Kim Min-ha mentions changes after losing 17kg: "I worked for 2 years for the role"

Actor Kim Min-ha recently gained attention for losing 17kg, and she expressed her conviction about her acting career rather than focusing on her appearance changes. On the 6th episode of the MBN·Channel S variety show ″Jeon Hyun-moo Plan 4,″ which aired on the 7th, Kim Min-ha visited long-established restaurants in Incheon with Jeon Hyun-moo and Kwak Tube. Upon meeting Kim Min-ha, Jeon Hyun-moo expressed surprise, saying, ″You really lost a lot of weight. You look like a completely different person.″ Kim Min-ha also said, ″I really lost a lot of weight,″ but showed puzzlement about why the weight loss became such a big topic, saying, ″I wondered why this is such a big deal.″ Jeon Hyun-moo explained, ″In our country, if someone loses a lot of weight, it becomes a hot topic for a whole week.″ Kim Min-ha previously revealed in an interview about the movie ″Hana Korea″ that she lost 16 to 17kg over about two years. She explained, ″It was a total of two years of weight loss,″ and added, ″Not only for the known works but also for the projects afterward, I had to lose a lot of weight for the roles. Almost 90% was because of the roles.″ She also emphasized that she did not lose weight rapidly in a short period. In the broadcast, Kim Min-ha said, ″I haven’t eaten since last night″ for the mukbang, and visited various long-established restaurants in Incheon with Jeon Hyun-moo and Kwak Tube, including an electric roasted chicken restaurant, a Baengnyeongdo cold noodles restaurant, and a sushi restaurant. After tasting the cold noodles, Kim Min-ha exclaimed, ″It tastes completely different!″ and showed a mukbang while eating steamed sea bream. Jeon Hyun-moo introduced Kim Min-ha as having shown fresh and realistic acting in ″Pachinko.″ He also praised her singing skills in relation to the congratulatory stage at the ″Blue Dragon Series Awards.″ Kim Min-ha revealed her past experience of joining a singer agency and her dream of becoming a jazz singer. When asked about acting, she said, ″I want to play roles that reveal the depths of a person’s inner self. I want to act as a character full of desire, like in ’Black Swan’.″ When asked if she was interested in romance roles, she said, ″I don’t think I’m interested in roles where I have to be pretty.″ Regarding her appearance, the topic of freckles came up. When Jeon Hyun-moo said, ″If you search ’Kim Min-ha’ on portals, freckles come up. That’s very charming,″ Kim Min-ha said, ″I never really minded or worried about them since I was young. Only after starting this work did I hear a lot that they were unique. At first, I wondered, ’Why is this a problem?’″ Additionally, Kim Min-ha said she often meets with Jung Eun-chae and Jung Eun-ji, who also appeared in ″Pachinko,″ and consults with Jung Ho-yeon about her concerns.