Lee Byung-joon

Acting

Lee Byung-joon

Born

1964-01-27 (62)

Place of birth

Seoul, South Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

59 titles

Lee Byung-joon is a South Korean actor. He was born in Busan on January 27, 1964 and made his acting debut in 1985. Active in theater, film, and television dramas, he has taken on countless roles over the years, including those in “Secret Garden” (2010), “Bridal Mask” (2012), “I Am Not a Robot” (2017), and “Level Up” (2019).

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 15 titles

Memoir of a Murderer poster
7.4

A former serial killer with Alzheimer's fights to protect his daughter from her mysterious boyfriend who may be a serial killer too.

Memoir of a Murderer

2017

The Divine Move 2: The Wrathful poster
7.0

In the 1990s, when Go gambling fever swept Korea, Gui-su loses everything because his father gambled obsessively until there was nothing left. Left all alone in the world, Gui-su meets a mentor and Go teacher, Il-do, and goes through vicious training to become the grandmaster of Go. He sets out for revenge on the world that destroyed his life, but soon finds himself chased by an unknown loner pursuing his own vendetta.

The Divine Move 2: The Wrathful

2019

You Call It Passion poster
6.8

Do Ra-hee, a reporter, is assigned by her boss to report on allegations of sexual assault by Woo Ji-han, an actor. She then investigates the case but uncovers details that may turn it upside down.

You Call It Passion

2015

Love Fiction poster
6.6

A writer looking for inspiration finds a perfect muse in a girl. After much work, he makes her his girlfriend. But then he starts to get tired of her.

Love Fiction

2012

My Dictator poster
6.9

Sung-geun is an untalented actor who makes a living playing minor roles. He happens to land on the role as Kim Il-sung, the former leader of North Korea, for the rehearsal of the South-North Korea Summit. Sung-geun becomes passionately immersed in his role, motivated by his son who looks up to him. However, the summit is not realized, and Sung-geun ends up lost in the delusion that he really is Kim Il-sung.

My Dictator

2014

Mr. XXX-Kisser poster
6.5

Oh Dong-sik is the completely rigid character who has always led a text-book life. Dong-sik is threatened by loan sharks when his mother signs up for a private loan in order to advance Dong-sik’s father’s promotion into the principal position. Dong-sik decides to become the best insurance seller in his newly transferred insurance sales team, but sales is a major challenge for the completely tactless and obstinate Dong-sik. Then one day, Dong-sik has a chance encounter with Hyugosoo, the legendary ‘master of tongue’ of insurance sales industry. Hyugosoo bends his rules and accepts Dong-sik as his pupil, and Dong-sik begins to learn Hyugosoo’s secrets of flattery after a great struggle. Will his teachings indeed reinvent Dong-sik into ‘Mr. Ass-Kisser’?

Mr. XXX-Kisser

2012

Female War: Bloody War in Bongcheon-dong poster
4.0

Haedanghwa, a beautiful woman, comes into the life of a single father and his three grown-up sons all of sudden! The abandoned woman, who does not have any memories about herself, begins her precarious cohabitation with the family of four men. And this is how the intense battle among four men to earn Haedanghwa’s heart begins. However, the story starts going towards a completely unexpected direction as a group of suspicious men appear.

Female War: Bloody War in Bongcheon-dong

2016

Ghost Sweepers poster
6.1

Chan-young, a young journalist, is sent to investigate a village which has supposedly been possessed by demons. The incidents taking place have been so strange and terrifying that local shamans and other religious leaders have simply given up, abandoning the town. But upon her arrival, Chan-young discovers that an all-star team of supernaturally-inclined heroes has assembled to rid the village of evil. This team includes Mr. PARK the exorcist, Shi-min the monk, Wol-gwang the clairvoyant, Seung-hee the tarot master, and Seok-hyeon, an engineer. Chan-young follows the heroes as they prepare for an epic battle against the village’s evil forces.

Ghost Sweepers

2012

Collective Invention poster
6.2

Park Goo mutates into a man-fish due to side effects from an experimental drug. He receives heavy publicity and becomes a star. A conspiracy by a pharmaceutical company leads Park Goo to being possibly expelled from the world.

