[HanCinema's News] Jin Ki-joo returns with "From Now On, Showtime!"

Jin Ki-joo has come a long way. The thirty-three year old actress made her debut in 2015, making her most notable appearance in the 2015 short time-travel drama "Splash Splash Love" as the second lead. But the widely acclaimed film "Little Forest" greatly boosted her profile, and Jin Ki-joo shortly earned the lead in "Come and Hug Me" in 2018. After middling reception to that melodrama and "The Secret Life of My Secretary" in 2019, Jin Ki-joo's career was again on a downswing.

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But "Homemade Love Story" brought Jin Ki-joo into the spotlight once again, and now she has another chance to play a leading lady in a mainline television drama with the upcoming "From Now On, Showtime!" that deals with magic and ghosts. It's a cheerful story for the lateblooming actress, who worked for three years after college as a Samsung consultant while taking acting classes on the side to pursue her dream before an unexpected opportunity came in the form of her briefly becoming a supermodel.

Jin Ki-joo is an example of the odd arcs a career in the South Korean entertainment industry. If awkward as an actress in her twenties, in her thirties Jin Ki-joo now expresses the perfect blend of traits for a family-friendly performer, with a light sense of humor that mixes well with fundamental sincerity and a try-hard attitude. These are traits Jin Ki-joo has in common with the role she has in "From Now On, Showtime!" as a hot-blooded policewoman. "From Now On, Showtime!" begins airing on April 23rd.

Written by William Schwartz