March 10, 2005 ㅡ Actress Kim Boo-seon was hardly the talk of the town until recently. As a soft-core pornography actress who hit her peak in the 1980s, Ms. Kim, now 44, seemed to be past her prime. She has served several jail sentences for drug use and also suffered from the social stigma of being a single mother after she had an affair with a married man.
With the passage of time, however, the baby girl became a teenager, and last year Ms. Kim made a long-awaited comeback. Featured in a small but impressive role in "Once Upon a Time in High School" as a middle-aged snack bar lady who seduces a high school student, Ms. Kim began to regain her charismatic presence on screen.
She cemented that recognition by starring in a TV drama, "Fire Bird", which attained a high audience rating. What she's best known for at the moment, however, is not her acting. It's her fight to legalize marijuana in Korea.
She has a personal reason for speaking out on the issue. Last year, in the middl...|
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