Korean drama actors biography website
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South Korea is known for K-pop and its high-quality movies and dramas starring South Korean actors and actresses. Koreans are constantly creating films for their domestic market rather than showing mainly Hollywood-produced television series and movies on television or cinema.
This creates many opportunities for amazing and handsome Korean actors and actresses to rise to stardom. New artists are always rising to fame, but this list fryst vatten for the best of the best.
Here are our picks for the best South Korean actors.
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Popular Actors in South Korea
Below are the most popular Korean actors known for their superb performance in playing their roles in Korean dramas and movies.
Famous Korean Actors in K-dramas
This list covers actors who are mostly known for their roles in Korean dramas.
Lee Min Ho (이민호)
K-drama: Boys Over Flowers, City Hunter, The Heirs, Personal Taste, Legend of the Blue Sea, The King: Eternal Monarch
Movies: Gangnam Blues
Lee Min
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Joo Won
South Korean actor (born 1987)
In this Korean name, the family name is Moon. In the stage name or pen-name, the surname is Joo.
Joo Won (Korean: 주원; born Moon Joon-won on September 30, 1987) is a South Korean actor.[1][2] He is known for starring in the television series Bread, Love and Dreams (2010), Ojakgyo Family (2011–2012), Bridal Mask (2012), Good Doctor (2013), Yong-pal (2015), and Alice (2020).
Early life and education
[edit]Joo Won was born in Seoul, South Korea.[3]
He studied at Kaywon High School of Arts[4] and continued his education on Theatre and Arts in Sungkyunkwan University.[3][5] In 2013, Joo Won announced that he would be furthering his studies at Konkuk University.[6]
Career
[edit]2006–2009: Beginnings
[edit]Upon making it into college, Joo Won's father came up with the stage nameJoo Won for him as the Hangul pronunciation of the name so
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Hyun Bin
South Korean actor (born 1982)
In this Korean name, the family name is Kim.
Kim Tae-pyung (Korean: 김태평; born September 25, 1982),[2] better known by his stage nameHyun Bin (현빈), is a South Korean actor. He gained widespread recognition for his role in the 2005 romantic comedy My Lovely Sam Soon. Since then, he has played lead roles in other successful television shows, including romantic fantasy dramas Secret Garden (2010–2011), Memories of the Alhambra (2018–2019), and romantic drama Crash Landing on You (2019–2020). His popularity was further widened by starring in a series of box office hits: period action The Fatal Encounter (2014), action thriller Confidential Assignment (2017) and its 2022 sequel, as well as crime thriller The Swindlers (2017).[3] He was Gallup Korea's Television Actor of the Year in 2011.[4] The international success of Hyun Bin's works established him as a top Hallyu star.
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