Your Ultimate Han So Hee Drama Guide
Drop dead gorgeous and a definite rising star in the industry, Han So Hee is on our drama radar!
Just how do we move on from Nevertheless,? It was Korean actress Han So Hee’s first lead role (playing art student Yu Na-bi), and the webtoon-based drama certainly did not disappoint in displaying her talent!
Now, Netflix has just dropped limited series, My Name, an action-noir revenge story with none other than Han So Hee as its lead. It's gritty, it's intense, and it's full of action. And we can't wait to binge-watch it.
Han So Hee made her debut in the industry first in SHINee’s “Tell Me What To Do” music video in 2016. The following year, she made her acting debut in Reunited Worlds (also known as Into The World Again) as Lee Seo-won, and the projects and dramas just kept coming after that! While her list of dramas was getting long (and fast), it wasn’t until Han played the role of Da-kyung, a young mistress, in The World of the Married (2020) that viewers all over the world recognized her as a K-drama household name.
Proving to be so much more than just a pretty face, Han So Hee has truly shown growth in her craft through the years and in the roles that she's chosen for herself. Below, we round up a total of seven dramas and TV specials you can watch this rising K-drama beauty in!
Your Ultimate Han So Hee Drama Guide
Your Ultimate Han So Hee Drama Guide
Reunited Worlds/Into The World Again (2017)
This fantasy romance drama centers around Sung Hae-sung (Yeo Jin-goo), a senior highschool student. On his birthday, his girlfriend Jung Jung-won asks him to go to their school to retrieve her wallet so that her surprise party for him will be a success. However, when he arrives at school, he walks into a shocking scene. While trying to get help, he gets hit by a car and dies. Twelve years later, he wakes up at the rooftop of the school building and he meets Jung-won again. However, they are twelve years apart aging at different places/worlds: Jung-won is now a 31-year-old woman and Hae-sung still 19. With her help, along with some of his friends, Hae-sung is on a mission to make things right and solve the mystery of his death.
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Reunited Worlds/Into The World Again (2017)
This drama marks Han So Hee’s debut in television as the character of Lee Seo-won. She is the hospital director’s daughter and a fashion journalist.
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Money Flower (2017)
Greed is the word when it comes to Money Flower, a business romance drama that tells the story of people who are driven by the illusion of control, who have the belief they control money and in an aspect, the world. It follows Kang Pil-joo (Jang Hyuk) who is a loyal worker inside the Cheong-A Group and envied by many. With a plot to avenge his family, he tries to have Na Mo-hyun (Park Se-young) fall in love with the young Cheong-A Group scion, Jang Boo-cheon (Jang Seung-jo), but he ends up falling in love with her as well, for her free-spirited personality.
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Money Flower (2017)
Money Flower shows how the lives of Pil-joo, Mo-hyun (who seeks love), and Boo-cheon (Pil-joo’s boss and companion) are intertwined by fate and design—with their fates pulled into a vortex of greed, power, desire, and love. Han So Hee plays Yoon Seo-won, a former information desk employee at the Cheong-A group office headquarters and secret lover to Boo-cheon.
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100 Days My Prince (2018)
This historical romcom drama follows Lee Yul (EXO’s D.O/Do Kyung-soo), the Crown Prince who transforms to a commoner after a near fatal accident. He suffers amnesia but maintains the speaking style of a nobleman, as well as his intelligence and martial arts skill, namely archery. However, he is completely useless with daily chores and activities of a peasant, which doesn’t help him with the other villagers. He eventually returns to the palace one hundred days later and regains his memories, including those of Yi-seo (Nam Ji-hyun), and reunites with her.
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100 Days My Prince (2018)
Portraying the Crown Princess Kim So-hye is none other than Han So Hee, Kim Cha-eon’s daughter and Lee Yul’s wife. Like Yul, she was forced into the marriage and is constantly neglected by her husband. She secretly harbors feelings for Moo-yeon, one of her father’s hired killers. Her life gets much more complicated when she becomes pregnant with his child, and not Yul’s.
