo-seung (actress-pop star Lee Jung-hyun), who abandoned him after giving birth at the age of 17 after a one-night stand.

Hyo-seung would be carded at any self-respecting nightclub and appears to have the emotional maturity of a toddler, alternating between coquettish giggling and tantrum-throwing to get her way.

When she takes Ji-gu to live with her in an apartment she shares with a former schoolmate, Ji-yeong (a nicely exasperated Gang Rae-yeon), alarm bells sound: Hyo-seung is surviving on Ji-yeong’s largesse and can barely look after herself, let alone her troubled son.

Shot in a naturalistic style in modern-day Seoul during a bleak winter, the film sails close to being hopeless, but is saved by the affection the director clearly feels for his flawed characters, who are simply looking for viable ways to survive. Beautifully written scenes in which Hyo-seung and Ji-gu swap roles as wounded and protector are dropped like little blossoms onto the constantly shifting sands that underpin their evolving relationship. The strong central performances are bolstered by fine supports including Jun Yejin as Ji-gu’s young girlfriend Sae-rom, forced to live in a shelter after falling pregnant to him and giving up the baby.

Produced by the National Committee of Human Rights, which previously commissioned Kang to do a short film about a teen runaway, Juvenile Offender provides an intimate look at the larger problem of single moms, societal stigma and institutions that let troubled but essentially good-hearted individuals like Ji-gu fall through the cracks.   

Cast: Seo Young-ju, Lee Jung-hyun, Jun Yejin
Production company: South Park Film
Director: Kang Yi-kwan
Screenwriters: Kang Yi –kwan, Park Joo-young
Producer: Park Joo-young
Executive producers: Kang Yi-kwan, Hyun Byung-chul
Director of photography: Byun Bong-sun
Costume designer: Han Yeah-Joon
Editors: Park Yoo-kyung, Kim Jin-hee
Music: Kang Minkook
Sales: Finecut, Seoul
No rating, 107 minutes.

Source:  The Hollywood Reporter

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A Cycle Of Delinquency: “Juvenile Offender”

 

Full article on Seoul Beats

 

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NYAFF Review: Juvenile Offender

The standout film from the fest!

 

It's like clockwork. Every year at the New York Asian Film Festival I end up seeing one movie that ends up being one of my favorites of the year, and it was immediately obvious that Juvenile Offender is the one for 2013. Mark this on your radar and hope it gets distribution over here soon, because here’s a powerful, beautiful film about a couple of lost souls.

 

 

 

Read more  HERE

 

 

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Juvenile Offender, South Korea's Oscar Entry

Kang Yi-Kwan's muted "Juvenile Offender", South Korea's official Oscar submission features an award winning, career making performance by young actor Young-Ju Seo. The film, which won the Special Jury prize at the 2013 Tokyo International Film Festival aims to entertain against a backdrop of timely social issues. 

Yi-Kwan and co-writer Joo Young Park's script transcends the teen-at-risk genre, creating two memorable characters. With a neo-realist flavor, they personalize the statistics behind the issue of teenage mothers.

16-year-old Ji-Gu is the sole caregiver for his grandfather. His young mother Hyo-Seung (actress-pop star Lee Jung-Hyun, herself an at-risk teen mother of 17 when she gave birth, abandoned him to his grandfather's care, (he's the product of a one-night stand, in order to make her way. 

Although Ji-Gu is a lackadaisical student, he manages to romance grade-A student, upwardly mobile Sae-Rom (Yejin Jun), whose father (Lee Yoon-Sang) disapproves.

Hanging out with his posse after school, he lets Jae-Bum, the charismatic leader of the pack, convince him to break into a "family home" with the rest of the boys. In fact Jae-Bum (Choi Won-Tae) intends to rob and trash his uncle's house, in revenge for a family inheritance dispute. Jae-Bum's auntie (Kim Geun-Young) comes home, recognized the fleeing school friends, and Ji-Gu pushes her down, earning him trespass, burglary and assault charges. "Can you forgive me just this once?" he asked the judge hopefully as he's being sent down, unaware that his journey to maturity has just begun. 

While doing time in the Juvenile justice system, his beloved grandfather dies, and his guidance counselor Teacher Kim (Jung Suk Yong) reunites him with his mother, Hyo-Seung.

Hyo-Seung hasn't doing very well. Crashing at the house of her old school friend-now boss, beauty shop owner Ji-Young (Kang Rae-Yeon) she treats her job as pin money. Still as flaky as she was years ago, Hyo-Seung’s survived by cadging off old girl friends, but her luck runs out when she has to find a home for Ji-Gu.

She wheedles aggravated Ji-Young with puppyish charm, hoping her long time benefactor will forget her mounting debt, but even the most forgiving friend will snap eventually.

As bad as Ji-Gu's judgment is, Hyo-seung's is worse. She's unable to hold a job, responsibilities are a foreign currency, and when the chips are down, she throws hysterical tantrums, expecting others to pick up the pieces. If anything is going to season Ji-Gu, it's this appalling view of his mother. But they are together now, for better or worse.

