Kim Soo-hyun

Acting

Kim Soo-hyun

Born

1988-02-16 (38)

Place of birth

Seoul, South Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

30 titles

Kim Soo Hyun (Hangul: 김수현, born February 16, 1988) is one of the highest-paid actors in South Korea. His accolades include four Baeksang Arts Awards, two Grand Bell Awards and one Blue Dragon Film Award. From 2012 to 2016 and in 2021, he has appeared in Forbes Korea Power Celebrity 40 list. He was selected as Gallup Korea's Television Actor of the Year in 2014 and was featured by Forbes in their 30 Under 30 Asia list of 2016. Kim took acting classes during his school years on his mother's recommendation to overcome his introvert personality. Following a few theatrical works, he made his television debut in 2007 with the family sitcom Kimchi Cheese Smile. He went on to established himself w…

Known for

Running Man poster
8.2

These days, as variety shows are gradually disappearing, this is one of Korea’s representative variety shows that has been responsible for Sunday evenings for over 10 years. This program features numerous stars and members going around various places, playing games, and completing missions. In particular, among the many fun elements of variety shows, this one focuses solely on laughter. Open your eyes! Big fun is coming in! Open your mouth! Big laughter is coming in! Open your heart! Useful lessons are coming in!

Running Man

2010

Infinite Challenge poster
7.7

Infinite Challenge has been reported as the first "Real-Variety" show in Korean television history. The program is largely unscripted, and follows a similar format of challenge-based Reality Television programs, familiar to the audiences in the West, but the challenges are often silly, absurd, or impossible to achieve, so the program takes on the aspect of a satirical comedy variety show, rather than a more standard reality or contest program. In order to achieve its comedic purposes its 6 hosts and staff continuously proclaim, the elements of this show are the 3-Ds, Dirty, Dangerous, and Difficult.

Infinite Challenge

2005

You Quiz on the Block poster
8.3

Yoo Jae-suk and Jo Se-ho who enter ordinary people's everyday lives, chat with them, and give them surprise quizzes! The talk and quiz show program will spotlight these people's lives and aims to gift them a refreshing, different kind of day. Recently they're also inviting celebrities & professionals to the show.

You Quiz on the Block

2018

Crash Landing on You poster
8.5

A paragliding mishap drops a South Korean heiress in North Korea -- and into the life of an army officer, who decides he will help her hide.

Crash Landing on You

2019

Queen of Tears poster
8.4

The queen of department stores and the prince of supermarkets weather a marital crisis—until love miraculously begins to bloom again.

Queen of Tears

2024

It's Okay to Not Be Okay poster
8.5

Desperate to escape from his emotional baggage and the heavy responsibility he’s had all his life, a psychiatric ward worker begins to heal with help from the unexpected – a woman who writes fairy tales but doesn’t believe in them.

It's Okay to Not Be Okay

2020

Film credits

2010s · 5 titles

Series credits

Running Man poster
8.2

These days, as variety shows are gradually disappearing, this is one of Korea’s representative variety shows that has been responsible for Sunday evenings for over 10 years. This program features numerous stars and members going around various places, playing games, and completing missions. In particular, among the many fun elements of variety shows, this one focuses solely on laughter. Open your eyes! Big fun is coming in! Open your mouth! Big laughter is coming in! Open your heart! Useful lessons are coming in!

Running Man

2010

Infinite Challenge poster
7.7

Infinite Challenge has been reported as the first "Real-Variety" show in Korean television history. The program is largely unscripted, and follows a similar format of challenge-based Reality Television programs, familiar to the audiences in the West, but the challenges are often silly, absurd, or impossible to achieve, so the program takes on the aspect of a satirical comedy variety show, rather than a more standard reality or contest program. In order to achieve its comedic purposes its 6 hosts and staff continuously proclaim, the elements of this show are the 3-Ds, Dirty, Dangerous, and Difficult.

Infinite Challenge

2005

You Quiz on the Block poster
8.3

Yoo Jae-suk and Jo Se-ho who enter ordinary people's everyday lives, chat with them, and give them surprise quizzes! The talk and quiz show program will spotlight these people's lives and aims to gift them a refreshing, different kind of day. Recently they're also inviting celebrities & professionals to the show.

You Quiz on the Block

2018

Crash Landing on You poster
8.5

A paragliding mishap drops a South Korean heiress in North Korea -- and into the life of an army officer, who decides he will help her hide.

Crash Landing on You

2019

Queen of Tears poster
8.4

The queen of department stores and the prince of supermarkets weather a marital crisis—until love miraculously begins to bloom again.

