After playing the developmentally disabled daughter to veteran actress Bae Jong-ok in the 2007 melodrama Herb,[REF] in 2009 Kang starred in two unconventional romantic comedies with roles she imbued with her trademark quirkiness.
After making the little-seen 2007 KBS drama Flowers for My Life with Cha Tae-hyun, Kang returned to television in 2011 in MBC's Miss Ripley, a tale of one woman (Lee Da-hae) who spins a web of love, ambition and lies [REF].