- Died
- Eul-boon Kim was an actress, known for The Way Home (2002). She died on April 17, 2021 in South Korea.
- The 78-year-old villager and non-actress 'Eul-boon Kim' had not only never performed in a movie before 'Jibeuro', but she had never before *seen* a film. She was found during an extensive talent search among real rural village people by director Lee Jeong-hyang to play the lead role of the stoic, heroic mute grandmother.
- She was seen farming at a mountain village in Yeongdong County, North Chungcheong Province, South Korea, when she was scouted by director Lee Jeong Hyang to play the lead role in the movie.
- At the time of her death she was 95 years old.
- After "Jibeuro" ("The Way Home") was filmed, she left her home in North Chungcheong to live with her family in Seoul.
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