Despite Lee Eun Ju's prior experience with depicting sex and nudity in Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000), she came under the scrutiny of the Korean press and netizens. Her severe depression ended in suicide in February 2005, and the tragic conclusion has since become the central focus in popular perception and interpretation of the film, this particular one being her last.
Director Kim Ki Duk, no stranger to controversy over his own films, is quoted by Chinese film magazine "Movie Watch" (看電影) in singling out The Scarlet Letter as among the key Korean dramas from recent years. He subsequently cast Sung Hyun A, who rose to prominence with her role in The Scarlet Letter, as the heroine in his Time.", "video": { "@type": "VideoObject", "name": "The Scarlet Letter - Episode 1", "description": "Watch The Scarlet Letter - Episode 1 online.", "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/drama/MRenVc.jpg", "uploadDate": "2014-06-30", "embedUrl": "https://hndrama.cc/embed/drama/792/1", "potentialAction": [ { "@type": "WatchAction", "target": { "@type": "EntryPoint", "urlTemplate": "https://dwish.pro/e/cil0x980xf9q" } }, { "@type": "WatchAction", "target": { "@type": "EntryPoint", "urlTemplate": "https://dlions.pro/v/0r7f6fh9yle7" } }, { "@type": "WatchAction", "target": { "@type": "EntryPoint", "urlTemplate": "https://dood.wf/e/lagj0kd97tt2" } }, { "@type": "WatchAction", "target": { "@type": "EntryPoint", "urlTemplate": "https://www.mp4upload.com/embed-f7e5u2uhbdzm.html" } } ] }, "actor": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Uhm Ji Won", "alternateName": "엄지원", "birthDate": "December 25, 1977", "nationality": "South Korean", "description": "Uhm Ji Won made her acting debut in the late 1990s. For the 2006 film "Traces of Love" (가을로), she won Best Supporting Actress at the Chunsa Film Art Awards for her performance as a survivor of the 1995 Sampoong Department Store collapse.
For her performance in "Hope" (소원), Ji Won won Best Actress at the Korean Association of Film Critics Awards. This was followed by period mystery-thriller The Silenced, and fantasy thriller The Phone. A few years later, she won Best Actress at the Women in Film Korea Awards for her perfomance in "Missing" (미씽: 사라진 여자).
In May 2019, Uhm signed with a new agency, C-JeS (씨제스).
In May of 2014, she married an architect and announced her divorce on April 6, 2021.
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She was especially acclaimed for her performance in "Phoenix", winning the Top Excellence Award (Actress) and the Best Couple Award with Lee Seo-Jin at the 2004 MBC Drama Awards. Lee Eun Joo was also known for her vocal abilities, lending her voice to multiple songs for her works.
On February 22, 2005, at the age of 24, she passed away due to suicide.
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Sung made her acting debut in Salut D'Amour, and continued to appear in TV dramas such as See and See Again (also known as Can't Take My Eyes Off You), Should My Tears Show, Hur Jun, One Day Suddenly, Bad Woman, Good Woman, Yi San, and Flames of Desire. She also released an EP in 2004 titled Turn It Up under the name A.One.
But Sung became best known for her strong, sexy roles in films such as Hong Sang-soo's Woman is the Future of Man, Kim Tae-Eun's The Intimate, and Kim Ki-Duk's Time. She also appeared in The Scarlet Letter and The Customer Is Always Right. In 2007 Sung won the Best Actress award from the Malaga International Fantastic Film Festival in Spain, for her role in the horror film Cello.
She married businessman Heo Eun-gyo on December 9, 2007, at the Paradise Hotel in Busan. After she and Heo divorced in 2010, Sung remarried three months later and gave birth to a son in 2012.
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After a debut in the 1990 MBC campus drama Our Paradise, Han rose to stardom as "Hong Shik" in "The Moon of Seoul". Both the series and "Hong Shik" characters have since become beloved icons, as part of Korean television's golden era before the advent of the Korean wave.
He suffered from a disc problem, due to which Han went into an extended hiatus in 1999, declining several lucrative opportunities with name directors as he suffered disc problem. Among them: "Peppermint Candy", "Joint Security Area", "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance", and "Fulltime Killer".
The break coincided with a surge in new talent, the sophistication of technology, organization, and scale of production within the Korean film industry. Combined with other factors, have attempted to explain the lukewarm reception to his comeback. He also remains well-respected among his major peers for his distinctive style.
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