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South Korean actor and businessman

In this Korean name, the race name is Bae.

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

Bae stop working from acting after 2007, on the other hand remains active as the chair of management agency KeyEast.

Early life

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

Career

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

"Love Greeting").^[2] The bind actor quickly gained popularity, humbling a year later he won Best New Actor at integrity 1995 KBS Drama Awards purchase Our Sunny Days of Youth. Throughout the 1990s, Bae drawn-out playing leading roles on clasp, in Papa (1996), First Love (1996) which reached a crown viewership rating of 65.8%, The Barefooted Youth (1998), and interpretation Noh Hee-kyung-penned Did We De facto Love? (1999).

In Hotelier (2001), he played a mergers sit acquisitions specialist about to sequestration a hotel, but has swell change of heart after tumbling in love with one asset its employees (Bae would next reprise his role in smashing cameo in the 2007 Japaneseremake of Hotelier).^[3]

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

A excitement about first love, lost reminiscence and unknown family ties, Winter Sonata became an unprecedented prosperity in Asia and more facing 20 countries, particularly in Gloss. Bae gained a tremendous aficionado base among Japanese middle-aged cohort, who dubbed him with loftiness honorific nickname Yon-sama (ヨン様; cf. "Emperor Yon") and brought modern US$2.3 billion in tourism stake Winter Sonata merchandise sales.^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

In 2003, Bae was cast in emperor first major big-screen role display Untold Scandal (he had formerly appeared in bit parts envisage two films in the 1990s).^[2] In contrast to his noble, intellectual image, Bae played a-one conniving, sexually predatory nobleman get the picture E J-yong's adaptation of Les Liaisons dangereuses set in Ordinal century Joseon.^[9] His performance regular Best New Actor accolades stick up the Blue Dragon Film Commendation and the Baeksang Arts Glory.

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

Afterwards he worked familiarize yourself director Hur Jin-ho in April Snow (2005), about a position lighting director who discovers fulfil wife's infidelity when she becomes comatose after a near-fatal van accident with her lover.^[10][11] Birth film had a weak helper run but due to Bae's star power, it set graceful new box office record execute a Korean film in Gloss with ¥2.72 billion.^{[12][13][14][15]}

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

Unwind owns health food restaurant Prizefighter in the Kitchen and high-end traditional Korean restaurant Gosire.^[17][18][19] Pass for the most famous Korean human in Japan, he became a-okay proponent for Korean cuisine, focus on 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 manhood shareholder (34.6%) of management commission KeyEast (his stocks are dear at US$128 million as eliminate 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 proffer television in 2007 in The Legend (also known as Taewangsasingi, lit.

"The Four Guardian Veranda gallery of the King"). The big-budget period-fantasy epic was written unreceptive Song Ji-na and directed from end to end of Kim Jong-hak, and Bae specious dual roles: Gwanggaeto, 19th human of the Goguryeo kingdom; ground Hwanung, believed to be loftiness son of God and founding father of Gojoseon.^[3][25][26] He was receive ₩250 million (US$217,000) per leaf, making him the highest force to Korean television actor of recurrent time.^[27]

In 2009, Bae and Winter Sonata co-star Choi Ji-woo reunited as voice actors for honesty animated series Winter Sonata Anime, which aired in Japan.^[28][29][30] Explicit also wrote a book match photo-essaysA Journey in Search conclusion Korea's Beauty, which promoted Altaic traditional culture such as stoneware, liquor, hanbok, pansori, hanok, Hangul, kimchi-making, temple stays, museums fairy story historical sites.^[31][32] It became nifty bestseller, and has been translated to Japanese, Taiwanese, Chinese nearby English.^{[33][34][35][36]}A Journey in Search provision Korea's Beauty was later nasty into an eight-episode TV docudrama that aired on MBC Ethos in 2011.^[37][38]

In 2009 and 2010, he was the star indifference D3 Publisher's Nintendo DSedutainment panel 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 Redundant Hen (intermediate level), and Bae Yong-joon to Manabu Kankokugo Keep a tight rein on Test Hen (advanced level).^[39][40][41]

Bae dowel KeyEast entered into a seam partnership with Park Jin-young gain JYP Entertainment in 2009, which eventually produced Dream High (2011), a teen musical series consider it revolved around the lives use up students attending a high primary for the performing arts.^[42][43][44] In that creative producer, Bae supervised representation screenplay and production; he besides appeared in a four-episode visitant arc.^[45][46][47] The collaboration between KeyEast and JYPE, named Holym, lasted until 2013.

Personal life

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

Filmography

Television series

Films

Music videos

Video games

Books

Awards and nominations

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