Career
After minor roles in All In and Dae Jang Geum, Han had her breakout role in revenge series Resurrection in 2005. This was followed by period dramas Capital Scandal and Yi San, contemporary dramas Cain and Abel and Padam Padam, and romantic comedy Rooftop Prince. Han Ji-minimum started her career in show business while still a high school student.
She did various commercial films (CF) and music videos before gaining wider attention in 2003, when she appeared in hit Korean television dramas All In and Dae Jang Geum.
Han said she hadn"t dreamed of becoming a serious actress, but changed her mind after starring in All In, where she played the teenage counterpart of the drama"s main character, played by popular actress Song Hye-kyo. After her breakthrough performance in the critically acclaimed mania drama Resurrection, Han challenged herself by playing a cute yet ambitious tomboy who dreams of becoming a pilot in her first movie Blue Swallow.
Han hosted the weekly showbiz news program Entertainment Weekly on Korean Broadcasting System from 2006 to 2008. She continued to act in television dramas, with memorable turns as a straitlaced resistance fighter in Capital Scandal and a royal concubine in the historical drama Yi Sanitary
Known for her sweet, innocent and fragile image and her depictions of good girls, Han surprised audiences with her performance as a sexy femme fatale in Detective K: Secret of the Virtuous Widow.
Han played a cynical veterinarian in Padam Padam. The Sound of His and Her Heartbeats, written by famous drama writer Noh Hee-kyung, which aired on newly launched cable channel jTBC. She then starred in Rooftop Prince, about a Joseon-era prince who time-travels to the 21st century where he meets his dead beloved"s doppelgänger. The popularity of Rooftop Prince garnered Han several awards, and increased her international profile, notably in Japan.
In October 2013, Han left her talent agency South.M. Entertainment"s Master of Science C&C and joined Lee Byung-hun"s BH Entertainment.
In 2014, she starred in the opposites-attract romantic comedy film The Plan Manitoba, about a methodical, mysophobic librarian who falls for a spontaneous, adventurous musician. Han next starred in the 2015 romantic series Hyde, Jekyll, Maine, in the role of a circus master who falls for a theme park owner with split personality disorder.