Kim Ah Joong is a South Korean actress and model. In 2006, she rose to fame due to the movie 200 lb Beauty. In general, she used to have a rather successful career.

However, several people will likely wonder what happened to her in recent years. In fact, in 2018, false reports were indicating that she was dead.

So what really happened to Kim Ah Joong?

Kim Ah Joong was born in Seoul, South Korea, on October 16, 1982. In general, her name, which her mother provided, means become the center of Asia in case it gets spoken in Mongolian. Initially, she wanted to work in either the hospitality or entertainment industry.

Kim Ah Joong graduated with a broadcasting degree and later earned a hotel management degree from an international institute in Switzerland. Nevertheless, Kim chose not to work in the hospitality industry and debuted as an actress and model.

Kim Ah Joong performed her first scene in 2004 in Love Survival, although she was unlikely to be noticed because she played in one episode. The same year, she played a small role in Emperor of the Sea. In 2005, she played in the first movie, When Romance Meets Destiny. In 2006, she became famous thanks to 200 lb Beauty, where she played the role of an overweight ghost singer who had undergone plastic surgery.

Kim Ah Joong's brilliant acting career came with success: she was awarded the 2007 Grand Bell Awards for Best Actress, sang two singles from the movie released before her debut, and both became hits.

Although she remained popular, Kim Ah Joong enrolled in courses, training in various languages, publishing works on these subjects. Only three years later, she returned to acting with The Accidental Couple, where she was nominated for the KBS Drama Awards.

In 2012, Kim Ah Joong starred in the medical drama Sign.

Against this background, in 2011, Kim faced a tax evasion scandal. She was fined by the National Tax Service but was not imprisoned. Because of the tax evasion scandal, she was banned from the South Korean TV screen for three years but continued to play in films; one of her films in this period was a play job - The Grand Heist.

From 2014 through the end of her career, Kim did not leave the screens; after all, when the period after her tax evasion scandal ended, she returned to the South Korean TV screens. She took on roles in TV series such as "Punch" and "Wanted," where she played the character of television producer Jeong Hye-In, the main character in "Wanted."

While Kim continued to play in films in the period of 2011-2014, the film in which she played a role was a romantic comedy, Live Up to Your Name. This film was highly successful, and the sweetness of Kim Ah Joong added an entertaining touch to the movie.

In 2018, Kim was involved in a car accident where she ran a red light, hitting a motorcyclist. Though the incident caused public attention, she cooperated fully with the investigation.

One month after the car accident, there were rumors that Kim had died, and her Wikipedia page was updated to reflect this. However all the unreliable information about this was inconsistently rejected by her agency, stating that Kim was in professional activities.

In 2019, Kim played one of the leading roles in the film Bad Guys: Reign of Chaos in the role of Mi Young, and in 2022, she began to participate by playing the lead role in a drama named Grid.

In addition, in 2023, Kim Ah Joong appeared in the program Unexpected Business Season 3, describing her thoughts regarding marriage. Kim told the staff that marriage is a person's luck because finding someone who can trust their life is difficult.

Last year, it was also reported that Kim Ah Joong was in discussions to star in a new drama titled "War of Daechidong's Number Ones," which focuses on star instructors in Seoul's private education scene. Her agency confirmed that she is reviewing the project. There is no new information that followed.

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