Career
Hwang Shin-hye was studying to become a flight attendant at Inha Technical College, established in 1958 as an annex to Inha Institute of Technology (parent institution of Inha University), when she began her career as a model for Taepyeongyang Cosmetics. She would also go on to star in a large number of films by director Park Chul-soo, beginning with The Woman Who Walks on Water. Hwang"s last film was the 2002 gangster comedy Family, in which she played a room salon madam.
After the television series Match Made in Heaven in 2004, she went on a five-year hiatus from acting, but remained in the public eye by releasing a book and video on health and lifestyle in 2005, and for launching a successful line of women"s lingerie named Elypry in 2006.
Hwang also began hosting talk shows such as The Queen and Talk Club Actors, and the long-running makeover show Let Maine In. Hwang resumed her acting career in 2009, with both leading and supporting roles in the romantic comedy The Queen Returns (2009), the mystery drama Home Sweet Home (2010), the melodrama Bachelor"s Vegetable Store (2011), and the sitcom Family (2012).
