Ha Ji Won "Empress Ki": From a female to an "industry girl", she does not get bored with any role

Ha Ji Won, an actress known as the "female hitman" of Korean cinema, specializes in playing strong female leads in action movies, sports movies, and feminist roles in wild movies. Korean history.

During her artistic career, Ha Ji Won has won countless prestigious awards. Despite being famous, beautiful, and talented, until now, over 40 years old, Ha Ji Won is still single and has never publicly dated anyone.

24 years of acting in all kinds of movies

Ha Ji Won once shared that she dreamed of becoming an actress since childhood. When she was still a high school student, she was contacted by an entertainment company when she saw pictures of her at a studio.

The idea that the artistic path was wide open for the young girl, but then she had to go through more than 100 auditions but was eliminated. However, Ha Ji Won has proved that success only comes to those who are persistent and hardworking with their passion.

In 1996, she made her debut in the teen film New Generation Report: Adults Don't Understand Us. In the film, she only takes on a supporting role, rarely appearing. However, Ha Ji Won often recalls the first role of her life. According to her, it was a role that nurtured her dream of becoming an actress.

The film that brought Ha Ji Won to fame was School 2 in 1999. With this role, Ha Ji Won was first recognized as a professional actor.

After School 2, the horror film Truth Game helped Ha Ji Won bring home the Best Rookie Actress award at the 37th Grand Bell Awards and Busan Film Critics Awards. Since then, her career has grown steadily.

After the Truth Game, Ha Ji Won continued to make her mark through the movie Phone. Although it has been more than 15 years, Phone is still on the list of the most creepy and worth-watching horror movies on Korean screens. In the film, the actress plays a genuine young reporter, always pursuing large-scale prostitution in the underworld. During a major revelation like that, she repeatedly received strange threatening calls that all of the people answering the phone became strange afterwards.

Directed by the master director of the horror genre in Korea Ahn Byung Gi, the film created a box office fever and brought Ha Ji Won's name closer to Asian audiences. After a series of thorny roles in horror films, the young actress named Ha Ji Won was then remembered by the audience as the "horror movie queen" for a long time.

Ha Ji Won proved herself fully worthy of the title of the most comprehensive actress on the screen when successfully completing difficult roles, from romance to comedy, from sensitive films to action roles. action, horror or historical.

Ha Ji Won's first notable action work was the film Damo (2003). The work made a strong impression on the audience with the epic martial arts stunts and the impressive acting of the cast, especially the female lead Ha Ji Won.

In the film, the actress had an impressive performance with a character with two sides in her heart: one is a strong female knight with skillful martial arts, the other is a fragile girl, full of hesitation in love. Damo became one of the most successful dramas in the history of MBC at that time and helped Ha Ji Won receive many awards from experts as well as recognition of talent from the audience.

Before becoming famous throughout Asia with her role in Secret Garden with Hyun Bin, Ha Ji Won once participated in a movie that is considered a top work called Bali Love Story. Bali Love Story is a classic melodrama during the golden age of Korean drama. This is the movie that brought Ha Ji Won to the top of her career along with a series of actors who all became big stars, Jo In Sung and So Ji Sub. The film is a tragic and tearful love song of the trio of actors with full of emotions from good to negative of love.

With Bali Love Story, Ha Ji Won's talent is really proven when she plays a sweet, emotional and delicate marble that is not inferior to any "tears queen" on the Korean screen. The film helped Ha Ji Won and the two male co-stars become widely known throughout Asia, paving the way for the journey to become A-list stars later.

After Demo, Hwang Jini is the next historical drama that brings great success to Ha Ji Won. This time it is no longer a thorny heroine, the actress plays a talented prostitute with a life full of hardships. This is a movie where the actress's beauty reaches its peak with the image of a prostitute with sharp, ghostly eyes but very innocent and confused when she meets true love.

Hwang Jini with the performance of Ha Ji Won really conquered the audience completely by her diversity in emotional expression. Viewers really cried and laughed with the events in the life of the talented prostitute with the delicate and unique performances of the actress. The great success of the TV version and Ha Ji Won's personal make the movie version released after that was completely overshadowed even though the "jewel" Song Hye Kyo took on the main role Hwang Jini.

Referring to Ha Ji Won but forgetting the secret of the 2010 Secret Garden is a huge omission. This is a real TV bomb, breaking all ratings fortresses across Asia and creating one of the most beautiful on-screen couples ever Ha Ji Won and Hyun Bin. Not only are they beautiful together, they also receive countless compliments for their impressive acting, and the film becomes a monument of supernatural love and humor that is hard to knock down.

After a fortune full of unique roles, the actress has no trouble playing the character Gil Ra Im, a passionate stuntman who is entangled in a strange love affair with the prince Kim Joo Won (Hyun Jin). Bin). The two suddenly one fine day suddenly swapped bodies and had to live a strange life with all sorts of tragic troubles. Through many joys and sorrows, they realize their love for each other and get happiness at the end of a long journey.

