Actor Kim Yong-ji. [Herald POP (now Herald Muse) via The Herald Business]
Actor Kim Yong-ji. [Herald POP (now Herald Muse) via The Herald Business]

Actor Kim Yong-ji, 35, best known for her role as Hotaru in the drama series "Mr. Sunshine," has married without any prior dating rumors.

Kim held a private outdoor wedding ceremony Sunday, according to entertainment industry sources. The ceremony was held without advance announcement, and her husband is said to be a non-celebrity.

The news spread through SNS posts by fellow actors. Kim Go-eun shared photos from the wedding Sunday, tagging Kim Yong-ji's account. The images showed Kim Yong-ji in a wedding dress, holding a red bouquet, standing beside her groom as they faced guests at an outdoor venue decorated with a hanok backdrop. Kim Go-eun and Kim Yong-ji were both born in 1991 and were classmates in the class of 2010 at the Korea National University of Arts.

Bae Jung-nam, who appeared alongside Kim in "Mr. Sunshine," also attended as a guest. He posted a photo taken with the newlyweds and wrote, "Yong-ji, congratulations on your wedding." The groom's face in the photo was covered with an emoji.

Kim made her debut as an advertising model in 2015. She began her acting career in 2018 with the tvN drama series "Mr. Sunshine," playing the role of Hotaru, and went on to appear in "Watcher," "Lies Hidden in My Garden" and the SBS series "The King: Eternal Monarch." She gained further recognition in the 2020 tvN series "Tale of the Nine-Tailed" as Gi Yu-ri, and later appeared in "Tale of the Nine-Tailed 1938" and the Netflix series "Somebody."


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