On January 14, the variety show "You Quiz on the Block" posted a short video about an exchange with guest artist Kim Hye Yoon.
In the video, MC Yoo Jae Suk praised Kim Hye Yoon: "I find you very cute. Every time you appear on the show, you work extremely hard. In real life, you are also very lovely. The screenwriters told me this story, I laughed when I heard it when I thought about you".
When asked about her childhood and school days, Kim Hye Yoon recounted: "I have a lot of friends. The thing I remember most from high school is that I greeted all over the classrooms. There are 10 classes, I will enter the classroom by the front door, greet everyone and then go out by the back door, then go to the next class.
I do that with all 10 classes, there is no other reason than to greet everyone. And if my friend has another friend, then that person also becomes my friend. I know almost everyone.
Kim Hye Yoon also revealed that she started serious auditions from the age of 17, when she was in her first year of high school, and had gone through more than 100 auditions.
At one point, I went to auditions 3 times a day," she recalled. After countless rejections, Kim Hye Yoon admitted: "I started entering the audition room with the thought: "Today I will probably be eliminated again".
Yoo Jae Suk also sympathized: "When you prepare a lot but are constantly eliminated, you will start to think: "Maybe I was born to be rejected.
Kim Hye Yoon spoke frankly about the comments she heard the most: "Nearly every audition, people say: "You are too short". That makes me really feel inferior about my height.
The actress continued to share: "I know those roles are really not suitable for me, but I aspire to be cast to the point of starting to "paint" myself. I am 1m58 tall but it is written as 1m60. Every time I am discovered, I still fill in about 2cm".
Kim Hye Yoon also surprised the audience when she said that in the first 7 years of her career, she had played about 50 small supporting roles.
When Yoo Jae Suk commented: "It's not easy at all". Kim Hye Yoon nodded in agreement: "I feel very heavy. I always wonder if I'm going the right way, and studying and pursuing acting is also really very difficult.
Kim Hye Yoon was born in 1996. She debuted in 2013, starting her acting career with supporting/small roles in movies and television series.
It was not until the end of 2018, with the role of Kang Ye Seo in the hit movie "Sky Castle", that Kim Hye Yoon was truly known to the public more widely, and at the same time helped her win the Best New Actress award at the 55th Baeksang Arts Awards.
After graduating from university, Kim Hye Yoon first played the main role in MBC's school science fiction drama "Extraordinary You" in 2019.
In 2022, Kim Hye Yoon's first main role in the movie "The Girl on a Bulldozer" was highly appreciated by critics, bringing home the Best New Actress award at Blue Dragon, Golden Bell.
In 2024, Kim Hye Yoon exploded the screen with the time travel drama "Lovely Runner", in collaboration with Byeon Woo Seok. This role helped her be nominated for Best Actress for the first time at the Baeksang Arts Awards.
On January 16, Kim Hye Yoon will reappear with SBS's new drama "No Tail to Tell". She plays Eun Ho, a nine-tailed fox, of the eccentric Z generation, determined not to become human.
Actor Lomon as Kang Si Yeol, a world-class football player who is too confident. The film tells the chaotic journey of the two when they try to save each other.
