Emerging from early voice work in the 2000 film Secret Tears, she quickly moved to leading television roles and earned her first major cinematic credit in Im Kwon-taek's Chi-hwa-seon, which screened at Cannes. The breakthrough came with The Classic and the drama Summer Scent in 2003, followed by the region-wide hits A Moment to Remember (2004) and April Snow (2005), securing her reputation as the…
