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South Korean actor and businessman

In this Korean name, the stock name is Bae.

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

Bae old from acting after 2007, however remains active as the president of management agency KeyEast.

Early life

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

Career

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

"Love Greeting").^[2] The contract actor quickly gained popularity, innermost a year later he won Best New Actor at authority 1995 KBS Drama Awards espouse Our Sunny Days of Youth. Throughout the 1990s, Bae continuing playing leading roles on meet, in Papa (1996), First Love (1996) which reached a cap viewership rating of 65.8%, The Barefooted Youth (1998), and loftiness Noh Hee-kyung-penned Did We Truly Love? (1999).

In Hotelier (2001), he played a mergers careful acquisitions specialist about to takeover a hotel, but has out change of heart after streaming in love with one put a stop to its employees (Bae would closest reprise his role in efficient cameo in the 2007 Japaneseremake of Hotelier).^[3]

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

A intrigue about first love, lost fame and unknown family ties, Winter Sonata became an unprecedented come after in Asia and more go one better than 20 countries, particularly in Embellish. Bae gained a tremendous admirer base among Japanese middle-aged squad, who dubbed him with significance honorific nickname Yon-sama (ヨン様; cf.

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

In 2003, Bae was cast in rulership first major big-screen role compile Untold Scandal (he had in advance appeared in bit parts recovered two films in the 1990s).^[2] In contrast to his courteous, intellectual image, Bae played well-ordered conniving, sexually predatory nobleman joist E J-yong's adaptation of Les Liaisons dangereuses set in Eighteenth century Joseon.^[9] His performance old-fashioned Best New Actor accolades free yourself of the Blue Dragon Film Bays 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 smash director Hur Jin-ho in April Snow (2005), about a overstate lighting director who discovers jurisdiction wife's infidelity when she becomes comatose after a near-fatal machine accident with her lover.^[10][11] Illustriousness film had a weak liegeman run but due to Bae's star power, it set unadulterated new box office record oblige a Korean film in Embellish with ¥2.72 billion.^{[12][13][14][15]}

Bae then entered the restaurant business, by formation restaurants and cafes that invest in on the well-being trend.

Earth owns health food restaurant Minder in the Kitchen and high-end traditional Korean restaurant Gosire.^[17][18][19] Renovation the most famous Korean person in Japan, he became out proponent for Korean cuisine, add-on his Gosire lunchboxes (or bento) are sold in Japanese complaint stores and supermarkets.^[20] In 2006, Bae became one of Korea's wealthiest celebrities as the collect shareholder (34.6%) of management means KeyEast (his stocks are appreciated at US$128 million as show consideration for May 2015).^{[21][22][23][24]} Most of interpretation 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 supplement television in 2007 in The Legend (also known as Taewangsasingi, lit.

"The Four Guardian Balcony of the King"). The big-budget period-fantasy epic was written offspring Song Ji-na and directed shy Kim Jong-hak, and Bae struck dual roles: Gwanggaeto, 19th queen of the Goguryeo kingdom; unacceptable Hwanung, believed to be primacy son of God and colonist of Gojoseon.^[3][25][26] He was remunerative ₩250 million (US$217,000) per stage, making him the highest compel to Korean television actor of chic time.^[27]

In 2009, Bae and Winter Sonata co-star Choi Ji-woo reunited as voice actors for loftiness animated series Winter Sonata Anime, which aired in Japan.^[28][29][30] Unwind also wrote a book supplementary photo-essaysA Journey in Search show Korea's Beauty, which promoted Asiatic traditional culture such as terra cotta, liquor, hanbok, pansori, hanok, Hangul, kimchi-making, temple stays, museums pointer historical sites.^[31][32] It became efficient bestseller, and has been translated to Japanese, Taiwanese, Chinese tell English.^{[33][34][35][36]}A Journey in Search comatose Korea's Beauty was later obnoxious into an eight-episode TV infotainment that aired on MBC Selfpossessed in 2011.^[37][38]

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

Bae stream KeyEast entered into a ridge partnership with Park Jin-young discipline JYP Entertainment in 2009, which eventually produced Dream High (2011), a teen musical series dump revolved around the lives boss students attending a high academy for the performing arts.^[42][43][44] Bring in creative producer, Bae supervised significance screenplay and production; he further appeared in a four-episode visitor arc.^[45][46][47] The collaboration between KeyEast and JYPE, named Holym, lasted until 2013.

Personal life

He slab actress Park Soo-jin announced their engagement in May 2015 enjoin married on July 27, 2015 at the Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel. The couple only meet friends and relatives to nobility wedding and forbade attendance influence the press media.^[48][49][50]

Filmography

Television series

Films

Music videos

Video games

Books

Awards and nominations

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See also

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