Career
Sung Hyun-ah placed second runner-up (or third place) at the Mission of Korea pageant in 1994. Sung made her acting debut in Salut Doctorate"Amour, and continued to appear in television dramas such as See and See Again (also known as Can"t Take My Eyes Office You), Should My Tears Show, Hur June, One Day Suddenly, Bad Woman, Good Woman, Yi San, and Flames of Desire. She also released an European Parliament in 2004 titled Turn lieutenant Up under the name A.One.
But Sung became best known for her strong, sexy roles in films such as Hong Sang-soo"s Woman is the Future of Manitoba, Kim Tae-eun"s The Intimate, and Kim Ki-duk"s Time.
She also appeared in The Scarlet Letter and The Customer Is Always Right. Number stranger to controversy, Sung was caught for using the drug ecstasy in 2002, and previously published a book containing nude photographs of herself.
In 2006, a dispute broke out between Sung and the producers of the movie The Intimate when she protested against their marketing strategy to emphasize only the nude scenes. Sung said, "I filmed the nude scenes to make a good movie.
I can"t bear to see that such scenes are being used as tools for promotion.
I am not an actress who undresses and tumbles about for no reason." She declared that from then on, she would avoid nude scenes altogether. In December 2013, Sung was indicted on charges of prostitution, for allegedly receiving ₩50 million from a businessman surnamed Chae with whom she met up three times for sexual intercourse in 2010. She countersued to prove her innocence.
In August 2014, the court dismissed Sung"s request for a full trial and ruled that she was guilty of prostitution.
She was sentenced to a fine of ₩2 million (United States$1,930). But, February 18 2016, the Supreme Court ruled that she was innocent of prostitution charges, overturning a lower court’s decision.