Shin Eun-soo

Shin Eun-soo is a South Korean actress who started her career as a young teenager and grew into one of the most loved young stars of her generation. She touched many hearts as Yoon Chung-ah, a deaf student who speaks with her eyes and hands, in Twinkling Watermelon (2023). She also drew praise as Joo Hyeon-ju in Light Shop (2024).

Early life

Shin Eun-soo was born on October 22, 2002, in Seoul, South Korea. When she was in the sixth grade of elementary school, she sang in a choir and received a casting offer from JYP Entertainment. She passed the audition and joined JYP in 2014 as a trainee, where she trained for both singing and acting.

Career and breakthrough

She made her acting debut in the film Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned (2016), winning the lead role of Su-rin against more than 300 other hopefuls, acting beside Gang Dong-won. In the same year she played the young Se-hwa in The Legend of the Blue Sea (2016). She later won a Best Young Actress award for Bad Papa (2018), where she played Yoo Young-sun.

Popular roles

In Twinkling Watermelon (2023), Shin Eun-soo played Yoon Chung-ah, a girl born deaf who seems cold at first but dreams of a bright and sparkling life. Her acting in sign language moved many viewers. In Light Shop (2024), she played Joo Hyeon-ju, a schoolgirl who visits a strange light shop every night for her mother and slowly faces a painful truth.

Recent work

Shin Eun-soo took the lead role in the Netflix film Love Untangled (2025), playing Park Se-ri, a bright nineteen-year-old girl with very curly hair who plans to win her first love. The sweet film showed her fun and natural charm and proved she can now lead a story as an adult actress.