page_title: Kim So-hyun
section_title: 2012–2014: Rising popularity and teenage roles
hierarchical_section_title: Kim So-hyun / Career / 2012–2014: Rising popularity and teenage roles
caption_attribution_description: 한국어: 배우 김소현 English: Kim So-hyun (South Korean actress, born 1999)
context_page_description: Kim So-hyun is a South Korean actress who began her career as a child actress in 2006 and initially gained public attention for playing a villainous young queen-to-be in Moon Embracing the Sun and a girl who falls into tragedy in Missing You.
  She took on her first leading role in teen drama Who Are You: School 2015 and since then, has starred in musical Page Turner, historical melodrama The Emperor: Owner of the Mask, romantic comedy Radio Romance and television dramas based on Naver Webtoon's Hey Ghost, Let's Fight, Love Alarm and The Tale of Nokdu. She was the regular host of MBC's music program Music Core and survival reality show Under Nineteen in 2019.
  Kim was dubbed the "Nation's Little Sister", "Queen of Child Actor" and has been recognized as the representative of a prolific child-actress who has solidified her acting skills of various works since childhood, and have established herself as the next-generation Hallyu star.
context_section_description: In 2012, Kim appeared in six works in the first half of this year. She starred in a romanctic fantasy television series, Padam Padam and a historical comedy film, I Am the King. She gained public attention when she featured in the fantasy-period drama Moon Embracing the Sun as the younger version of the second female lead. Kim received commend from the audience and the director of how well she portrayed the antagonist's desire realistically. The drama managed to rank number one in its time slot throughout its run and achieved a peak recorded viewer rating of 42.2 percent thereby earning the "national drama" status. Kim became "Korea's little sister" at the same time. This was followed by fantasy-comedy, Rooftop Prince as an evil sister, Love Again and a high school student whose roommate is a female idol star in Ma Boy.
  Kim was reunited with co-stars from Rooftop Prince, Park Yoo-chun and Moon Embracing the Sun, Yeo Jin-goo in a melodrama Missing You. She was dubbed the "Queen of Child Actor" (아역퀸) by the Korean press. She played the role of Lee Soo-yeon, bullied by her schoolmates and being called 'the daughter of the murderer' gets kidnapped and sexually assaulted while trying to save her friend. Kim and Yeo shared the highest best one-minute viewer rating scene of 10.4 percent in the drama. She then becomes one of the most praised child actresses of her generation. She received her first acting award as "Best Child Actress" at the 1st K-Drama Star Awards for Ma Boy and Missing You.
  In 2013, Kim made a surprise appearance on Iris II: New Generation as the childhood counterpart of the female protagonist and starred in The Secret of Birth as a girl with a genius brain. Then, she played the younger version of Lee Bo-young's character in the popular Korean drama I Can Hear Your Voice. On June 20, Kim co-host MBC's music program Music Core along with Minho of SHINee and Noh Hong-chul. The three received a lot of attention because of the amazing combination of singers, actors, and broadcasters eventhough they showed a bit of immature progress from the beginning but amplified the expectation of how they expressed their charms despite having different career groups. She then got cast in The Suspicious Housekeeper, a Korean remake Japanese hit drama, Kaseifu no Mita. In the same year, Kim was reported along with Kim Yoo Jung and Yeo Jin Goo as the top 3 child actors who do earn above average salary for child actors. It was reported that Kim received 4-6 million won per episode.
  In 2014, Kim has been cast as a child actress of Oh Yeon-soo in MBC drama, Triangle. Kim challenged her first dual role and first genre through OCN's new drama Reset. Later, she was cast in KBS2 special drama, We All Cry Differently which won the 2013 KBS Screenplay Contest.
caption: Kim So-hyun in December, 2013.
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