Kim Hee Sun Cancels Rent For Tenants In Her Owned Building + ‘Alice’ Premiere

Sep 02, 2020 | by Julian Danilo

Veteran actress Kim Hee Sun cancels rent for her building amid the resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea.

Some publications reported Kim Hee Sun participating in the "Kind Landlord" campaign due to the COVID-19 pandemic resurgence in South Korea. The said campaign helps tenants have lower rent than other market prices to make their businesses afloat.

One tenant told other media outlets that Kim Hee Sun did not receive a month's rent for the actress's building. The tenant continued that the actress was afraid that the merchants would be in financial trouble due to the pandemic.

Kim Hee Sun's label, Hinge Entertainment, released an official statement regarding this news. The label stated that the actress didn't mean for the information to be made public, saying that she was embarrassed that the story made headlines.

In other news, Kim Hee Sun will be starring in the sci-fi drama "Alice," premiering on August 28. The drama did not hesitate to show the viewers what's to come in the upcoming episodes with tense, dramatic actions, car chase scenes, fight scenes, and surging emotions.

"Alice" is a new sci-fi thriller starring Joo Won as Park Jin Gyeom, a detective who discovers time travel and winds up crossing paths with a woman who looks like her mother, played by Kim Hee Sun.

In the premiere of "Alice," viewers learn that Kim Hee Sun's character, Yoon Tae Yi, had her child in 1997, while on a mission from 2050, rather than risking him to be exposed the side effects of time travel required for her return. Tae Yi sacrificed everything to save her son, who turned out to have some development issues and the lack of empathy due to the times her mother was time traveling while pregnant.

In time, Park Jin Gyeom grew up to be a smart kid and realizes that people have feelings for a reason and figures out that some actions have terrible consequences.

While in the past, Yoon Tae Yi stole a mysterious book that explains why time travel must end and has severe repercussions in the present, but some people don't want the world that the said consequences exist.