Meet Jung Eun Hye, The Special Needs Actress Who Portrayed Han Ji Min's Twin Sister in Our Blues

- May 25, 2022

If you watch "Our Blues", you would have already seen Jung Eun Hye, the actress with Down Syndrome who portrayed Han Ji Min's twin sister in the drama.

In the latest episode, aired on May 22, we finally get to see the reason why Young Ok always has someone calling her and why she needs to earn money. It's because of her twin sister, who has Down Syndrome, Young Hee. And she has to go to Jeju Island due to unexpected circumstances.

After her appearance, there was much interest in the actress who played her. And it turns out that she is actually an artist who has been painting for eight years. She is signed with Jamsil Creative Studio of the Seoul Cultural Foundation. Her forte is painting portraits. And she has been doing so, at Munho River Market in Yangpyeong, Gyeonggi Province. This started in 2016, drawing the faces of 4,000 people. She became famous as the “Your Face” painter. She also shares her daily life through her YouTube channel, Your Face, Eun Hye.

In the Our Blues story, Young Hee was portrayed as someone who had schizophrenia. Which is very similar to what Eun Hye has experienced in real life. According to her mother, Jang Cha Hyun,

After graduating from school, adults with developmental disabilities have nowhere to go. Eun-hye, who stayed at home, began to regress, and she also showed symptoms of tic, vision obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and schizophrenia.

I set up an atelier in front of the school and gave Eun-hye the cleaning work, but she started drawing after seeing other children draw. As she started to focus on drawing, the symptoms of tic and schizophrenia disappeared, and she goes on to live her life as a totally normal presence in society.

Her story was also made into a documentary entitled Your Face. It won Excellence Award at the Seoul Environmental Film Festival last year.