Jung Yu-Mi 정유미 (1983)

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Arena Homme + (May 2013)




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At Yumi's BDay party





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Yumi gracing the pages of the latest issue of Marie Claire

Her indie movie, Our Sunhi opens on September 12 in Korea

It's also officially invited to the Toronto International Film Festival.







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Our Sunhi BTS


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Our Sunhi VIP premiere



her friend, Son Dambi went to support Yumi


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Our Sunhi press conference




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Tough as Iron press meeting, 2 September












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Jung Yu Mi Attends Movie 'Tough as Iron' Press Conference - Sep 2, 2013

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On the cover of Cine21 with Lee Sun Gyun (co-star in Our Sunhi)









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Our Sunhi reviews

Variety

August 18, 2013 | 11:22PM PT

Admirers of Hong Sang-soo's wry worldview will find much to enjoy in his appealing 15th feature.

Scott Foundas Chief Film Critic @foundasonfilm

Having achieved a level of productivity to rival the B-movie masters of Hollywood’s golden age, Korea’s poet laureate of infantile male intellectuals and the women who bewitch them delivers one of his most appealing recent efforts in “Our Sunhi.” Winner of the director prize in Locarno, Hong’s 15th feature lacks some of the surprising emotional force of his Berlin competition entry “Nobody’s Daughter Haewon” earlier this year, but nevertheless delights as it orchestrates the seriocomic ping-ponging of a canny young woman and her three equally hapless suitors. Though the pic’s commercial prospects are characteristically slim, admirers of Hong’s wry worldview will find much to enjoy here.

While Hong has long exalted women in his movies, “Nobody’s Daughter Haewon” and now “Our Sunhi” signal a small but significant shift in perspective, largely or entirely unfolding through the eyes of their female protagonists (whose names, in both cases, also figure in the pics’ titles). Wonderfully played by the gamine Jung Yu-mi (in her fifth collaboration with Hong), Sunhi is a recent film-school grad first seen returning to her alma mater to solicit a recommendation letter from her former teacher, Professor Choi (Kim Sang-joong). Sunhi wishes to continue her studies in America, and while the professor tries to dissuade her, stressing the value of practical experience over theory, he finally agrees. There’s just one caveat: He can only write an “honest” letter — a ploy that leads to a rich comic payoff later on.

While grabbing a beer at a nearby chicken restaurant, Sunhi encounters her ex-boyfriend Munsu (Hong regular Lee Sun-kyun), whom she wishes to confront over a film he made based on their failed relationship. As the beer flows, it becomes all too clear that Munsu still hankers for his ex, though the feeling doesn’t exactly appear to be mutual. The plot thickens when Sunhi returns to campus and resolves to use her flirtatious charms to wrest a more flattering recommendation letter from Choi, then thickens again with the introduction of curmudgeonly fellow filmmaker Jaehak (Jung Jae-young). After lending a sympathetic ear to Munsu’s lovelorn laments, he too encounters Sunhi by chance and soon finds himself falling under her spell.

Hong has a lot of fun orchestrating these various comings and goings which, as in a classic farce, revolve around the idea of all three men pursuing the same woman without realizing it — until Hong brings them all together for a dryly hilarious climax set on the grounds of Seoul’s Changgyeonggung Palace. In between, Hong sets up multiple drunken encounters for Sunhi and her suitors, who offer life lessons and career advice that invariably come across as more self-serving than magnanimous. Throughout, Jung (“Oki’s Movie,” “In Another Country”) again proves herself a deft comedienne, with a pouty, somewhat petulant demeanor that says she wishes the world could be more her way.

One of the pic’s repeated mantras, “Dig deep,” sounds like Hong’s own advice to himself — a filmmaker who, like a seasoned jazz musician, produces endless variations on a theme, but within that seemingly narrow band uncovers surprising depths of insight and feeling. Like Eric Rohmer (to whom he has often been likened) or Woody Allen (whose work ethic he shares), Hong can sometimes seem to dash off a film with less than his usual rigor, but “Our Sunhi” benefits from a leanness and sense of purpose absent from some of Hong’s other recent efforts (like the overlong “Hahaha”). It’s a film in which one senses Hong’s technique drained of all excess moisture, as if the film had been set out overnight in a bag of rice.

