Actor Ha Yoon-Kyung is capturing attention with the charm of being "cold on the outside, warm on the inside."
Ha Yoon-Kyung is currently starring as Go Bok-hee, who gives a first impression of being unpleasant and self-centered but is actually the most deep-hearted and affectionate person, in the tvN Saturday-Sunday drama Undercover Miss Hong (directed by Park Seon-ho, written by Moon Hyun-kyung), delivering a passionate performance and radiating charm.
In the previously aired episodes 5–6 of Undercover Miss Hong, the scenes of the roommates in room 301 who unexpectedly begin living with Kim Mi-sook's (played by Kang Chae-young) daughter Bom-i (played by Kim Se-a), along with Go Bok-hee's confusion when her biological brother, who she thought was in prison, suddenly appears, drew interest. Although Go Bok-hee had been prickly and individualistic until now, she readily accepted Bom-i as a member of room 301 when she realized Bom-i had nowhere to go. Also, to Hong Jang-mi, who has been gradually getting closer to her, she advised, "If you had grown up in an ordinary home, if you had at least graduated from college, if you had worked at a company where people call you Go Bok-hee instead of Miss, you would have lived an ordinary life. Hong Jang-mi, you're not too late. Go to college even now," and the warm, sincere tone and look she showed at that moment conveyed a comforting warmth to viewers.
Ha Yoon-Kyung has been earning positive responses by vividly portraying the character Go Bok-hee, from the "annoying Go Bok-hee" to the "warm Go Bok-hee." Her polished workplace smile, prim tone, and varied facial expressions that do not hide emotion provide viewing pleasure while her endlessly gentle and indulgent attitude toward the weak delivers a twist of delight. With measured emotion and vocalization and excellent diction, Ha Yoon-Kyung fully embodies Go Bok-hee's range, becoming the primary reason viewers naturally immerse themselves deeply in the drama.
Moreover, Ha Yoon-Kyung showed the depth of despair and fear that heavily shadowed Go Bok-hee through the scene in which she trembles after receiving a letter from her biological brother, and she brought viewers to tears in an instant with the scene of clutching a ten-thousand won bill her brother had thrown down and collapsing on the street while wailing. These performances by Ha Yoon-Kyung hinted that the character Go Bok-hee was forged by desperation to survive, evoking sympathy.
Ha Yoon-Kyung's active range between eras and emotions did not stop there. Her quick thinking to rescue President Shin Jung-woo (played by Ko Kyung-pyo), who had come alone to the unmarried female employee dormitory and suffered an assault, brought laughter. Without hearing the person's explanation, she abruptly put him in a taxi and, with a bold voice, saw him off — a quirky yet professional side of secretary Go Bok-hee that elicited delight.
Thus, Ha Yoon-Kyung, who has become one with Go Bok-hee and is raising her charm level each episode, is drawing attention for what kind of acting she will continue to show through Undercover Miss Hong.
Meanwhile, Undercover Miss Hong is a retro office comedy drama set at the turn of the 1990s, about 30-year-old elite securities regulator Hong Geum-bo (played by Park Shin-hye) who goes undercover as a 20-year-old junior employee at a securities firm where suspicious funds flows have been detected, and it airs every Saturday and Sunday at 9:10 p.m.
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