What's more, while he was in stir, Sae-Rom discovered she was pregnant with his child. Her unforgiving father tossed her out, refusing to pay for her education, and Sae-Rom gave the baby up for adoption.

The more time Ji-Gu spends with his mother, the more he realizes the multi-generational dysfunction he's participating in. Ji-Gu decides to take responsibility.

As good as Young-Ju Seo's performance as the uncommunicative Young-Ju Seo is, Jung-Hyun Lee is even more remarkable.

Yi-Kwan Kang's sensitive script and measured approach quietly indicts the system, yet he creates good people inside the system, like Teacher Kim. Yi-Kwan Kang offers slim hope for the characters to escape the dead-end life of stigma they face but an open ending gives a bit of relief. Every incidental character, including the pair's motel manager and the Sushi restaurant manager reflects the dire effect of the Global financial meltdown and globalization on South Korea's disadvantaged or working poor. 

Commissioned and produced by the National Committee of Human Rights to express the human rights of offenders, Yi-Kwan Kang film is no do-gooder treatise. He attacks the social problem, but never at the expense of his character's personal journey. Each is fully realized, unpredictable. Each decision seems motivated by specific circumstances. In a season where I saw many films each day, the characters stayed with me long after I saw this film.

Kang Yi-Kwan directed an earlier short about teenage runaways for the National Committee of Human Rights.

Played the Palm Springs Film Festival on Tuesday, January 7, 2014 1:00 PM Regal Palm Springs 9 and Thursday, January 9, 2014 10:30 AM Regal Palm Springs 9.

Source: Cinema Without Borders

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NYAFF 2013 Review: JUVENILE OFFENDER, A Deeply Humanistic and Beautifully Acted Character Study
 

Juvenile Offender, Kang Yi-kwan's delicately observed, tightly written, deeply humanistic small-scale drama is one of the must-see films of this year's New York Asian Film Festival. Bracingly tough-minded, this film deftly avoids the traps inherent in its narrative material, especially in a Korean cinema context, of devolving into overwrought melodrama. It does so by concentrating on its characters, and the complex interactions between them, and not forcing it into the mold of a contrived plot. The indelible impression left by this narrative strategy is bolstered by great performances all around, by both its lead actors and others in smaller roles, creating an environment that feels truly realistic.
Juvenile Offender begins by introducing us to Ji-gu (Seo Young-ju), a 16-year old who lives with his ailing, diabetic grandfather, and has grown up without knowing his parents. He has already been in trouble with the authorities, and must check in regularly on an automated phone line to inform juvenile probation officers of his whereabouts. He meets a girl, Sae-rom (Jeon Ye-jin), who he brings over to the house for a one-night stand, but with promises for a more lasting relationship. However, Ji-gu still hangs with his old crowd of delinquent troublemakers, and is soon arrested after he participates with his friends in a home break-in. Having now flagrantly violated the terms of his probation, Ji-gu is sent to a detention center for a year, despite his pleas to the judge for leniency.

After Ji-gu is released from the detention center, he learns that his grandfather has died in the interim. The institution tracks down Ji-gu's mother Hyo-seung (Lee Jung-hyun), who abandoned him after giving birth to him, the result of a one-night stand when she was 17. Hyo-seung apologizes effusively for abandoning him, and takes him in to live with her. It turns out that she's barely more mature than her offspring, and far from financially stable; she lives in a small apartment with Ji-yeong (Gang Rae-yeon), an old classmate who has given Hyo-seung a job as a trainee hairdresser at the salon she owns. With the wheedling, cajoling, and coquettish begging she uses to borrow money, Hyo-seung persuades her very reluctant friend to let Ji-gu stay with them at their place. Thereafter begins the difficult emotional pas de deux between the mother and son, as they struggle to build a relationship and where the roles of caretaker and dependent switch back and forth between them. Complicating matters even further, Ji-gu learns that Sae-rom got pregnant after their night together, gave up her child for adoption, and is now living in a girls' shelter after being disowned by her family. The cycle of hardship and misery now threatens to extend into another generation.
Set in an a wintry setting thematically appropriate to the often harsh lives of its central characters, Juvenile Offender is a gem of a character study that is full of beautifully rendered moments that fully illuminate the nuanced complexities of its relationships. Kang Yi-kwan's second feature (after 2005's Sa-Kwa), produced by the Human Rights Commission of Korea, expresses in every frame its deep sympathy for its characters, making us feel invested in their fates. Kang elicits impressive performances from all his actors, but Lee Jung-hyun's revelatory turn is particularly essential. Her multi-faceted portrayal of a young woman who can't help sabotaging her own efforts to make something substantial out of her life is continually riveting; her performance is Juvenile Offender's greatest asset.

