One of East Asia’s brightest stars is Kim Soo-hyun. In the teen drama “Dream High,” he played a country bumpkin who turned out to be a musical prodigy, and he became well-known in South Korea.
In the drama “Moon Embracing the Sun,” in which he played the youthful king Lee Hwon, his popularity soared in 2012, reaching a peak recorded viewer rating of 42.2% and earning the designation of “national drama.”
After starring as Do Min Joon in the drama “You Who Came from Star,” which received an average viewer rating of 24.02 percent in South Korea and more than two billion hits on the Chinese streaming website Iqiyi, Soo-Hyun Kim became extremely well-known throughout East Asia in 2014.
This 33-year-old actor is one of the select few who never stops giving back, despite the wealth and glamour that surround him. According to rumors, he and his followers have been giving tonnes of rice each Year since 2012 to the less fortunate. Additionally, he offered assistance to the 2014 MV Sewol ferry catastrophe victims. He donated 100 million won last Year to Covid-19 programs that help low-income families.
Do you want to know what other roles Kim Soo-Hyun portrayed on both large and small screens? We’ve listed a few of them below for you to stream and enjoy.
The most popular TV show Kim Soo-Hyun has produced to date is Moon Embracing the Sun in 2012, which also won Best Drama and Best Actor at the Baeksang Arts Awards in the same year. It portrays the narrative of a hidden, heartfelt romance between a fictitious monarch of the Joseon Dynasty and a female shaman and is based on the novel of the same-name by Jung Eun-jail.
Lee Hwon (Kim Soo-Hyun) falls in love with Heo Yeon-woo (Kim Yoo-Jung), who is subsequently defrauded of her fate by the cunning of the Queen and Prime Minister Yoon, against the backdrop of a charming yet conflict- and conspiracy-laden Korean traditional palace. Although Heo Yeon-woo inexplicably passed away, a number of secrets emerged.
This action-comedy movie, which has over 12.9 million ticket sales, is about a cat burglar named Yenicall (Jun Ji-Hyun) who seduces the owner of the Leesung Gallery and steals an artifact with the assistance of three other people: Popeye (Lee Jung-Jae), Zampano (Kim Soo-Hyun), and Chewing Gum (Kim Hae-sook). The movie was filmed in Hong Kong, Macau, Seoul, and Busan.
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