What is the secret of Son Ye-jin’s popularity, who has been receiving great love from the audience for more than 20 years?
Actor Son Ye-jin has had several heydays. In the past, she received attention by obtaining the title of “the Nation’s first love” and led the Korean Wave craze through K-dramas. What is the secret of Son Ye-jin’s popularity, who has been receiving great love from the audience for more than 20 years?
One of the reasons is the solidity of her career choice. Son Ye-jin is an actress who is faithful to her main job. It is hard to find a gap in her filmography. According to her history of activities released through a portal site, she debuted with the drama “Delicious Proposal” in 2001 and has been constantly meeting the public with various works every year except 2015, 2017, and 2021. Considering the filming period of dramas and movies before they are officially presented, she has been continuing her acting activities without a long break.
The spectrum of characters and genres that she challenges is also wide. Many people’s hearts fluttered after watching her acting in “Lover’s Concerto” and “The Classic.” In “The Pirates,” she showed her action acting, while in “Open City,” she got everyone enraged with her role as a pickpocket. It is also important to talk about the tvN drama “Crash Landing on You” as a part of Son Ye-jin’s career. In this work, Son Ye-jin played the role of Yoon Se-ri, a chaebol heir, at the center of the Korean Wave craze. According to the OTT content ranking aggregation site Felix Patrol, the JTBC drama “Thirty, Nine,” which she is currently starring, also topped Netflix’s top 10 TV program categories.
“Crash Landing on You” is also very meaningful to her im terms that the series helped her meet her lifelong partner. In this work, Son Ye-jin worked with actor Hyun Bin on romance. Hyun Bin announced on his agency’s official SNS last month, “I’m going to make an important decision of getting married and step carefully into the second act of my life” while Son Ye-jin said on her SNS, “I used to think it was something unimaginable for a man and woman to meet, share their hearts, and promise the future, but we have naturally come this far. Thank you for everything around us that has made our relationship fate.”
Son Ye-jin’s love also headed to those who were having a hard time due to the forest fire damage. On Mar 8th, the Hope Bridge National Disaster Relief Association announced that the Son Ye-jin and Hyun Bin couple has delivered 200 million won in donations. The public expressed great favor for Son Ye-jin, who is willing to help those in need with her lover. Earlier, Son Ye-jin already has a good influence through her sponsorship of scholarships for children with incurable diseases and children with low-income disabilities.
Fellow actors also expressed deep affection and trust for Son Ye-jin. In an interview ahead of the release of the movie “Serve the People,” Yeon Woo-jin said, “I really like actress Son Ye-jin,” adding, “I look forward to her acting in the second act of her life.” Kyung-ri picked Son Ye-jin as her role model in the “Deokjil Interview” released on YouTube’s “Deokjil Reporter” channel. Choi Kang-hee and Oh Seung-ah also said they wanted to be like Son Ye-jin. As stars who watched from the side or heard all kinds of rumors continued to praise Son Ye-jin, the trust of viewers and audiences toward Son Ye-jin deepened.
The public is showing a heated response to Son Ye-jin as many share opinions on Son Ye-jin’s acting and fashion on various online communities. On Mar 6th, the Korea Corporate Reputation Research Institute announced that Son Ye-jin topped the list of drama actor brands in March. It also announced, “In the positive ratio analysis, the positive opinion was analyzed to be at 82.89%.”
As such, Son Ye-jin captured her career, love life, and affection from her colleagues and the public. Expectations are naturally high for her future performance as she starts the 2nd chapter of her life with a wedding at the end of this month. All hope Son Ye-jin’s passion and good influence will steadily heat up the public’s hearts.
