Jo Jin Woong is the stage name of Jo Won Joon, a South Korean actor. Born on March 3, 1976, he made his acting debut in theater before appearing in the 2004 film “Once Upon a Time in High School.” He has enjoyed a prolific career in both films and television since then and is best known for his roles in the films “Deep Rooted Tree” (2011), “Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time” (2012), “A Hard Day” (2014) and the television series “Signal” (2016).

Jo Jin Woong

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With grand dreams and driving ambition, Jeon Hae Woong (Jo Jin Woong) has spent years climbing his way to the top of Busan’s political world. Ready to take his dreams even further, Hae Woong is now a prime candidate for the National Assembly. Unfortunately, his ambition has landed him on the wrong side of Kwon Soon Tae (Lee Sung Min), a local bigwig who just so happens to be a hidden powerhouse in the political world.

Taken out of the running by Soon Tae, Hae Woong’s life quickly begins to crumble around him. After defaulting on a campaign loan, Hae Woong becomes the target of a relentless group of loan sharks who are only too willing to find creative ways to get their money back. Unwilling to go down without a fight, Hae Woong decides the time has come to get his hands dirty. Turning to a local gang leader, Kim Pil Do (Kim Moo Yeol), for help, the two steal classified information about an urban development plant that could not only take down Soon Tae but shake the entire nation to its core.

Using this stolen information to his advantage, Hae Woong re-enters the race for National Assembly, believing that in doing so, he can exact his revenge on Soon Tae. But is a handful of stolen information really going to be enough to take down one of the nation’s most powerful men?&nbsp;

Full of dark dealings and political intrigue, “The Devil’s Deal” is a 2023 South Korean crime drama film directed by Lee Won Tae.

The Devil's Deal

Choi Min Jae (Choi Woo Shik) is a police detective – just like his father and grandfather before him. Even though he is still young, many people on the force think Choi Min Jae will become an exemplary policeman, due to his love for honesty and the rule of law. This reputation is noticed by the police’s Internal Affairs unit, which recruits him to join and investigate an anti-narcotics task force. The task force, some think, is corrupt.

The task force is led by the veteran cop Park Kang Yoon (Jo Jin Woong), who seems to be no stranger to expensive, luxury goods – including a flashy car and apartment, as well as pricey suits and accessories. Park Kang Yoon announces that the unit will investigate a dangerous new drug that has recently hit the streets. But it is not long before Park Kang Yoon learns that someone in his unit could be informing on him. As Choi Min Jae digs deeper, however, he begins to understand that despite Park Kang Yoon’s seemingly unorthodox ways, the older police officer might not be as corrupt as he first seems...

“The Policeman’s Lineage” is a 2022 South Korean movie that was directed by Lee Kyoo Man.

The Policeman's Lineage

Yang Min Hyuk (Jo Jin Woong) works at the Seoul District Prosecutor’s Office. But his career and life take a dramatic turn when he investigates a case involving a woman whose car careered around the freeway, crashing into a number of other vehicles. As he is investigating the case, the woman is suddenly found dead in what appears to have been a suicide.

However, police find that the last message sent from the dead woman’s phone explains that had been sexually assaulted by Yang Min Hyuk. Yang Min Hyuk becomes the subject of an investigation himself. But as he tries to prove his innocence, he starts to suspect that she may not have taken her own life after all. Instead, he discovers that her death might have been somehow linked to the sale of a bank whose lawyer is Kim Na Ri (Honey Lee). As he continues to seek the truth, he realizes that the case is sucking him into the heart of a huge financial scandal...

“Black Money” is a 2019 South Korean movie that was directed by Chung Ji Young.

Black Money

Elite Detectives🔎

Young Ki (Jo Jin Woong) is a mobster who dreams of one day living a perfect life. 

However, he has been lurching from one calamity to the next. His latest disastrous attempt to strike it rich saw him steal a large sum of money from his boss, which he then used to fund a catastrophic stock investment that has left in knee-deep in debt.

