“My color is romantic” Yoon Jung-hee, the silver screen queen of romance, stars in the sky…Died at 79
Actress Yoon Jung-hee, the queen of the silver screen who captured the 1960s and 1970s, passed away while fighting Alzheimer’s disease. Seventy-nine years old.
According to the film industry, Yoon Jung-hee died in Paris, France, on the 19th (local time). The deceased had been fighting Alzheimer’s for more than a decade and lived in his second hometown of France with his husband, pianist Baek Gun-woo, and violinist daughter Baek Jin-hee.
Born in 1944, the deceased made his debut as a “Youth Theater” in 1967 while attending Chosun University, appearing in 280 works such as “Taebaeksanmaek,” “Nuna,” “Fancy Outing,” “Night Travel” and “Condition of Love.” In particular, along with Moon Hee and the late Nam Jung-im, they were called the first-generation actress Troika and received great love.
Yoon Jung-hee enjoyed the era with a variety of charms, freely drawing innocent and innocent characters, as well as challenging and intelligent characters, away from the uniform female character.
He was also the first master’s actress to receive a master’s degree from Chung-Ang University in 1927 for her thesis on Korean Actress Research. He left France in 1973 to earn a master’s degree in film studies from the Third University of Paris, and later spent a long time in France.
Yoon Jung-hee married pianist Baek Gun-woo, who is called the “saviour on the keyboard,” in Paris, France in 1976. It is also widely known for living a frugal and romantic life, such as always being with her husband on his performance trip. In an interview during the 50th anniversary of her debut in 2016, Yoon Jung-hee said, “I’m always living in a movie. When asked what he thought of his color, he said, “I didn’t feel the word ‘decade anniversary’ very well,” he said, “My heart is always hopeful and romantic.” He also replied, “My face and I think I’m a romantic color.”
He stopped working after the 1994 film “Manbubang” and made a spectacular comeback with director Lee Chang-dong’s “Poetry” in 2010. He showed his potential by playing the role of “Mija,” a grandmother who writes poems named after him, and performing in-depth character acting. He won the 47th Daejong Award, the 31st Blue Dragon Film Award, the 4th Asia-Pacific Screen Awards, and the 37th LA Critics Association Award for Best Actress and the Cairo Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award. The following year, in 2011, he was awarded the French Culture and Arts Achievement Award. Poetry became the last work of the deceased.
Coincidentally, Yoon Jung-hee played the role of Mija, an Alzheimer’s patient, in “Poetry.” Through an interview with her husband Baek Gun-woo in 2019, it was belatedly known that the deceased was battling Alzheimer’s disease in reality, not in a movie, and that she had symptoms even at the time of filming “Poetry.”
Among them, there was a family dispute over guardianship. Yoon Jung-hee’s family raised a problem over her husband Baek Gun-woo and daughter Baek Jin-hee’s status as adult guardians and argued that her husband and daughter were leaving Yoon Jung-hee in Paris without even properly treating her.
In 2021, Baek Gun-woo held an unusual press conference in Korea and refuted the claim, saying, “Actress Yoon Jung-hee is currently living in her dreams peacefully every day.”
Among them, the court designated his daughter Baek Jin-hee as an adult guardian of Yoon Jung-hee. Despite his younger brother’s dissatisfaction, Baek Jin-hee won both the first and second trials. Following the death of the deceased, the lawsuit for adult guardians, which had been passed to the Supreme Court and continued over the year, is expected to be closed without further hearing.
Coincidentally, Yoon Jung-hee played the role of Mija, an Alzheimer’s patient, in “Poetry.” Through an interview with her husband Baek Gun-woo in 2019, it was belatedly known that the deceased was battling Alzheimer’s disease in reality, not in a movie, and that she had symptoms even at the time of filming “Poetry.”
Among them, there was a family dispute over guardianship. Yoon Jung-hee’s family raised a problem over her husband Baek Gun-woo and daughter Baek Jin-hee’s status as adult guardians and argued that her husband and daughter were leaving Yoon Jung-hee in Paris without even properly treating her.
In 2021, Baek Gun-woo held an unusual press conference in Korea and refuted the claim, saying, “Actress Yoon Jung-hee is currently living in her dreams peacefully every day.”
Among them, the court designated his daughter Baek Jin-hee as an adult guardian of Yoon Jung-hee. Despite his younger brother’s dissatisfaction, Baek Jin-hee won both the first and second trials. Following the death of the deceased, the lawsuit for adult guardians, which had been passed to the Supreme Court and continued over the year, is expected to be closed without further hearing.