Kim Jung-hwa

Kim Jung-hwa is one of those early-2000s Korean drama names that feels genuinely underappreciated in the West. She burst onto the scene with the 2002 sitcom Nonstop 3, and if you ever watched Something About 1% or Snow White: Taste Sweet Love back in the day, you already know she had this effortlessly natural charm that made her stand out from the glossier leads of that era. She also crossed into film with Spy Girl and The Elephant on the Bike, which showed she wasn't just a TV fixture content to repeat the same formula. Dongduk Women's University grad, born September 9, 1983 — she came up at a time when the Korean Wave was just finding its footing globally, and she was part of that first wave of faces that made international audiences curious about what Seoul had to offer.

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Name (English)

Kim Jung-hwa

Name (Japanese)

キム・ジョンファ

Reading

きむ・じょんふぁ

Born

September 9, 1983 (age 43)

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Occupation

model / actor / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Boar

University

Dongduk Women's University

• Official sitehttp://www.saltent.co.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=profile&wr_id=22
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/junghwa_jjung/
• Xhttps://x.com/hyogirl24
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Jung-hwa
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q489934

Tags

• model
• actor
• film actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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