Kim Ji-won

Kim Ji-won is an actor born on October 19, 1992. HighZium Studio lists the 2010 Lollipop commercial as her debut. Her career spans youth drama, romance, fantasy and everyday-life stories, leading to the brilliant surgeon Gye Su-jeong in Doctor X: Mafia in White. ^{[1] [13]}

Following her commercial debut, she appeared in the 2011 sitcom High Kick! Revenge of the Short Legged. Her official filmography also includes What’s Up, Romantic Heaven, To the Beautiful You and the horror film Horror Stories, documenting early work across television and film. ^[1]

She played Rachel Yoo in The Heirs. SBS’s coverage identifies the character through her relationship with her mother, Esther Lee. Rachel’s pride and sharp manner offer a useful comparison with the warmer young-adult characters Kim later played. ^[2]

In Descendants of the Sun, Kim played military physician and first lieutenant Yoon Myeong-ju. Her relationship with Seo Dae-young, played by Jin Goo, involves military rank, family expectations and professional duty. KBS’s contemporary introduction emphasizes Myeong-ju’s direct pursuit of her own choices.

Both Myeong-ju and Doctor X’s Su-jeong are doctors, but Myeong-ju works within a military structure. Comparing the roles highlights differences in their institutions and relationships. ^[3]

In Fight for My Way, she played Choi Ae-ra, a department-store information-desk worker who dreams of becoming an announcer. KBS described her determination to try again after an unsuccessful interview. Her ambitions develop alongside her long friendship with Go Dong-man, played by Park Seo-jun.

Ae-ra combines immediate emotional expression with ordinary setbacks. Her struggle to establish a place for herself offers a contrast with Yeom Mi-jeong’s much quieter emotional expression in a later role. ^[4]

In the 2018 film Detective K: Secret of the Living Dead, she played Wol-yeong, a woman who has lost her memory, opposite Kim Myung-min and Oh Dal-su. Her Cine21 interview discusses the blend of genres alongside her earlier horror work. Wol-yeong’s memory and identity provide an emotional thread within the comic investigation. ^[5]

In 2019’s Arthdal Chronicles, Tanya finds her place amid the Wahan community’s fate and Arthdal’s power struggles. The fantasy role involves responsibility to a community and the meaning of power. This profile refers specifically to Kim’s work in the 2019 production. ^[6]

In the KakaoTV series Lovestruck in the City, which began in 2020 and ended in 2021, Kim played Lee Eun-o. In her wrap-up remarks, she reflected on following Eun-o’s thoughts and behavior and showing different sides of her. The romance explores a gap between everyday identity and how someone is remembered in a relationship. ^[7]

Yeom Mi-jeong, the youngest of three siblings in JTBC’s My Liberation Notes, struggles to occupy the center of a conversation. The official character profile contrasts her socially accommodating smile with the exhaustion she feels when alone.

Unlike Ae-ra’s immediate expression, this role invites attention to faces, silences and listening. A useful viewing perspective is how Kim changes the pace of a character’s responses as well as the way she speaks. ^[8]

In Queen of Tears, Kim played Hong Hae-in, a third-generation Queens Group heiress and department-store executive. Opposite Kim Soo-hyun’s Baek Hyeon-woo, she portrays a couple in their third year of marriage reassessing their relationship during a crisis. tvN records the original run as March 9 to April 28, 2024. ^[9]

In a 2024 Marie Claire Korea interview, Kim described Hae-in as someone who conceals emotions under responsibility but understands humor. She also expressed an attraction to characters who preserve their convictions and agency. Her comments connect very different circumstances through an interest in people maintaining their own direction.

She recalled learning from senior colleagues who kept discussing and rehearsing scenes after filming. The interview documents her own account of character work and collaboration. ^[10]

She received the miniseries Excellence Award for an actress at the 2017 KBS Drama Awards. KBS’s official presentation clip documents the individual acting award. ^[12]

In May 2024, HighZium Studio announced Kim’s first solo fan meeting, BE MY ONE. The notice set out plans for a June 22 meeting in Seoul and explained the title as actor and fans becoming someone special to one another. It documents an official fan-engagement activity alongside her acting work. ^[11]

Kim plays Gye Su-jeong in Doctor X: Mafia in White, which premiered on October 9, 2026. Su-jeong is a surgeon dispatched through a physician placement agency who refuses nonmedical obligations and seeks to establish her judgment through surgical skill. ^{[13] [14]}

Lee Jung-eun plays agency director Jang Hui-suk, Su-jeong’s partner. Kim’s operating-room performance and Lee’s negotiation and relationship work provide different strands to follow. The work page contains the broadcast schedule and official viewing routes. ^[13]

Year	Work	Role
2013	The Heirs	Rachel Yoo [2]
2016	Descendants of the Sun	Yoon Myeong-ju [3]
2017	Fight for My Way	Choi Ae-ra [4]
2019	Arthdal Chronicles	Tanya [6]
2020	Lovestruck in the City	Lee Eun-o [7]
2022	My Liberation Notes	Yeom Mi-jeong [8]
2024	Queen of Tears	Hong Hae-in [9]
2026	Doctor X: Mafia in White	Gye Su-jeong [13]