CHOI Ji-woo is a truly melodramatic heroin in our times. She radiated such beauty and innocence in a TV drama <First Love> playing opposite [BAE Yong-joon]. She earned the moniker as the queen of melodrama with a series of successful TV dramas such as [Beautiful Days] co-starring with [LEE Byung-hun], <Winter Sonata> reuniting with [BAE Yong-joon], and <Steps to Heaven> working with [KWON Sang-woo]. As most of her melodramas are aired in Asia, Korean pop cul...More

CHOI Ji-woo is a truly melodramatic heroin in our times. She radiated such beauty and innocence in a TV drama <First Love> playing opposite [BAE Yong-joon]. She earned the moniker as the queen of melodrama with a series of successful TV dramas such as [Beautiful Days] co-starring with [LEE Byung-hun], <Winter Sonata> reuniting with [BAE Yong-joon], and <Steps to Heaven> working with [KWON Sang-woo]. As most of her melodramas are aired in Asia, Korean pop culture craze in Asia catapulted her to international fame along with [BAE Yong-joon]. As all of her male co-stars in melodramas become famous in Asia, she is known for as a lover of hallyu stars. Her choice of films is mostly melodramas that accentuate her strengths. <Everybody Has Secrets> and <Nowhere to Hide> are the best pieces of her works. In particular, she starred as a virtuous woman who is in love with a serial killer played by [AHN Sung-ki] and portrayed an innocent woman seduced by a playboy, [LEE Byung-hun]’s character, in <Everybody Has Secrets>. CHOI says that she does not want to a radical image makeover. She is an actress who knows her strengths and is in search of fresh changes. Less