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After The Rain (2018)
After The Rain is a TV drama special is set at a peaceful village and centers on Dal Jae (Shin Goo) and his son Bong-Gil (Kim Kang-woo) who run a small restaurant that sells naengmyeon (cold noodle dish). Dal Jae has been making the dish for almost 70 years and he is not satisfied with Bong-Gil’s skill. On the other hand, Bong-Gil is tired of making naengmyeon and is looking to do anything but work at the restaurant.
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After The Rain (2018)
Han So Hee plays guest role of Soojin in this heartwarming and emotional 2-episode TV drama special.
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Abyss (2019)
Abyss is a fantasy crime drama that follows Go Se-yeon (Park Bo-young) a beautiful prosecution lawyer at the top of her game, and Cha Min (Ahn Hyo-seop) her friend, an unattractive but rich chaebol of a cosmetics empire. They are both revived into different bodies by supernatural beings using an “Abyss” after their deaths. The “Abyss” is a celestial object that has the power to revive anything that has died, and the reincarnated bodies take on the appearance of that person’s soul. When they are reincarnated, Se-yeon takes on a much more simple appearance, while Cha Min becomes incredibly attractive—the opposite of before. They start working together to find out why they were revived, and who really caused Se-yeon’s death.
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Abyss (2019)
Playing the supporting role of Jang Hee-jin/Oh Su-jin is Han So Hee—Cha Min’s fiancée who mysteriously disappears before their wedding day.
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The World of the Married (2020)
Who *hasn’t* watched The World of the Married? Based on the BBC One drama series, Doctor Foster, this addictive and thrilling drama tells the story of a married couple whose betrayal of one another leads to a whirlwind of revenge, grief, forgiveness, and healing. It follows Doctor Ji Sun-woo (Kim Hee-ae), an associate director at Family Love Hospital. She’s married to aspiring director Lee Tae-oh (Park Hae-joon), with whom she has a son. Sun-woo is living the perfect life with the perfect family until she discovers that Tae-oh is having an affair with another woman, Yeo Da-kyung (Han So Hee).
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The World of the Married (2020)
Han So Hee’s portrayal of Da-kyung is undeniably the one that got our attention of the actress, effectively playing the “other woman” we all loved to hate on (at least in the beginning), yet ultimately humanized her as well, leaving audiences feeling for her character.
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Nevertheless, (2021)
Based on a popular Naver webtoon, Nevertheless tells the story of two people with heavy pasts but are incredibly attracted to each other. This ongoing 10-episode drama series follows Yu Na Bi (Han So Hee), a heartbroken woman who no longer believes in love, and a playboy Park Jae-eon (Song Kang) who does not want commitment.
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Nevertheless, (2021)
We especially love how Han So Hee transformed into this timid yet self-aware art student. She treads between not believing in love and destiny, and still being open to possibilities… a place we’ve all been in our lives at one point, wouldn’t you agree?
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My Name (2021)
From the Director Kim Jin-min of Extracurricular fame comes this riveting, gripping action noir drama that is about revenge. Yoon Ji-woo (Han So Hee) is on a mission to uncover the truth behind her father's sudden murder, and will stop at nothing to avenge his death.
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My Name (2021)
In this eight episode limited series, follow Yoon Ji-woo as she works as a mole in the narcotics department of the police force in order to find out who was behind her gang leader father's death. Lots of blood, lots of kick-ass action, Han So Hee prepared for this role splendidly—training for months at action school and studying other empowered female characters such as Charlize Theron's Lorraine Broughton in Atomic Blonde. Joining her are Ahn Bo Hyun and Park Hee Soo. The result? A Netflix series that will have you at the edge of your seats and perfect for a weekend binge-watch. My Name is now streaming on Netflix.
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