Yu Je-won

Yoo Je-won is a South Korean television director best known for his television dramas series, including High School King of Savvy, Oh My Ghost, Abyss and Hi Bye, Mama!.

Works

Love Next Door

A woman attempting to reboot her life returns to Korea and becomes entangled with her childhood friend — with whom she shares a complicated history.

Release Date2024-08-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count16

Vote Count210

The King: Eternal Monarch

Korean emperor Lee Gon tries to close the doors to a parallel world which was opened by demons; a detective tries to protect the people and the one she loves.

Release Date2020-04-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count16

Vote Count887

Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha

A big-city dentist opens up a practice in a close-knit seaside village, home to a charming jack-of-all-trades who is her polar opposite in every way.

Release Date2021-08-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count16

Vote Count601

Stranger

Hwang Shi Mok underwent brain surgery as a child to curb his violent temper, which left him devoid of emotions. Hwang becomes a prosecutor known for his piercing intelligence and logic, but he is ostracized because he lacks empathy and social skills. He is also one of only a handful of upright prosecutors who have refused to take bribes. One day, he encounters a stabbing victim while investigating corruption. He meets Lieutenant Han Yeo Jin at the crime scene. They join forces to root out corruption at the prosecutors’ office and solve a serial murder case.

Release Date2017-06-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Episode Count32

Vote Count189

Crash Course in Romance

The series follows the bittersweet relationship between a banchan shop owner whose daughter enters the war of Korea's college entrance exams, and a top hagwon instructor.

Release Date2023-01-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count16

Vote Count117

Life Is Beautiful

Set in Jeju, the drama revolves around a loving, multi-generation family led by the parents, Yang Byung Tae and Kim Min Jae, and their four children Tae Sub, Ji Hye, Ho Sup, and Cho Rong, as well as assorted grandparents and uncles. The story follows the family's everyday lives and conflicts.

Release Date2010-03-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Episode Count63

Vote Count5

Love, Take Two

A single mom and her medical student daughter have entered an unexpected second act in their lives. A story of love that is not an end but a beginning that comes to them as they decide to live happily today instead of tomorrow.

Release Date2025-08-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count12

Vote Count9

Hi Bye, Mama!

Cha Yu-ri died in an accident five years ago, leaving her husband Cho Gang-hwa to raise their daughter by himself. She becomes a ghost and watches over them until one fateful day she is brought back to life by the deities and told she can become human again if she returns to her place in 49 days. Though her husband has remarried, so she must decide between her or his happiness as she slowly re-integrates back into her old lifestyle.

Release Date2020-02-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count16

Vote Count450

Abyss

After meeting an untimely demise in separate incidents, Cha Min and Go Se-yeon discover they’ve come back to life in new bodies they don’t recognize.

Release Date2019-05-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count16

Vote Count195

Oh My Ghost

Na Bong Sun may be a skilled sous chef, but she lacks the self-esteem to shine professionally and socially. Beyond her cooking talents, however, is an uncanny ability to communicate with ghosts. One day, her mystic senses go out of control when the seductive ghost of Shin Soon Ae possesses her. Imbued with a fiery new "personality," Bong Sun starts turning heads, including that of Kang Sun Woo, the hottest chef in town and Bong Sun's secret crush!

Release Date2015-07-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count16

Vote Count137

High School King of Savvy

Lee Min Suk is just a normal high school hockey player - until he's forced to take his brother's place as the director for a major company. Now he's forced to balance school work, hockey practice, and making multi-million dollar decisions. No big deal?

Release Date2014-06-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count17

Vote Count14

Tomorrow with You

Real-estate CEO Yoo So-joon uses his ability to travel through time to marry photographer Song Ma-rin in an attempt to change his future.

Release Date2017-02-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count16

Vote Count35

The Smile Has Left Your Eyes

A detective thinks about quitting his job. He takes on a female university student murder case that was disguised as a suicide. The detective becomes obsessed with solving the case. He has a young sister and she meets a man. The man does not remember when he was little. He is not a good person, but she has sympathy for him. The detective tries to push the man away from his younger sister. The detective suspects that the man is somehow involved in the female university student murder case. The man and the detective's younger sister fall in love.

Release Date2018-10-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count16

Vote Count91

Salt Doll

Salt Doll

Cha So Yeong is a devoted wife to her disordered husband. Her first love is a second generation heir to a large finance company. In order to pay for her husband’s surgery cost, she sells her body to the man who loves her one-sidedly…

Release Date2007-01-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Episode Count20

Tears of Heaven

Tears of Heaven

Cha Yeong learns that she was abandoned by her own mother two separate times. Cha Yeong's mother, who abandoned her daughter twice out of her own greed, decides to fight against her daughter for herself.

Release Date2014-10-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count25

Fly To The Sky

James O'Neil is a 28 year old man who was adopted by people overseas when he was young. He is the CEO of a very large supermarket and is the typical man with cool charm and deals with things in a cool and collected manner. Lee Jin Hee is 32 years old and her husband suffered a horrible accident on the 6th month they were married. She takes care of their son for seven years and is faced with bankruptcy. Jin Hee meets James and they do business together and soon they develop a romantic love story. (Source: DramaWiki)

Release Date2007-08-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Episode Count19

Vote Count1