Loved Vincenzo actress Jeon Yeo-bin? The five best roles of breakout star in Korean dramas and movies prior to the series
- Jeon Yeo-bin only considered acting could be her career in 2015. Since then her rise has been rapid. Her Vincenzo role as Hong Cha-young is her biggest to date
- She has shown her range as a schoolgirl in thriller After My Death, a filmmaker in Be Melodramatic and a zoo worker who plays a sloth in comedy Secret Zoo
Like many K-dramas, Vincenzo feature two leads, but unlike most shows, the pairing comprises one global superstar and a relative newcomer.
Anyone with even a passing interest in Korean film and TV will no doubt know Song Joong-ki, who plays the slick, suave and savage Vincenzo Cassano. But relatively few would have been aware of his co-star Jeon Yeo-bin, who plays feisty and colourful attorney Hong Cha-young.
In her biggest role to date, Jeon shows her range as a performer, ably navigating the show’s shifting tones as she balances the grimaces and goofy dances of the comedy with the style and verve of Vincenzo ’s showier moments.
Jeon had a relatively late start as an actress, a career she had not seriously considered until she was contacted by none other than Moon So-ri, one of Korea’s most revered actresses. Moon had seen Jeon in a trailer for a film festival and cast her in a short she directed in 2015; later she included in her omnibus film The Running Actress.
Jeon quickly transitioned to features and, three years after her first short, she became the talk of the town as the lead of an acclaimed independent film that took the Busan International Film Festival by storm.
Here are Jeon’s five best roles to dates, each of which shows off a different part of her seemingly boundless range.