Cha Joo-young, Lim Ji-yeon, 90s Actresses Make their Way

Actresses born in 1990 are dominating the broadcasting industry. A fierce battle is taking place between those who are appearing in active in works or are about to make their next film.

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First of all, there are Lim Ji-yeon and Cha Joo-young, who recently created life characters with the popular Netflix series "The Glory". Lim Ji-yeon completely transformed into a bad girl by playing weathercaster Park Yeon-jin, a school violence perpetrator who bullied Moon Dong-eun (Song Hye-kyo), and Cha Joo-young played Choi Hye-jeong, another one of the perpetrators.

Cha Joo-young returns first. Currently, she is showing off her presence as Jang Se-jin, the group's chief of staff, in the KBS2 weekend drama "The Real Has Come!". Cha Joo-young, or 'stewardess Hye-jeong' from "The Glory", is starting to make a good start with a 17.7% viewership in the first episode.

Lim Ji-yeon, who has been at the center of the talk for fashion in the drama "The Glory" as well as acting, was selected as a model for various brands such as beauty medical devices and games that certify her as 'mainstream'. In addition, she's also landed roles in tvN's "Lies Hidden in My Garden" which is scheduled to air in the first half of the year, and SBS' Monday-Tuesday drama "The Killing Vote" which is scheduled to air in the second half of the year.

Lim Yoona, a member of the group Girls' Generation and an actress born in 1990, is also set to make her next film with Lee Junho as JTBC's "King the Land". She will draw a romance between Goo-won (Lee Junho), a chaebol heir who cannot stand a fake smile, as a hotelier named Cheon Sa-rang who always has to smile brightly.

Expectations are high for Lim Yoona, who already proved her high-quality acting skills by proving her wide acting spectrum in the movie "Confidential Assignment 2: International" and the drama "Big Mouth" last year.

Im Soo-hyang, who recently played a leading role in MBC's "Kokdu: Season of Deity" is also the same age born in 1990. "Kokdu: Season of Deity" is a drama about what happens when a dead god, Kokdu, who comes down to the earth every 99 years to punish humans, works as a visiting doctor, and Kim Jung-hyun will show a fantasy romance with actor Im Soo-hyang by going back and forth between Kokdu and Do Jin-woo, a surgeon at Pilseong Hospital.

Im Soo-hyang plays the cheerful and cheerful doctor Han Gye-jeol and the previous life character Seol-hee in the drama, drawing favorable reviews by playing two roles, going back and forth between the previous life and the present life. Im Soo-hyang, who marks her 15th anniversary this year, will return with her next film after completing her reorganization.

There is also Kang So-ra, who made a successful acting transformation in the drama "Strangers Again" which ended in February. Kang So-ra, who played Oh Ha-ra, a lawyer specializing in divorce in "Strangers Again", showed various charms by drawing a delicate emotional line between her ex-husband Goo Eun-beom (Jang Seung-jo), and 'divorce romance'.

Kang So-ra, who stopped working as an actress for a while after getting married in 2020, after going through pregnancy and childbirth, drew attention by making a successful acting transformation with "Strangers Again".