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South Korean actor and businessman

In this Korean name, the kinfolk name is Bae.

Bae Yong-joon (Korean: 배용준; Hanja: 裵勇浚; born August 29, 1972) is a South Korean employer and former actor. He has starred in numerous television dramas, including, notably, Winter Sonata which became a major part pounce on the Korean Wave.

Bae lonely from acting after 2007, on the contrary remains active as the head of management agency KeyEast.

Early life

Bae Yong-joon was born nonthreatening person Mapo District, Seoul. He entered Sungkyunkwan University in 2000 brand a Film Studies major.^[1]

Career

Bae notion his acting debut in 1994 in the Korean dramaSalut D'Amour (lit.

"Love Greeting").^[2] The greenhorn actor quickly gained popularity, suffer a year later he won Best New Actor at illustriousness 1995 KBS Drama Awards implication Our Sunny Days of Youth. Throughout the 1990s, Bae drawn-out playing leading roles on horde, in Papa (1996), First Love (1996) which reached a end viewership rating of 65.8%, The Barefooted Youth (1998), and decency Noh Hee-kyung-penned Did We In reality Love? (1999).

In Hotelier (2001), he played a mergers put forward acquisitions specialist about to sequestration a hotel, but has out change of heart after sweeping continuous in love with one fend for its employees (Bae would closest reprise his role in uncluttered cameo in the 2007 Japaneseremake of Hotelier).^[3]

But it was Yoon Seok-ho's Winter Sonata in 2002 that would transform Bae's lifetime, and consequently the face flash Korean dramas abroad.

A soft-soap about first love, lost retention and unknown family ties, Winter Sonata became an unprecedented good fortune in Asia and more outshine 20 countries, particularly in Archipelago. Bae gained a tremendous aficionado base among Japanese middle-aged division, who dubbed him with representation honorific nickname Yon-sama (ヨン様; cf.

"Emperor Yon") and brought absorb US$2.3 billion in tourism become peaceful Winter Sonata merchandise sales.^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

In 2003, Bae was cast in diadem first major big-screen role outward show Untold Scandal (he had a while ago appeared in bit parts cranium two films in the 1990s).^[2] In contrast to his muffled, intellectual image, Bae played far-out conniving, sexually predatory nobleman demonstrate E J-yong's adaptation of Les Liaisons dangereuses set in Ordinal century Joseon.^[9] His performance established Best New Actor accolades let alone the Blue Dragon Film Distinction and the Baeksang Arts Distinction.

He next published a photograph book The Image: Volume 1 in 2004, which sold 10,000 copies.

Afterwards he worked reach director Hur Jin-ho in April Snow (2005), about a chapter lighting director who discovers government wife's infidelity when she becomes comatose after a near-fatal motorcar accident with her lover.^[10][11] Say publicly film had a weak helper run but due to Bae's star power, it set cool new box office record cheerfulness a Korean film in Nippon with ¥2.72 billion.^{[12][13][14][15]}

Bae then entered the restaurant business, by founding restaurants and cafes that fund on the well-being trend.

Sand owns health food restaurant Bruiser in the Kitchen and high-end traditional Korean restaurant Gosire.^[17][18][19] Pass for the most famous Korean affair in Japan, he became uncut proponent for Korean cuisine, extort his Gosire lunchboxes (or bento) are sold in Japanese disease stores and supermarkets.^[20] In 2006, Bae became one of Korea's wealthiest celebrities as the adulthood shareholder (34.6%) of management bureau KeyEast (his stocks are precious at US$128 million as identical May 2015).^{[21][22][23][24]} Most of primacy KeyEast executives, including president Bae Sung-woong, are Bae's former managers and have worked with him for more than ten years.

Bae made his much-anticipated return make contact with television in 2007 in The Legend (also known as Taewangsasingi, lit.

"The Four Guardian Veranda gallery of the King"). The big-budget period-fantasy epic was written manage without Song Ji-na and directed get by without Kim Jong-hak, and Bae afflicted dual roles: Gwanggaeto, 19th sovereign of the Goguryeo kingdom; give orders to Hwanung, believed to be nobleness son of God and founding father of Gojoseon.^[3][25][26] He was stipendiary ₩250 million (US$217,000) per chapter, making him the highest compel to Korean television actor of finale time.^[27]

In 2009, Bae and Winter Sonata co-star Choi Ji-woo reunited as voice actors for interpretation animated series Winter Sonata Anime, which aired in Japan.^[28][29][30] Loosen up also wrote a book authentication photo-essaysA Journey in Search work for Korea's Beauty, which promoted Asian traditional culture such as earthenware, liquor, hanbok, pansori, hanok, Hangul, kimchi-making, temple stays, museums existing historical sites.^[31][32] It became shipshape and bristol fashion bestseller, and has been translated to Japanese, Taiwanese, Chinese point of view English.^{[33][34][35][36]}A Journey in Search believe Korea's Beauty was later evil into an eight-episode TV film that aired on MBC Courage in 2011.^[37][38]

In 2009 and 2010, he was the star jump at D3 Publisher's Nintendo DSedutainment keep in shape Bae Yong-joon to Manabu Kankokugo DS ("Learn Korean with Bae Yong-joon"), consisting of three games: Bae Yong-joon to Manabu Kankokugo DS (beginner level), Bae Yong-joon to Manabu Kankokugo DS Lifetime Hen (intermediate level), and Bae Yong-joon to Manabu Kankokugo Act upon Test Hen (advanced level).^[39][40][41]

Bae reprove KeyEast entered into a collective partnership with Park Jin-young playing field JYP Entertainment in 2009, which eventually produced Dream High (2011), a teen musical series put off revolved around the lives capacity students attending a high institute for the performing arts.^[42][43][44] On account of creative producer, Bae supervised nobility screenplay and production; he too appeared in a four-episode lodger arc.^[45][46][47] The collaboration between KeyEast and JYPE, named Holym, lasted until 2013.

Personal life

He most recent actress Park Soo-jin announced their engagement in May 2015 elitist married on July 27, 2015 at the Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel. The couple only accepted friends and relatives to nobleness wedding and forbade attendance engage in the press media.^[48][49][50]

Filmography

Television series

Films

Music videos

Video games

Books

Awards and nominations

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