Kim Hye-ja

Acting

Kim Hye-ja

Born

1941-10-25 (84)

Place of birth

Seoul, South Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

30 titles

Kim Hye-ja (born October 25, 1941) is a South Korean actress who starred in Bong Joon-ho film Mother in which she won best actress for the 4th Asian Film Awards.

Known for

Running Man poster
8.2

These days, as variety shows are gradually disappearing, this is one of Korea’s representative variety shows that has been responsible for Sunday evenings for over 10 years. This program features numerous stars and members going around various places, playing games, and completing missions. In particular, among the many fun elements of variety shows, this one focuses solely on laughter. Open your eyes! Big fun is coming in! Open your mouth! Big laughter is coming in! Open your heart! Useful lessons are coming in!

Running Man

2010

Home Alone poster
7.5

It can be a badge of honor to be “single.” “I Live Alone” is a documentary-style South Korean reality series that follows the members of a self-formed club called Rainbow, which is comprised of celebrities who are single and live alone.

Home Alone

2013

Infinite Challenge poster
7.7

Infinite Challenge has been reported as the first "Real-Variety" show in Korean television history. The program is largely unscripted, and follows a similar format of challenge-based Reality Television programs, familiar to the audiences in the West, but the challenges are often silly, absurd, or impossible to achieve, so the program takes on the aspect of a satirical comedy variety show, rather than a more standard reality or contest program. In order to achieve its comedic purposes its 6 hosts and staff continuously proclaim, the elements of this show are the 3-Ds, Dirty, Dangerous, and Difficult.

Infinite Challenge

2005

You Quiz on the Block poster
8.3

Yoo Jae-suk and Jo Se-ho who enter ordinary people's everyday lives, chat with them, and give them surprise quizzes! The talk and quiz show program will spotlight these people's lives and aims to gift them a refreshing, different kind of day. Recently they're also inviting celebrities & professionals to the show.

You Quiz on the Block

2018

Our Blues poster
8.5

Romance is sweet and bitter — and life riddled with ups and downs — in multiple stories about people who live and work on bustling Jeju island.

Our Blues

2022

Living Among the Rich poster
9.0

Ji-Eun is thrilled to hear that her mother Hye-Ja is moving to Cheongdam neighborhood. Hye-Ja & Ji-Eun lived in the suburbs for thier whole life. Ji-Eun dreams of living a luxurious life, but her reality is quite different. The house they move into is on the 2nd story of a building which looks like it will collapse. The first floor of the building is a comic book shop and the second floor is a lodging house. Their building is located between luxurious buildings in Cheongdam neighborhood.

Living Among the Rich

2011

Film credits

Series credits

Running Man poster
8.2

These days, as variety shows are gradually disappearing, this is one of Korea’s representative variety shows that has been responsible for Sunday evenings for over 10 years. This program features numerous stars and members going around various places, playing games, and completing missions. In particular, among the many fun elements of variety shows, this one focuses solely on laughter. Open your eyes! Big fun is coming in! Open your mouth! Big laughter is coming in! Open your heart! Useful lessons are coming in!

Running Man

2010

Home Alone poster
7.5

It can be a badge of honor to be “single.” “I Live Alone” is a documentary-style South Korean reality series that follows the members of a self-formed club called Rainbow, which is comprised of celebrities who are single and live alone.

Home Alone

2013

Infinite Challenge poster
7.7

Infinite Challenge has been reported as the first "Real-Variety" show in Korean television history. The program is largely unscripted, and follows a similar format of challenge-based Reality Television programs, familiar to the audiences in the West, but the challenges are often silly, absurd, or impossible to achieve, so the program takes on the aspect of a satirical comedy variety show, rather than a more standard reality or contest program. In order to achieve its comedic purposes its 6 hosts and staff continuously proclaim, the elements of this show are the 3-Ds, Dirty, Dangerous, and Difficult.

Infinite Challenge

2005

You Quiz on the Block poster
8.3

Yoo Jae-suk and Jo Se-ho who enter ordinary people's everyday lives, chat with them, and give them surprise quizzes! The talk and quiz show program will spotlight these people's lives and aims to gift them a refreshing, different kind of day. Recently they're also inviting celebrities & professionals to the show.

You Quiz on the Block

2018

Our Blues poster
8.5

Romance is sweet and bitter — and life riddled with ups and downs — in multiple stories about people who live and work on bustling Jeju island.

