金庾信
In 2009, Uhm played a celebrity manager who is threatened by an unknown man and driven to the extremes in "Handphone". This was followed by the black comedy "Chaw", in which his character is a policeman battling with a mutant boar. Uhm then starred as 7th-century Silla general Kim Yushin in the popular period drama "Queen Seondeok", for which he received a Top Excellence Award at the 2009 MBC Drama Awards.