Jung woo-sung cha seung-won soo ae biography
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Athena: Goddess of War
South Korean TV series
This article is about the 2010 South Korean TV series. For the Greco-Roman goddess, see Athena.
Athena: Goddess of War (Korean: 아테나: 전쟁의 여신) is a South Korean espionage television drama series broadcast by SBS TV in 2010 and a spin-off of 2009's Iris. Budgeted at ₩20 billion (US$17 million) like its predecessor, the two series are among the most expensive Korean dramas ever produced.[1][2]
Starring Jung Woo-sung, Cha Seung-won, Soo Ae, and Lee Ji-ah, the series premiered in December 2010 after filming in a number of overseas locations, including Italy, New Zealand, Japan, and the United States. The series is set in the same universe as its predecessor, allowing for select characters from Iris to reprise their roles throughout the story.
Background
[edit]Developing on events set in motion in Iris, the story follows the fate of South Korea's ambitious nuclear energy program meant to unify t
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Su Ae began her acting career in an episode of MBC’s Best Theater in 2002. In 2003, she bagged the Best New Actress honors at the MBC Drama Awards for Love Letter and Merry Go Round. In 2004, she made her big screen debut in the drama film A Family, which earned her multiple Best New Actress trophies. That same year, she joined the main cast of the hit KBS2 epic drama Emperor of the Sea, which gave her an Excellence Award at the KBS skådespel Awards. In 2008, she played the titular character in director Lee Jun-ik’s film Sunny, which scored her numerous Best Actress citations. In 2010, she received two more Best Actress awards for the action-thriller film Midnight FM. She also acted alongside Jung Woo-sung and Cha Seung-won in the 2010 SBS espionage series Athena: Goddess of War. This was followed by another leading role in the SBS romance melodrama Thousand Day Promise, which won her a Top Excellence Award at the 2011 SBS Drama Awards. In 2015, she was named Best Ac
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Jung Woo-sung
South Korean actor (born 1973)
In this Korean name, the family name is Jung.
Jung Woo-sung (Korean: 정우성; born April 22, 1973) is a South Korean actor. Jung started his career as a fashion model, rising to stardom with the gangster film Beat (1997), for which he won Best New Actor at the 17th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards.
Jung is a versatile actor known for playing leading roles in a wide spectrum of genres, including blockbusters The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008), Cold Eyes (2013), The Divine Move (2014), The King (2017), Steel Rain (2017), Hunt (2022), 12.12: The Day (2023); dramas City of the Rising Sun (1999) and Mutt Boy (2003); historical epic Musa (2001); romance A Moment to Remember (2004); crime thrillers Asura: The City of Madness (2016) and Beasts Clawing at Straws (2020). He won Best Actor at the 55th Baeksang Arts Awards and the 40th Blue Dragon Film Awards for Innocent Witness (2019). His not