Hwang Jung Eum | 황정음 | About

Hwang Jung Eum is a South Korean actress and singer who debuted in 2001 as the lead vocalist of the girl group Sugar, leaving in 2004 to act. She made her acting debut in The Person I Love (2007) and broke through with the sitcom High Kick Through the Roof (2009), which won her Best New Actress at the Baeksang Arts Awards — she has said she began that series with ₩487 in her bank account. Leading roles followed in Listen to My Heart (2011), Incarnation of Money and Secret Love (both 2013), and 2015 brought Kill Me, Heal Me and She Was Pretty, the latter securing her fame in China and a Top Excellence Award at the MBC Drama Awards. Later work includes Lucky Romance (2016), The Undateables (2018), Mystic Pop-up Bar (2020) and The Escape of the Seven (2023-2024). In 2025 she admitted embezzling 4.34 billion won from her company to invest in cryptocurrency, and received a suspended two-year sentence.