Chae debuted in 2014 in the film My Dictator. She then featured in weekend drama House of Bluebird (2015) and youth series Cheer Up! (2015) which won her "Best New Actress" awards at both 4th APAN Star Awards and 29th KBS Drama Awards. Chae had a major role in the hit drama Love in the Moonlight (2016) from which she gained an Excellence Award nomination at the 30th KBS Drama Awards. The same year she starred in the play Blackbird and the Chinese-South Korean web-drama My Catman. In 2017, she took on her first prime-time leading role in the historical television series Rebel: Thief Who Stole the People.

Filmography

• Take Charge of My Heart — Na Bo-bae
• 2025Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy — Yu Sang-ah
• 2024Hijack 1971 — Ok-soon
• When the Phone Rings — Hong Hee-ju
• Whenever Possible
• Rookie Cops — Go Eun-gang
• The Fabulous — Pyo Ji-eun
• 2022The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure — So-Nyeo
• Young Actors' Retreat
• House on Wheels: For Rent
• 2021Sweet & Sour — Jung Da-eun
• A Piece of Your Mind — Han Seo-woo
• 2019Rosebud — Hong Hyun-ah
• Amazing Saturday — Self, 게스트
• Where Stars Land — Han Yeo-reum
• I Am Not a Robot — Jo Ji-a / Aji 3
• 2017If We Were a Season — Yoon Hae-Rim
• My Catman — Mi-oh
• Strongest Deliveryman — Lee Dan-a, Theme Song Performance
• The Rebel — Song Ga-ryung
• Love in the Moonlight — Jo Ha-yeon
• Shopaholic Louis — Wang Mong-sil
• 2016Sori: Voice from the Heart — Yoo-joo
• Cheer Up! — Kwon Soo-a
• House of Bluebird — Han Eun-soo
• Spy — Jo Soo-yeon
• 2014My Dictator — Girl (uncredited)
• 2014The Diary of Heong Yeong-dang — Sim Cheong-i
• Drama Festival — Chung
• KBS Drama Special — Yoon Hae-Rim
• Running Man
• Love Bait — So Yi-yeon

Appearances as themselves (4)

• Love in the Moonlight: Redrawn — Self
• Yoobari Talkbari — Self
• SNL Korea — Self - Host
• The Game Caterers — Self