Jang Jin-young made her film debut in Ghost in Love.
21 Facts About Jang Jin-young
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Jang Jin-young's acting career took off following her breakthrough performance, in Sorum.
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Jang Jin-young starred in a variety of film genres, among them romantic films such as Over the Rainbow, Scent of Love, Singles, and Between Love and Hate, biopic film Blue Swallow, and drama series Lobbyist.
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Jang Jin-young received critical praise and won a number of awards for her work.
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Jang Jin-young became only the second winner of two Blue Dragon Film Awards for Best Actress, having won in 2001 for Sorum, and again in 2003 for Singles.
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On September 1,2009, Jang Jin-young died at the age of 37 after a year-long battle with stomach cancer.
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Jang Jin-young was born on June 14,1972, in Jeonju, North Jeolla Province, South Korea.
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Jang Jin-young had originally intended to go to music school to major in piano.
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Jang Jin-young was enrolled in the Department of Costume Design at Sangmyung University.
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Jang Jin-young began her career as a model, and represented the Chungcheongnam-do province at the 1992 Miss Korea beauty contest.
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Jang Jin-young's first starring role was in the 2001 psychological horror film Sorum, in which she was cast against type as Sun-yeong, a chain smoking abused wife.
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In 2002, Jang Jin-young co-starred with Lee Jung-jae in Over the Rainbow, a romantic comedy film in which her character helps an old college friend to recover his lost memory, and she was praised in a review at Korean Film for giving a "lively performance".
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Jang Jin-young headed an ensemble cast as Na-nan, a down on her luck woman on the verge of turning thirty, who she described as being "very close to my actual real-life self" in terms of her personality.
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Jang Jin-young again won Best Actress at the Blue Dragon Film Awards, becoming only the second actress to win the award twice, and received the Popularity Award.
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Nevertheless, Jang Jin-young received several award nominations for her role in the film, and won Best Actress at the 2006 Critic's Choice Awards.
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In 2006, Jang Jin-young appeared in the film Between Love and Hate, the directorial debut of actor and screenwriter Kim Hae-gon.
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Jang Jin-young played the role of Yeon-ah, a carefree bargirl who embarks on a tumultuous love-hate relationship with slacker Young-woon, despite him being engaged to another woman.
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Jang Jin-young was one of the guests at the "Curtain Call" section of Star Summit Asia, a side event of the inaugural Asian Film Market to showcase established Asian stars for the international marketplace.
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Jang Jin-young had been suffering from pains while eating, but had believed the cause to be a stomach ulcer.
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Jang Jin-young had wed her husband, Kim Young-kyun, while in the US for cancer treatment, and registered the marriage to make it official in Korea just days before her death.
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Also, as I've already said in the prologue, Jang Jin-young was an actress who had a great future ahead of her, and I thought it would help in having her remembered beautifully.