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Actor Spotlight Shin Eun-kyung

For this week’s Actor Spotlight we wanted to write about Shin Eun-kyung. After watching ‘My Wife is a Gangster’ we got curious and wanted to dive a little bit deeper into her career. Let’s check it out!

Shin Eun-kyung, born 15 February 1973, started appearing in commercials when she was 13. She had various small roles for the first ten years of her career but started gaining traction in 1997 with her role as a prostitute in the film ‘Downfall’ directed by Im Kwon Taek. The film was a success, for which she gained a lot of recognition.

In 1999 she had a role in the horror film ‘The Ring Virus’.

She also played in the series ‘General Hospital’.

Then of course came her role as Eun-yi in ‘My wife is a gangster’.

She reprised the role in 2003 for the sequel.

Shin took a break for a couple of years after having a baby. She came back in 2005 and immediately starred in films ‘Mr. Housewife’ and ‘Diary of June’.

She was also in series like ‘Bad Couple’

The next couple of years she was in several films and series. Here are some highlights.

One of her bigger roles the last few years was the role of Kang Ma-Ri in the three seasons of ‘Penthouse’.

You can also view her work in the 2023 series ‘The Escape of the Seven’.

Shin Eun-Kyung has some really cool roles in her repertoire which is awesome to see. Undoubtedly we’ll get some more exciting roles performed by her.

A writer with a slight coffee addiction and a tendency to find K-Indie gems in the YouTube rabbit hole.