1. Yoon So-yi debuted as a print and commercial model, then began acting in Ryoo Seung-wan's action-comedy film Arahan in 2004, followed by Shadowless Sword in 2005.
15 Facts About Yoon So-yi
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Yoon So-yi made her entertainment debut as a model in Graffiti Magazine in 2001.
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Yoon So-yi underwent strict training for six months in a film action school, where she had to overcome her phobia of heights.
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Yoon So-yi next starred in the TV drama Say You Love Me, a dark, twisted love story between four people.
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Yoon So-yi learned wushu for three months in Korea, then wire action from the Chinese stunt team.
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Goodbye Solo's writer Noh and veteran actress Bae Jong-ok introduced Yoon So-yi to Join Together Society, a Seoul-based Buddhist international relief agency.
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An athlete in junior high, Yoon So-yi was a Sports Model major at Dongduk Women's University, but eventually dropped out due to showbiz commitments.
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Yoon So-yi later enrolled in Dongguk University as a Theatre and Film major, slowing down her acting activities to focus on her studies and becoming known in the Korean press as one of the very few celebrity model students, with regular attendance and good grades.
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Yoon So-yi then played a former reporter struggling to adjust to life as a chaebol daughter-in-law in Glass Castle; the drama was a modest success in 2008.
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Yoon So-yi was cast as a last-minute replacement leading lady in 2009 in the quirky Lee Joon-gi-starrer Hero.
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Yoon So-yi returned to the big screen in Try to Remember, about lovers in the past whose love transcends time and brings them together in the present day, premiered at the 2010 Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival.
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Yoon So-yi was cast as Queen Seondeok in a specially commissioned 20-minute film for the 2011 Gyeongju World Culture Expo.
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Yoon So-yi immediately followed that with the Channel A cable series Color of Woman, replacing Eugene as the romantic comedy lead when the latter dropped out in the aftermath of her sister's car accident.
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Yoon So-yi headlined the 2014 daily drama Angel's Revenge in the role of a nun who avenges her sister, then joined the cast of police procedural Hidden Identity in 2015.
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In May 2016, Yoon So-yi signed with new management agency JS Pictures.