He is also in trouble with the law and must perform community service as part of a criminal sentence.

However, this is when he luck changes – and when he meets a man named Jang Soo (Sol Kyung Gu), an affluent lawyer at a busy law firm.

Jang Soo has had a terrible shock – paralyzed from the neck down, he has now discovered that he is also terminally ill and has just a few months left to live.

He makes Young Ki an unconventional offer. If the mobster helps Jang Soo tick off all the items on his bucket list, the lawyer will hand over his entire life insurance fund to Yong Ki – a multi-million dollar sum.

Young Ki agrees – and the pair’s chaotic journey of discovery begins!

This movie was based on the 2011 French film “The Intouchables.”

“Man of Men” is a 2019 South Korean movie that was directed by Yong Soo.

Man of Men

💲 Team of Teams 💲

When his informant is brutally murdered, police officer Won Ho (Jo Jin Woong) vows to find the killer.

He meets a woman named Oh Yeon Ok (Kim Sun Ryung), who tells him that the man behind the murder is a mysterious drug cartel boss known in the underworld as “Mr. Lee.”

She goes on to explain that Mr. Lee is one of the most dangerous people in the world, and says that he is known to guard his identity carefully.

This same Mr. Lee, she adds, attempted to kill her by blowing up a building. Won Ho visits the scene of the crime and finds a man he believes to be a member of Mr. Lee’s gang – a man named Rak (Ryu Jun Yeol).

Rak agrees to help Won Ho after the latter hatches a plan to set up a drug deal that will hopefully flush Mr. Lee out into the open.

But tracking down the “real” Mr. Lee becomes harder than Won Ho initially thought – as several crooks have already begun using Mr. Lee’s alias to conduct their own nefarious deals.

Can Won Ho discover the identity of the country’s most infamous drug lord?

This movie is based on the 2012 film “Drug War.”

“Believer” is a 2018 South Korean movie that was directed by Lee Hae Young.

Believer

👮‍♂️The Untraceable Team 🕵️‍

A brutal turf battle rages in the seedy Chinatown area of Seoul. Ma Seok Do (Ma Dong Seok) is a fearless police officer in Seoul’s Crime Unit who is given 10 days to put an end to a Chinese-Korean gang war that erupts there.

Jang Chen (Yoon Kye Sang) is from China and has set up his shady loan shark business in Seoul’s Chinatown neighborhood. With his violent henchmen, Wei Sung Rak (Jin Seon Kyu) and Yang Tae (Kim Sung Kyu), Jang Chen will use whatever brutal methods possible to collect the money that his owed to him. When he goes after a rival gang to take over the entire territory, a violent turf war erupts.

Can Seok Do quash the violence and restore order before it’s too late? 

“The Outlaws” is a 2017 South Korean film directed by Kang Yoon Sung. The film is based on real events that occurred in 2007 that has been dubbed the “Heuksapa Incident” where a local gang engaged in a turf battle with the Heuksapa Chinese gang from Yanbian, China.

The Outlaws

The past and the present collide through a powerful walkie-talkie. Park Hae Young (Lee Je Hoon) is a police lieutenant who is an expert criminal profiler. Hae Young went into police work despite his deep-rooted mistrust of cops stemming from a traumatic event from his childhood. When he was young, his friend Yoon Jung was kidnapped and later found dead. Hae Young saw a woman pick up Yoon Jung from school on the day that she went missing, but the police would not believe Hae Young and stated that a man took her. The case remains unsolved to this day. Now working at the same police station where Hae Young tried to get the cops to believe him as a child, Hae Young walks out of the station one day and hears someone talking to him. He searches around and finds a walkie-talkie with the voice of police detective Lee Jae Han (Cho Jin Woong) talking to him. But Jae Han is from decades into the past, and he is investigating the murder of Hae Young’s friend Yoon Jung. Cha Soo Hyun (Kim Hye Soo) was a rookie during Jae Han’s time and is now an experienced police detective. Can this unexpected trio help each other solve cold cases from the past by communicating through the walkie-talkie? “Signal” is a 2016 South Korean drama series directed by Kim Won Suk. The series is based on a real-life crime spree that took place between 1986 and 1991 where 10 women were raped and murdered in the same geographic area in South Korea. The 2003 film “Memories of Murder” and the 2014 television drama “Gap Dong” also were based on the same events.

