Yunjin Kim (Lost's Sun) joins Choi Min-sik in the Netflix thriller Notes from the Last Row

Sun Kwon moved behind a mask. She spoke English in secret, kept her secrets, loved in silence. Beneath the calm, a whole woman. Twenty years later, Yunjin Kim plays that note again — silence, mystery, a love held back for a long time. On June 26, 2026, Netflix released Notes from the Last Row, a Korean psychological thriller, with Kim in one of its key roles. The show is ambitious: a six-episode limited series directed by Kim Kyu-tae, one of Korea's most respected directors, written by Jang Myung-woo. It adapts Juan Mayorga's acclaimed Spanish play El chico de la última fila (2006) — the same work that inspired François Ozon's In the House in 2012.

At the center is a legend. Choi Min-sik — the man from Oldboy — plays Heo Mun-oh, a failed novelist and literature professor. A quiet student in the back row (Choi Hyun-wook) writes devastating pieces. The professor reads them, is fascinated, and his admiration curdles into obsession — a hall of mirrors where you can no longer tell who is manipulating whom. Yunjin Kim plays Ahn Eun-joo, an elegant, enigmatic woman who knows the knots buried in the professor's past. She is also the woman he has silently loved for thirty years — a counterweight, a conscience, a soft threat who keeps the balance while everything else spirals. The Lost thread is clean: Sun was the woman everyone thought fragile and submissive, who hid a will of steel, a secret language, a vast love for Jin. Ahn Eun-joo plays the same string — the smooth surface, the chasm beneath. Twenty years after the island, Yunjin Kim returns to where she has always been best: in the silences that say more than any scream.