In 2012, the plaza was used as a filming location for tvN drama Queen In-hyun's Man, where the two lead characters Kim Boong-do and Choi Hee-jin, played by Ji Hyun-woo and Yoo In-na, share a kiss dubbed the 'Gwanghwamun kiss' against the backdrop of Gwanghwamun.
The interior and extertior of the Gwanghwamun bookstore was used as a filming location for the 2007 MBC television drama The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince.
She is a trustee and chairman of The Prince's Drawing School's Scholarship Endowment Appeal, and patron of a project commissioned by HRH the Prince of Wales, which has raised finance for a film that follows the rebuilding of the Gwanghwamun Gate at the Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, South Korea.