Signal

The Timeless Team

Lee Jae Han

Can a group of Korean resistance fighters carry out an assassination before enemy forces hunt them down?

Yeom Sek Jin (Lee Jung Jae) is a Korean resistance fighter during the 1930s Japanese occupation of Korea. He plans out the assassination of a Japanese commander and hires Ahn Ok Yoon (Jun Ji Hyun), a skilled sniper. Ok Yoon takes on the mission, along with her comrades Soksapo (Jo Jin Woong) and Hwang Duk Sam (Choi Duk Moon), to fight for Korean independence.

The Japanese send government sends contract killers Hawaii Pistol (Ha Jung Woo) and his partner Buddy (Oh Dal Soo) after Ok Yoon and her men. But can Ok Yoon carry out her mission when there is a traitor among them?

“Assassination” is a 2015 South Korean film co-written and directed by Choi Dong Hoon.

Assassination

In a South Korean village in the early 1950s, in the immediate aftermath of the Korean War, a tradition has developed – many males in the village prove their worth by selling their blood. The gesture not only proves that they have the ability to earn money, but also that their blood has been tested and proved healthy enough to sell. For Heo Sam Gwan (Ha Jung Woo), a construction worker and part-time farmhand, selling blood is part of his plan to win the heart of the prettiest young woman in the village: Heo Ok Ran (Ha Ji Won). The task is not easy, particularly as she already has a boyfriend, a womanizer from a relatively affluent background.

Somehow, though, Heo Sam Gwan succeeds in charming Heo Ok Ran and they go on to marry and have children. But as the children grow up, people in the village start to realize that the eldest of the children does not look much like the man who is supposed to be his father. When rumors about the boy’s paternity start to spread in the village, the once-happy family is in danger of breaking up…

This movie was based on a 1995 novel of the same name that was authored by Yu Hua.

“Chronicle of a Blood Merchant” is a 2015 South Korean movie that was adapted for the screen and directed by Ha Jung Woo.

Chronicle of the Blood Merchant

The Blood Ties

When they were just young boys, brothers Park Ha Yeon (Kim Sung Kyun) and Park Sang Yeon (Jo Jin Woong) were forced to separate at an orphanage: Their father had died and their distraught mother Seung Ja (Kim Young Ae) decided to put them up for adoption, realizing that she could not hope to raise them alone. Now, 30 years later, Sang Yeon lives in America, where he is a devout and austere Christian priest. Ha Yeon, meanwhile, still lives in South Korea. He is a fiery shaman who prays to spirits and animist deities. When a television show production team hears about what has happened to them, the team asks Sang Yeon to come to South Korea to be reunited with his long-lost brother and biological mother.

Sang Yeon travels to South Korea, but moments after their emotional reunion, Seung Ja, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, wanders out of the television studio and vanishes. The brothers are forced to take to the road to search the entire country for their mother. Can this hot-tempered shaman and the rigidly straight-laced pastor put aside their religious differences for the time it takes them to track down their mother?

“We are Brothers” is a 2014 South Korean movie that was directed by Jang Jin.

We Are Brothers

The Brotherhood Team

One man is on a mission to avenge the death of his family members.

Dolmuchi (Ha Jung Woo) is a butcher, which is considered the lowest class, in the Joseon Dynasty. In a society where a person’s status is purely determined by his or her birth, Jo Yoon (Kang Dong Won) is born into a wealthy family. But because his mother was a concubine, Jo Yoon’s illegitimacy gives him no standing in society or his family.

Jo Yoon hires Dolmuchi to kill the pregnant wife of his dead stepbrother so that he can become a legitimate heir, but when Dolmuchi is not able to go through with the killing, Jo Yoon has Dolmuchi’s family killed instead.

