Jo Yeon-Jeong is a South Korean actress who is best known in several successful Korean films such as The Concubine in 2012 and I need Romance in 2011. But a lot of people really recognized how good of an actress she is in the award-winning film that she starred in a Korean film called Parasite in 2019 where she plays the role of a pampered and clueless woman.
However, she plays a total reversal of the role that she plays in "A Woman of 9.9 billion". She takes the role of the main protagonist named Jung So-Yeon, an oppressed cleaning woman who suffers a difficult and repressive life.
Jung So-Yeon is living a miserable life and suffers from domesticated violence because of his abusive husband played by Jung Woong-in. To escape the horrible experiences that she suffers from the wretched life that she lives in, she has an affair with a man who may not really care about her and is married to her egotistical friend name Oh Na-ra.
Because of her terrible life, she decides that she is ready to die but everything changes when she finds 9.9 billion won. With her desperate need to bring her life to a better condition, she takes the money and ignores the dangers that come with taking it; the guilt, the threat to her existence since the people who own the money and people who do not are also fighting to get their hands on the money so Jung So-Yeon protects herself to fight her only chance for happiness.
The money's criminal origins lead her to meet an ex-cop named Kang Tae-woo who is played by Kim-Kang woo. Kang Tae-woo is a careless man who became a detective because of charges of bribery. He is attached to his late young brother causing him to be driven to look for clues and find out how his young brother died.
The drama, A Woman of 9.9 Billion, covers eerie, precise cinematography and unexpected character development. With its intriguing plot and an exceptional cast, the drama is proud to be considered as the most-watched drama of its time slot for another week consecutively. It even surpassed the premiere ratings of the preceding drama, When the Camellia Blooms. It is expected to be the rating winner since it is the most-watched Korean drama when it premiered. It has been rated nationwide with 7.2 and 8.7 percent.
According to Jo Yeon-Jeong, she took the role of Jung So-Yeon because she wanted to play a role who was different from the character she played in the film, Parasite. She was also fascinated to the character of Jung So-Yeon whose resilience and calmness are evident despite the horrible things that she is facing. Catch and enjoy the excitement and intrigue of the film, "Woman of 9.9 Billion". It is shown every Wednesday and Thursday via KBS2 TV at 10 PM KST.
