So talented and kind! I'm not an expert on oriental art but the painting looks very professional. She sounds like a real renaissance woman.

5 million won corresponds to approximately $4,300, not $430,000.

A $430,000 painting for an amateur? LOL.

she's typical of a submissive Korean woman who cares more for her family than her career. Sometimes it's good but sometimes it's bad because you know you are wasting your talent.

@dramalover - ignoring your overt racism, I think it's amusing of you to imply that valuing family is "submissive." I think your comment is far more telling of your values (or lack thereof perhaps) than of SEH.

If anything, I personally DO think family is far more important than a career. Not to mention I think it takes a lot more strength to leave a steller career behind to persue a less glamorous but more personally fulfilling life DESPITE critics like you who find themselves fit to judge not only their career but also their personal choices. Anyway like Javabeans said, her decision not to act is one based on her choice - that is the opposite of submissive if you ask me.

In any case, there is a fine line between using your talent and sacrificing your personal life for your talent. There are countless exmples of people who gave the world their talent at the price of the sanity and life (quite literally). So what is more right? Do talented people owe the word their talent even at the price of their own happiness?

....hmm....I meandered.

Anyway, the painting is nice ^^

javabeans, you can use this free currency converter (if you're not using any atm): http://www.xe.com/ucc/

the painting is lovely. it's nice to know she's helping her (former) fellow colleagues in the film industry even though she's retired.

What a classy, talented lady. Thanks for the post, JB, really wowed by her painting.

well said "s"

Yeaps well said above... How can choosing family be wasting one talent? Family IS important!

Old school K-movie anyone? K movies really started me with all things Korean... Merry X'mas in August, Tell me Something, Art Musem by the Zoo... holy... I miss Shim Eun Ha, her subtle star quality and talk about leaving impression...I miss old school K movies!

Has anyone watched her drama - Trap of Youth/ Entrapment of Youth... That was like THE drama back in the days, along with Fireworks, Sandglass(?) and before Autumn Love Story comes along...Reviews?

what are some of the more famous dramas/movies that she was in before she retired?

@5: you obviously have never lived in Korea.

I'm one of the many that holds out hope she'll come back like Go Hyun-jung...

PRETTY!!!!

I like it. I find it interesting how the tree, and the small areas surrounding it, is the only burst of color against the cliffs/hill. Kind of curious as to why that is; if there is any symbolism behind it?

Either way, lovely art. <3

@dramalover - uhm. i did for 10 years. is that long enough for you? Have any other assumptions you want to make about people you never met?

Although I really don't know what living in Korea has to do with the argument at hand. Perhaps you wish to imply women in Korea you've met are all submissive because many of them give up their career to raise their family? Well, then like I said, that says a lot more about you than anyone else.

It would be nice to see her back in the business...but I doubt it. At least she still has interest in helping the film industry.

The painting just doesn't look original. It just looks like a replica of a picture in one of those Korean/ Japanese calendars. If she painted still-life, it would show if she had true artistic talent or not.

@15: having lived in Korea for 10 years and still not understanding what I said. I feel kinda sad for you.

dramalover, are you being deliberately obtuse or are you being obnoxious? you dismissed S's entire comment just by saying she must not have lived in korea, and she (or he) proved you wrong and tried to have a reasonable discussion by asking more about your opinion. instead, you have nothing to contribute to the conversation and just pretend to have false pity. her comment pointed out that yours was narrow-minded and offensive and based on sweeping generalizations (which were false in this case anyway). maybe you should wait till you have something worthwhile to contribute before posting again.

@19: both you and s are very rude I have to say. I feel very annoyed when I talk to people who cannot discuss peacefully without somehow insulting the person who argues with them. If everyone can respond to me like JB did in her comment #4 I would take the effort to actually discuss seriously further.
anyway, my last post here.

@dramalover
I carefully wrote out a whole comment (which you have yet to do) on why I don't agree with your assumption that all Korean women are submissive (which you clearly implied). You know what is rude - saying a whole race of women are submissive b/c of what you have seen in Korea/your own personal opinion. It's RACISM in case you need a word for it.

You responded with ONE LINE (do you call that effort?) accusing me that I never lived in Korea. That was rude too. And it has NOTHING to do with the arguement. And you STILL have not told me why my living in Korea has anything to do with assuming Korean women are submissive/act of choosing a family over career is submissive - a far ruder thing if you ask me, not just to Korean women but to ALL women.

And please enlighten me about how anything I said was wrong or rude. Did I call you names? Did I call you "submissive" or "rude" or question your "right" to argue with you depending on how long you lived in Korea (speaking of, how long did you live in Korea? B/c clearly you have to live in Korea to have the right to have an opinion on it)? Anyway, you did not respond a single bit of what I said - and I responded as politely as Javabeans, just a hair more bluntly. Ask anybody here if anything I said was impolite.

Of course that should be your last post. You haven't made a single coherent argument or comment - even to JB "more polite" response. She was just kind enough not to point out your racism. Perhaps the fact other people think what I said to you was not uncalled for is telling of the rudeness of YOUR comments.

dramalover, in SEH's own words, she's much happier with married life. cutthroat competition in showbiz, tenuous relationships, etc. didn't bode well for her spirits. she got out while mostly intact. plus actresses have a difficult time aging in the industry. she's regarded as one of those with great amount of natural talent for acting, but without the ambition to match. for longevity you really need both. it's her life anyway:P

ou what's conversation....really amusing me. Making this site more interesting, i should drop by more frequently then & everybody should not end their posting after this. Isn't it JB? hee...
SEH: the painting is beautiful. i like classical painting.

I can't really figure it out that painting. On the first glance it looked like a red tree grows on some cliff. However, after a full 5 mins staring at it, it looked (to me) like a tree that grows on someone's shoulder! ( I'm so weird)

dramalover,

I can understand being frustrated by the fact that, in most societies (by NO means just Korea), women, so much more than men, are often expected to sacrifice their careers for family. However, I don't think it's right (or remotely productive) to judge any woman who has made such a choice for herself. If you derisively assume that all Korean women who choose to scale back their careers for the sake of family are making that decision because they are submissive, you deprive those women of their agency. That attitude is detrimental to women just like inflexible gender roles.

Most importantly, it isn't fair to make assumptions about SEH's particular motivations, or to attribute her decisions to a blanket stereotype. She owes nothing to you or the public, no matter how talented she is as an actress. She should do what's right for her, what makes her happy and fulfilled, and acting very well may not have been it.

As for the painting, the composition looks rather unbalanced, doesn't it? Maybe that's the point... I admit I'm not schooled at all in classical Korean painting.

@ 25 LL :

The composition is unbalanced but that might be because it is just a fragment of the painting. We can't see all of it.

nell123,

I should have guessed that... Thanks!

good composition, it does look like a professional work but it lacks emphasis, which of the two (Tree or mountain) is she emphasizing? or is she actually emphasizing the 2 elements together? she could have put more brightness in the tree so we can have a focal point.

she's really good =) = ) just an opinion though. dont get mad at me.ehehe

we're all looking forward to see more of her painting works.