"Hi Bye, Mama!" actress Kim Tae Hee is the daughter of the chairman of a large transport company!
It was previously reported that Kim Tae Hee's father is the chairman of a big transport company that earns an annual income of 15 billion KRW (13.8 Million USD). KBS2's "Entertainment Weekly" publicized, on Dec. 4, a list of the top 10 celebrities that are born into a wealthy family.
In the said list, actress Kim Tae Hee ranked fourth because of her father's position. The actress is very humble, but it was still discovered that she was born into a wealthy family. According to some reports, Kim Tae Hee's father is also part of the Honor Society of Korea since he donated 100 million KRW (93,000 USD) to the organization.
It seems that the actress followed her father's footsteps to help those in need and spread good influence through her fame.
South Korean actress Kim Tae-hee was born on March 29, 1980. The 40-year-old actress is considered one of South Korean's most beautiful faces. The actress is widely recognized for her portrayal in Korean dramas such as Stairway to Heaven (2003), Love Story in Harvard (2004), Iris (2009), My Princess (2011), Yong-pal (2015), and Hi Bye, Mama! (, 2020).
Kim Tae Hee's father is Kim Yoo Moon, the person who established and also the chairman of Hankook Union Transportation Company in 1984. Like her father, Kim Tae Hee is often involved in different charities to reach out and help underserved youths and broken families in the Ulsan area. Kim Tae Hee has a younger brother, Lee Wan, who is also an actor and starred in her television series Stairway to Heaven. She also has an older sister named Kim Hee Won.
The actress went to Samshin Elementary School, Daehyun Middle School and then enrolled at Ulsan Girls' High School then in 1999, Kim Tae Hee transferred to Seoul to attend college at the prestigious Seoul National University. There she was voted as president of the SNU Women's Ski Club. Then in 2005, she finished her bachelor's degree in fashion design at SNU.
In 2015, Kim Tae Hee graced the small screen playing an heiress who recovers from a coma with the help of a doctor-for-hire, the titular Yong Pal. The show was able to garner strong ratings and the actress bagged the Excellence Acting award from the Korea Drama Awards.
In September 2012, Kim Tae Hee started to go out with South Korean singer-actor Rai then they tied the knot on 19 January 2017. On May 23, 2017, we received good news when Lua Entertainment, Kim Tae Hee's agency announced that the actress was pregnant with their first child. Her first daughter was born on 25 October 2017. In February 2019, it was reported that the actress was expecting her second child and gave birth to their second daughter on 19 September 2019. The actress is known to be a practicing Catholic.
Kim Tae Hee's latest small-screen project was in 2019, a television in the family drama series titled Hi Bye, Mama!
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Written By: Sam Yap