李貞賢電影《犯罪少年》英文版預告片_Juvenile Offender Trailer

 

Source: Twitch

 

 

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Next we can watch Seo Young-Joo in Drama Special  "18 Years"

It was scheduled to air in Korean on Sunday 4/27 but got postponed to next Sunday May 4th.

 It will air on KBSW on 5/16

It is A short drama about Seok-joo who doesn't want to live like his brother.

Added new trailer and images for the upcoming Korean drama "Drama Special - 18 Years",




"Drama Special - 18 Years" (2014)

Directed by Kim Jin-woo-II

Written by Yoo Bo-ra (Scriptwriter of "Secrets"drama)

Network : KBS

With Seo Yeong-joo-I, Kim Heung-soo, Eom Tae-goo, Lee Ji-oh, Choi Moo-seong,...

1 episode - Sun 23:55
Part of the "Drama Special" series
Synopsis
A short drama about Seok-joo who doesn't want to live like his brother.

Broadcast starting date in Korea : 2014/04/27

This drama special is also a come back from the military project for actor Kim Heung-Soo - Welcome back!







Also watch the trailer on Hancinema


Additional images from Seong Yeong-Joo FB page.

 

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Finally an update on the drama special "18 Years."  It has been delayed but will be shown this Sunday on KBS.
 

KBS 2TV 드라마 스페셜 <18세> 가 드디어

5월 11일 일요일 밤 11시 55분에 방영 됩니다.

아 그리고 이 사진은 최근 모습입니다.

<18세> 때 찍은 머리가 쫌 더 길어졌죠?

▶◀ 하나의 작은 움직임이 큰 기적을...제발

 

 

KBS 2TV drama <18세>is finally on May 11, will be aired on Sunday night at 11: 55 am. 

Oh and this picture recently.

 

 

 

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I hear that the drama special name has been changed to "Youth" and it will air on KBSWorld this Friday..

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Seo Young-Joo at the premier of Director Kim Seong-hoon's "A Hard Day" movie yesterday. (One of three Korean films that were introduced in Cannes Int'l Film Festival this year)




Source: Naver News

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Far East Film Festival. Screening of "Moebius."

Seo Young-joo introducing the film "MOEBIUS" at its UK Film Premiere.

 

 

Seo Young-ju Group Interview

We participate in a group interview with rising star Seo Young-ju, who appears in Kim Ki-duk’s controversial Moebius…

Seo is one the rising stars among child actors in South Korea. Starting at age 10, he quickly made his way through films and dramas. His first feature film appearance was in period action-romance A Frozen Flower in 2008 and his first TV drama was Hero, playing the younger version of Lee Jun-ki’s character. For several years the younger version of characters, he recently graduated to full roles, and even lead roles. His first lead role (in Juvenile Offender) already allowed him to win two best actor awards at the Tokyo and Cinemanila Film Festivals.

 

Read more HERE

 

 

 

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Drama Special with Seo Young-Joo - "Youth" aka "18 years" is finally out.

Heart-wrenching performance.

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Seo Young-Joo at the premier of the movie "Whistle-Blower" yesterday





Source: Star News

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Seo Young-Ju is featured in this year's Busan International Film Festival publicity booklet

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대학문화패션 계간지 LE DEBUT 화보촬영. 형 누나기자들은 역시 발랄하게 하시네요 즐거웠어요~ ㅎ

University culture and fashion quarterly LE DEBUT pictorial shoot. Brother sister's youthful reporters are also enjoyed ~ ㅎTranslated by Bing

 

Source: Seo Young-Ju FB page

 

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Looks like Seo Young-Joo will be in a new Drama Special that will air on Feb. 28 and March 1st.
"Winter of the Girls" will be penned by successful scriptwriter Yoo Bo-Ra (Secret Love, Yeon-Woo's Summer )



Other cast members will include Kim Sae-Ron and Kim Hyahg-Gi.



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The source article is in Korean. Anyone who speaks Korean, would love it, if you will translate more.

Source: The Star

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Seo Young-Ju was a presenter in K-pop awards

 

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Here is a trailer for the upcoming drama special this weekend about the Comfort Women.

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More on this program:

Comfort women TV drama to screen on Independence Day

KBS is making a two-part TV programabout Korean sex slavery victims ―also known as "comfort women" ―during World War II, to commemorateIndependence Day on Mar. 1.  Written by Yoo Bo-rah and starring Kim Sae-ron, 16, the program, entitled"Girl's Winter," will be shown on Feb.28 and the national holiday.  The two episodes will keep "sensitivescenes that may provoke anti-Japanese feelings" to a minimum, program director Ham Young-hoon said as quoted on an online news outlet on Saturday. The program would instead have a "poetic style," he added.  Ham said Yoo had been following the comfort women issue closely,attending weekly campaigns calling for truth about the wartime atrocitycommitted by the Japanese Imperial Army.  Korean and Japanese governments have been at odds over the issue,with Japan claiming it never happened.

Source: The Korea Times