She reunited with Kwak Jae-yong, the director of "My Sassy Girl", in 2004, appearing as a policewoman in romantic comedy "Windstruck". However, viewers felt her role was too similar to "My Sassy Girl". There were also signs that her popularity had started to suffer because of overexposure in advertisements. Nonetheless, "Windstruck" became the best-performing Korean film in Japan at the time, where "My Sassy Girl" was not as well known. In a 2005 survey of influential movie producers, she was ranked among the top ten most bankable stars in Korea.