Kim Hee Ae is a celebrated South Korean actress. Born on April 23, 1967, she was first discovered when she was a freshman in high school by a man who worked for advertising agency, which opened the way for her to work as a model. Kim Hee Ae made her acting debut in the 1983 film “The First Day of the Twentieth Year.” She has enjoyed a successful career acting in both films and television dramas. Some of her most popular roles include the film “Thread of Lies” (2014) and the television dramas “My Husband’s Woman” (2007), “Midas” (2011), “A Wife’s Credentials” (2012), “Secret Love Affair” (2014), “Mrs. Cop” (2015) and “Second to Last Love” (2016). Kim Hee Ae also has made regular appearances on the travel reality show “Sisters Over Flowers” since 2013. Kim Hee Ae married Lee Chan Jin, CEO of the web portal DreamWiz, in 1996, and they have two sons.

Kim Hee Ae

Seven years ago, South Korea’s first manned mission to the Moon ended in disaster, when a tragic explosion wiped out the nation’s first lunar-bound spacecraft. Now, as the year 20230 approaches, South Korea finds itself in a new space race – and is determined to make its second attempt to reach the Moon a success. But shortly after landing, astronaut Hwang Sun Woo (D.O) is driving a lunar rover when a strong wind sends him hurtling into unknown danger. Eventually stranded, it looks like Hwang Sun Woo’s fate is sealed.

The national space center has no choice but to turn to its former Kim Jae Guk (Sol Kung Gu), its former managing director. Kim Jae Guk was forced to leave his post after a controversial incident, and has since taken to a simple life in the mountains. Now it falls to Kim Jae Guk to help guide Hwang Sun Woo to safety, along with other experienced space chiefs such as space station director Yoon Moon Young (Kim Hae Ae). Can Hwang Sun Woo survive this ordeal – or will the ravages of space claim another victim?

“The Moon” is a 2023 South Korean movie that was directed by Kim Yong Hwa.

The Moon

Yoon Hee (Kim Hee Ae) is a woman in her forties who has recently divorced her husband. She is depressed, but hides her sadness from her teenage, high schooler daughter Sae Bom (Kim So Hye). One day, Sae Bom finds a letter addressed to her mother from a small town in a rural part of Japan. She accidentally ends up reading it, and is surprised to see that it contains details about her mother’s first love, a secret love that she has never spoken of to anyone. Intent on lifting her mother out of her gloom, Sae Bom devises a plan. She convinces her mother to travel together to Japan – without revealing her true intentions: to search for the older woman’s first love.

What follows for mother and daughter is a journey of discovery. Although Yoon Hee would not dare to admit it, she is secretly hopeful (and somewhat anxious) about the prospect of a reunion with her first love. But could the journey also help her form a tighter bond with her precious daughter?

“Moonlit Winter” is a 2019 South Korean movie that was directed by Lim Dae Hyung.

Moonlit Winter

During World War II, Bae Jung Gil (Kim Hae Sook) was one of the many South Korean women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military. After surviving the war, she did her best to move on by taking a position as a housekeeper for Moon Jung Sook (Kim Hee Ae) — until she goes missing. Jung Gil's disappearance sets Jung Sook on a journey where she uncovers the heartbreaking stories of Jung Gil and the other victims. Determined to help them, Jung Sook takes it upon herself to help the surviving comfort women take on the Japanese government in court. Will these women find justice so long overdue?

Based on real-life events surrounding the Shimonoseki trials, this is a 2018 South Korean drama film directed by Min Kyu Dong.

Herstory

Yoon Seol Hee (Kim Hee Ae) is a powerful businesswoman from a hugely wealthy family. One day, she dies very unexpectedly, and to add to the intrigue, the body vanishes from the morgue shortly after. Woo Jung Sik (Kim Sang Kyung), a once-brilliant but now ostensibly washed-up detective with a past shrouded in mystery is assigned to the case. Suspicion begins to fall on the woman’s widower Park Jin Han (Kim Kang Woo), a university professor who has been secretly having an affair with Hye Jin (Han Ji An), one of his students.

Although the evidence suggesting that Park Jin Han played a part in his wife’s death is at first very slim, Woo Jung Sik seems to have a hunch that the professor was somehow involved. As the investigation, the plot thickens – never more so than when Park Jin Han starts receiving text messages...from his “dead wife.”

This movie was based on the 2012 Spanish film “The Body.”

“The Vanished” is a 2018 South Korean movie that was directed by Lee Chang Hee.

The Vanished

😱OMG They lost my wife 🤨

SBS, KOCOWA

Min Ju, a career-driven producer, excels in staging on-screen love and yet struggles to script her own romance. Determined to champion her single life, she moves to Woori City only to meet unexpected neighbor Sang Sik, a steadfast civil servant who has maintained a quiet life with his daughter and siblings after losing his wife 15 years ago. Change isn\u2019t on his wishlist, but his world is thrown into chaos when a new deputy mayor steps into town. Amidst their tumultuous relationship, will love dare to blossom?

Second to Last Love

Last Love Team

Young Jin's supposedly a full-time mother, but she's also got the duty of being one of Seoul's best detectives under the country's police force. Because she loves her job more, Young Jin sticks to her duties as a badass detective against one of the country's toughest chairman. Chairman Kang also seems to be one of the people behind her father's death, which infuriates her the most about this prime suspect.

Mrs. Cop

Justice Seekers

Choi Young Jin

JTBC

Would a 40-year-old woman throw away her hard-earned marriage and career for an illicit love affair with a 20-year-old student? Oh Hye Won (Kim Hee Ae) worked her way up to becoming the planning director for the Seohan Arts Foundation after marrying Kang Joon Hyung (Park Hyuk Kwon), a piano professor at the Seohan College of Music. After helping her husband discover a piano prodigy who could help advance her husband’s standing within the music school, Hye Won starts an illicit affair with the student, Lee Seon Jae (Yoo Ah In). Will Hye Won and Seon Jae risk everything to continue their forbidden romance? “Secret Love Affair” is a 2014 South Korean drama series directed by Ahn Pan Seok.

Secret Love Affair

Secret Lovers

Is this the life that you are meant to live? Seo Rae (Kim Hee Ae) is married to Sang Jin (Jang Hyun Sung), a driven reporter for a broadcasting company. Seo Rae has been a dutiful housewife, a humble daughter-in-law to Sang Jin’s parents, and a devoted mother to her son, Gyul (Lim Je No), who until recently has been a sickly child. But there is something that is missing from Seo Rae’s life. She doesn’t agree with Sang Jin’s push to get the best private education for Gyul but reluctantly agrees to move to a better neighborhood to further Gyul’s education. On her first day in their new neighborhood, a thief steals Seo Rae’s bicycle from outside a café. Tae Oh (Lee Sung Jae) sees the fleeing thief and rescues Seo Rae’s bike. When Seo Rae learns that Tae Oh is her son’s new dentist, will this stranger change her life in ways she didn’t expect on her own personal road to self-discovery? “A Wife’s Credentials” is a 2012 South Korean drama series directed by An Pan Seok.

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