Our Blues

2022

Living Among the Rich poster
9.0

Ji-Eun is thrilled to hear that her mother Hye-Ja is moving to Cheongdam neighborhood. Hye-Ja & Ji-Eun lived in the suburbs for thier whole life. Ji-Eun dreams of living a luxurious life, but her reality is quite different. The house they move into is on the 2nd story of a building which looks like it will collapse. The first floor of the building is a comic book shop and the second floor is a lodging house. Their building is located between luxurious buildings in Cheongdam neighborhood.

Living Among the Rich

2011

Baeksang Arts Awards poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Baeksang Arts Awards

2012

Heavenly Ever After poster
8.5

After life's ups and downs, a loving couple separated by death reunites in heaven — only to discover he's in his thirties while she's in her eighties.

Heavenly Ever After

2025

Princess Hours poster
7.6

A high school girl’s world turns upside-down after she learns her grandfather promised her hand in marriage to the nation’s crown prince!

Princess Hours

2006

Dear My Friends poster
7.5

Life is ever-delightful — and ever-challenging — for a group of friends in their twilight years as they rediscover themselves through love and family.

Dear My Friends

2016

Roses and Bean Sprouts poster
10.0

"Roses and Bean Sprouts" revolves around the Choi family and their four sons.

Roses and Bean Sprouts

1999

Mom's Dead Upset poster
7.0

Mom's Dead Upset is a 2008 South Korean television series starring Kim Hye-ja, Lee Soon-jae, Baek Il-seob, Shin Eun-kyung, and Ryu Jin. It aired on KBS2 from February 2 to September 28, 2008 on Saturdays and Sundays at 19:55 for 66 episodes. The drama attracted record-breaking ratings, peaking at 42.7% on the September 21 episode. Kim Hye-ja stars as a middle-aged woman who rediscovers herself by taking a one-year break and declaring independence from her family after spending decades as a housewife looking after three children, a husband and a widowed father-in-law. Her performance won the Grand Prize at the 2008 KBS Drama Awards and the 2009 Baeksang Arts Awards.

Mom's Dead Upset

2008

What is Love? poster
NR

"What is Love" centers around two close families with sharply contrasting values. One consists of medical resident Lee Dae Bal, his mother and father and his younger sister Sung Shil and is conservative and patriarchic, the other consists of college student Park Ji Eun, her siblings Jung Eun and Jung Sup, her two maternal aunts and her parents. They are progressive, modern and utilitarian. This drama comically portrays the troubles that arise as these two families become quarrelsome in-laws by Ji Eun and Dae Bal's marriage and the conflicts that arise between Ji Eun and her in-laws, delivering a message about the importance of balancing traditional and progressive values.

What is Love?

1991

The Light in Your Eyes poster
7.6

Time manipulation comes with a steep price for a young woman, who becomes 78 years old overnight after using a mysterious watch.

The Light in Your Eyes

2019

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Since We Met

2002

Unkind Women poster
6.7

This drama features the women of three generations and the people around them. Ma Ri grows up as a good teacher of this generation where there is no true mentor. Hyun Sook, who has been a troublemaker, realizes the love and support of her family. Kang Soon Ok regards herself as unlucky, but later on realizes how happy she has been. How can you hold up when your life gets tough? You will figure it out by holding up day by day, just like these women in the drama.

Unkind Women

2015

The Wind Orchid poster
NR

The fourth episode of 500 Years of Joseon Dynasty covers the first half of the 16th Century, from the reign of Jungjong to Myeongjong.

The Wind Orchid

1985

그대 그리고 나 poster
NR

《그대 그리고 나》는 1997년 10월 11일부터 1998년 4월 26일까지 방영된 MBC 주말연속극이다. 《예스터데이》 후속으로 방영되었다. 방영 내내 관심과 화제를 불러일으키며 경이로운 시청률을 기록하였다.

그대 그리고 나

1997

Countryside Chronicles poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Countryside Chronicles

1980

Mother's Sea poster
NR

A family who was thrown into the world with economic poverty and loss of life due to sudden death of his father. Home melodrama depicts the process of gradually adapting to a cold and cool society, with four children, who are transformed from weak women who have no living ability to firm mothers, sincere old daughters and young daughters.

Mother's Sea

1993

Two Women poster
NR

The drama "Two Women" depicts a story where family, love, and desire intersect . Young-hae and Hye-jeong face painful memories from the past and present conflicts, forcing them to reflect on their lives. Young-ja plays a crucial role in tying the knots between their destinies, and through their individual choices and friendship, they discover the true meaning of family.

Two Women

1992

김혜자의 안부-죽지마세요 poster
NR

A deeply moving special documentary serving as a healing project that delivers profound messages of comfort, resilience, and hope to those struggling with the heavy burdens and isolating anxieties of modern life.

김혜자의 안부-죽지마세요

2026