Technically, the pic sports Hong’s usual (albeit instantly recognizable) lo-fi look, continuing his recent fascination with abrupt zooms.

http://variety.com/2013/film/reviews/our-sunhi-review-locarno-film-festival-1200580926/


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Locarno Film Festival Review: Filled With Heavy Drinking and Soul-Searching, Hong Sang-soo's Bittersweet Dramedy 'Our Sunhi' Is an Ideal Entry Point to the Director's Work

To some extent, Korean director Hong Sang-soo remakes the same movie each time out, with slight variations in character and tone, which means you either roll with his style or reject it outright. In most cases, Hong's movies contain minor plots involving a handful of neurotic characters, usually one of whom is a filmmaker; much of the exposition involves ample drinking and commiserating among romantic loners and old friends. Endless chatter drives everything. But within those constraints, Hong often strikes a nuanced tone pitched between philosophical intrigue and angst-riddled comedy, with some results more refined than others.

There are many variations on the Hong formula. In the past five years, he has completed eight features, including two that have premiered this year alone: Following the Berlin Film Festival entry "Nobody's Daughter Haewon," Hong has unveiled "Our Sunhi," his most enjoyable work since "In Another Country" -- at least for those who respond to the director's restrained approach. Yet it's also distinctly charming and funny, providing an ideal access point for those unacquainted with his other work. 

Hong takes little time putting the basic pieces in place. Recent film school grad Sunhi (Jung Yumi) decides she wants to do post-graduate work in the U.S. before turning her attention to movies and asks her old professor Donghyun (Kim Sangjoong) for a recommendation. Later, she runs into Munsu (Lee Sunkyun), an ex-boyfriend who has made a movie based on their romance. Within short order, both Donghyun and Munsu dispense advice to Sunhi to explain how her lack of ambition clashes with her intellect, a point underscored when Sunhi reads her recommendation from her old teacher and discovers that it's rather mixed.

That moment provides the first inkling of the way the men in her life scrutinize the low key Sunhi as a means of feeling superior to her -- and indulging in their attraction towards her. The situation is further complicated with the arrival of Jaehak (Jaeyoung Jung), Munsu's friend, who eventually falls for Sunhi as well.

Behind her back, the three discuss her paradoxical nature, a clash of fierce individuality and introverted qualities that leaves them incapable of fully understanding her identity. Each man contains such clearly defined personalities that Sunhi herself starts to look like a product of their collective imagination, as they continually project expectations onto her. But she's certainly a real person. Cinematically, Sunhi has a kinship with the likes of Greta Gerwig's young woman adrift in Noah Baumbach's "Frances Ha." While mysterious, Sunhi also maintains an enjoyably unhinged presence who often veers from tears of frustration to expressions of affection over so many drinking sessions. Hong's dialogue-based humor tends to emerge from a cyclical approach, which is especially evident here as Sunhi engages in several outings with each man and hears minor variations on the same advice.

As usual, Hong's camera generally just sits there and lets the scenario organically unfold, but the actors are especially lively and the dialogue fits together with puzzle-like finesse. One noteworthy scene veers from comedy and drama and back to comedy when a chicken deliveryman emerges into the middle of an emotional exchange between two characters and diffuses the tensions. It's a perfect demonstration of Hong's ability to toy with opposing moods.

However, the movie's key rhythmic device is a jukebox tune played at several moments that links them together and underlines the repetitive nature of Sunhi's aimless world. Even as everyone around Sunhi has an agenda for her, she's either too unmotivated or overwhelmed to choose one for herself. Hong underlines that point in the keenly orchestrated finale, when all three suitors wind up in the same place in search of Sunhi while she drops out of the picture. As usual with Hong, his subjects are stuck in a limbo of confusion that feels both strangely distant and, for the same reasons, true to life.

Criticwire grade: B+

HOW WILL IT PLAY? Though likely to play at other festivals in the fall and please Hong fans, "Our Sunhi" is -- like most Hong films -- not exactly commercially viable, though a small distributor like Strand or Cinema Guild might be able to invest in the movie's niche appeal for a small theatrical release.

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class="entry_title" TIFF 2013: ‘Our Sunhi’ uses a freewheeling approach to greatly satisfying ends

Posted on September 13, 2013 By John Oursler Toronto International Film Festival

Our Sunhi
Written and directed by Hong Sang-soo
South Korea, 2013

The TIFF programmer introducing the new film from South Korean master Hong Sang-soo mentioned that because Hong is so prolific (he’s currently shooting another film) he couldn’t be at the premiere of his own film. It’s not uncommon for filmmakers to miss their own premieres, even at world-renowned international film festivals. Then again, nothing about Hong is by-the-books, from his delightfully whimsical cinematic reach to the pleasing way he eschews aesthetic convention. Some filmmakers delight in, and most critics celebrate, subverting filmmaking conventions, and while Hong’s march is definitely to his own drummer’s beat, it’s not different for the sake of being so. He’s more invested in helping change the way a viewer sees and engages with a film rather than pushing the boundary for some personal edification. His newest film, Our Sunhi, uses his freewheeling approach to greatly satisfying ends.

