News that actress Lee Ha-nui is joining the comprehensive entertainment company ‘TEAMHOPE’ is attracting attention.

TEAMHOPE is a comprehensive entertainment company established with the vision of passionately supporting the diverse activities of actors, discovering promising new actors, and delivering hope to the public through healthy content. Actors Byun Yo-han, Um Tae-goo, Lee Ga-seop, Lee Joo-young, and mixed martial arts fighter Choi Seung-woo are affiliated with the company. Lee Ha-nui joined TEAMHOPE based on trust with her manager, with whom she has worked for a long time.

Lee Ha-nui has shown a wide spectrum of acting in various genres from comedy to action, including the films ‘Tazza: The Hand of God’ (2014), ‘Robot, Sound’ (2016), ‘Silence’ (2017), ‘Brother’ (2017), ‘Extreme Job’ (2019), ‘Black Money’ (2019), ‘Ghost’ (2023), ‘Killing Romance’ (2023), ‘Alien+Human’ Part 1 (2022) and Part 2 (2024).

Lee Ha-nui has also been receiving much love from viewers for her signature immersive acting in numerous TV dramas. Lee Ha-nui appeared in SBS‘s ‘Modern Farmer’ (2014), ‘Come Back, Mister’ (2016), Wonder Woman (2021), The Fiery Priest Season 1 (2019), MBC’s ‘Pasta’ (2010), ‘The Indomitable Daughter-in-Law’ (2011), ‘Rebel: Thief Who Stole the People’ (2017), ‘Flowers That Bloom at Night’ (2024), etc. In the recently concluded SBS Friday-Saturday drama ‘The Fiery Priest 2’, she portrayed Park Kyung-sun, who transformed from a ‘villain prosecutor’ to a ‘passionate prosecutor’, and was active as an ‘irreplaceable comic action queen’.

In particular, Lee Ha-nui gave a passionate performance as Jo Yeo-hwa in ‘Flowers that Bloom at Night’, which broke the record for the highest viewership rating of all time for an MBC Friday-Saturday drama last year with a peak viewership rating of 18.4%, and showed off her prowess by winning 7 awards at major award ceremonies. Lee Ha-nui won the ‘Grand Prize’ at the ‘15th Korea Drama Awards’ for ‘Flowers that Bloom at Night’, and also won the ‘Best Actress Award in the TV category’ at the ‘60th Baeksang Arts Awards’, the ‘Beckdellian Actor Award in the Series category’ at ‘Baekdell Day 2024’, the ‘Viewers‘ Choice Actor of the Year Award’ at the ‘29th Consumers’ Day KCA Culture and Entertainment Awards’, the ‘Best Acting Award in the Drama category’ at the ‘32nd Korea Culture and Entertainment Awards’, the ‘Best Actress Award in a Mid-length Drama’ at the ‘2024 SEOULCON APAN STAR AWARDS’, and the ‘Best Actress Award’ at the ‘2024 MBC Drama Awards’. proved her true worth.

In addition, Lee Ha-nui has been conveying her inner and outer beauty to the public through various activities such as entertainment programs, pictorials, and advertisements. In addition, Lee Ha-nui has been working as an ambassador for the international relief and development organization Oxfam Korea since 2016, and has continued to do warm good deeds such as supporting emergency relief activities related to disasters, women, and water, as well as donating to women and children living in refugee camps in Bangladesh.

Choi Yoon-na, Donga.com reporter yyynnn@donga.com