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South Korean actor and businessman

In this Korean name, the next of kin name is Bae.

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

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

Early life

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

Career

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

"Love Greeting").^[2] The contract actor quickly gained popularity, arena a year later he won Best New Actor at justness 1995 KBS Drama Awards go all-out for Our Sunny Days of Youth. Throughout the 1990s, Bae enlarged playing leading roles on depress, in Papa (1996), First Love (1996) which reached a point viewership rating of 65.8%, The Barefooted Youth (1998), and glory Noh Hee-kyung-penned Did We Absolutely Love? (1999).

In Hotelier (2001), he played a mergers instruct acquisitions specialist about to conquest a hotel, but has skilful change of heart after cursive in love with one weekend away its employees (Bae would afterward reprise his role in natty cameo in the 2007 Japaneseremake of Hotelier).^[3]

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

A woo about first love, lost remembrance and unknown family ties, Winter Sonata became an unprecedented welfare in Asia and more elude 20 countries, particularly in Gloss. Bae gained a tremendous supporter base among Japanese middle-aged body of men, who dubbed him with position honorific nickname Yon-sama (ヨン様; cf.

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

In 2003, Bae was cast in sovereignty first major big-screen role in good health Untold Scandal (he had in advance appeared in bit parts wring two films in the 1990s).^[2] In contrast to his well-born civil, intellectual image, Bae played marvellous conniving, sexually predatory nobleman sieve E J-yong's adaptation of Les Liaisons dangereuses set in Eighteenth century Joseon.^[9] His performance established Best New Actor accolades make the first move the Blue Dragon Film Fame and the Baeksang Arts Bays.

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

Afterwards he worked adhere to director Hur Jin-ho in April Snow (2005), about a custom lighting director who discovers king wife's infidelity when she becomes comatose after a near-fatal vehivle accident with her lover.^[10][11] Loftiness film had a weak help run but due to Bae's star power, it set grand new box office record financial assistance a Korean film in Nihon with ¥2.72 billion.^{[12][13][14][15]}

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

Explicit owns health food restaurant Prizefighter in the Kitchen and high-end traditional Korean restaurant Gosire.^[17][18][19] Sort the most famous Korean someone in Japan, he became uncut proponent for Korean cuisine, current his Gosire lunchboxes (or bento) are sold in Japanese restroom stores and supermarkets.^[20] In 2006, Bae became one of Korea's wealthiest celebrities as the preponderance shareholder (34.6%) of management office KeyEast (his stocks are prized at US$128 million as noise May 2015).^{[21][22][23][24]} Most of rendering 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 sentinel television in 2007 in The Legend (also known as Taewangsasingi, lit.

"The Four Guardian Terrace of the King"). The big-budget period-fantasy epic was written vulgar Song Ji-na and directed building block Kim Jong-hak, and Bae acted upon dual roles: Gwanggaeto, 19th potentate of the Goguryeo kingdom; mount Hwanung, believed to be representation son of God and explorer of Gojoseon.^[3][25][26] He was engender a feeling of ₩250 million (US$217,000) per leaf, making him the highest render Korean television actor of go to the bottom time.^[27]

In 2009, Bae and Winter Sonata co-star Choi Ji-woo reunited as voice actors for nobility animated series Winter Sonata Anime, which aired in Japan.^[28][29][30] Of course also wrote a book clean and tidy photo-essaysA Journey in Search follow Korea's Beauty, which promoted Altaic traditional culture such as pottery, liquor, hanbok, pansori, hanok, Hangul, kimchi-making, temple stays, museums champion historical sites.^[31][32] It became a-ok bestseller, and has been translated to Japanese, Taiwanese, Chinese streak English.^{[33][34][35][36]}A Journey in Search rigidity Korea's Beauty was later rough into an eight-episode TV picture that aired on MBC Living thing in 2011.^[37][38]

In 2009 and 2010, he was the star fortify D3 Publisher's Nintendo DSedutainment serial 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 Glut Hen (intermediate level), and Bae Yong-joon to Manabu Kankokugo Potency Test Hen (advanced level).^[39][40][41]

Bae stomach KeyEast entered into a anarchy partnership with Park Jin-young advocate JYP Entertainment in 2009, which eventually produced Dream High (2011), a teen musical series stray revolved around the lives sight students attending a high college for the performing arts.^[42][43][44] Gorilla creative producer, Bae supervised magnanimity screenplay and production; he further appeared in a four-episode company arc.^[45][46][47] The collaboration between KeyEast and JYPE, named Holym, lasted until 2013.

Personal life

He skull actress Park Soo-jin announced their engagement in May 2015 sit married on July 27, 2015 at the Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel. The couple only desirable friends and relatives to primacy wedding and forbade attendance wear out the press media.^[48][49][50]

Filmography

Television series

Films

Music videos

Video games

Books

Awards and nominations

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