Sunhi (Jung Yoo-mi) is a recent college graduate/aspiring actor in her mid-20s who returns to her former school to solicit a reference from her favorite professor, Choi Donghyun (Kim Sang-joong). Their relationship is light and jovial, as you’d expect from characters in a Hong relationship comedy. Two other men weave in and out of Sunhi’s life, Munsu (Lee Sun-kyun), an ex-boyfriend with whom she’s recently reconnected, and Jaehak (Jung Jae-young), a friend of both Munsu and Donghyun. In varying configurations the group convenes to talk about this and that, mostly dealing with Sunhi’s future plans to go to America and study, but occasionally about Munsu and Jaehak’s nascent filmmaking career or general trivialities.

Hong’s signature visual techniques perfectly suit this sitcom setup, as the tone remains light throughout but the film never feels banal. Once you realize that the hangout rhythm is going to buoy the content’s lightness, you can sit back and be swept away by Hong’s flair. He rarely shoots in close-ups, and, unlike most modern filmmakers, rarely cuts a scene too early or uses reverse shot during things like conversations. Most of his framing remains at medium length, but he adjusts the camera’s focus in anticipation of what the audiences may be. For example, zooms in and out and horizontal pans are common practices for Hong. It takes a bit of getting used to if you’ve never seen one of his films, but, for a comedic film such as Our Sunhi, the style perfectly gels to bolster the story’s lightness. When you’re watching them, you feel as though you’re part of the action rather than a disconnected spectator. There’s a harmony in Hong’s singular approach that is rare and wonderful to behold.

Comedic aspects aside, there’s also some thought-provoking discourse going on. The title indicates that the female protagonist is perhaps not her own woman, or even a possession of a group. Throughout the film the men, at different stages, repeat similar phrases about Sunhi’s character, be it positive or slightly negative aspects of her personality or quality as a student. Hong plays these scenes for laughs, and they are quite funny, but there’s also a very subtle critique of ingrained, subconscious misogyny. By the end, the men are left on their own in a trio while Sunhi has left the picture, her physical absence a consequence of their gendered absence of reason.

- John Oursler

http://www.soundonsight.org/our-sunhi-by-hong-sang-soo/

Our Sunhi

10 August, 2013 | By Dan Fainaru

Dir/scr: Hong Sangsoo. South Korea. 2013. 88mins

The second Hong Sangsoo this year, to follow on from his Berlin outing (Nobody’s Daughter Haewon) confirms the impression that the prolific Korean director, a faithful adept of the New Wave school which he constantly tries to emulate, could use more time before jumping from one project to the next.

Not only is there a distinct feeling of repeating himself to the point where he just seems to go through the same motions, but also that once he has got hold of a notion he rushes to put it on screen, before fleshing it out properly and fashioning its individual identity.

Once again, the plot of Our Sunhi (U ri Sunhi) is all about film academics and filmmakers, though cinema is not necessarily their main concern. The entire action is limited to a long series of dialogues shot in a staid Rohmerian fashion, each conversation drenched in massive quantities of alcohol.

The veiled humour evolves from the repetition of the same lines in different circumstances, the acting is supposed to be natural and spontaneous – though this once it looks a bit too studious and mannered for comfort – and the female protagonist has once more the upper hand over her suitors. The entire cast consists of four characters and more than anything else, the film suggests an exercise in indulgence by a director enamored with the images he puts on screen, mainly for his own gratification.

Sunhi (Jung Yumi), a presentable young woman who intends to complete her cinema studies in US, asks her former professor, Donghyun (Kim Sangjoong) for a letter of recommendation. He suggests she should better stop wasting her time on studies and put into practice what she has already learned, but when she insists, he promises to write the letter, warning her that he would put down his actual opinion of her and in case this does not satisfy her, she is free not to use it.

On her way out of the University campus, she calls former boyfriend, Munsu  (Lee Sunkyun) to join her in a fast food joint. He tells her he wants her back, she turns him down but won’t why and leaves. Next day, disappointed by the letter she gets from Donghyun, which says in so many words that she may be artistically inclined and that she is a good person, but also implies she is reserved, weak and never shows her real mettle. She vamps him off his feet and persuades him to write it again.

