Kim Soo-hyun (Hangul: 김수현) (born February 16, 1988) is a South Korean actor best known for his roles as Song Sam-dong in the KBS TV series Dream High and fictional king of Joseon Lee Hwon in the MBC drama The Moon that Embraces the Sun.He is currently among korean actors whose name rose in their involvement within Korean Entertainment Industry. Besides being a fast to be famous actor, Kim Soo Hyun also now involved in singing and modelling career. He also known to be a well-mannered actor due to his warm looking and appearance in public.
Biography and Career
Kim Soo Hyun was very quiet during his middle school and high school days and no one expected him to enter the entertainment field.He enrolled to Chung-Ang University and majoring in Theater and Film Studies
Drama
He start his acting career by his appearance in 2007's Kimchi Cheese Smile as a supporting role. Later, he has moving his steps forward by making more appearance in several korean dramas including Jungle Fish (2008), Will It Snow For Christmas? (2009), Father's House (2009) and Giant (2010) before his most remarkable appearance in hits drama Dream High (2011). While he had raised his popularity in the drama, his appearance in Dream High had also brought him to another career in korean entertainment world when he had contributed his voice for songs in the drama's OST which titled "Dreaming" as well in the "Dream High" with his other co-stars in the drama.
A representative of Dream High stated, “Kim Soo Hyun studied song and dance for three months at JYP so he could pull off the required scenes in the drama. He lived no differently than other trainees at JYP. He learned singing and dancing for hours every day".
Singing
During Dream High, Soo Hyun's singing talent had been revealed. In the drama, he had contributed his voice to sing one of the drama's OST titled "Dreaming", and another song "Dream high" besides other songs performed in the drama. He also appears in several music show and concert after the drama completion.
By March 2012, while he had been appeared in the hits drama The Moon that Embraces the Sun, another two songs been released which is "Only You" as the one of the drama's OST and "Another Way" which released as an independent Secret Version Sigle. “Only You” was topping major digital music charts after it release. While "Only You" had a traditional ballad feel, "Another Way" feels more modern in its composition, especially with Kim Soo Hyun’s husky singing voice.
Film
Soo Hyun making his film's debut in the film The Thieves as Jampano, a youngest member of a professional thieves. The film is in post-production and scheduled to premiere in July 2012.
On April 28th, Kim Soo Hyun’s agency KeyEast revealed that Kim Soo Hyun will be acting in the upcoming movie Secret to Greatness as a main actor. The movie is based off a Hun cartoon about a North Korean boy spy who lives in the ghettos of Seoul. Kim Soo Hyun will be playing the role of Won Ryu Hwan, the leader of the three boy spies. He behaves like a countryside fool, but has the ability to read people. The story follows his journey after being abandoned by the North.
Secret to Greatness is scheduled to start filming in July after the completion of the pre-production development and casting.
According to his agency, Key East, Kim Soo Hyun has just signed for more than 15 commercial films after his fame rising from the drama The Moon that Embraces the Sun. It is said, the total money amounts to about $5 million dollars. The CFs vary from clothing, camera, to electronics. Because of his rising as an actor in dominating CFs, he had been compared to Lee Min Ho who he swept up all the CFs after the filming of Boys Over Flowers.
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