The Actress Who Took Over 2022 K-Dramas: Seo Hye Won

2022 was a year filled with many great K-Dramas, and one actress appeared in several of them.

Actress Seo Hye Won‘s first credit was in 2019 with MBC‘s Welcome 2 Life with her role as Ban Ji.

Lee Jae-Sang (Rain) is a lawyer at JK Law Firm, which is one of the biggest law firms in South Korea. He is an excellent lawyer, but he only cares about winning for his benefit. One day, he has a mysterious car accident and he is drawn into a parallel world. There, Lee Jae-Sang finds himself working as a prosecutor. He is strict in carrying out the law. He is married to Ra Shi-On (Lim Ji-Yeon), who loves Lee Jae-Sang and is faithful to him. In the world where Lee Jae-Sang came from, he broke up with Ra Shi-On ten years earlier and Ra Shi-On works as a detective. Lee Jae-Sang struggles to cope with his different selves.

— AsianWiki

In 2021, she began to appear more frequently in K-Dramas. You might have seen her as one of the bullies in tvN’s True Beauty, the survey woman in Kakao TV’s Mad For Each Other, Jang Se Young in JTBC’s Nevertheless, Hong Young Mi in Jirisan, or Jung Ba Reun in SBS’s Let Me Be Your Knight.

That’s a long list of credits. Yet, she appeared in even more in 2022. Check out her many roles in 2022 below.

1. Business Proposal (SBS/Netflix)

Jo Yoo Jung

Shin Ha-Ri (Kim Se-Jeong) is a single woman and works for a company. She has a male friend and she has held a crush on him for a long time, but she learns that her friend has a girlfriend. Shin Ha-Ri feels sad and decides to meet her friend Jin Young-Seo, who is a daughter of a chaebol family. Jin Young-Seo then asks Shin Ha-Ri to take her place in a blind date and even offers some money for her time. Shin Ha-Ri accepts her friend’s offer. She goes out on the blind date as Jin Young-Seo, while having the intention to get rejected by her date. When she sees her blind date, Shin Ha-Ri is dumbfounded. Her blind date is Kang Tae-Moo (Ahn Hyo-Seop). He is the CEO of the company where she works.

Kang Tae-Moo is the CEO of a company that his grandfather founded. One day, his grandfather informed him of an upcoming blind date that he set up for him. Kang Tae-Moo is a workaholic and he is annoyed that his grandfather sets up blind dates for him. He decides to marry the next woman whom he meets at a blind date, so he won’t be disturbed from his work anymore. That woman is Shin Ha-Ri, but pretending to be Jin Young-Seo.

On the following day, Shin Ha-Ri receives a phone call from Kang Tae-Moo. He asks her to marry him.

— AsianWiki

2. Bloody Heart (KBS2)

Hyang Yi

Lee Tae’s (Lee Joon) father deposed the king with the help of Park Gye-Won (Jang Hyuk) and his father became the king of a new dynasty. After succeeding his father, Lee Tae then became the next king. Lee Tae believes any action is justifiable to achieve his goal. He wants to rule as an absolute monarch, but First Vice-Premier Park Gye-Won opposes that idea. Park Gye-Won is even more powerful than the king.

Meanwhile, Yoo Jung (Kang Han-Na) is a daughter of a noble family. Lee Tae thinks of her as his wife. Due to that, her family gets involved in a power struggle in the royal court.

— AsianWiki

3. Alchemy of Souls (tvN/Netflix)

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The fate of these people become twisted due to “hwanhonsool” (the soul of the dead return to the living).

In the country of Daeho, Jang Uk (Lee Jae-Wook) comes from the noble Jang family. He holds an unpleasant secret about his birth, which people all around the country talk about. He is troublemaker. Jang Ukk happens to meet Mu-Deok (Jung So-Min). She is an elite warrior, but her soul is trapped in a physically weak body. She becomes Jang Wook’s servant, but she also secretly teaches him how to fight.

Seo Yul (Minhyun) comes from the noble Seo family. He seems perfect with good appearance, intelligence, and strong martial arts skills. Go Won (Shin Seung-Ho) is the crown prince of Daeho. He hopes to become a generous king.

— AsianWiki

4. Extraordinary Attorney Woo (ENA/Netflix)

Choi Da Hye

Woo Young-Woo (Park Eun-Bin) is extremely smart and she also has autism spectrum disorder. She never forgets what she sees, but she lacks in social skills and empathy. Woo Young-Woo begins to work as a trainee lawyer at a large law firm. While working there, she faces prejudice and irrationality against her, but she solves cases with her own unique perspective and grows as a lawyer.

— AsianWiki

5. May I Help You (MBC/Amazon Original)

Yoon So Ra

Baek Dong-Joo (Hyeri) works as a funeral director. She has a special ability that allows her to see and talk to dead people. The dead people ask Baek Dong-Joo to grant their last wish. If Baek Dong-Joo doesn’t grant their wishes, her day becomes filled with bad luck. This motivates her to listen to their wishes and grant them their wishes, with the help of Kim Tae-Hee (Lee Jun-Young).

Kim Tae-Hee is an employee at errand service A Dime A Job, which is owned by his uncle Vincent (Lee Gyu-Han). A Dime A Job provides service for pretty much anything clients ask for, even minor things like changing light bulbs. Kim Tae-Hee does his best for his clients.

— AsianWiki

6. Alchemy of Souls: Light and Shadow (tvN/Netflix)

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3 years later, in the country of Daeho, Jang Uk (Lee Jae-Wook) spends his lonely days hunting soul shifters. He carries the ice stone within him that allowed him to be reborn. In Jinyowon, Jin Bu-Yeon (Ko Yoon-Jung) has lost all of her memories and divine powers. She was pulled out of Lake Gyeongcheondaeho and brought back to life with the help of Master Lee Cheol (Lim Chul-Soo). Jin Bu-Yeon is now kept hidden in a secret room within Jinyowon.

One evening, Jang Uk chases a soul shifter running rampant into Jinyowon. He meets Jin Bu-Yeon and believes she is an imprisoned Jinyowon priestess. Meanwhile, Jin family leader Jin Ho-Gyeong (Park Eun-Hye) plans to wed her eldest daughter Jin Bu-Yeon to someone from the Seo Family. She will also keep her within the same room for the rest of her life. Seo Yul (Minhyun) and his cousin Seo Yoon-O (Do Sang-Woo) travel from the distant Seoho Fortress for the wedding. Jin Bu-Yeon, wanting to get a glimpse of her possible future husband, escapes from her room to see him at Chwiseonru. On the way there, fate has Jin Bu-Yeon meeting Jang Uk once again. They both share a connection and also have something the other person could use. On a whim, Jin Bu-Yeon asks Jang Uk to marry her.

— AsianWiki

7. The Fabulous (Netflix)

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A story of people who have devoted their lives to the fashion industry and struggle to survive there.

Ji Woo-Min (Minho) is a freelancer retoucher, who is responsible for improving photographs. He is good looking and competent at his job, but he’s not passionate about his work or with love.

Since Pyo Ji-Eun (Chae Soo-Bin) was little, she dreamed of working in the fashion field. She now works as the section chief of a luxury brand promotion agency. While she struggles to survive in the fashion field, she maintains herself with a bright personality and positive energy.

— AsianWiki

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