Bahk Eun-ji has been with The Korea Times since 2012, building a career across multiple desks. She began at the Business Desk, where she conducted in-depth interviews with key figures in Korea's corporate world. Later, she moved to the Politics & City Desk, focusing on education policy and social affairs. She later served as team leader of the digital content team, leading curation efforts on the newspaper’s homepage and reshaping print stories for social media audiences to enhance digital reach. Now back on the Politics Desk, she covers the National Assembly and the Ministry of National Defense, with a renewed focus on political developments.
Will Park Shin-hye receive prime minister's award?
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By Bahk Eun-ji
Actress Park Shin-hye is expected to receive the Prime Minister’s Commendation in recognition for her hallyu contribution, at the 2015 Korea Popular Culture Awards, supervised by the Korea Creative Content Agency on Oct. 29.
Actors Kim Soo-hyun, Lee Min-ho, K-pop bands Girls’ Generation and 2NE1 have been awarded for leading the Korean wave.
Park, 25, is most likely to get the award because she is almost the only actress with so many fans in several Asian countries.
Park, who debuted in 2003 in the TV drama “Stairway to Heaven,” on SBS, became a top star in Korea when she starred in “You’re Beautiful” in 2009, and in“The Heirs,” in 2013.
She has been fans in many Asian countries including Japan, China, Thailand and the Philippines.