[1]:352 Moon Ye-Bong was widely seen as representative of the "New Woman," or of modern Korean women.

[1] In 1941, she starred in the Korean-made, Korean-language film Angels without a Home, which was about Korean street children; despite the fact that the Japanese occupiers had outlawed as a language of instruction except in primary schools, was supported by the Japanese Ministry of Education and shown widely in Japan.

[1]:349 Moon Ye-Bong was in the second film ever made in North Korea, The Blast Furnace.

[5] She starred in the 1954 film A Partisan Maiden as a communist guerilla fighting the Americans during the Korean War.

[1]:350 While she received awards from the North Korean government during the 1950s, she fell victim to the political purges of 1969; in 1980, she was rehabilitated and named a "people's actress.