Collective Invention

2015

A Millionaire on the Run poster
4.7

Young-in and his colleague Seung-dae are a pair of professional bagmen working for various lobbyists in finance, media and a host of other industries requiring political favors. Feeling guilty about his work, Seung-dae tells Young-in he plans on blowing the whistle on his boss Han's illegal activities.

A Millionaire on the Run

2012

Never Ending Story poster
5.8

A man and a woman who is only given so much time to live fall in love and resolves heart aching love into a bright and cheerful one.

Never Ending Story

2012

Le Grand Chef 2: Kimchi Battle poster
6.6

"Le Grand Chef 2" begins with the Korean president visiting the Japanese Prime Minister and becoming involved in a heated debate over the origins of kimchi. The Japanese Prime Minister makes the bold claim that kimchi is an original Japanese dish which sets off the Korean president. Upon the Korean's president return home he sets upon a globalization plan for kimchi, which includes a nationwide "Kimchi Contest". Then, a lady named Jang-eun (Kim Jung-Eun) and her step-brother Sung-Chan (Jin Goo) compete in the Kimchi dish contest, with both siblings using their mother's kimchi recipe.

Le Grand Chef 2: Kimchi Battle

2010

Man of Vendetta poster
6.3

A respected pastor is shattered when his daughter is kidnapped and not returned. He renounces his faith in God and becomes a corrupt businessman. Years later, he receives a call and finds that his daughter is still alive and is with the kidnapper. His resolute attempt to rescue her begins.

Man of Vendetta

2010

Came To Me And Become A Star poster
4.2

Hajin works at a company that's going through financial difficulties and hasn't been able to pay her for months. Gangseok has a well paying tuition job but his student and family debt and the fact that his mother is in a coma means that he's always short on money. They are both struggling to make it in this cold and difficult reality we call life. One day they end up at a blind date service meeting party and find that they are 98% compatible with each other. Certain random happenings makes Gangseok want to believe that Hajin is the one. But there's one secret that they can't share which is that they're both so poor that they're living at a cheap student hostel. Will they be able to overcome their current situation of hidden poverty and realize true love? Or will the harshness of reality split them apart? A touching and yet coldly realistic love story...

Came To Me And Become A Star

2013

Earth Rep Rolling Stars poster
NR

A story about a group of trouble makers, who knew nothing about baseball and create a team to save the Earth from the best baseball team in the Universe, the "Devil's".

Earth Rep Rolling Stars

2011

2000s · 4 titles

Highway Star poster
6.4

Stuck in a small town, aspiring rocker Dal Ho makes a living reluctantly playing trot at local clubs. When small-time recording company head Jang offers Dal Ho a contract, he eagerly grabs the opportunity, believing that his time has finally come. After he signs, however, Dal Ho discovers that he won't be rocking after all. Instead, he will be singing trot. Unable to back out of his contract, Dal Ho takes to the stage behind a mask to hide his embarrassment, and ends up an overnight sensation. The wannabe rocker seems to have found his true calling, but doing music he dislikes. With the help of Jang and a certain cute trot singer, maybe he'll actually learn the passion of trot.

Highway Star

2007

Eye For An Eye poster
6.4

The devious brain behind a heist draws a top police detective, on the eve of his retirement, into an elaborate plot of robbery and revenge.

Eye For An Eye

2008

A Bloody Aria poster
5.5

A student and her teacher go to a secluded area in the middle of nowhere to practice open-air singing. There they run into a gang of local thugs who initially seem friendly but slowly reveal their sinister side.

A Bloody Aria

2006

Between Love and Hate poster
4.3

Young-Hoon works for his mother’s restaurant, but he prefers hanging out with his friends. He then meets Yeun-ah, a tough lady that works in a room salon as a barmaid. She takes the initiative by coming to his restaurant, when he is working, and propositions him in a playful way. They become a couple, but their relationship is always volatile. They fight constantly (physically and verbally), but the next moment kiss and make up. Meanwhile, Young-Hoon already has another girlfriend, who is his finance!

