YTN Star's Top 6 Actresses of 2021
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The trend in 2021 was online video service (OTT). Due to the spread of COVID-19, more and more people started looking for works in their home turf instead of visiting theaters and works that secured ingenious stories and solid casts centered in domestic and international OTT have gained huge popularity.
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YTN Star selected works that received good responses this year and actors who showed outstanding performances in December. Among the top six works, most are presented on OTT platforms and they are, "Hellbound", "Happiness - Drama", "D.P" and "Squid Game".
The best male and female actors were also naturally selected for their good performances this year. Examples include actors Yoo Ah-in, Jo Woo-jin, Koo Kyo-hwan, Kim Shin-rok and Jung Ho-yeon. Here are some of YTN Star's best dramas and stars of 2021.
Go Hyun-jung revealed the dignity of a 'great actress' through her first return in two years with "Reflection of You". It vividly expresses a person who marries a chaebol family member and lives a happy and relaxed life, but falls in dangerous love with her close friend's lover. Not only did she perform delicately with her outstanding acting skills, but she also appeared with her beauty when she was in her prime and played the character perfectly.
Shin Min-a showed what 'humanization of lovely' is through "Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha". She expressed the changes experienced by a dentist who coincidentally goes down to a sea village and adapts to the village with her unique lovely charm. She once again proved her status as an idolized actress by drawing attention with the costumes and accessories she wore throughout the drama.
She became a world star through her first debut drama "Squid Game". Jung Ho-yeon, who plays the role of a North Korean defector Sae-byeok, who participates in survival to make money for her family in "Squid Game", performed from sharp psychological warfare to explosive hand-to-hand combat, and as a result, she has 23.8 million followers on her social media now.
When Kim Go-eun was first cast as Yumi in "Yumi's Cells", concerns were raised that it was a miss cast, but viewers who watched the drama said, "Kim Go-eun is Yumi herself". Kim Go-eun's romance acting drew sympathy and tears from viewers, which is why expectations are high for "Yumi's Cells - Season 2", which will air next year.
Kim Shin-rok, who previously showed impressive acting skills through "The Cursed" and "Beyond Evil" flew up through "Hellbound". She played the role of Park Jeong-jae who was suddenly sentenced to hell in front of her two young children and waits for the lion of hell in fear, performing wonderfully throughout the work. Fear for the end of her life and anxiety and relief about her children to be left behind. She made the work shine by expressing all the emotional roller coasters that humans can have with her whole body.
Chae Soo-bin in "Sweet and Sour", which betrayed those who expected obvious romantic comedy movies, improved her immersion in the work by digesting her brutally realistic relationship better than anyone else. Her acting, which delicately captures emotional changes in front of dating, drew evaluation that it was realistic enough to draw sympathy or anger from many people. In particular, she, who gave the audience sweetness with her lovely charm more than anyone else and sourness with her later reversed appearance, successfully showed a desirable example of transformation through "Sweet and Sour".