Biography
Um Tae-goo is a South Korean actor who made his acting debut in 2007. He graduated from the Film Department of Konkuk University in Seoul. He has been a supporting actor in many movies and has won awards for his performance in films "The Age of Shadows", "The Great Battle", and "My Punch-Drunk Boxer". He is the younger brother of film director/screenwriter, Um Tae-hwa.
Known For
Complete Filmography

KARMA
2023
as The god of death
Bong-sik dies after committing a heinous crime. Yet, even before the god of the underworld, he remains unrepentant and earns a hundred years of the se...

Cobweb
2023
as Yu-rim's Boyfriend
In the 1970s, Director Kim is obsessed by the desire to re-shoot the ending of his completed film Cobweb, but chaos and turmoil grip the set with inte...

Concrete Utopia
2023
as Homeless 1
The world has been reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake. While no one knows for sure how far the ruins stretch, or what the cause of the earthqua...

Faith
2023
A short film about an armed man in a secret location.

The Witch: Part 2. The Other One
2022
as Mart
A girl wakes up in a huge secret laboratory, then accidentally meets another girl who is trying to protect her house from a gang. The mystery girl ove...

Night in Paradise
2020
as Park Tae-goo
An assassin named Tae-goo is offered a chance to switch sides with his rival Bukseong gang, headed by Chairman Doh. Tae-goo rejects the offer that res...

My Punch-Drunk Boxer
2019
as Byung-gu
Byung-gu, a once-famous former professional boxer, makes ends meet doing odd jobs at the gym. While eager to start boxing again, he gets diagnosed wit...

The Great Battle
2018
as Horse Commanding General Pa-so
Kingdom of Goguryeo, ancient Korea, 645. The ruthless Emperor Taizong of Tang invades the country and leads his armies towards the capital, achieving ...

Adulthood
2018
as Jae-min
At her dad's funeral, Kyungun meets her uncle Jaemin, a complete stranger. He bilks her father's insurance money. She demands her money back, but he u...

A Taxi Driver
2017
as Illegal checkpoint Sergeant First Class Park
May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreig...

Trivial Matters
2017
as Do-hwan
The prospective director ,Do-hwan, is suffering from a past love affair. He goes to a freelance meeting and finds a strange and charming Eun-ha. With ...

Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned
2016
as Tae-sik
Days after her friends disappear during a trip to a mysterious cave, a girl is approached by a grown man claiming to be one of her missing pals.

The Age of Shadows
2016
as Hashimoto
Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explos...

Veteran
2015
as Hand-to-hand Fight Entourage
When an old collaborator gets severely injured, a veteran policeman tries to figure out the way to bring to justice the ultimately suspected aggressor...

The Unfair
2015
as Lee Seung-joon
Residents, who are evicted from their homes in a designated urban renewal, demonstrate against their removal. The police arrive and attempt to end the...

Coin Locker Girl
2015
as Woo-gon
A child abandoned in a subway coin locker is sold to a ruthless and calculating loan shark and gangster boss dubbed Mother, who runs an organ-harvesti...

Barracks
2015
as Dong-woo
In an old military bus are Myeong-hoon, his girlfriend Yeong-eun, and survival game friends; they are headed to a private camp to experience army life...

The Time of Good Light
2015
2009 Intermediate Narrative Workshop, Film Dept.

Obsessed
2014
as Warrant Officer Kim
A secret, passionate affair happens in the summer of 1969 between Colonel Jin Pyeong, trapped in a loveless marriage with Soo Jin, and Jong Ga Heun, t...

18 Years
2014
A short drama about Seok-joo who doesn't want to live like his brother.

INGtoogi: The Battle of Internet Trolls
2013
as Tae-sik
An online feud evolves into something more real when two keyboard warriors take their battle offline in a mixed martial arts matchup.

Commitment
2013
as Troubled Kid
The son of a North Korean spy decides to follow in his father's footsteps to protect his little sister.

Secretly, Greatly
2013
as Hwang Jae-oh
Three elite North Korean sleeper agents live under cover for so long that they believe their cover stories are their real identities. They are shocked...

Incomplete Life: Prequel
2013
as Hwan-young
Grae, who failed to be a professional Baduk player, Young-i, who always has been lonely because of changing schools frequently, Oh Deputy department h...

Azooma
2013
as Police
A mother goes to extreme measures against her daughter's attacker after after feeling that the local law enforcement have failed her.

Horror Stories
2012
as Deliveryman
A teenager is abducted and forced to tell the scariest tales she knows, leading to this anthology of four stories: a brother and sister are under sieg...

Forest
2012
as Tae-sik
A little action puts my friend in danger. I want to believe that my actions are not intended.

Keep quiet
2012
as Dong-woo
At the library Sung-mo picks up the ringing phone of a person on the opposite side of his desk in an unguarded moment while the person is out. A woman...

Spellbound
2011
as PD
A magician meets a weird girl and offers her to work together in his magic show. It's only until a year later that he starts to know her personally an...

S.I.U.
2011
as Thai
Sung-Bum is a hot-tempered detective who relies on his intuition to crack cases. He rarely comes across a case that he cannot solve. The body of a pol...

Choked
2011
as Kwon Youn-ho
In a recession-battered Seoul, a young man in the dodgy relocation business must deal with loan sharks and aggrieved parties owed large sums by his va...
Heart Vibrator
2011
as Tae-goo
When I'm with you, my heart vibrates.

Nice Shorts! 2011
2011
Home Sweet Home
2010
as Man-shik
Homeless Man-sik has a home. He arrived at home after begging all day. He shaved his head and took a shower at home. Getting in the bed, he heard sudd...

Texas Hit
2010
Jae-Hun (Son Hyun-Joo) is separated from his wife and two daughters. He struggles to make ends meet, while working as a grocery deliveryman. Seung-Hye...

Midnight FM
2010
as Detective Uhm
Popular TV anchorwoman & late night DJ Ko Sun-young set to host her final radio program. During the show, she receives a startling text message instru...

Oki's Movie
2010
as Student
Oki, a film student, gets involved in two relationships as she navigates the advances of a fellow student and grapples with her feelings for her much ...

Anyang, Paradise City
2010
as STAFF 3
Set in Anyang, South Korea, crew members for an upcoming documentary research the devastating fire that took occurred in a factory prior to the 1988 O...

I Saw the Devil
2010
as Detective
Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises hi...

The Servant
2010
as Man (uncredited)
A servant falls in love with a girl whom his master also desires. Although the girl loves the servant, she also longs to improve her station in life.

Secret
2009
as Man on phone (uncredited)
A detective suspects that his wife murdered a gangster's brother. As he tries to misdirect the police and the bloodthirsty gangster while independentl...

No Charge Airline Ticket
2009
as Donghwan
Donghwan is unemployed. One day, he applies for a quiz for a no charge airline ticket on the Internet. The next day, he receives a phone call asking h...

Insadong Scandal
2009
as Manager
A fabled painting from royal palace was discovered after 400 years. Once properly restored, it could fetch at least $40 million in the international a...

I Am Happy
2008
as bartender
A man suffers from mental illness after having lived with a mother suffering from dementia and a brother addicted to gambling. Now institutionalized, ...

Epitaph
2007
as Japanese Soldier
A traumatized girl sees visions of her dead mother in one of three tales set in a 1942 South Korean hospital.

Like a season
2007
This is a short film I made for my graduation work in 2007. - Excellence Award at the Korea University Film Festival.

Wild Thing
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