Yeom Hye-ran is always present in Netflix‘s popular dramas. She displayed her overwhelming presence with her absolutely divine acting in ‘The Glory’ and ‘Masked Girl’, and in ‘Fooled in a Box’, which is being released from the 7th, she has stimulated the tear ducts of global viewers with a character representing all mothers in the world.

Yeom Hye-ran plays the role of Ae-soon’s mother, Gwang-rye in ‘Fooled in a Box’, which depicts the love and life of Ae-soon (IU) and Gwan-sik (Park Bo-gum), who were born in Jeju, across the four seasons. After her first husband passed away from illness, she worked as a haenyeo to support her second husband, a bum, and three children. She portrays a mother in the 1960s who, while seemingly blunt, struggles to prevent her eldest daughter, Ae-soon, from having to live a difficult life like her.

In particular, when she hears that her eldest daughter, Ae-soon, who was sent to her uncle‘s house as an adopted daughter, is going through hardships without even getting a single croaker to eat, she visits her uncle’s house, throws two bundles of croaker, and then takes Ae-soon‘s hand and brings her home. The scene where she visits Ae-soon’s homeroom teacher and bows to her in order to cheer her up, despite having borrowed money from the class president because she was poor, is considered a ‘tear-jerker’ that makes viewers cry.

In particular, the scene in ‘I Was Fooled’ Yeom Hye-ran is receiving rave reviews from viewers for showing a completely different side of herself from the characters she played in previous Netflix hit dramas, ‘The Glory’ and ‘The Mask Girl’. In ‘The Glory’, she played a character who does not lose her lovability despite being a victim of domestic violence who dreams of revenge, and in ‘The Mask Girl’, she played a crazy maternal love who does not hesitate to kill to avenge her son, drawing hot responses. After the release of ‘I Fooled You’, SNS was flooded with rave reviews such as “Yeom Hye-ran has changed her face again”.

Yeom Hye-ran‘s performance, which will further enhance the quality of Netflix’s hit dramas, is expected to continue in the original movie ‘84 Square Meters’, which is scheduled to be released in the third quarter. This is a thriller that depicts the story of Woo-sung (Kang Ha-neul), a 30-something office worker who succeeded in buying his own home and is suffering from noise from an unknown source between floors. Yeom Hye-ran plays Eun-hwa, a representative of the residents who wants to protect her apartment.

Reporter Seungmi Lee smlee@donga.com

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