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Park Kyung-hye

Park Kyung-hye is an actor, born 1993.

Read her credits from the bottom and you get the anatomy of a working supporting actor. Park debuted in 2011 and has spent the years since keeping Korean film and television running without ever appearing at the top of a poster: Call Center Staff in Fabricated City, Union Staff in Hwayi: A Monster Boy, Kid Elf in Big Match, a radiologist in Maggie, Nurse Kim in Love, Again, a clerk in Escape from Mogadishu, a gambler in I, the Executioner. Dozens of days on set, each one a precise small component of somebody else's machine.

The named parts arrived through television. She was the ghost in Guardian: The Lonely and Great God in 2016, Dan Mun-hui in Touch Your Heart, Kim Ha-Na in Miss Lee, Goo Kye-young in Jugglers, and Choi Soo-kyeong in My Roommate Is a Gumiho, which is where a lot of viewers stopped merely recognising the face and learned the name. My Lovely Liar gave her a double credit, Cassandra and Yoon Ye-Seul, in 2023.

Film has been kinder lately. Jung-mi in 1987: When the Day Comes, Lee Kyeong-ja in The Drug King, Jae-hee in The Dude in Me, Myung-sun in Limit, Dok-sun in Smugglers, Sa-wol in Dr. Cheon and the Lost Talisman, Soon-ok in Handsome Guys. That is an actor climbing steadily, one supporting role at a time, in an industry with a great deal of competition for exactly those parts, and comedy is where she has been landing hardest.

Movies (19)

TV (17)

Where to start with Park Kyung-hye

For the friendliest way in, try My Roommate Is a Gumiho. Choi Soo-kyeong is the sort of supporting role that can vanish into a romantic fantasy series, and Park keeps her specific enough that she does not.

If you would rather see her in film, The Dude in Me is the one, a body-swap comedy that runs on timing, and she has the timing. Smugglers is the bigger, glossier production and gives her Dok-sun in a period caper with a genuinely enormous cast.

For the dramatic side, 1987: When the Day Comes is the most serious thing on her list, a historical film about a political killing, and Escape from Mogadishu is the tense one, an evacuation thriller where every small part matters. On television, Guardian: The Lonely and Great God is where most people first noticed her and Touch Your Heart gave her the warmest of the recurring roles.

Genres Park Kyung-hye works in