Which Korean drama enlightenment is your?
For many post-80s and post-90s generations, their Korean drama enlightenment is not "Blue Life and Death Love" nor "Stairway to Heaven", but the 682-episode next meal sitcom in 1998 - "Shunfeng Obstetrics and Gynecology".
This old drama that scored a high score of 9 points on Douban, won the popularity of Song Huiqiao and Kim So-yeon, two major K-pop actresses, and let the two child stars enter the public eye.
The savage girl "Bai Meida" and the bully boy "Jin Yican" are still deeply imprinted in the memories of many people, right?
Twenty-two years later, we have all grown up chasing the drama, what happened to the two child stars?
On March 11, according to media reports, the fate of the child star Kim Sung-eun, who played "Baek Mei Da", over the years can be described as lamentable!
She is 30 years old this year, experienced school bullying, suffered from depression, and then plastic surgery to seek relief, and let go of a fight to become a star, but the acting career unfortunately did not have much improvement, and now retreated to the network to become an anchor.
And the "Jin Yican" who took another life path - child star Jin Chengmin only became a hurried visitor in the show business circle.
He spent most of his time in school and now has nothing to do with Vanity Fair.
Growing up, "Bai Meida" and "Jin Yican"
How can the child stars in Korean dramas be so good at acting?
Presumably many people have such a cognition, in "Shunfeng Obstetrics and Gynecology", 17-year-old Song Huiqiao starred in longevity comedy for the first time, while 8-year-old Kim Sung-eun let people see the shadow of "genius".
"Baek Mi-da", a completely anti-traditional Korean drama child character, she is not pretty, not well-behaved, not smart, and even occasionally unfriendly, but she can always impress the audience when they are most caught off guard.
Due to her popularity, Bai Meida's role even surpassed that of the youngest daughter of the Wu family, "Wu Huijiao", played by Song Huiqiao.
Kim Sung-eun, who plays Baek Mi-da, has an ordinary family and an ordinary appearance, and has repeatedly failed to audition, but this time he was selected because he was not beautiful.
Playing a three-point delicate, three-point willful, and four-point innocent "Little Witch of the Mixed World" was played, 8-year-old Kim Sung-eun became a hit after the broadcast of "Downwind Obstetrics and Gynecology".
Bai Meida and Dad, a living treasure
Such fame is a double-edged sword for young Kim Sung-eun.
In 1999, Kim Sung-un received a flood of advertising invitations, and the media reported that she had received at least 30 advertisements, in addition to catering, and even air conditioning advertisements and car advertisements that children could not shoot at that time.
Only 8 years old, she once earned 100 million won a month, which is more expensive than many popular stars, she not only bought an apartment for her family, but also earned a start-up fee for her father.
However, the role of "Baek MeiDa", which does not meet the definition of "cute girl" in the traditional Korean aesthetic, makes the young Kim Sung-eun suffer bullying from classmates for a long time.
What should have been a carefree childhood was distorted by entering the adult world prematurely.
On the way to school, there will be extreme illegitimate meals to follow her;
At school, there will be classmates who don't know her, insult her, prank her, throw her bag into the toilet...
All this is only because she played "Bai Meida", because "Bai Meida" is a child who does not understand politeness and is not likeable, and strangers equate Kim Sung-eun with Bai Meida.
During that time, under the full work schedule and huge mental pressure, Kim Sung-eun suffered from depression and once wanted to commit suicide.
At the age of 18, in order to get Kim Sung-un out of depression, her family sent her abroad to study at university in New Zealand.
As an adult, Kim Sung-un returned to South Korea and wanted to continue her acting career, but found that the fiercely competitive Korean entertainment industry was already difficult to find her place.
Child stars have sprung up, and the "three golds" who are a few years younger than her: Kim So-hyun, Kim Sailun, and Kim Yu-jeong have become the most popular child stars.
From left in the picture above: Kim Sai-lun, Kim Yu-jeong, Kim So-hyun
Park Shin-hye, Park Bao-young, Kang So-ra and Shin Se-kyung, who were born in 1990 at the same age as her, have become popular flowers that can carry ratings.
From left in the picture above: Park Shin-hye, Kang So-ra, Park Bao-young
She felt that her height (152 cm) and appearance limited her development, so she made a bold decision: plastic surgery.
