Song Seon-mi won second place at the Super Elite Model Contest in 1996, then transitioned from a modeling career to acting a year later in the television dramaModel. In 1998, Song made her film debut playing dual roles as an art gallery employee and a soldier's ex-girlfriend in Lee Jeong-hyang's critically acclaimed romantic comedyArt Museum by the Zoo, opposite Ahn Sung-ki. This was followed by the gangster comedy My Boss, My Hero. Though Song is more active in television, notable in her filmography are two arthouse films by auteur Hong Sang-soo. For Woman on the Beach, she and her co-stars agreed to appear in the film even without reading Hong's script. While in The Day He Arrives, Song played a film studies professor who frequents a bar in Bukchon. Back on the small screen, her popularity rose when she played a young housewife in Precious Family, written by Kim Soo-hyun. Leading roles followed in The Secret Lovers, One Day Suddenly, Green Coach, Mrs. Town, and Dandelion Family, as well as a supporting role in the well-received medical dramaBehind the White Tower. In 2012, Song was cast as a capable trauma nurse in Golden Time. She later reunited with its director Kwon Seok-jang in Miss Korea, set in 1997 during the IMF crisis. Song starred in her first ever period drama in 2013's . She drew praise for her portrayal of the Crown Princess Lady Kang, Crown Prince Sohyeon's wife, despite controversy involving a breastfeeding scene.
Personal life
Song married art director Go Woo-seok, who she met through mutual acquaintances and dated for one year, on June 29, 2006. In 2009, she left talent agency Contents Entertainment to join a new agency set up by her former manager Mr. Yu, Hoya Entertainment; this resulted in a breach of contract lawsuit. Then in January 2013, Song was charged with slander for allegedly insulting Mr. Kim, CEO of Contents Entertainment, at a press conference for a drama held in July 2012. On August 21, 2017, her husband, Go Woo-seok, was murdered by a 28-year-old man during an argument.
