Veteran Korean actress Kim Ji-mi dies, aged 85

Veteran actress Kim Ji-mi, once known as “The Elizabeth Taylor Of Korea”, has passed away aged 85.
According to a report from The Korea Herald, the star passed away in the United States on Tuesday December 9, and had been suffering for some time from complications due to shingles. She had been living in the US since stepping away from acting in the early ‘90s.
Kim appeared in over 700 films, she came to symbolise the rise of South Korean cinema from the 1950s to the 1980s, when