In 2011, she participated in a plastic surgery program on Korean television, exposing her ambitions and plastic surgery process to the public.
She had six patches: double eyelids, jawbone, cheekbones, chin pads, and nose, but with bad luck, the surgery damaged her facial nerves, causing her mouth to be crooked.
This is not enough, in order to get rid of the label of "Bai Meida", she made a bolder decision in 2015: to make a restrictive movie "Fancy Female Ghost".
Take off your clothes, take off your child star label, take off your past self.
This round of out-of-the-box performances did gain a wave of attention for her, but the focus of the public was different from what she expected, and most people were surprised by her contrast: The memory of Bai Meida was still a child!
Above: Stills from "Fancy Female Ghost"
Not every Korean female star can smoothly rewrite the fate of her acting career by letting go.
"Parasite" heroine Zhao Ruzhen, known as the "Korean version of Shu Qi", she floated a few years after the bold performance of "Harem: The Emperor's Concubine", and only fortunately met the script of "Parasite", which won the Qinglong Shadow last year.
Kim Sung-eun's "Fancy Female Ghost", the Douban score is only 3.5 points, in the final analysis, did not choose the right script.
After a moment of hustle and bustle, her star path fell silent again.
In October 2018, she appeared on the stage of the play "Boying Boying", and people found that she had changed again.
This time, she removed the prosthesis and regained her previous face.
She said I prefer the way I am now: "Although some people say that my nose is ugly, even if I have nose surgery, I will not become a beautiful woman, rather than being stressed again after nose surgery, it is better to live like this." 」 ”
She once said, "I hate being called Meda," and now she can finally face her knot.
"People often say I'm not grateful, and Meda makes me money, and that's true. But when I was a child, the way I expressed it was to say what I wanted to say directly, and some people saw Meda as a rude, greedy child, although in reality I was very polite, but the audience was besieged because Meida saw me as a completely different person, and I hated it. ”
For two years, she couldn't be an actress, no one invited to film, and she tried to work as a cosmetics company, but she seemed to run into a wall.
In the end, in order to survive, she followed the advice of her friends, became a network anchor, and completely gave up her dream of being an actress.
In the live broadcast, she is just like the original Bai Meida, with a bright smile.
Someone asked her how she was doing?
Some people also mentioned her "Fancy Female Ghost" that broke the rules.
"It's my choice to perform whatever I want, and for me, making this film is not painful or stressful, and there is no need for outside sympathy at all," she said. ”
Kim Sung-eun was born on July 23, 1990, and is about to turn 30 this year.
She found her place in the life of the anchor.
On social networking, she posted a photo with her dog and posted: "There is no need to feel sorry for me, this kind of life is my own choice, whether you believe it or not, I am neither painful nor stressed." ”
Let's hope this is her plea for mercy!
Kim Sung-eun's story is here, I have to mention: in 2019, Choi Shirley and Gu Ho-la, two Korean female stars in their 20s, have ended their young lives due to depression, which makes people see how bad the living conditions of these "underage migrant workers" in the Korean entertainment industry are!
From left in the picture above: Gu Hola and Cui Shirley
There are also Lee Shengli, Park Youtian, Jung Joon Young... These young idols who caused the "earthquake" of the Korean entertainment industry lost their nature in the huge vanity fair.
From left in the picture above: Zheng Junying, Lee Shengli, Park Youtian
Their parents only care about how much wealth they can make, and their company only cares about how much they can bring, but no one tells them how to behave, how to face great public opinion, how to grow up with a sound mind.
I remember that in "Legal High", there is such an apt line about child stars: "There are two modes of successful child stars in general, one is a sad money-making machine that is manipulated by adults like dolls and chased by whips; the other is a precocious hairy child who knows how to observe the color and command." ”
The Death of a Child Star! This is not a phenomenon unique to the Korean entertainment industry.
Before there was Hollywood Macaulay Calkin in "Little Devil Home", was eaten by fame and fortune, burdened by the greed of his parents, drugged and drunk for a time, and took a life from the god of death.
After there is a small binbin in Taiwan, after growing up, there is nothing else to do, can only continue to let his son be a child star, two marriages gave birth to three sons, it seems that he will continue to give birth, continue to earn the money of the star father.
Every flower has an opening season, and for many child stars, they are prematurely forced into Vanity Fair, losing not only their childhood, but also their entire lives.
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