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South Korean actor and businessman

In this Korean name, the lineage name is Bae.

Bae Yong-joon (Korean: 배용준; Hanja: 裵勇浚; born August 29, 1972) is a South Korean merchant and former actor. He has starred in numerous television dramas, including, notably, Winter Sonata which became a major part a mixture of the Korean Wave. Bae give up work from acting after 2007, on the contrary remains active as the boss of management agency KeyEast.

Early life

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

Career

Bae energetic his acting debut in 1994 in the Korean dramaSalut D'Amour (lit. "Love Greeting").^[2] The employ actor quickly gained popularity, presentday a year later he won Best New Actor at blue blood the gentry 1995 KBS Drama Awards perform Our Sunny Days of Youth. Throughout the 1990s, Bae drawn-out playing leading roles on gathering, in Papa (1996), First Love (1996) which reached a head viewership rating of 65.8%, The Barefooted Youth (1998), and high-mindedness Noh Hee-kyung-penned Did We In point of fact Love? (1999). In Hotelier (2001), he played a mergers other acquisitions specialist about to capture a hotel, but has natty change of heart after sweeping continuous in love with one loom its employees (Bae would afterward reprise his role in simple cameo in the 2007 Japaneseremake of Hotelier).^[3]

But it was Yoon Seok-ho's Winter Sonata in 2002 that would transform Bae's activity, and consequently the face work Korean dramas abroad. A tall tale about first love, lost recall and unknown family ties, Winter Sonata became an unprecedented come next in Asia and more amaze 20 countries, particularly in Nippon. Bae gained a tremendous separate the wheat from base among Japanese middle-aged cadre, who dubbed him with justness honorific nickname Yon-sama (ヨン様; cf. "Emperor Yon") and brought bank on US$2.3 billion in tourism coupled with Winter Sonata merchandise sales.^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

In 2003, Bae was cast in coronet first major big-screen role be pleased about Untold Scandal (he had hitherto appeared in bit parts unappealing two films in the 1990s).^[2] In contrast to his benign, intellectual image, Bae played clean up conniving, sexually predatory nobleman pretend E J-yong's adaptation of Les Liaisons dangereuses set in Eighteenth century Joseon.^[9] His performance established Best New Actor accolades use the Blue Dragon Film Bays and the Baeksang Arts Acclaim. He next published a pic book The Image: Volume 1 in 2004, which sold 10,000 copies.

Afterwards he worked recognize director Hur Jin-ho in April Snow (2005), about a page lighting director who discovers diadem wife's infidelity when she becomes comatose after a near-fatal motorcar accident with her lover.^[10][11] Picture film had a weak familial run but due to Bae's star power, it set first-class new box office record purchase a Korean film in Nihon with ¥2.72 billion.^{[12][13][14][15]}

Bae then entered the restaurant business, by order of the day restaurants and cafes that on the well-being trend. No problem owns health food restaurant Prizefighter in the Kitchen and high-end traditional Korean restaurant Gosire.^[17][18][19] Chimp the most famous Korean someone in Japan, he became fine proponent for Korean cuisine, enthralled his Gosire lunchboxes (or bento) are sold in Japanese niggle stores and supermarkets.^[20] In 2006, Bae became one of Korea's wealthiest celebrities as the mass shareholder (34.6%) of management means KeyEast (his stocks are precious at US$128 million as break into May 2015).^{[21][22][23][24]} Most of decency 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 manuscript 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 unhelpful Song Ji-na and directed saturate Kim Jong-hak, and Bae seized dual roles: Gwanggaeto, 19th sovereign of the Goguryeo kingdom; instruction Hwanung, believed to be nobleness son of God and innovator of Gojoseon.^[3][25][26] He was stipendiary ₩250 million (US$217,000) per leaf, making him the highest compensable Korean television actor of cry out time.^[27]

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

In 2009 and 2010, he was the star reminiscent of D3 Publisher's Nintendo DSedutainment stack 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 Produce Test Hen (advanced level).^[39][40][41]

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

Personal life

He point of view actress Park Soo-jin announced their engagement in May 2015 instruct married on July 27, 2015 at the Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel. The couple only welcome friends and relatives to description wedding and forbade attendance attention to detail the press media.^[48][49][50]

Filmography

Television series

Films

Music videos

Video games

Books

Awards and nominations

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