Between Love and Hate

2006

Series credits

Perfect Crown poster
9.0

In 21st-century Korea under a constitutional monarchy, a chaebol heiress with everything but status tries to take control of her future after crossing paths with a lonely prince with nothing but his title. Together, bound by a contract marriage, they begin a class-defying romance to rewrite destiny.

Perfect Crown

2026

The Glory poster
8.5

Years after surviving horrific abuse in high school, a woman puts an elaborate revenge scheme in motion to make the perpetrators pay for their crimes.

The Glory

2022

Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth poster
7.9

An elite group of young warriors trained in morals and martial arts finds love and friendship in Silla during Korea’s ancient Three Kingdoms period.

Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth

2016

She Was Pretty poster
8.3

A former ugly duckling tries to track down his childhood first love. But what will happen when a case of false identities backfires?

She Was Pretty

2015

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

Welcome to Samdal-ri poster
8.2

After suffering a fall from grace, a photographer returns to her hometown and bumps into her childhood friend — rekindling an unfinished romance.

Welcome to Samdal-ri

2023

Reborn Rich poster
8.0

After ten years, a loyal employee is framed for embezzlement, then murdered by his employers, only to be reborn as their youngest son, with a yearn for revenge guiding his hostile takeover.

Reborn Rich

2022

What's Wrong with Secretary Kim poster
8.3

When his secretary unexpectedly quits, an arrogant executive will do anything to bring her back.

What's Wrong with Secretary Kim

2018

Backstreet Rookie poster
7.7

It tells an unpredictable 24-hour love story of the four-dimensional innocent girl Jung Saet Byeol who was once a troublemaker and the adorkable caring male store manager, Choi Dae Hyun, in the context of a convenience store. They have met each other accidentally 4 years ago, back then Saet Byeol asked Dae Hyun to buy cigarettes for them. Until now, Saet Byeol comes to the convenience store Dae Hyun runs for a part-time job, their hilarious romantic story starts.

Backstreet Rookie

2020

I Am Not a Robot poster
8.3

Kim Min Gyu has wealth and success, but lives an isolated life due to his allergy of people. He then meets and falls in love with a girl who is pretending to be a robot for her ex-boyfriend, a genius robots professor.

I Am Not a Robot

2017

Love Your Enemy poster
7.6

Born on the same day and with the same name, Seok Ji-won and Yoon Ji-won have been enemies for generations, and reunite after 18 years.

Love Your Enemy

2024

Love Returns poster
5.0

The drama follows the life a woman who ends up losing everything after living a turbulent life. When she starts anew from the bottom, ironically, her life blossoms. The value that holds us together is not blood nor law, but rather love and affection between us.

Love Returns

2017

Bridal Mask poster
7.5

During the Japanese occupation of Korea in the 1930s, one of the darkest periods of Korean history, heroes came from ordinary men who did extraordinary things in their everyday lives. Lee Kang To is one of those men. A skilled martial artist, Kang To actively participates in the independence movement to fight against the Japanese imperialist regime. He is known as “Gaksital” because he hides his true identity behind a rosy-cheeked traditional bridal mask, known as a “gaksital,” when he fights against the Japanese. But can one man do enough to right the wrongs of a terrifying national enemy?

Bridal Mask

2012

Perfect Marriage Revenge poster
8.0

Waking from a fatal accident to find herself in the past, Han Yi-joo teams up with Seo Do-guk to take revenge on the family who never loved her.

Perfect Marriage Revenge

2023

My Shy Boss poster
7.2

The isolated life of an extreme introvert is thrown out of order when his company hires a new employee: a cheery extrovert who's not all she seems.

My Shy Boss

2017

Wang’s Family poster
6.0

Wang Subak, the eldest daughter of the Wang family, had married into a wealthy family. But after her husband Ko Minjung goes bankrupt, she and her family have to move back into her parents' home. Second daughter Hobak is also having financial difficulties with her jobless husband Heo Sedal, while third daughter Gwangbak suddenly decides to quit her stable job as a teacher to pursue her dream of becoming a writer. Navigating the pressures of their circumstances will test every member of the family as they struggle to find happiness and love.

