- Apart from her successful acting career, she has been very successful with her commercial film careers. Most notably, her Pocari Sweat commercial film was a big sensation in South Korea.
- In 2006, she won the Best Actress Award for her role in April Snow at 51st Asia Pacific Film Festival and she won the Best Actress Award in foreign film at 15th China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival.
- She swims for her exercises.
- She owns two buildings in Seoul, South Korea.
- As of 2018, she has practiced pilates for 10 years and holds pilates instructor's certificate.
- Mother, with husband Hyun Bin, of a son (b. November 27, 2022).
- In 2007, she won the Best Actress Award for her role in Alone in Love at 43rd Baeksang Arts Awards.
- In 2000, she enrolled in Seoul Art University but shortly after dropped it out for her acting career.
- She has an older sister and two nephews.
- In 2001, she won MBC Best New Actress Award for her role in Delicious Proposal.
- In 2004, she won the Best Couple Award for a fellow Korean actor Seung-woo Cho for their couple role in The Classic at 9th Moscow International Love Film Festival.
- In 2003, she won Best New Actress Award at 39th Baeksang Arts Awards and 40th Grand Bell Awards and 2nd Korean Film Awards for her role in The Classic. Also, she won the Popular Star Award at the 40th Grand Bell Awards and 24th Blue Dragon Awards for her role in the Classic.
- Her bloodtype is A.
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