Finally, she invites the third man, Jaehak (Jung Jaeyoung), a film director who is the confidant of the other two, to have coffee with her, then tells him she’d rather have a stiffer drink and by the end of the evening, teases him all the way to his flat, but at the last minute turns down his offer to go all the way, pretending they have lots of time for that in the future.

Guessing the end of the tale is not very difficult, since all three men seem to find Sunhi, with whom they are smitten, pretty much of a mystery which they are at a loss to understand. Indeed, in their own encounters, as they pretend to share their impressions of Sunhi, without having the slightest idea that she is flirting with all three of them, separately, they use the same formulas they picked from each other, to describe her.

Since neither the plot nor any of the characters are more than lightweight caricatures and as the long talkathons lack the wit of the aforementioned Rohmer, they inevitably tend to wear out their welcome long before Hong Sangsoo is done with them. Film buffs will probably enjoy the quotes and winks that were so dear to the French cinema of the sixties, such as bars and cafes with names like Arirang or Gondry, or a reminder of the chicken sandwich without the chicken from Five Easy Pieces. But this is still a long way from the days from the pig who fell into the well.

http://www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-latest/our-sunhi/5059137.article

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class="cb b15"Jung Yumi Considers Explicit Love Scenes With Park Yoo Chun

 

Jung Yumi is an actress who has appeared in a variety of indie films. Her acting resume includes roles in some interesting films, including the graphic and often disturbing film "The Crucible" with Gong Yoo.

But despite the range of roles she has played, she still hesitated when offered a role in the new film, "Sea Fog." In that film, she would be expected to act a steamy, graphic love scene with Park Yoo Chun.

Although you might think that many actresses would be eager to play Park Yoo Chun's love interest, representative of the film's production company said that it has not been easy finding him a leading lady.

"Jung Yumi is thinking carefully about whether to appear in 'Sea Fog," as the movie has many gory and shocking scenes," said the production company representative. "Because of these scenes, they are having a difficult time getting an actress to sign on. Jung Yumi is our number one choice and the staff has been trying very hard to convince her.

The actress is not exactly desperate for a new role. She has had a busy year with appearances in the dramas "Dating Agency: Cyrano" and "God of the Workplace," as well as the films "Our Sunhi" and "Tough as Iron." On "Dating Agency: Cyrano," she played a shy girl in love and was reunited with her "Crucible" co-star Gong Yoo.

If she takes the role in "Sea Fog," she will play Hong Mae, a Chinese-Korean stowaway trying to find her lost brother. During the voyage to Korea, she has an affair with Yoo Chun and the script calls for some shocking love scenes. There has been some talk about altering the script and making the sex scenes less explicit so that she will agree to appear in the film. But nothing has been decided.

 "Sea Fog" is a story about a fishing boat captain who out of desperation turns his boat into a smuggling ship, ferrying people from China to Korea. Yoo Chun plays a crewmember that opposes the plan. It's Park Yoo Chun's first film role, although he has appeared in several dramas, including "Missing You," Sungkyunkwan Scandal" and "Rooftop Prince." He's had an impressive list of leading ladies so far, including Yoon Eun Hye, Park Min Young and Han Ji Min.

"Sea Fog" is adapted from a play and will be produced by Bong Joon Ho, who directed the films "Snowpiercer" and "The Host." Shim Sung Bo, formerly a screenwriter, will direct. Kim Yoon Suk of "Thieves" plays the fishing boat captain.

Filming is expected to start this month with the film's release date set for 2014.

http://www.kdramastars.com/articles/10428/20130909/jung-yumi-considers-explicit-love-scene-park-yoo-chun.htm

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[bnt photo] Jung Yumi to flaunt her flawless skin

[by Chloe Yun] On September 2 ‘Tough as Iron’ movie press conference was held at Apgujeong CGV, Seoul, and female lead Jung Yumi attended, having an interview with the press. 
‘Tough as Iron,’ staring Yoo Ah in, Kim Hae sook, Kim Jung tae, Kim Sung oh, Jung Yumi, and Lee Si uhn, is about a "Busan guy" who struggles to protect his mother, friends, and his own life without anyone’s support. 
Meanwhile, the movie ‘Tough as Iron’ is set to hit theaters on October 2. (photo by bntnews DB)
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Yumi celebrating the success of her movie, Our Sunhi

The attandance rate topped 20 000, which is great for a lo-fi independent film.


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Jung Yumi and Yoo Ah In Harper's Bazaar October issue







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