Winning the SBS Supermodel Contest in 2001, Han began her modeling career in South Korea. While working for various companies she also made her acting debut in “Nonstop 4,” in 2003. Although her first films didn’t receive high accolades (many thought she couldn’t break through as an actress because she was trained as a model) she powered through and had success in the series “Couple or Drama,” “Miss Gold Digger,” and won the Best New Actress award for the Grand Bell Awards and for “Blue Dragon Film Awards.”