Wang’s Family

2013

Go Back Couple poster
7.6

Having married young, when frustration with their lives make Choi Ban-du and Ma Jin-joo regret their marriage of 18 years, a strange occurrence has them traveling back in time to the day before they met and into their younger selves.

Go Back Couple

2017

The Great Doctor poster
7.2

A modern-day doctor is wrenched away from her life and sent back in time. But will she find love – 700 years in the past – with an abrasive general?

The Great Doctor

2012

My Sweet Mobster poster
7.9

Once a convict, Ji-hwan is now a successful, albeit overly cautious CEO, who has yet to experience any of life’s more enjoyable pleasures: namely falling in love. But all that changes when fate brings beloved children’s content creator Eun-ha into his life. The unlikely pair find love most unexpectedly but Eun-ha’s longtime fan, Prosecutor Hyun-woo isn’t ready to let her go without a fight.

My Sweet Mobster

2024

Our Gap Soon poster
7.8

A family drama that illustrates marriage and married life in modern society in a positive light.

Our Gap Soon

2016

Cunning Single Lady poster
7.6

After suffering during their marriage, a divorcée hopes to seduce her ex husband into an apology – but he thinks she wants his newfound wealth.

Cunning Single Lady

2014

Jeon Woo Chi poster
4.0

Jeon Woo Chi is student of Hong Gil Dong, fights against Ma Sook and Kang Rim to protect Hong Gil Dong′s country Yuldo. Jeon Woo Chi acts like a lazy nobody in everyday life, but whenever he has to fight he transforms into the magician Jeon Woo Chi. He even puts his life on the line when Hong Moo Yeon, granddaughter of Hong Gil Dong and his fiance, falls under a spell and starts to attack him. Jeon Woo Chi who dreams of revenge after having lost his trusted best friend and lover is not interested in becoming a hero but becomes one as he gets rid of the bad guys.

Jeon Woo Chi

2012

The Boy Next Door poster
6.7

Neighbors Kyu-tae and Gi-jae can't seem to escape one another - they discover they have a mutual acquaintance in Min-ah, and they even end up living together.

The Boy Next Door

2017

A New Leaf poster
7.2

Kim Seok Joo (Kim Myung Min) is a cold, calculating lawyer who is vying to become successful at all costs. After a fateful accident causes him to lose his memory, Kim Seok Joo must rediscover who he is as a person and choose whether he will fight for justice or fall back into his old ways. Before the accident, he was engaged to the only grandchild of a wealthy family, Yoo Jung Sun (Chae Jung Ahn), but with no memory of her, he begins to fall for Lee Ji Yoon (Park Min Young), an idealistic intern at his law firm. As he regains his memories, will his heart choose new love or old greed?

A New Leaf

2014

Feel Good To Die poster
6.8

Lee Roo-Da tries to reform her tyrannical boss Baek Jin-Sang to become a new and better man. Because the boss has such a terrible personality, all of his subordinates including Roo-Da despise him. One day, Roo-Da is so mad at him that she hopes he dies already. When he gets hit by a truck and dies, she blames herself and wishes that it would all be a dream. The next morning, she wakes up and learns that she has been caught up in a time rift, and her battle to bring her boss back to life begins.

Feel Good To Die

2018

No artwork available
NR

Han Sang Jin is married to Kim Na Young and they have a 7 year old daughter, Min Joo. They live with his mom, younger brother, younger sister, and sister's daughter. One day, Sang Jin vanishes while on a business trip. He remains missing for over 7 years until one day he is spotted by his college friend, Nam Hyun Pil, at a ski resort. Min Joo, now 15, sees him as well but she just thinks he looks like her dad. Hyun Pil begins digging and finds out that the man is called Min Young Tae. Young Tae is married to Hyun Ja and they have a 3 year old son, Ung Pyo. Hyun Ja doesn't care about that all she knows is that he's her husband and the father of her child. Hyun Pil makes the hard decision to tell the truth to Na Young, to whom he's just proposed. The question is now which man will he live as, Han Sang Jin or Min Young Tae, since each man has a different wife.

