Let's ask an audience who likes to watch Korean dramas: Who is the most popular mother in Korean dramas?
Kim Hae-sook will definitely have a place.
Although she does not see the exact number in the official statistics, she has been assisted by viewers who love her, and she has played the role of mother in more than 50 works.
Because of this, Kim Hae-sook is affectionately called "National Mother" by the Korean people.
She and Luo Wenji and other "labor models" are all mother professional households.
Almost all K-pop stars have cooperated with her, or mother and son or mother-daughter: Zhao Yincheng, Liu Yaren, Song Huiqiao, have also had intimate cooperation with her, calling Kim Hae-sook a mother.
There are not many stars who have not played the role of her son or daughter.
But almost no audience knows that Kim Hae-sook actually debuted as a jade girl when she debuted.
In 1975, at the age of 19, Kim Hae-sook made her debut through MBC's seventh recruitment.
She was very young at the time, and Kim Hae-sook attracted countless eyes with her outstanding appearance.
Since her debut, Kim Hae-sook has been active in front of the screen and has hardly rested, which is why everyone calls her a "labor model".
From playing a single female role to playing the role of a professional mother, Kim Hae-sook has suffered a lot in the process of transformation.
Today, she is loved by the audience because she often plays the role of warm, kind, conscientious and tolerant mother.
But the reason why she decided to play the role of mother was very sad.
Jin Hae-sook, who has a good career, was attracted by the entrepreneurial ideas of insiders and also went to the sea to run a cafeteria.
However, she neglected to manage it, and she did not think that the water in the food industry was very deep.
Due to the excessive investment in the early stage, Kim Hae-sook invested two properties and some private property in the early days of business problems, with the idea of having to stick to it, but in the end failed to keep the cafeteria.
What she was left with was a place of external debt and a life of destitution.
"I used to run a cafeteria because I wanted to improve my life, but it put me at a low point in my career."
This is what Kim Hae-sook herself said during the interview.
"Because I couldn't operate, I didn't know if I was in arrears of rent, until there was a foreign debt, and I realized that things were a bit big."
"The restaurant should have been closed at the time, but I'm sure it will pay it back, and the debt is snowballing, and it's getting more and more."
After having to close the restaurant, Kim Hae-sook had to endure phone harassment from debt collectors.
"Borrowing money for a restaurant, stopping my acting career, having a foreign debt, and being most afraid of being called," she said.
"When a stranger's voice appears in the earpiece, my heart gets pounding with fright," Kim recalls, "and sometimes when the doorbell at home suddenly rings, I'll be scared and just hide."
"Once, a creditor found someone from the hotel to threaten me, and at that time I was really scared, it was terrible."
And she lived this life for five years.
It was at this time that she decided to pick up her acting career again and began to play the role of mother.
In addition to the works, Kim Hae-sook in life is also a mother of two children.
The eldest daughter has reached adulthood and has started a company of her own.
The second daughter's personality is very similar to her mother's, introverted but tenacious.
When pregnant with her second daughter, Kim Hae-sook happened to meet a role when she lied to the director that she was not pregnant in order to win the role.
Although it was eventually replaced, she had to wrap her stomach around her stomach for months in order to round the lie.
She has never lied about her career again.
Kim Hae-sook married at the age of 24, but she almost never revealed information about the marriage, and her husband had died when something went wrong at the restaurant, so she was not given any help.
Kim Hae-sook's new drama "Gu Jingyi", which once again plays a golden supporting role, will premiere on October 30.
The TV series tells the story of a drunken policeman who happens to encounter a serial murder and then a series of comedic stories that happen.
Whether Li Ying'ai can break through the shackles of the great changjin depends on this TV series.
Kim Hae-sook, who has achieved fame and success, does not have much fame and fortune to fight for now.
Now it's really time to act because I love it.