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)
- Fabricated City (2017)
- Fabricated City (2017)
- Dr. Cheon and the Lost Talisman (2023)
- The Dude in Me (2019)
- I, the Executioner (2024)
- Smugglers (2023)
- Hwayi: A Monster Boy (2013)
- The Drug King (2018)
- Escape from Mogadishu (2021)
- Handsome Guys (2024)
- 1987: When the Day Comes (2017)
- Maggie (2019)
- Big Match (2014)
- Lobby (2025)
- Limit (2022)
- Love, Again (2019)
- Re-BORN (2022)
- Jane (2016)
- The Go-to Restaurant (2025)
TV (17)
- Guardian: The Lonely and Great God (2016)
- Destined with You (2023)
- Touch Your Heart (2019)
- The Sound of Your Heart (2016)
- Clean with Passion for Now (2018)
- Unexpected Business (2021)
- My Lovely Liar (2023)
- My Strange Hero (2018)
- My Roommate Is a Gumiho (2021)
- Love in Contract (2022)
- Distorted (2017)
- Heart Surgeons (2018)
- My Fellow Citizens (2019)
- Miss Lee (2019)
- Jugglers (2017)
- Heesu in Class 2 (2025)
- Tong: Memories (2016)
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.