Kang Hye-jung

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Kang Hye-jung : biography

January 4, 1982 –

Kang Hye-jung ( born January 4, 1982) is a South Korean actress.

Music video appearances

  • Time (Taesaja, 1997)
  • 부탁해요 (Wax, 2002)
  • Lonely Street Lights (Han Young-ae, 2003)
  • Desperado (Position, 2003)
  • [Part 1] Timeless [Part 2] I Loved You to Death (SG Wannabe, 2004)
  • As I Look Into the Mirror (Gummy feat. Red Roc, 2008)

Theater

  • Proof (2010)

Television

  • Eun-shil (SBS, 1998)
  • Jump (MBC, 1999)
  • Nonstop 3 (MBC, 2002)
  • Flowers for My Life (KBS2, 2007)
  • On Air (SBS, 2008) – cameo
  • Miss Ripley (MBC, 2011)
  • The Wedding Scheme (tvN, 2012)

Awards

  • 2001 Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival – Best Actress (Nabi)
  • 2003 Blue Dragon Film Awards – Best Supporting Actress (Oldboy)
  • 2004 Korean Association of Film Critics Awards – Best New Actress (Oldboy)
  • 2004 Pusan Film Critics Awards – Best Actress (Oldboy)
  • 2005 Blue Dragon Film Awards – Best Supporting Actress (Welcome to Dongmakgol)
  • 2005 Korean Film Awards – Best Supporting Actress (Welcome to Dongmakgol)
  • 2005 Premiere Rising Star Award
  • 2006 Grand Bell Awards – Best Supporting Actress (Welcome to Dongmakgol)

Career

Kang Hye-jung began working as a model in her first year of high school, and throughout the late 1990s she appeared in small roles in TV dramas and sitcoms such as Jump and Nonstop 3. Her first film role was in Moon Seung-wook’s arthouse/sci-fi film Nabi, for which she won a Best Actress award at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival. Following this she appeared in a short film by Song Il-gon titled Flush as well as an internet film Naebang-nebang.. Koreanfilm.org. Retrieved 2012-11-04.

Kang’s first major hit film was opposite Choi Min-shik in the modern-day classic Oldboy by Park Chan-wook. Her portrayal of the character Mi-do won her considerable attention both domestically and abroad, and she also picked up acting honors from the Grand Bell Awards and Pusan Film Critics Association. The following year she also appeared in Cut, Park Chan-wook’s 30-minute contribution to the omnibus horror film Three… Extremes.

It was in 2005, however, that Kang established herself as a star outside of her appearance in Oldboy. She also took a small but central role in box office megahit Welcome to Dongmakgol.. The Chosun Ilbo. July 31, 2005. In a 2005 survey of influential movie producers, she was ranked among the top ten most bankable stars.

In 2006 she starred in Love Phobia opposite then-boyfriend Jo Seung-woo, as well as the Thai film Invisible Waves by rising directorial star Pen-ek Ratanaruang.

After playing the developmentally disabled daughter to veteran actress Bae Jong-ok in the 2007 melodrama Herb, in 2009 Kang starred in two unconventional romantic comedies with roles she imbued with her trademark quirkiness. She said she chose Why Did You Come to My House? hoping to "expand the realms" of her lovelorn stalker character; the director said she had written the script with Kang in mind from the beginning. In Kiss Me, Kill Me, she played a woman who, after several failed suicide attempts, hires a professional assassin (Shin Hyun-joon) to kill her, but he falls in love with her instead.

Known for taking risky roles, Kang little by little started going off the predictable path that the public expected her to take. In Girlfriends, she played an ordinary twenty-something girl who goes through growing pains and lovelife troubles when she discovers that her boyfriend is also involved with two other women.. 10Asia. December 18, 2009.. 10Asia. December 17, 2009.. 10Asia. December 17, 2009. Kang has said that this career shift reflects the limited number of interesting scripts that she receives, as well as her calmer, softer state of mind after settling down.. 10Asia. February 18, 2010.