Kim So-hyun (Korean: 김소현; Hanja: 金所炫; born June 4, 1999), is a South Korean actress and one of the highest paid actresses in South Korea. She began her entertainment industry career as a child actress in 2006 and initially gained public recognition for playing a villainous young queen-to-be in the Korean historical drama Moon Embracing the Sun (2012) and a teen girl who falls into tragedy in Missing You (2013). She received critical acclaim for taking on her first lead role in national television networks by playing dual characters in teen drama Who Are You: School 2015 (2015). Since then, she has starred in many series including horror comedy Hey Ghost, Let's Fight (2016), historical melodrama The Emperor: Owner of the Mask (2017), romantic comedies Radio Romance (2018) and The Tale of No