Ha Ji-won Profile
Name: Ha Ji-won
Korean name: 하지원
Chinese name: 河智苑 (河智媛, 夏智元)
Birth name: Jeon Hae-rim 전해림 (田海林, 全海琳)
Birth date: June 28, 1979
Birthplace: Seoul, Korea
Height: 168cm
Blood type: A
Profession: Actress and singer
Hobbies: Horse riding
Favorite color: Blue
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Ha Ji-won Biography
Ha Ji-won started acting in 2000 as supporting role and won a few awards for performances in movies “Ditto” (best supporting actress) and “Truth Game” (best newcomer).
Ha Ji-won landed her leading play in 2002 movie “Phone” that made her into superstar status in Korea.
Ha Ji-won become popular in Asia with TV drama “Damo” in 2003, where she played a female cop in the 17th century. Her performance in the TV series was superb and shaped the benchmark for Korean WuXia (martial arts) movies and dramas.
Despite gaining fame in Asia, Ha Ji-won rarely steps out of Korea. Her acting career is still booming since 2003, involving in a few movies and TV dramas, including the popular series “Memories of Bali.”
Ha Ji-won also started singing in 2005, her singing career is however not as successful as her acting career yet.
Ha Ji-won latest TV drama is “Hwang Jin-i,” which started showing in Korea late 2006 and received good ratings. Her latest movie “Miracle of 1st Street” is doing well also, topping the box-office chart for consecutive weeks since February 2007.
Why I like Ha Ji-won
I started to like Ha Ji-won after watching TV drama Damo, which remains as my favorite dramas starring Ji-won.
It’s hard to define her beauty actually… not stunning, but eye-pleasing. She’s a good actress though, that’s for sure.
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November 7th, 2007 at 5:20 am
Wow!..that is good news. Congrats! Ha Ji Won. I hope she will win an award for the movie “Miracle on 1st Street”. I thought she was pretty good..well she is good in most of the character that she plays. I love her especially in “Duelist”…thats when she really caught my fullest attention.
Any news on her upcoming movies or dramas for 2008? If I was a director..I would pair up Jo In sung and Ha Ji Won in again…since the drama series “Something Happened in Bali” was such a tragic and shocking ending. They should reunite again in a drama with lesser harsh ending..hehe. Gosh! I can’t get over the ending of “Something Happend in Bali” if though it was like 3 years ago. I totally had a depression syndrome…hehe.
November 7th, 2007 at 10:33 am
yup i also love ha ji won- jo in sung team up. That’s my all time fave couple. miss them a lot
November 7th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Haven’t heard of any new projects from her… taking a break perhaps.
November 7th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
She deserve a break after the long series “Hwang Jin-i”. I went on youtube and found that she was in the show Love Letter with Shinhwa couple years back. It was hilarious!
I heard she might be in Shiri? Is that true?
November 7th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
hai… whatever!!
i love eun ho!!!
and they really make a good pair together…
in hwang ji ni….
its a nice story..
November 8th, 2007 at 12:09 am
Reygel,
I think Eun ho is good too, but I think Ha Ji Won is a better actress because she can be versatile in her character that she plays in movies and dramas. She always up for a challenge to play different role. And it has shown that she does it well. Know wonder why they call her the “Queen of Horror”, and “Pearl of Asia”…cause she can fit almost any role. I hope she will continue with her great acting skills and always challenge herself and definitely love to see her in more drama/movie. This is just my opinion.
November 8th, 2007 at 2:56 am
Unlimited… Shiri? Isn’t it an old movie?
November 8th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Yummy…I am not sure…maybe..hehe. Shiri and Damo? are they the same thing???
November 8th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Both Shiri and Damo were old. Shiri was a great movie… but if I remember correctly Ha Ji-won wasn’t in it.
Damo was a good drama… Ha Ji-won was the star. A must watch in my opinion.
November 8th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Really? I haven’t seen Damo yet. But since alot of peoply say it is good, I will have to make time to watch it. What is the drama about? And who is all in it?
November 8th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
Long story… the background was in ancient Korean… it’s about love, destiny, battle and politics.
Other main cast includes Kim Min-joon and Lee-seo Jin etc.
November 9th, 2007 at 9:00 am
Thanks, Yummy!
I read this website http://koreanmutt.wordpress.com/…/upcoming-dramas/ about “Shiri”. I am not sure if it is legitimate website or not.
November 9th, 2007 at 11:02 am
Well, perhaps they did plan to make a drama version for the movie. I have never heard about it though; and considering that both Bae Yong-jun and Kwon Sang-woo are having their own projects at the moment… it seems like the drama is not coming anytime soon.
November 11th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
jeon hae-rim is so very beautiful. can’t forget her face. hope to have more films in tv to be shown in abs-cbn
November 11th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
tangshin yeppuda!
November 12th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
ang ganda tlaga n ha ji won ang galing nyang umarte sa hwng jini.. sana pmunta k dto sa philippines … sana mabasa mo to .
November 17th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Yummy and Unlimited
Shiri is supposedly a TV series patterned to the US series CSI. However, as Yummy mentioned, the stars are quite busy and thus, the said series is yet to be pushed through.
The one I asked Yummy before about ‘M2′ the series, starring supposedly Ha Ji-won and Kwon Sang-woo, the said series wasn’t made because of the stars hectic schedule.
November 18th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Thanks for the clarification cheiri.
November 19th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
Ha Ji Won currently dating anyone??? I never hear her going out with anyone before? She is close in hitting her 30…if tho she still look like she is in her early 20. Hopefully she can cut down on her work just alittle bit…maybe she will find someone. Afterall she is a gorgeous lady.
November 20th, 2007 at 10:47 am
Unlimited… I am not sure about that. It seems that there are not too many paparazzi in Korea; celebrities can keep their privacy quite well. We probably won’t know if HJW is actually meeting someone.