How gorgeous is she? Jung Hye-young has been transitioning into roles playing mothers more than leading ladies (Return of Iljimae, Playful Kiss), but that doesn’t mean she looks at all like an ajumma. Exhibit A: This photo spread for luxury magazine Heren, shot in Paris.
She’s dressed in “European luxury classic” fashions, and at 37, she gets my vote for prettiest, daintiest K-drama mother ever. Even if she’s really only about a dozen years older than the boys she’s supposedly mothered onscreen (Jung Il-woo, Kim Hyun-joong). While this kind of look is not at all my bag, Jung rocks the short hair and the blood-red lips. Having Paris as the backdrop doesn’t hurt, either.
She’s a mother in real life as well, with four kiddos of her own with husband Sean (of former Jinusean fame). They are, perhaps, the adorablest family ever.
Jung’s shoot is in Heren’s November issue.
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Hair is gorgeous. Why Paris tho with these background scenes?
I love, love, love this spread. The stylist is borrowing heavily from Chanel, especially from its Ines de la Fressange days.
And I love the actress. Loved her since 2001 when she played the bad sister to Ha Hee Ra’s good sister in To Be With You. I look forward to her returning to the small screen, preferably in a role in which she doesn’t play “mother of,” though her Return to Iljimae role was no fluff. It’d be nice to see her in something more like Oh Yeon Soo’s Bad Guy role.
Yay, thank you for posting this!
anais, totally adoring that you recognize fashion stuff, cause i recognize skirts and blouse-y looking things… i just think it looks really french and really amazing on her. she also has the juliette binoche posture going on here with the long neck and searing eyes.
anyway, she looks amazing and i want to look like that at her age!
Would you like me to go on? Cause I can, you know.
Besides my k-drama addiction, I have piles and piles of fashion mags and clippings from 1980s onward.
*Pic #1 actually reminds me of Dior, designed by Gianfranco Ferre.
*Pic #3 definitely of Ines de la Fressange era Chanel
*Pic #4 of early-mid 1990s Chanel when Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Shalom Harlow and so on were the fashion darlings.
*The animal print coat, of Louis Feraud from the mid-1990s
*The sheer blouse one, of YSL
*The second to the last, of Nina Ricci, Givenchy (under Hubert Givenchy’s helm), or Ferre’s Dior.
*The last one definitely of Ferre’s Dior.
Kudos to the stylist who’s shown such appreciation for fashion history.
And kudos for showing knowledge of what Parisian fashion is.
Sometimes I look at “Paris fashion” photoshoot and I think: never saw and never will see that on a Parisian.
Here I thought; wow, that’s French, that’s Paris.
Right?! This is a terrific shoot, she’s just plain lovely and the stylist totally rocked back to Chanel – particularly pic 3. Absolutely elegant.
Wow, that takes me back. I remember watching that when it aired on tv here. I loved to hate her character from Phoenix too, and she was hilarious in Playful Kiss.
Dang, she’s more lovely than most leading k-drama ladies. And agreed, she totally rocks the short hair and red lips. And a mother of four? In my book, that makes her even more beautiful.
Agreed.
Mothers are the most beautiful people we can ever hope to have in our life.
waah…a mother of 4 kids?
she still looks so gorgeous and beautiful
It is so unfair how beautiful she is. (shaking fist)
It takes beautiful people to make beautiful babies. What a gorgeous family.
Wow! Now this is my kind of photo spread! She looks absolutely fabulous! The short hair ROCKS!
Wow. I wouldn’t of recognized her. She is even more gorgeous then I remembered.
She’s gorgeous, and it’s amazing to think she’s had 4 babies in not a whole lot of time. Loved her in Playful Kiss – she does fluffy as well as she does glamour, apparently!
Does she ever age?
She has 4 kids but doesn’t look like it at all…
I love seeing their family pics its so cute!
a very beautiful woman and 4 kids!!! bravo!!
I think she is a fine actress and being beautiful is just her foam on her Cappuccino!
Gorgeous. I always love see her family pictures, and of course her fashion spreads.
I didn’t recognized her first when I saw these pictures, which is good, she’s really beautiful.
Ohmigosh dramabeans she’s 37! At first when you said playful kiss I was trying to remember the 2nd lead, she looks soooo amazing for a 37…she puts girls half her age to shame lol.
Aside from the second one I find these all absolutely gorgeous! I love her hair. And yeah, she’s definitely the prettiest mom of Kdramas.
She looks absolutely gorgeous!!! Love this spread, she is totally rocking it.
She has always been beautiful, but I never thought she can be so sizzling hot! Love this look… MEOW!
Noticed her way back when she acted as crazy mental hateful bitch in Phoenix. Memorable performance in my book. Then she became poor helpless woman in Lawyer.. one of the underrated drama that I keep re-watching now and then..
I always found her stunning in Playful Kiss… but this photoshoot really brings out her beauty! Gorgeous. It’s nice to see an actress pull off the poses well in a fashion shoot. A lot of Korean actresses have bad cases of Same-Face Syndrome or Open-Mouth Syndrome in their fashion editorials. (Not hating; I see it even in the ones I like.)
mother of 4 kids and a body like that?!!!!! what is my life? huuuuuuuuu
Doesn’t look like 37 at all! If anything, she could pass as a 27 yr old bachelorette. And how on the earth did she have that body with 4 children?! It’s midfuck I tell you.
MILF
What? No color-blocking? This is atrocious!
dude..life is so unfair..how is she 37?!? with 4 kids?!?! and an awesome husband?!?
4 kids? And looking like that? Now am jealous…..:((
But I totally love her. She makes the character she is playing exciting…
She looked totally different! I couldn’t recognize her at first look and I even need to google her name to refresh my memory her.
However, even if she looked different here, the pictures were awesome!
I did not recognize her!
Man, I love the blood red lips.
She’s 37? *looks in mirror* *checks driver’s licenses* *wails*
She looks so beautifullll. Sean knows how to pick ‘em.
Take your time in doing and planning the kiss. Slowly but surely, create a passionate air between you two and share wholeheartedly.
omg i swear i didnt even recognize her!! if it didnt say mother from playful kiss i wouldve never known.. she looks so young and so pretty:)
kinda hate her.. how come she looks younger than me, im only in my mid 20s!and she can pull off that hair! argh..she’s got a gift!
BSJ’s mom????! Wow!
What……Is that SERIOUSLY? She’s a motherly and have adorable, big family with her husband & 4 babies ?? I can’t believe…….She is the luckiest woman in the world ever!!
I don’t mind that I’d have my future 4 or 5 children in the future!! [I will see what happens] Kekeke