South Korean actor Kim Ji-won attended BVLGARI's 140th-anniversary exhibition held in Seoul. The Descendants of the Sun star was recently announced as the first-ever Korean house ambassador of the luxury jewelry brand.
She attended the exhibition, titled 'Eternal Rebirth: Art and Jewelry, Finding Inspiration from Rome', in a white dress from the Spanish brand, Isabel Sanchis Haute Couture.
K-en News reported that the exhibition at the Museum Hanmi will last from September 27 to November 3, 2024. It will include an audio guide recorded in Kim Ji-won's voice.
The actor's fans were impressed by her appearance at the BVLGARI event. An X user gushed over her and wrote:
"Jiwon is past being a queen. She's a God"
Others hailed her as a "gorgeous beauty" and "mega stunning".
"Even cemera flash is reflecting from her face. Such a gorgeous beauty." one fan wrote.
"Cause she looks MEGA STUNNING! Damn too beautiful to be real. Jiwon is unreal," another fan added.
Several fans wrote that she reminded them of her Queen of Tears character Hong Hae-in, a chaebol heiress.
"She has that Hong haein from Queen aura tonight!!!," an X user observed.
"Who else could look better than the screenshot itself? Only Jiwoni," an admirer gushed.
"OH JIWON WORE ISABEL SANCHIS DRESS BRIDAL COLLECTION 2024. BRIDAL??!! no wonder she looks so wifey here," another fan said.
Other than Kim Ji-won, big names like actor Kim Nam-joo, Kim Ji-won, SEVENTEEN's Mingyu, Lee Seo-jin, Kim Na-young, Ha Jung-woo, and Seol In-ah, also attended the event.
Kim Ji-won riding high on the success of Queen of Tears
The 31-year-old actor shot to fame with her latest show Queen of Tears. The drama aired between March 9 to April 28, 2024 on tvN. It also became available on streaming platforms like TVING and Netflix.
As per Netflix's biannual report, the show became its most-watched K-drama in the first half of 2024 and the most-viewed show in the history of tvN.
The Korea Times reported that the K-drama ranked among the Top 10 in over 68 countries, including the United States, India, Japan, Canada, and Australia.
On September 25, 2024, Queen of Tears won the Outstanding Korean Drama Award category at the 2024 Seoul International Drama Awards. Additionally, the drama's soundtrack, The Reasons of My Smiles, performed by SEVENTEEN's BSS won in the Outstanding Korean Drama OST category.
Apart from Queen of Tears, Kim Ji-won also has several other hit K-dramas like My Liberation Notes (2022), Lovestruck in the City (2020-2021), and Fight My Way (2017). Her next K-drama after Queen of Tears has not been announced yet.
In other news, she concluded her first Asia fan meet tour, BE MY ONE, in Jakarta on August 31, 2024. The tour started in Seoul on June 22 and took her to cities like Tokyo, Osaka, Taipei, Macau, Manila, and Bangkok.