Originally cast as the lead actress for 2010's "I Am Legend", Kim quit before filming started due to issues with the production (she was replaced by her good friend Kim Jung-eun). Instead she chose the 2011 melodrama "Scent of a Woman", which centers on a spinster who, after slaving herself at a travel agency for many years, is diagnosed that she only has six months left to live, and decides to live the rest of her life happily, turning in her resignation and leaving for a vacation of luxury. She next starred in the movie "Pitch High" (in Korean, "Fighting Spirit"), in which she played the supportive wife of a second string baseball pitcher.