She has appeared in numerous stage productions such as Long Day's Journey into Night, Gift of Gorgon, The Cherry Orchard, Widows, Green Bench, Guest, Hanako, Death of a Salesman, I Am You, Hwajeonga, and Agnes of God.

She left a lasting impression on the public through numerous films, including Tunnel, Sea Fog, The Client, The Thieves, Train to Busan, and Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds,[4][5] which attracted over 10 million viewers, as well as hit dramas like Secret Forest, Do You Like Brahms?, Mine, Search: WWW, and One the Woman, where she appeared as a supporting role.

Ye most recent works such as The King of Tears, Lee Bang-won, Link: Eat, Love, Kill, and Becoming Witch.,[6] and she also starred in the MBC four-part series Wild Boar Hunting and made special appearance in Revenant.

Followed by Henrik Ibsen's play Ghosts produced by Korea University Theatre Arts Research Society (고려대학교 극예술연구회).

[10] After graduating from university, she worked as a German tutor and editor-in-chief of the Full Gospel Church magazine to earn pocket money while acting in plays.

[9] After watching play A Woman Named Solitude, Yoo Deok-Hyung [ko] (director, former chairman of the Seoul Institute of the Arts) scouted her for his work When Spring Comes to the Mountains and Fields.

One day, Yoo noticed that Ye, who participated in his practice, was acting without her mother's Jeong Ae-ran [ko] permission.

The court, considers the elderly woman to be asexual and dismisses the arrest warrant, saying that there is insufficient probability that a young man would do such a thing.

[21] Ye gave birth to a daughter (currently an actress and theater director Kim Ye-na) in 1982 and left to study at Munich University in Germany with her husband in 1984.