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TIL Korean actress Cho Yeo-jeong, known as Ms.Park in Parasite, starred in a sex comedy when most young Korean actresses stay away from nude scenes as much as possible. Despite the collective concerns that she was "going nude too often," she chose another period thriller with explicit sex scenes

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