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by entering the Miss Binggrae beauty pageant without her parents' approval.
Then in her second year of middle school, she used a marker pen as
her eyeliner and ended up winning the top prize.[3] Not long after her acting
debut in Dinosaur Teacher, the teen actress starred in popular TV shows such
as Reporting for Duty (1996) and Soonpoong Clinic (1998), while hosting the
music program Inkigayo and appearing in numerous commercials (Kim was
the first Korean teen star to earn more than 100 million from commercial
modeling).[3] Because of her preternaturally mature looks and poise, she was
often cast in older roles, notably as a manipulative, villainous anchorwoman
in All About Eve, which drew a peak viewership rating of 45.2% when it aired
in 2000.[4]
But being typecast as prim, cold-hearted characters had a negative effect on
Kim's career, and her fame went downhill in the mid-2000s. Her attempt to
crossover to China via Hong Kong director Tsui Hark's wuxia film Seven
Swords (in which she played a Joseon noblewoman-turned-slave) and
the Chinese dramas Just Like a Beautiful Flying Butterfly[5] and Anhui
Merchants[6] also proved unsuccessful.[7][8] So Kim took a break for three
years to ponder whether she wanted to continue being an actress.[9] She
returned to television in 2008 with Gourmet (adapted from Huh Young-
man's titular manhwa) and found acting fun for the first time.[10]
A year later, Kim's career resurgence began with the 2009 big-budget
series Iris.[11][10] She cut short her trademark long hair and worked hard on
her action scenes to look convincing in her role as a North Korean spy, and
she drew praise for her portrayal of a tough woman conflicted about her
loyalty to her country and her love for a South Korean agent.[12][13] Kim later
reprised the role in the re-edited cut Iris the Movie, the series' spin-
off Athena: Goddess of War (2010) and sequel Iris II (2013).[14]
Kim was cast in the leading role in romantic comedy Prosecutor Princess in
2010, and showcased her versatility by playing a Legally Blonde-inspired
newbie district attorney who's initially more interested in shopping and
dating, yet surprises her colleagues with her intelligence and learns to strive
for justice.[15][16][17] Kim said that the cheerful, unpredictable character was
similar to her own real-life personality.[18][19][20] Later in the year, she played
a rigid doctor in sports drama Dr. Champ.[21]
In 2012, Kim appeared on the big screen as a royal barista embroiled in a
plot to assassinate Emperor Gojong in Gabi, adapted from the historical
fiction novel by Kim Takhwan.[22][23] She spent months studying the Russian
language and coffee brewing even before shooting began.[24]Gabi was Kim's
first Korean feature film in 15 years, since Change in 1997.[3][25][26] This was
followed by another period drama The Great Seer, where she played a healer
in Goryeo.[27]
Kim reunited with Prosecutor Princess screenwriter So Hyun-kyung in Two
Weeks (2013), in the role of a prosecutor who teams up with a fugitive to
bring down a corrupt politician and her gangster henchman.[9][28] In 2014,
she played a fashion merchandiser who falls for her much younger childhood
friend in I Need Romance 3.[29][30][31] Kim then appeared in the "Female
Soldier Special" of military boot camp reality show Real Men.[32]
In 2015, she starred in her second cable series Falling for Innocence, about a
businessman who falls for his secretary after he gets a heart transplant.
[33] Kim also joined the fourth season of We Got Married
In 2016, Kim starred her first MBC's weekend drama Happy Home which aired
from February 27 - August 21, 2016
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