The breakthrough yearThe year she turned 20, she debuted as Do Ha-na in the web drama A-Teen. Kookmin Ilbo and Seoul Shinmun write that she made her name with it. That November she appeared on KBS2’s Happy Together 4.
The year she turned 21, she took her first lead role in a miniseries in tvN’s He Is Psychometric. From July she was an MC of KBS2’s Music Bank. In 2020, she appeared in KBS2’s Welcome and JTBC’s More Than Friends, and left her Music Bank MC job in July. In December she won Best New Actress at the KBS Drama Awards. In October 2021, she was named DJ of KBS Cool FM’s Volume Up.
The year she turned 24, she appeared in Disney+’s Revenge of Others and played the young Park Yeon-jin in Netflix’s The Glory, released on Dec. 30. In March 2023, Part 2 of The Glory was released, and she played Yoon Dan-oh in SBS’s The Secret Romantic Guesthouse. In July she won Best New Actress at the Blue Dragon Series Awards, and in December an Excellence Award in Acting at the SBS Drama Awards.
The year she turned 26, she played Heo Yeong-seo in tvN’s Jeongnyeon: The Star Is Born. Its final episode drew 16.5%.
In 2025, she appeared in the film Secret: Untold Melody, JTBC’s A Hundred Memories and Disney+’s The Murky Stream, and won an Excellence Award at the APAN Star Awards in December.
The year she turned 28, she played Yook Ha-ri in ENA’s Doctor on the Edge, which ended on July 7 after 12 episodes.
Shin Ye-eun (born 1998) debuted in the web drama A-Teen on Jul 1, 2018, the year she turned 20, and became known through the same series. In 2022, the year she turned 24, she played the young Park Yeon-jin in the Netflix series The Glory.
Ages are by calendar year (the year minus the birth year), birthdays aside.