

She played the role of Lee Soo-yeon, bullied by her schoolmates and called "the daughter of the murderer", who gets kidnapped and sexually assaulted while trying to save her friend. Being dubbed the "Queen of Child Actors" (아역퀸) by the Korean press, she was one of the most praised child actors of her generation.

Kim reunited with co-stars from Rooftop Prince ( Park Yoo-chun) and Moon Embracing the Sun ( Yeo Jin-goo) respectively, in a melodrama Missing You. 2012–2014: Rising popularity and teenage roles She then starred in a family comedy film, Spy Papa, about parents and children's relationship during inter-Korean relations in 1974.
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She continued to portray the child counterparts of the female protagonists in television series such as The Thorn Birds (2011), The Duo (2011) and Sin of a Family (2011). Kim was cast through a competition of 500:1. Kim was confirmed to make her big-screen debut in Man of Vendetta (2010) as Joo Hye-rin, a daughter of a well-respected pastor who gets kidnapped. That year, she would go on to be cast in Becoming a Billionaire and King of Baking, Kim Takgu. She signed a management contract with SidusHQ in 2010. Then, she diligently increased her appearances from A Happy Woman (2007), Que Sera Sera (2007), Hometown of Legends (2008), My Name Is Pity (2008), Wife and Woman (2009) and Ja Myung Go (2009). Kim debuted as a child actress in 2006, playing a supporting role in the Drama City special "Ten Minute Minor". Career 2006–2011: Beginnings as a child actress With this decision, Kim felt it would allow her to dedicate more time to both filming and studying. Kim chose homeschooling for her high school education because she did not want to give up her education and career. She said that while managing her acting career, she barely had time to study during her mid-school days (which made her have to take her exams unprepared) and missed out in activities with her classmates, and this similarly occurred in her elementary school days.

In 2016, according to Singapore's national newspaper The Straits Times, Kim revealed in an email interview with the paper why she chose homeschooling instead of enrolling in high school. Kim attended the 79th entrance ceremony held at Hanyang University in Seongdong-gu, Seoul on February 28, 2018. The same year, she enrolled at Hanyang University's Department of Theater, through rolling admission.

She was subsequently homeschooled for her secondary education, and passed her high school graduation exams by 2017. She then graduated from Yongin Munjung Middle School in 2015. Kim transferred from Hoe-ryong Elementary School in Gyeonggi-do to Towol Elementary School and graduated in February 2012. Her father died when she was nine years old. She moved to South Korea in 2003, when she was four years old. Kim So-hyun was born on June 4, 1999, in Australia, and has a younger brother.