Wife

2003

Me too, Flower! poster
5.9

A tough female police officer who suffers from depression falls in love with a young multimillionaire whom she initially believed was a parking attendant. Instead of counting her lucky stars, she is taken aback by how rich he is. Officer Cha Bong-sun is a peculiar woman who defies the rigid social hierarchy and rails against it. And Seo Jae-hee, the millionaire boyfriend, is a peculiar man who falls in love with this quirky police officer. They fall passionately in love with each other. A crazy sort of love. A story about people, relationships and love.

Me too, Flower!

2011

Hot Singers poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hot Singers

2022

Birdie Buddy poster
5.4

A former PGA champion with a mysterious past transforms two contrasting women into golf's next rising stars, challenging their limits and redefining their destinies.

Birdie Buddy

2011

Maestra: Strings of Truth poster
8.0

A highly accomplished conductor decides to leave her life in New York behind to take up the challenge of reviving a struggling orchestra.

Maestra: Strings of Truth

2023

Salamander Guru and The Shadows poster
2.2

Salamander Guru and The Shadows is a 2012 South Korean sitcom starring Choi Minho, Oh Dal-soo, Im Won-hee, Lee Byung-joon and Ryu Hyun-kyung. It aired on SBS from January 27 to March 30, 2012 on Fridays at 23:00 for 10 episodes. It is SBS's first sitcom in 5 years.

Salamander Guru and The Shadows

2012

Cinderella Man poster
6.0

When brash, street-smart orphan Oh Dae San, who makes his living copying designer fashions, and the apathetic grandson of the fashion empire Lee Joon Hee meet by chance one day, the two men realize that they look exactly alike and in that, they see a chance to set each other free.

Cinderella Man

2009

Poseidon poster
4.5

This action packed thriller follows a covert Marines unit that once trailed Choi Hee Gon, maritime kingpin of a notorious crime syndicate. Team leader Kwon Jung Ryool was forced to abort his mission after Hee Gon slayed his wife and all the loved ones of the team’s original members. Stranded, Kim Sun Woo, Jung Ryool’s trusted young agent, has remained undercover. Years later, with Poseidon’s reputation and credibility wrecked, Jung Ryool summons Sun Woo from the underworld and together, they set out to take down Hee Gon once and for all. More than a pretty face, Lee Soo Yoon joins the new team as a corporal who is not to be tampered with.

Poseidon

2011

Level Up poster
7.6

A director must lead a gaming firm out of bankruptcy, despite his disdain for video games. Will he clash with – or fall in love with – the firm’s head developer?

Level Up

2019

Secret Agent Miss Oh poster
7.5

O Ha Na is a lowly police officer who lacks a sense of duty and believes that it is worth bending the rules in order to achieve your aims. She meets and begins to investigate Ko Jin Hyeok, an elite intelligence agent, and they clash instantly based on their different morals. Their initial dislike of each other masks their romantic attraction, but this development is hindered by the existence of Choi Eun Seo, Jin Hyeok's first love.

Secret Agent Miss Oh

2010

Mackerel Run poster
4.8

Cha Gong-chan was able to enter the top private high school in the affluent Gangnam District, Myoung-mun High, because of his soccer skills. But when he quits the sport, he finds himself an outcast and starts cutting class. One day, a beautiful new girl transfers to the school, and when she walks into his class, Gong-chan falls for her instantly. He is finally enthusiastic about going to school, but the school administrator informs him that he will be expelled if he misses one more day. Gong-chan vows that he won't give up on either his school life or his love.

Mackerel Run

2007

No artwork available
NR

Popopo is a South Korean children's television series broadcast on Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation. With over 32 years of broadcasting this, it is considered to be the longest-running children's programme in South Korea.  It ended its run in 2013, after over 7,700 episodes.

Popopo

1981

노란손수건 poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

노란손수건

2003