Korean actresses often play a variety of different roles that successfully impress many viewers. It also made their acting quality improve, thus reaping much praise for their hard work.
Not only playing the main character or one character, there are also several Korean actresses who play two characters at once in popular dramas, you know. Curious about anyone? Check out the following review, come on!
Lee Ji Ah
Actress Lee Ji Ah, who has had a career for many years in the acting world, has never failed to amaze fans through her extraordinary acting skills. His name skyrocketed again after starring in 3 seasons of the drama series The Penthouse which was first released in 2020.
Interestingly again, Lee Ji Ah successfully played two different characters that made the audience gasp, you know. In the first season of The Penthouse, she appeared as Shim Soo Ryeon, the wife of the owner of a luxurious penthouse with a soft speech and elegant style.
But in the second season, she played the role of Na Ae Gyo, a 'badass' female figure with a charismatic style, and a great desire for revenge. Lee Ji Ah's transformation is also very different from her previous role, especially when the actress appears with a short haircut that adds a chic yet firm impression at the same time!
Kim Se Jeong
At the beginning of 2022, the drama A Business Proposal succeeded in making Korean drama connoisseurs excited and excited at the same time. Carrying the romantic comedy genre, this drama features Ahn Hyo Seop and Kim Se Jeong as the main characters.
Not only that, at the beginning of the episode, Kim Se Jeong played 2 different characters, you know. His real identity is Shin Ha Ri, an employee for the food research division of a company. She is a cheerful woman who secretly harbors feelings for her best friend for 7 years.
However, due to an incident, Ha Ri has another identity, namely a woman named Shin Geum Hui. In contrast to Ha Ri who appears in the style of ordinary women in general, Shin Geum Hui is actually a glamorous woman, confident, and doesn't even hesitate to seduce men on blind dates.
Kim Se Jeong's acting in A Business Proposal has also achieved goals, and this drama has even gotten a double-digit rating!
Kim So Hyun
The actress who is known as 'Nation's Little Sister' who also started her career as a child actress began to attract attention after starring in School 2015. In the drama, Kim So Hyun plays 2 different characters at the same time, you know. The 2 characters are a pair of twins named Go Eun Bi and Go Eun Byul.
The two separated when Go Eun Byul was adopted when she was 5 years old, while Go Eun Bi still lives in an orphanage. Growing up, their lives are 180 degrees different.
Eun Byul is enjoying life in a well-to-do family and studying at a prestigious school, while Eun Bi is bullied at school without anyone caring about her. In contrast to Eun Bi who has a cheerful nature, Eun Byul actually becomes a person who keeps many secrets.
Park Shin Hye
Park Shin Hye became the next actress who also played 2 roles or multiple roles in one of her dramas, namely You're Beautiful (2009). In the drama, her real identity is Go Min Yeo or Gemma, a naive but kind-hearted woman who dreams of becoming a nun in the church.
He has a twin brother named Go Mi Nam who plans to join a band called A.N Jell. One day, Go Mi Nam mysteriously disappears which makes the band manager panic. Until finally, Go Min Yeo was asked to temporarily replace Go Mi Nam without the knowledge of his bandmates.
Fortunately, Go Mi Nam and Go Min Yeo have identical looks that are quite similar, so Go Min Yeo's disguise was not revealed at first. But as time went on, his bandmates realized that Go Mi Nam was actually a girl!
Jun Ji Hyun
Unlike the previous actresses who had multiple roles in Korean dramas, this time there was actress Jun Ji Hyun who appeared with 2 roles in the Korean feature film titled Assassination (2015).
This film tells about the condition of South Korea when it was under Japanese rule with a setting in 1911. In Assassination, Jun Ji Hyun plays a woman named Mitsuko as well as a woman named Ahn Ok Yun.
The two women have 180 degree different personalities and appearances. According to Kbizoom, Mitsuko and Ahn Ok Yun are twins. Mitsuko is known as an 'ordinary' woman, while Ahn Ok Yun is a cold-blooded killer with extraordinary abilities.