Yoo In-na
Yoo In-na is a South Korean actress. After supporting roles in High Kick! Through the Roof and Secret Garden, she rose to fame as the lead actress in the Queen and I and My Secret Hotel. She then had starring roles in My Love from the Star and Guardian: The Lonely and Great God the latter of which was one of the highest rated cable television series in South Korea. She has since starred in the television series Touch Your Heart, The Spies Who Loved Me, and True to Love.
Aside from acting, Yoo also ventured into radio. She was the DJ of Let's Crank Up the Volume from 2011 to 2016. In 2024 she announced her return as a Radio DJ, with the formation of her radio show on YouTube titled, Yoo In Radio.
Career
At the age of 16, Yoo In-na joined an entertainment agency as an apprentice singer in 1998, and had nearly become part of a girl group. After 11 years and five different agencies, she could not be prominent. Yoo said she had difficulty memorizing the dance choreography required of K-pop singers, and after practicing for eight hours a day, six days a week, she had resigned from becoming an idol.In 2006, Yoo joined YG Entertainment as an aspiring actress. She said, "If singing wasn't meant to be, I decided to give acting a go because it seemed fun. I never gave up. A lot of my friends did, though, even though they were prettier and more capable than me." She first came to note in 2009 with the sitcom High Kick Through the Roof on MBC. Several supporting roles followed, notably in the 2010 drama Secret Garden, which she received a Best New Actress award at the Baeksang Arts Awards, and as the second female lead in Hong sisters' romantic comedy The Greatest Love. To maintain public visibility, Yoo Inna joined the cast of the variety show Heroes, which aired from July 18, 2010, to May 1, 2011.
She was an MC for from March 3, 2011, to June 4, 2012, for which she won Best Variety Entertainer at the SBS Entertainment Awards. She was also the DJ for KBS Cool FM's Let's Crank Up the Volume, which is the highest-rated radio program in its timeslot across both AM and FM bandwidths.
Yoo's vocals were featured in Humming Urban Stereo's 2011 digital single "You, That Day". She also sang for the soundtrack of her 2011 film My Black Mini Dress alongside her castmates Yoon Eun-hye, Park Han-byul, and Cha Ye-ryun.
In 2012, Yoo starred in her first leading role in the tvN time-slip romance series Queen and I, and in and in 2013, she appeared in the KBS drama You Are the Best! and the SBS drama My Love from the Star, all of which recorded viewership ratings of over 30% and were greatly loved by viewers. In 2016-2017 she appeared in the tvN drama Guardian: The Lonely and Great God playing the second female lead. The drama was a commercial success with the final episode recording an 18.68% nationwide audience share, making it the seventh highest-rated drama in Korean cable television history, and she was nominated "Best Supporting Actress" at the 10th Korea Drama Awards.
In 2024 Yoo Inna opened her own radio Youtube show titled Yoo-In Radio with the first guest, Ko Young-bae from korean band Soran.
In July 2025, following YG Entertainment’s announcement that it would discontinue its actor management division, Yoo signed his first exclusive contract in 19 years with a new agency, Chorokbaem Entertainment.
Personal life
Yoo Inna is best friends with fellow singer-actress and You Are the Best! co-star IU, whom she has known since they met on the television show Heroes in 2010. At a June 7, 2012, fan meeting to mark the end of Queen and I, Ji Hyun-woo made a surprise public declaration that he was in love with co-star Yoo. The declaration was covered significantly by the press in the following days, during which their agencies, and Ji and Yoo had remained quiet on the issue, except for a message to his fans that Ji posted on Twitter on June 11. Speculation about their relationship status ended on June 17, when gossip website Sportsseoul.com photographed the couple together on a midnight date at a park in Bundang, Gyeonggi, where Yoo lives. On June 18, Yoo confirmed on her radio show that they were officially dating. On May 14, 2014, their respective agencies confirmed in a press release that the couple had ended their relationship.Philanthropy
On January 2019 Yoo secretly donated 30 million won to salvation army's meal support project for undernourished children.On February 9, 2023, Yoo donated 30 million won to help in 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake through Hope Bridge National Disaster Relief Association.
On 22 June 2024, Yoo participated in "Can you say it again?" event organised by social welfare organization Snail of Love. Yoo is a Soul Leader, a designation for high-value donors of the social welfare organization Snail of Love.
She has donated a total of 230 million won, which was used to support 25 hearing-impaired children by covering the cost of cochlear implant surgeries and devices.