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Son Eon-jin (; born January 11, 1982), better known by her stage name, Son Ye-jin (), is a South Korean actress who rose to fame in 2003 in The Classic and Summer Scent, which were followed by the commercially successful A Moment to Remember (2004). Her early roles in films garnered her the title "Nation's First Love" in Korea.
Son has since won accolades and starred in other high-profile films, including My Wife Got Married (2008), The Tower (2012), The Pirates (2014), The Last Princess (2016), and Be with You (2018). She has also acted in popular Korean drama, such as Alone in Love (2006), Something in the Rain (2018), and Crash Landing on You (2019–2020). From 2019 to 2022, she appeared on Forbes Korea Power Celebrity 40 for four consecutive years.
The biggest successes of her early career were in the films Lovers' Concerto and The Classic. Both were films mid-level hits in Korea, and The Classic in particular — being a work of My Sassy Girl director Kwak Jae-yong — received wide exposure in Hong Kong and Mainland China, and launched Son's East Asia stardom. Son further solidified her status as a Hallyu (Korean Wave) star in 2003 by taking the lead in TV drama Summer Scent, the third installment of the season-themed tetralogy Endless Love directed by Yoon Seok-ho.
Her next films also gained wide popularity in East Asia, particularly in Japan: A Moment to Remember, based on a famous Japanese series, set box office records in Japan and sold over two million tickets in Korea, and April Snow, in which she co-starred with superstar Bae Yong-joon, which was also a hit in Japan and China. Son, who assumed a pure and innocent image in her films The Classic and A Moment to Remember, was given the title of the "Nation's First Love" in Korea.
In 2006, Son became the highest-paid Korean actress in Korean television series when she was guaranteed a talent fee of KRW 50 million (plus incentives) per episode for her lead role in the SBS drama Alone in Love.
After filming the dark mystery White Night, "Son Ye-jin, Ko Soo to Bring Mystery Romance" . The Korea Times. October 21, 21, 2009. Son acted in the romantic comedy series Personal Taste, followed by the horror-romantic comedy film Spellbound, which became one of the top-grossing films in 2011, and by far the most successful Korean romantic comedy movie in recent years. "Son Ye-jin casts her spell over new romantic comedy" . Korea JoongAng Daily. December 1, 2011. "The Best Selling Films of 2011" . Korean Film Org. 2011.
In 2012, Son starred in her first blockbuster, The Tower, a remake of the 1974 Hollywood disaster film The Towering Inferno. She returned to television in 2013 in the revenge drama Shark (also known as Don't Look Back: The Legend of Orpheus), then headlined Blood and Ties, a thriller about a daughter who suspects that her father was involved in a kidnapping-murder case.
Son reunited with Shark co-star Kim Nam-gil in the 2014 period adventure film The Pirates, which received mixed reviews but was a commercial hit with more than 8.6 million admissions at the end of its theatre run, and which won Son the Best Actress award at the Grand Bell Awards. The Pirates was one of the highest-grossing Korean films of all time, along with other Son Ye Jin's movies, The Tower and The Last Princess. Son next starred in the black comedy Bad Guys Always Die opposite Taiwanese actor Chen Bolin, a Chinese-Korean co-production that was filmed on Jeju Island.
In 2018, Son starred alongside So Ji-sub in the romantic film Be with You, based on the Japanese novel of the same name. That same year, Son returned to the small screen after five years with JTBC's romantic drama Something in the Rain. The series achieved commercial popularity, and Son received rave reviews for her performance. Son also starred in the crime thriller The Negotiation, alongside Hyun Bin, playing a professional negotiator working to save hostages.
In 2019, Son reunited with Hyun Bin in the global hit romantic drama Crash Landing on You as a wealthy heiress who falls in love with a North Korean commissioned officer. The drama was a huge success and is the fifth-highest-rated Korean drama in cable television history.
Son was scheduled to have her Hollywood debut in 2022, starring opposite Sam Worthington in filmmaker Andrew Niccol's work The Cross, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, her agency requested a delay in filming.
On March 8, 2022, Son and Hyun Bin donated million to the Hope Bridge Disaster Relief Association to help those affected by the massive wildfire of Uljin forest fire 2022, which devastated the area and then spread to Samcheok, Gangwon Province, South Korea.
On February 10, 2022, Son and Hyun Bin announced their engagement in letters posted on their social media accounts. They married in a private ceremony on March 31, 2022 attended by their parents and friends of both families. On June 27, 2022 Son announced that she was pregnant with the couple's first child; she gave birth to a son, whom she affectionately nicknamed Alkong, on November 27, 2022.
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| Lover's Concerto | Shim Soo-in / Gyung-hee | ||||
| Crazy First Love | Ju Il-mae | ||||
| The Art of Seduction | Han Ji-won | ||||
| My Wife Got Married | Joo In-ah | ||||
| The Last Princess | Princess Deokhye | ||||
| The Negotiation | Ha Chae-yoon | ||||
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