Queen of Tears

2024

It's Okay to Not Be Okay poster
8.5

Desperate to escape from his emotional baggage and the heavy responsibility he’s had all his life, a psychiatric ward worker begins to heal with help from the unexpected – a woman who writes fairy tales but doesn’t believe in them.

It's Okay to Not Be Okay

2020

Salon Drip poster
4.5

Tea time talk show with Salon owner Jang Do Yeon. A comfortable world of endless aristocratic-like conversations in the realm of wit!

Salon Drip

2023

Super Brain poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Super Brain

2014

Hotel Del Luna poster
8.5

When he's invited to manage a hotel for dead souls, an elite hotelier gets to know the establishment's ancient owner and her strange world.

Hotel Del Luna

2019

My Love from the Star poster
8.3

An alien who came to Earth 400 years ago is almost able to return to his own planet, but when he meets a famous actress, he doesn't want to go home.

My Love from the Star

2013

Dream High poster
6.9

Six dedicated students at Kirin Art High School work to achieve their dreams of becoming stars in the Korean music industry.

Dream High

2011

Dream High poster
6.9

Six dedicated students at Kirin Art High School work to achieve their dreams of becoming stars in the Korean music industry.

Dream High

2011

Moon Embracing the Sun poster
7.9

Years after she's assumed dead by the palace, a young noblewoman, now trained as a shaman, returns to court to reclaim her rightful position as queen.

Moon Embracing the Sun

2012

Giant poster
8.1

Giant is a 2010 South Korean television series starring Lee Beom-soo, Park Jin-hee, Joo Sang-wook, Hwang Jung-eum, Park Sang-min, and Jeong Bo-seok. It aired on SBS from May 10 to December 7, 2010 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 60 episodes. Giant is a sprawling period drama about three siblings' quest for revenge during the economic boom of 1970-80s Korea. Tragically separated during childhood, the three reunite as adults and set out to avenge their parents' deaths, their fates playing out against a larger tide of power, money, politics, and the growth of a city.

Giant

2010

The Producers poster
7.4

A rookie producer joins the Korean Broadcasting System to be near his secret crush and enters the madcap world of network TV, where ratings rule.

The Producers

2015

Kimchi Cheese Smile poster
5.0

Kimchi Cheese Smile (Korean: 김치 치즈 스마일; RR: Kimchi Chiseu Seumail) is a South Korean sitcom revolving around the life of a kimchi-like (having a popular & conservative thought) family headed by Shin Goo who are to become in-laws with Sunwoo Eun-sook's cheese-like (rich & stylish class) family. With contrasting classes and family values, the sitcom follows these two families through various events of their lives.

Kimchi Cheese Smile

2007

Good Day poster
7.8

A music project program where G-Dragon completes the song of the year with people from various fields.

Good Day

2025

Knock-Off poster
10.0

Kim Seong-jun, an ordinary man who lost his job during the IMF crisis, jumps into the counterfeit goods business in the late 20th century and grows into the world's counterfeit goods king in the 21st century, not just in South Korea.

Knock-Off

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One Ordinary Day poster
7.9

A college student gives a young woman he just met a ride to the beach in his father's cab and they end up spending the night together. When he wakes up to find her dead, he gets caught up in her murder case.

One Ordinary Day

2021

Will It Snow For Christmas? poster
6.0

Cha Kang Jin grows up in a poor family who is constantly on the move. After relocating to his mother's hometown when Kang Jin is a teenager, his mother falls back into her old ways, opening a bar that draws a group of undesirable men. Kang Jin is forced to watch helplessly from the sidelines, getting into fights with other high school students to protect her honor. When he meets Han Ji Wan at school, sparks fly immediately, but tragedy soon strikes when Ji Wan suddenly must leave town. Eight years later, Kang Jin finally finds her again—at her engagement party. Never able to forget the girl he loved and hurt so badly, Kang Jin has trouble accepting the loss of his love, and after discovering that Ji Wan's fiancée is his co-worker, the three soon become hopelessly entangled in each other's lives.

Will It Snow For Christmas?

2009

Father's House poster
5.0

The story revolves on the life of Kang Man Ho, who had a one-night stand with a pianist, Lee Hyun Jae. But because he needs to serve some time in prison, it wasn't until he got released that he realizes he had become a father; the mother has dropped off the boy with his closest relations (with a man that is like a father figure to Choi) and headed back home to the U.S. Although he didn't feel an immediate love for his son, the bond is solidified when both survived a bus crash, and after that near-death experience, he became determined to be a loving father

Father's House

2009

7 Years of Love poster
NR

Seven Years of Love 2009 (South Korea), also known as 7 Years of Love, 7Nyeon Huae (Ai) , is South Korea drama premiere on Mar 29, 2009 on OBS.

7 Years of Love

2009