After A 10-Year Absence From Korean Variety Shows, This Actress Returns With A New SBS Variety Show
Actress Clara will appear on a domestic variety show for the first time in about 10 years. She is joining the new variety show “Because I’m Single 2,” which airs next month.
It has been confirmed that Clara will appear in season 2 of the SBS Plus and E Channel variety show “Because I’m Single” (hereinafter “Because I’m Single 2”).
Her last domestic variety appearance was JTBC2’s “Taming the Tomboy 2” in 2017, making this a return after 10 years by the calendar-year count. Known as the “original fit body” and for the “leggings first pitch” that made headlines, Clara later entered the Chinese market and focused her activities there, appearing in many dramas and films.
Her films, including “Sado Haengja: Special Task Force” in 2016, “Jeongseong,” “Daehongpo” and “The Wandering Earth 2,” reportedly topped the Chinese box office, with accumulated box office revenue said to reach about 2 trillion won (about $1.4 billion). That proved her box office power in China.
“Because I’m Single” is an observational reality variety show about the honest daily lives of charming solos who are lonely because they’re single, but happy because they’re single. It debuted in October 2024 as an 8-episode series, was revamped as a regular season in March 2025, and wrapped season 1 in May 2025.
The show returns with a fresher season 2, which will show the freedom and joy that come with being alone, along with the worries and honest feelings within it, through the daily lives of charming solos who “live as themselves” in their own ways.
Clara will meet domestic viewers again after a long time through “Because I’m Single 2.” She married a Korean-American businessman two years older than her, Samuel Hwang, in 2019, and announced last year, after six years of marriage, that they had split. Attention is on what daily life Clara, now returning as a divorced woman, will reveal on “Because I’m Single 2.”
Above all, viewers are looking forward to seeing her solo life in China, her daily life as a “passion-rich workaholic,” and the honest stories hidden behind her glamorous image. Attention is also on whether she will show new charms she has not shown on air until now.
The production team said, “Through ‘Because I’m Single 2,’ Clara’s untold story, as someone who has not feared new challenges and has forged her own territory in China, will be revealed. Please look forward to what daily life Clara, returning to Korean variety after about 10 years, will show.”
Meanwhile, “Because I’m Single 2” premieres on December 7. The MCs are Shin Dong Yup and actress Jo Yoon Hee.
The production team said, “Thanks to the passionate support of viewers, we’re presenting a new season after a year and a half. ‘Because I’m Single’ was loved because the stories of solos who run their daily lives and find happiness in their own ways gave meaningful empathy in an era where diverse forms of life are respected. In this season too, together with new ‘solo sisters,’ we’ll show diverse solo lives that are lonely because they’re single, but happy because they’re single.”
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