The devastated Dolmuchi takes on the name Dochi and joins Ttaeng Choo (Lee Kyung Young) and Dae Ho (Lee Sung Min) in a band of outlaws known as Kundo. The bandits go after wealthy tyrants who prey on the poor by stealing from the rich and giving back to the poor. But can Dochi avenge his family’s death when he comes face-to-face with Jo Yoon again?

“Kundo: Age of the Rampant” is a 2014 South Korean film directed by Yoon Jong Bin.

Kundo: Age of the Rampant

The Time Outlaws

As a promising vocalist, Sang Jin (Han Suk Kyu) might have had an incredible career in music, had fate not dealt him a crushing blow. Diagnosed with a vocal cord tumor, Sang Jin was forced to give up a career as a vocalist but that didn’t mean he had to give up music entirely.

Taking a position as a high school music teacher, Sang Jin might have eventually settled into a comfortable, albeit ordinary life, had Jang Ho (Lee Je Hoon) not transferred to his school. A teenage gangster with a lot of local clout, Jang Ho quickly became a thorn in Sang Jin’s side. But when Sang Jin hears Jang Ho sing, he’s immediately impressed by the young man’s natural vocal talent.

Determined to help Jang Ho develop his talent even further, Sang Jin commits himself to Jang Ho’s training. As the two work closely together, a strong bond forms between the two but everything they’ve worked so hard to achieve is threatened when two rival gangs force Jang Ho into a dire situation. With Sang Jin’s help, will Jang Ho be able to find a way to overcome the obstacles before him and rise to new heights as a world-class vocalist?

Inspired by the story of singer Kim Ho Joong, “My Paparotti” is a 2013 South Korean film directed by Yoon Jong Chan.&nbsp;

My Paparotti

The solfège Team  

As the right-hand man of one of the country’s most powerful crime lords, Kwang Ho (Park Shin Yang) is used to living with a target on his back. Trusted by his boss and loved by his men, Kwang Ho knows that many would love to take his place, including the overly ambitious Tae Joo (Kim Jung Tae). Knowing it’s only a matter of time before Tae Joo makes his movie, Kwang Ho is ready when the moment finally arrives. Being prepared saved his life, but it didn’t keep Kwang Ho from escaping the fight unscathed.&nbsp;

After stopping Tae Joo’s knife with his bare hands, Kwang Ho’s life begins to take a strange turn. With voices calling to him from the great beyond, and objects inexplicably moving around him, Kwang Ho isn’t sure what’s going on. The only thing he does know is that it needs to stop. Now. Indirectly chased by a seemingly possessed newspaper into the parlor of a fortune-teller named Myung (Uhm Ji Won), Kwang Ho demands answers. Informing him that the incident with Tae Joo’s knife inadvertently altered his palm’s fate line, Myung goes on to explain that Kwang Ho is now possessed by a spirit and destined to become a shaman.&nbsp;

Unable to escape his new destiny, yet unwilling to give up his old life, Kwang Ho begins to live a double life. Spending his days as a shaman and his nights as a criminal, Kwang Ho tries to keep his two lives secret and separate but when Tae Joo and his men begin sniffing around, it doesn’t take long for them to uncover his secret. With the truth uncovered, will Kwang Ho be able to thwart Tae Joo’s plan to destroy him?

Nominated for several awards, “Man on the Edge” is a 2013 South Korean supernatural comedy film directed by Jo Jin Kyu.

Man on the Edge

 The Spirits I Did Not Call 

This riveting Korean drama is about a royal guard investigating a series of murders during the reign of the brilliant Sejong The Great. As the investigator gets closer to the root of the truth, he finds himself embroiled in a massive conspiracy behind the serial killings. The scheme involves a group of geniuses willing to risk their lives for their cause/goals and secret powers who will interfere with his investigations to prevent the creation of the Korean alphabet. This captivating thriller will keep you glued to your screen!

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