Im Sung-min
Acting
Biography
Im Sung Min is a South Korean actress and former announcer. She obtained a master's degree in Broadcasting and Media from Yonsei University. She made her debut as part of the 14th KBS open recruitment for announcers in 1991 as her family opposed her dreams of acting. After working at KBS for 10 years, she ended her contract and became a freelance announcer. She became the first female to be a quiz show MC when she hosted EBS's "Scholarship Quiz" in 2004. A year later, she began lecturing in broadcasting and acting as a professor at Baekje University of Arts, a position she held until 2016. In 2011, she married American professor Michael Unger who was teaching filmmaking at Sogang University at the time. The couple moved to New York and she acted in the off-Broadway musical "Green Card" in 2016-2017. She entered the American market in 2018 when she signed a contract with a management company and began using her English name, Julia Lim.
Known For
The story about a former top star Nam Na-bi who is getting married, moves into her in-laws' house and becomes a part of their family, going through various happenings with her in-laws and realizing the meaning of family in the process.
My Love, Madame Butterfly
The students from a luxurious residential neighborhood, the apartment complexes where the middle class resides, and the underdeveloped residential street all go to the same school and learn in the same classroom. The new semester begins, and Da In, a naïve girl, transfers to school from the countryside. Although she's raised by a single mom, she's a very cheerful literary girl. Due to her pure mindedness, she's bullied by her classmates in the beginning, but Se Chan, a boy from a luxurious town, helps her. Se Chan used to be a bully, but he now hates bullying because of his painful memory. He is confused about whether he helped Da In because he liked her or just hated bullying. The story of how Da In survives in the school where the strata exists in her own cheerful way begins.