Kim Hye-ja Age Husband Lim Jong-chan Age difference Occupation Family

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The 176th You Quiz, which will be broadcast on January 11th at 8:40 pm, will be featured as a life drama.

On this day’s broadcast, Kim Hye-ja, a national actor who presented life dramas to viewers, appears and talks with MC Yoo Jae-suk and Jo Se-ho.

On this day, Kim Hye-ja plans to look back on her 61 years of acting career, from ‘The Country Diary’ and ‘What is Love’ to her recent works ‘The Light in Your Eyes’ and ‘Our Blues’. She introduces the numerous roles she has taken on and her efforts to immerse herself in the characters, her memorable episodes during filming, and her special connections with the actors and writers she co-starred with.

In addition, the story of her request to get off the ‘Jeonwon Diary’, the anecdote with director Bong Joon-ho who awakened the acting cells of the ‘national mother’ Kim Hye-ja, and future plans, etc. Not only she is someone’s mother, daughter, and wife, but her human side brings tears to her eyes as she recalls her memories.

Along with this, attention is being paid to Kim Hye-ja’s age, husband, marriage and children.

1. How did Kim Hye-ja debut?

Kim Hye-ja, who made her official debut as a KBS public recruitment talent in 1963 during her sophomore year at Ewha Womans University, started as an actress at the time. As an authentic acting actress who is considered a representative role model in Korea, she is nicknamed ‘God Hye-ja’.

Won the Grand Prize in Drama four times in MBC 《Diary of a Farmer》(1988), 《What is Love》(1992), 《Rose and Bean Sprouts》(1999), KBS 《Mom is Angry》(2009), and four times in total (15th, 25th, 45th, 55th) Baeksang Arts Awards TV category grand prize and recorded as the most Baeksang grand prize winner. In addition, her performance in director Bong Joon-ho’s film received rave reviews both domestically and abroad, and received numerous Best Actress awards overseas.

2. What was Kim Hye-ja’s childhood and school days like?

During the 6.25 War, when he was a child, his entire family was said to be in danger of being annihilated. However, it is said that she survived several deaths with her eldest sister’s base, and the anecdote appeared on SBS’s “Toyo Mystery Theater”. And he is said to have actually come from a very wealthy family and grew up in a house where only the living room of his childhood home was about 200 pyeong. It is said that it was a colorful life to the extent that dance parties were held every day. Therefore, it is said that they are clumsy at household chores such as housekeeping and cooking. But there are also arguments to the contrary. Kim Hye-ja’s son once interviewed that her mother had cooking skills similar to that of an average mother and was very warm to her children.

3. Kim Hye-ja’s profile and academic background during school days

Hyeja Kim was born in 1941 in Seoul. And after she graduated from Gyeonggi Girls’ High School, she went on to Ewha Womans University, Department of Living Arts.

She made her first debut as a theater actress in 1960, and made her official debut as a talent in the 1st KBS Seoul Central Broadcasting Company public recruitment the following year. Regarding this, Kim Hye-ja said, “She only had great aspirations, but she ran away because she thought she had no talent for acting.”

4. ​But I can’t let go of my craving for acting

While living as a single mother, at the age of 27, she felt a desire for acting again. She was destined to eventually walk her acting career. And for three years, she lived as a ‘cinderella in the theater’ on stage. Afterwards, based on her solid acting skills, she was scouted when MBC opened in 1969 and continued her acting career in earnest. Since then, MBC dramas 《Frog Husband》, 《The Riverside Murderer》, 《Chief Investigator》, 《Undergraduate》, 《Rainbow》, 《Bride Diary》, 《High School Girl》, 《Regret》, 《You》, 《Miss Anguk-dong》 He became known as an acting actor by appearing in a number of works such as, etc., and rose to the ranks of top actors by winning multiple best actor awards.

In 1961, he married Lim Jong-chan. She was attending Ewha Women’s University, so I said everything. When she was in college, she married her husband Lim Jong-chan, who was 11 years her senior, and was marital at the time, so after marriage she was forced to drop out of college.

The prohibition of marriage was created by American missionaries who founded and operated Ewha Hakdang in the late Joseon Dynasty to protect young girls from forced early marriage.

Her husband, who passed away first, said that he only worried about Kim Hye-ja, saying, “How can you live without me?” She revealed in an interview with her son, who is now in the food business, that he is warm to her children and cooks just as well, if not very well, as any mother would.

5. Kim Hye-ja Husband Occupation Lim Jong-chan Occupation

Kim Hye-ja’s husband’s job is a businessman who runs a textile business. Kim Hye-ja and her husband, Lim Jong-chan, were businessmen in the textile industry, and she is said to have supported and helped Kim Hye-ja in her acting career. With her husband’s help, Kim Hye-ja has been able to continue her acting career to this day.

However, Kim Hye-ja’s husband eventually passed away. Kim Hye-ja’s husband died of pancreatic cancer in 1998. Kim Hye-ja’s husband, Lim Jong-chan, was a loving wife and did not drink or smoke at all, but he developed pancreatic cancer and died in 1998.

6. Kim Hye-ja Children Children Children Baby Daughter Son Age Name

Im Jong-chan and Kim Hye-ja gave birth to a daughter, a son, a son, a son, a son, and a daughter, Im Hyeon-sik, and Im Go-eun.

7. What is Kim Hye-ja’s son’s job?

The job of Lim Hyun-sik, the son of Kim Hye-ja, is also a hot topic. Active as CEO of Jeongseong FS. When Kim Hye-ja suggested that she want to make good products under her brand at her convenience store GS25, in October 2010, she launched her own food brand, ‘Kim Hye-ja Lunch Box’. Kim Hye-ja’s son is Lim Hyun-sik, CEO of Jeongseong FS, a food company. It is said that the contract was signed under the condition that ‘Kim Hye-ja’s lunchbox’ was not made by his son, but intervened in quality control.

8. An anecdote related to Kim Hye-ja’s smoking cigarettes

Contrary to the image of a national mother, it is said that she was once a smoker recognized by the entertainment industry. It was also revealed directly on the broadcast. It is said that the reason for smoking was severe morning sickness.

Kim Hye-ja said that when she was 23 years old during her first pregnancy, she had severe morning sickness, and her husband said that it would be better if she smoked.

Even when I went to church, I said, “God, please look at this.” As it became known that he was a devout Christian and that a deaconess from a certain church in Seoul was a smoker, it became a hot topic. She is Kim Hye-ja’s daughter living in the United States, and her mother’s fondness for cigarettes was always on her mind, and she was worried about how to get her to quit smoking.

That’s why I thought I should pray for my mother and started praying at dawn. One night while I was praying like that, I was talking to my mom on the phone and she said something unexpected. “Go Eun-ah, it’s really strange, I hate the taste of cigarettes.” Upon hearing that, the daughter suddenly burst into tears, saying, “Thank you, God.”

The article is in Korean

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