The 84-year-old Kim Young-wook, as the oldest actor active in the film and television industry in South Korea, is on a par with Lee Soon-jae and Shin-joo. In the popular suspense TV series "Snooping", Kim Young-wook starred as the grandmother of the heroine Park Joo-hyun, and the drama has achieved good ratings since its inception.
After graduating from high school, Because she liked acting, Kim Young-woo participated in auditions for several films, but her mother was very disgusted with the profession of actor. Under the strong opposition of her mother, Kim Young-wook gave up her dream of becoming an actor, and with excellent results, she was admitted to the TV station and became a host.
However, because the host's salary was very low at that time, it was impossible to maintain the daily life of Kim Young-wook's family. Therefore, Kim Young-wook chose to change careers to become a voice actor. Because of her thick voice, she has voiced the male protagonists of many comics.
In the 1960s, due to the rapid development of the Korean film and television industry, major television stations were in urgent need of actors, so Kim Young-wook and good sister Luo Wenji and others served as voice actors while participating in the filming of TV series.
Because of her age and other reasons, Kim Young-woo has been playing the role of grandmother since she was more than 30 years old, becoming the most personalized grandmother in Korean dramas. In "Look and See", she is the master of the silver pearl; in "Fancy Man", Jin Young-yu plays the official grandmother of Gu Jun's cousin, and in "Please Answer 1988", she makes a cameo appearance as Deshan's grandmother.
Perhaps because of the misfortune of her later years, Jin Yingyu is very good to the young artists she works with, and is a very kind predecessor. In 2015, Kim Young-wook's grandson was killed in a car accident while out on the go. Kim Young-wook, who was filming on set, was devastated. But she has not fully come out of her grief, and her daughter is overly bedridden because of her sadness, and she has not recovered until now.
Although the grandmothers who played in Korean dramas are very leisurely and domineering, but in reality, the elderly Kim Young-woo has to take on the burden of taking care of her daughter, and Lee Min-ho, who has worked with her many times, admits that Kim Young-wook's teacher is more fighting than young people on the set, and Gu Hye-sun also said that when she was in a bad mood, Kim Young-wook gave her a lot of comfort.
Successive misfortunes did not bring down Kim Young-wook, and thankfully Kim Young-wook's husband was always by her side. It is said that the two are each other's first love, in the variety show, Jin Yingyu once laughed and said that if there is a next life, the two will never get married again. But in fact, the relationship between the two has always been very good, it is a rare model couple in the Korean entertainment industry, and Kim Young-wook's husband was also a host.
In addition to the work "Spying" with Lee Seung-ki and An Jae-wook this year, Kim Young-wook, known as the "Desperate Three Ladies", will also participate in the filming of the TV series "Zhiyi Mountain" starring Jeon Ji-hyun and Zhu Ji-hoon this year, which is more prolific than many young people. At such a young age and so dedicated and hardworking, what qualifications do we young people have to choose comfort?