The SBS Friday-Saturday drama ’Manager Kim’ has attracted attention by recording a 15.7% viewership rating after just two episodes. The past videos and background of actress Seo Soo-min, who plays Kim Min-ji, Manager Kim’s (So Ji-sub) daughter in the drama, are being reexamined.

Seo Soo-min appeared as Kim Min-ji, Manager Kim’s daughter, in ’Manager Kim,’ which premiered on June 26. Kim Min-ji is the reason Manager Kim moves and symbolizes the world he wants to protect, leading the core narrative in the early part of the drama. The incident of his daughter’s disappearance pushed Manager Kim out of his ordinary life and clearly showed what he is fighting for. ’Manager Kim’ is Seo Soo-min’s debut work.

’Manager Kim’ recorded a 9.5% viewership rating in its first broadcast and rose by 6.2 percentage points to 15.7% in the second episode. This figure is considered a hit for SBS since the drama ’Penthouse,’ which aired in 2021.

After Seo Soo-min’s appearance, her previously released videos have also gained attention. In 2023, she appeared in a video titled ″Seo Soo-min’s Cute Student to Popular High Teen Idol Transformation Makeup″ on the channel ’Haemin Teacher,’ wearing horn-rimmed glasses and greeting, ″I am 17-year-old Soo-min.″ In the video, Seo Soo-min said, ″There is always a weird different kid. For those without double eyelids, drawing eyeliner makes the double eyelids disappear. So I can’t even draw eyeliner,″ and the video surpassed 2.25 million views.

She also appeared last year on the same channel in a video titled ″Ordinary High School Girl Soo-min Getting Cast by BIG 3 Agencies Makeup.″ Seo Soo-min revealed, ″Right after filming, I hoped it would do well, but the views suddenly increased much more than I expected. When I went to school the next day, my friends asked, ’Is this you?’ It spread a lot on other SNS channels, and on other platforms, the atmosphere was like, ’Is this you?’ and ’Why didn’t you say anything?’″

Seo Soo-min received love calls from several agencies but said, ″I wasn’t confident in dancing and singing, so I went into acting, which I had been interested in for a long time.″ She added, ″When the views increased by 100,000 or 200,000, my dad said, ’It went up again.’ I also felt really happy as the views kept rising.″

In 2024, she opened her own channel and released a 43-second video titled ″Taking Off Glasses and Getting Friendly with the Camera″ in September 2025. The video captured Seo Soo-min on a bus and recorded 3.16 million views.