In 1983, while still a student, she made her acting debut in the television drama Father and Son and quickly gained fame as "the most perfect face in Korea."
Her first film was Bae Chang-ho's 1987 melodrama Our Sweet Days of Youth, in which she played a divorcee who marries her true love.
[1] She would also go on to star in a large number of films by director Park Chul-soo, beginning with The Woman Who Walks on Water.
Push!, and a wife who sues her husband's company for depriving her of a sex life in Bedroom and Courtroom.
[2] After the TV series Match Made in Heaven in 2004, she went on a five-year hiatus from acting, but remained in the public eye by releasing a book and video on health and lifestyle in 2005, and for launching a successful line of women's lingerie named Elypry in 2006.