Theater and Film graduate of Chungang University KIM Heeseon who was born in 1977 won the Fair Face Beauty Contest in 1992 while in middle school and embarked on a career as a model for teen magazines The next year brought with it the opportunity to feature in a Samsung commercial and then an acting debut in the TV series Dinosaur Teacher Quickly achieving fame she was one of Koreas top TV stars in the midtolate 1990s featuring in notable fare such as Men of the Bath House 1995 Propose 1997 Wedding Dress 1997 Mister Q 1998 which earned her top honors at the SBS Drama Awards Sunflower 1998 and Tomato 1999 She embarked on a dual career as a film actress starting in 1997 but failed to find quite the same level of popularity as she had on the small screen She starred opposite JANG Donggun in 1997s Repechage and then Ghost in Love 1999 from the same director Her biggest role was in highbudget martial arts blockbuster Bichunmoo which came out in 2000 She changed her image by cutting her hair short for her next part as an animator in the romantic comedy Wanee and Junah 2001 Her last Korean film was A Letter From Mars 2003 While she has remained active on TV her only other film roles have been in the HK martial arts title The Myth 2005 alongside Jackie CHAN and the Chinese period war film The Warring States 2011