She is Kim Min-ha, the teenage "Sunja" of Pachinko!

Pachinko's young and beautiful Sunja!

The Apple TV+ original series "Pachinko" is very popular here and there, and there is a lot of interest in Kim Min-ha, who plays the role of a young "Sunja"!

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Have you seen the original Apple TV Plus series <Pachinko> starring actress Yoon Yeo-jung and Lee Min-ho? <Pachinko> tells the story of four generations of Koreans living in Japan, with the period from Japanese colonial era to the 1980s. The person who leads the epic is "Sunja," played by Yoon Yeo-jung. 

For more information on "Yoon Yeo-jung" follow the link below

<Did you see Yoon Yeo-jung in Pachinko?>

If you haven't seen it yet, watch the official trailer below to raise your expectations for the drama! After watching the preview, I became curious about an actor as much as the drama. Kim Min-ha, who plays the role of a teenage "Sunja", is Yoon Yeo-jung's youth. Let's find out about Kim Min-ha, who caught our eyes with her innocent face!

She was a little girl who dreamed of becoming a voice actor

Born in 1995. Kim Min-ha, an elementary school student who liked animation and movies as a child, dreamed of becoming a voice actor. It was in her third year of high school that she decided to become an actress, who liked to make various sounds and went to a voice actor academy. She declared to her mother, "I won't go to college unless I major in theater and film." 

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"I think the movie was drawn naturally because I watched and copied the lines until I memorized them," she says. Currently, Kim Min-ha is attending Hanyang University's Department of Theater and Film. 

Hanyang University actors include Korean luxury actor Lee Byung-hun and delicate actress Kim Min-jung! Let's check this out in my next posting!

Her charming lovely face

Kim Min-ha has a history of working as a model for cosmetic brand Naming. Naming is a Korean brand that made headlines on SNS with the phrase "WHATS YOUR NAME?" and a sensuous lookbook! 

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It is a professional makeup brand launched by the skin care brand Abib, which was launched in March 2019. It aims to express the unique and special charm of an individual. Kim Min-ha's freckled interlaced face is perfect for natural makeup! Kim Min-ha also picked freckles as her charm. Her baby face, which is hard to tell her age, captures a variety of moods, from calm and innocent to naughty and fresh. 

She's the star of a hot topic cast

Kim Min-ha debuted in 2016 with the web drama "Two Women Season 2". Since then, she has made her face known by appearing in various films such as KBS2's "School 2017", MBC's "Sword Man and Woman" and Netflix's "Call". She showed her potential as an actress in various works, and she built her acting career with various charms by going back and forth between various genres, and finally met a work called "Pachinko" in 2022. 

After three to four months of auditions, she was finally cast in the role of a young "Sunja" through fierce competition. Kim Min-ha expressed her thoughts on the appearance as follows. "I felt so relieved that I thought I had no regrets during the last audition." This is something that only those who did their best can say. In "Pachinko," Kim Min-ha works with actors such as Lee Min-ho and Jung Eun-chae. It is a global project produced in three languages: Korean, Japanese, English, and filming location between Vancouver and Busan. Let's watch this drama together, which will be the starting point for remembering <Actor Kim Min-ha!>

Kim Minha's profile, etc

Below, we will listen to behind-the-scenes stories such as Kim Min-ha's profile, reason for her good English skills, motivation for starting an actor, and the process of casting Pachinko.

The U.S. media Deadline introduces actor Kim Min-ha as "a rookie fluent in English and Korean, who was selected through fierce competition in the worldwide 'Pachinko' audition."

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Apple TV's original series "Pachinko" is a chronicle of love and separation, victory and refereeing of Zainichi's life, which was not comfortable anywhere from Japanese colonial era to the 1980s. Based on the New York Times bestselling book of the same name, it tells the story of the hopes and dreams of Korean immigrant families delicately and warmly.

It was produced by Media Reds, a Hollywood production company, and drew attention with a large number of Hollywood productions, including executive producer Michael Ellenberg, and Korean-American directors such as Yoon Yeo-jung, Lee Min-ho, Jin-ha, Kim Min-ha, Jung Eun-chae, Han Jun-woo, Roh Sang-hyun, and Jeon Yu-na. It is also a global project produced in three languages, Korean, Japanese, and English, and consists of a total of eight episodes.

Kim Min-ha, who played the role of 'Pachinko' Sunja when she was a teenager, said about the casting.

"I auditioned for three to four months and didn't know there was an audition at first. I started after getting a call from the casting director. I thought I should do this just with the audition script, so I worked hard, and after receiving the first callback, I started reading the original. I didn't know there was an original before the audition, but I was greatly comforted by reading the original. So I got more greedy, so I had a lot of interviews during the audition, and at the end, I even auditioned for Chemistry."

Kim Min-ha said that it was hard to act in the Sunja's dialect in "Pachinko."

"The dialect part was hard for me I grew up in Seoul and only vaguely heard the dialect from movies and dramas, but I had a lot of worries to act in detail. My dialect teacher kept coaching me and friends and acquaintances who lived in Yeongdo helped me a lot, so I think I overcame it."

"Pachinko" is characterized by the vast story of a generation from the 1930s to the 1980s. Kim Min-ha interviewed her about the difficulties in acting out the era she had never lived in.

"I kept asking how those days would have been so different from now. I asked a lot of questions because my maternal grandmother was alive in that era, and I received a lot of help. At that time, I prepared while listening to my grandmother's feelings, thoughts, and experiences. Zainichi's story was shocking. I asked if it was true, and they said it was true. There's no distortion, no exaggeration. I was even more shocked then."

An official from Pachinko told the behind story of casting Kim Min-ha.

"Actor Kim Min-ha joined late. I remembered getting nervous. The young fairy is a very important role, so I was worried if I couldn't find it. In the process, I saw Kim Min-ha's tape. While watching the actors, I thought that I could get voice training, and I could learn and do lines, but I couldn't make up my eyes. When I looked into Kim Min-ha's eyes, I saw Sunja's eyes. So I was able to be sure."

Kim Min-ha's profile

Age, September 1st, 1995

164 cm tall

Bachelor of Arts in Theater and Film at Hanyang University

Nationality South Korea

Debut 2016 web drama "Two Women Season 2"

Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/minhakim__/

MBTI, INFP

Favorite movie, "The Big Blue"

Favorite animation, "Finding Nemo", "Beauty and the Beast"

Hobby, "Taegeuk Kwon", "Lego"

Her face is characterized by a Korean-style and unique face that is not molded, especially her freckle face.

Kim Min-ha's English is because of her family

Kim Min-ha drew attention through the English interview video, and she also communicated a lot in English while doing Pachinko works. What is her secret to fluent English?

This is what she says about.

"I'm surprised it became a hot topic. When I was young, my mother wanted me to be an English professor. So I liked watching animations or Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings, but when I watched foreign movies, I had to watch them without subtitles, and when I watched the original movie, there was a tight rule to watch the original first in English. I went to 3~4 English academies and I went to study languages for a short time. I've been studying English alone since I was so young because I liked watching American dramas. If that's the secret, it's the secret. I received a lot of English education. It was so hard back then, but now I am thankful to my parents every day."

 

What is her future aspiration? 

"In fact, I am very timid, have a small voice, and talk to myself a lot, but while doing this work, I was able to speak out on my own. I learned a lot about myself, and I learned so much that I never missed learning anything while filming every day. This work was like a gift that even opened my heart to me. It's like a gift and I want to deliver my story as an actor with a wider perspective and spectrum."