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Shim Hye-jin

South Korean actress, model, 1967

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ484414 ↗
Source-derived summary

Shim Hye-jin (Korean: 심혜진; born January 16, 1967) is a South Korean actress and model. She was one of the leading actresses of the 1990s in South Korea. Shim started her career as a model and achieved stardom with a Coca-Cola commercial in the late 1980s. Due to her appearance in the commercial, Shim was dubbed "Cola-like Woman."

Filmography

Television series

Film

Variety show

2015, Brave Family EP 1 to 10 - (KBS, 2015)

Awards, nominations and honors

Jury

In 2022, she was selected as jury member for Bucheon Choice: Features section at 26th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Shim Hye-jin” as south Korean actress, model, 1967. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967, 2015, 2022—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1967-11-11, 1967-01-16—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. The account is most persuasive where Shim, Hye-jin and South can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as south Korean actress, model, 1967. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q484414. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1967, 2015 and 2022.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Shim Hye-jin”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Shim Hye-jin primary sources, Shim Hye-jin archive and Shim research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Shim Hye-jin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.