39th Birthday, This is the Career of the Beautiful Song Hye-kyo

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In 2017, Song Hye-kyo was ranked 7th in Forbes magazine’s Korea Power Celebrity list, and 6th in 2018.

Song Hye-kyo who was born November 22, 1981 is a South Korean actress.

She gained international popularity through her leading roles in the television dramas Autumn in My Heart (2000), All In (2003), Full House (2004), That Winter, the Wind Blows (2013), Descendants of the Sun (2016), and Encounter. (2018).

His film works include Hwang Jin Yi (2007), The Grandmaster (2013), My Brilliant Life (2014), and The Queens (2015).

In 2017, Song Hye-kyo was ranked 7th in Forbes magazine’s Korea Power Celebrity list, and 6th in 2018.

He was named as one of “The Troika” along with Kim Tae-hee and Jun Ji-hyun, collectively known by the acronym “Tae-Hye-Ji”.

The following is his career journey reported from wikipedia.

1996–2004: International debut, breakthrough, and fameEdit

In 1996, 14-year-old Song, then a third year junior high school student, won first place in the SunKyung Smart Modeling Contest, and she made her entertainment debut as a model for a school uniform company. This led to her playing a minor role in her first television drama, First Love. She will continue to appear in a series of various dramas and sitcoms, most notably Soonpoong Clinic.

But it wasn’t until the 2000 KBS drama Autumn in My Heart with Song Seung-heon and Won Bin that he became famous in Korea and throughout Asia. The romantic melodrama series was a ranking success, spearheaded a trend in Korean melodramatic series and launched a fever commonly referred to as “Korean Wave” and caused Song to become a Hallyu star.

In 2003, his popularity continued to climb when he played the lead alongside Lee Byung-hun in the gambling drama All In, which drew solid viewership ratings nationwide during its broadcast with a peak viewership rating of 47.7 percent. The following year, she co-starred with singer Rain in the hit romantic comedy series Full House. The drama achieved pan-Asian success and made Song one of the most famous Korean actresses in Asia.

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2005–2012: Film debut and overseas venture

Early 2005, Song went to San Francisco to study English and then went to Seattle. Song took time off to recharge after the successful Asian drama Full House. “I have had a good rest. It was a great opportunity to reflect on myself,” said Song. Song returned to Korea on March 5, 2005.

In the same year, Song made his big screen debut in My Girl and I (Korean remake of Crying Out Love in the Center of the World), which was highlighted by audiences and critics alike. Vocal about his dissatisfaction with typecasting in the roles offered to him, Song proved the following year that he was taking on a different role.

? In October 2008

He returned to the big screen in 2007, as the titular gisaeng in the film adapted from Hwang Jin Yi. Because they found Song’s image “too cute,” Jun Ji-hyun and Soo Ae were the producers’ original choices for the role, but Song was on a diet. strict and surprised them with his will and desire to become Hwang Jini.

A year later, she made her American debut in the indie Hollywood Make Yourself at Home (previously titled Fetish), a psychological thriller about a girl born to a witch doctor and trying to escape her fate by becoming an immigrant bride in the US.

Although Song attempted to challenge himself, both films failed at the box office.

He made his TV comeback in late 2008 with The World That They Live In (also known as Worlds Within), a series set on a broadcasting station in which Song and Hyun Bin play a drama PD who work together and fall in love.

In 2010, he starred in Camellia, an omnibus film consisting of three short films directed by three Asian directors. Each episode is set on the past, present, and future of the city of Busan. In the final segment of the film Love for Sale, Song and Kang Dong-won play ex-lovers who forget their memories of each other which leads them to a fatal destiny.

Considered one of the most beautiful women in Korea, in early 2011 Song released a photobook of Song Hye-kyo’s Moments which was taken by top photographers in Atlanta, New York City, Buenos Aires, Patagonia, Paris, the Netherlands and Brazil. The proceeds from the sale of the photobook were donated to a children’s foundation.

Song then plays a documentary filmmaker who finds the strength to forgive the 17-year-old boy who killed his fiancé but instead only finds an even bigger tragedy in A Reason to Live (Korean Title: Today), which after some delays was released in October 2011 .

Song was a huge fan of director Lee Jeong-hyang and actively sought out him, [39] and although he had a hard time becoming a character, [40] Song said he fell in love with the script and felt his acting had matured. He considered the film a “turning point” in his life.

In 2011, she became the first Asian actress to sign a contract with French global agency Effigies, paving the way for possible entry into the European market. She released a photo-essay book in 2012 entitled It’s Time for Hye-kyo.

Song then played a supporting role in The Grandmaster, Chinese director Wong Kar-wai’s biopic about Bruce Lee’s kung fu master, Ip Man, whom he studies Cantonese and martial arts. He later admitted there was “a bit of friction and misunderstanding” with Wong while filming, but the difficulty helped him mature.

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2013-present:

Song reunited with writer and director Worlds Within in That Winter, the Wind Blows, a remake of the 2002 Japanese drama Ai Nante Irane Yo, Natsu (“I Don’t Need Love, Summer”) in 2013. He played the blind heir in the melodrama, opposite a con artist who pretends to be his long lost brother (played by Jo In-sung). That winter, Wind Blows placed number one in the time slot for most of its broadcast, and Song and Jo were praised for their performances.

Song won the Daesang (or “Grand Prize”), the highest award for television, at the 2nd APAN Star Awards.

In 2014, Song reunited with Kang Dong-won in My Brilliant Life, E J-yong’s film adaptation of Kim Aeran’s best-selling novel My Palpitating Life about a couple who witnesses their son suffering from progeria grow old prematurely.

Romantic epic

s The Crossing is the second Chinese film Song released and directed by John Woo (Woo’s old friend and producer Terence Chang has been managing Song’s activities overseas since 2008). Previously titled 1949 and Love and Let Love, this old project was originally announced at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008, then canceled in 2009, and revived in 2011. Woo’s recovery from tonsil tumor removal in 2012 caused another delay due to scheduling conflicts at between the cast, and Song finally started shooting in June 2013. The Crossing is based on the true story of the Taiping steamboat crash and follows six characters and their love stories that are interwoven in Taiwan and Shanghai during the 1930s; Song plays the daughter of a rich banker.

Another Chinese film followed in 2015, The Queens, a contemporary romantic comedy about three cosmopolitan women – an actress, PR specialist and gallery manager – who manipulate their friends and bring down their enemies while they play the game of love. Also starring Joe Chen and Vivian Wu, it was actress Annie Yi’s directorial debut.

In 2016, Song starred in the mega-hit romantic comedy series Descendants of the Sun, an intense drama about an army captain (played by Song Joong-ki) and a surgeon who falls in love while working in the middle of a disaster-stricken area. The drama was immensely popular in Korea with a peak viewership rating of 41.6% and in Asia, where it was viewed 2.5 billion times on iQiyi.

The drama’s popularity rebuilt Song as the leader of Hallyu, and he topped popularity polls in Asia and is best known for his outstanding brand recognition in South Korea. Song won the Daesang (Grand Prize), the highest award at the 2016 KBS Drama Awards along with his co-star, Song Joong-ki.

After two years of absence, he is back on the small screen with the romantic melodrama Encounter with Park Bo Gum.

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