With the historical drama genre, Ha Ji Won won the Best Actress award given by KBS in 2006 for the work Hwang Jin Yi as a personality and resilient Joseon courtesan.

But the real legend is Empress Ki (Empress Ki), a long-running drama that has achieved ideal ratings as well as helped Ha Ji Won win the Daesang at the 2013 MBC Awards and become famous throughout the world. ASIAN.

Worth mentioning, she turned down 3 invitations to act in Hollywood movies because she wanted to participate in "Empress Ki". This makes fans admire and increasingly support the rare and hard-to-find "female" career of Korean cinema.

In order to "beautify" difficult action roles, Ha Ji Won has practiced a lot on her own, in her spare time, she likes to study kendo, golf and horseback riding. Ha Ji Won spends many hours practicing every day, so she always successfully takes on strong female roles, strong personality female generals and action roles that require physical strength.

Private life and family tragedy

In recent years, Ha Ji Won seems to rarely appear in showbiz activities. Although famous and successful in her career, she is still praised by colleagues and experts as a star with a simple and modest lifestyle.

Ha Ji Won is very secretive about her private life, she once said that she did not want to be mentioned by the public through her personal noises, but just wanted to dedicate her roles with real talent to the audience. Therefore, the personal story of Korean "female" is not mentioned much.

On January 2, 2016, the news that Ha Ji Won's father passed away made Ha Ji Won's colleagues and fans deeply saddened. She herself was shocked because her father had always been healthy before.

Ha Ji Won's father passed away from a heart attack, leaving a void that can't be filled. However, the incident did not stop with Ha Ji Won's family.

On January 21, 2018, 2 years after the death of his father, the only younger brother Jeon Tae Soo also passed away at the age of 34 due to depression. Tae Soo is also an actor, but has been active for 10 years, but has not left as much impression in Korean showbiz as his sister.

He once said it was difficult to overcome her shadow, and he wanted to be known as an actor named Jeon Tae Soo, not Ha Ji Won's younger brother. Tae Soo and Ji Won are very close, it was Ji Won's older sister who guided her younger brother to the artistic path when he realized his talent at a young age.

After three days of her brother's death, Ha Ji Won updated her Instagram:

"My beautiful star. I hope that star is born in a world where it can shine forever. You are my star who I love. I hope that star is happy. happier than anyone else in the world. I hope that star is loved by everyone in the world. I love you, my beautiful star, Tae Soo."

In another post, Ha Ji Won shared, "Jeon Tae Soo, your beauty shines brighter than the sun."

Her brother's death was a big shock to Ha Ji Won, she skipped an important movie press conference to take care of her brother's aftermath, then Ha Ji Won seemed to withdraw from the Korean entertainment industry for 3 months. years because of severe psychological shock.

Returning after nearly 3 years of absence from the small screen with the jTBC drama Chocolate, unlike her previous "big sister" roles, Ha Ji Won transformed into a mature female in this project.

Transforming into the female lead is nothing special and different, but Ha Ji Won is still highly appreciated by experts thanks to her honest acting and increasingly attractive beauty.

Super-rich U40 "bad girl" of Korean cinema

During nearly 25 years of working in the entertainment industry, Ha Ji Won is one of the rare female artists with the fewest dating rumors in showbiz. Since starting her career, the actress has never shared about love and intention to get married.

The only person suspected of dating a "woman" is Hyun Bin after they both participated in the Secret Garden project. After that, when both sides denied it, until now, Ha Ji Won has always remained silent when asked about love.

Ha Ji Won once shared that she thinks marriage is due to fate. No matter how strong or independent a woman is, she still needs to be protected and protected, but love affairs cannot be rushed and forced. Right now, she just wants to focus on her work.

Across the forums, Ha Ji Won was even dubbed the "famous slut". It's rare for any U40 actress to be super popular and clean in love like Ha Ji Won.

Not long ago, the news that Ha Ji Won bought a house in the most expensive neighborhood in Seoul was widely published by the Korean media. The sale of the house was conducted in March 2020. The building has 8 floating floors and 1 basement with a value of up to 10 billion KRW (about 192 billion VND).

Ha Ji Won bought this building under the name of the management company Sun & Moon Entertainment, where her mother is the CEO and she is the chief executive officer herself. With 9 massive floors, the front facing the center, the actress said that she will use the basement and the upper 6 floors for business purposes, while the 7th and 8th floors will be used for personal purposes.

Ha Ji Won also proved herself to be a real real estate "player" because she once made fans admire when she shared about her extremely luxurious apartment in an SBS program "Stagram" in 2015. Ha Ji Won's apartment is exquisitely designed, with classic furniture and marble floors.

In addition to acting, working as an advertising model, Ha Ji Won also focuses on investing in the business of beauty products. She and a friend launched a skin care cosmetic brand. Currently, the "female" of the Korean entertainment industry is living in a luxury apartment that costs about 2 million USD.

At the age of U40, Ha Ji Won has it all, from beauty, talent, popularity, to wealth.

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