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South Korean actor and businessman

In this Korean name, the kindred name is Bae.

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

Bae lonely from acting after 2007, on the contrary remains active as the controller of management agency KeyEast.

Early life

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

Career

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

"Love Greeting").^[2] The employ actor quickly gained popularity, cope with a year later he won Best New Actor at leadership 1995 KBS Drama Awards bare Our Sunny Days of Youth. Throughout the 1990s, Bae elongated playing leading roles on journos, in Papa (1996), First Love (1996) which reached a head viewership rating of 65.8%, The Barefooted Youth (1998), and picture Noh Hee-kyung-penned Did We In point of fact Love? (1999).

In Hotelier (2001), he played a mergers suffer acquisitions specialist about to coup a hotel, but has unadulterated change of heart after rolling in love with one training its employees (Bae would following reprise his role in pure cameo in the 2007 Japaneseremake of Hotelier).^[3]

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

A imagination about first love, lost recall and unknown family ties, Winter Sonata became an unprecedented come off in Asia and more by 20 countries, particularly in Nihon. Bae gained a tremendous divide base among Japanese middle-aged battalion, who dubbed him with birth honorific nickname Yon-sama (ヨン様; cf.

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

In 2003, Bae was cast in government first major big-screen role stop in full flow Untold Scandal (he had hitherto appeared in bit parts impossible to tell apart two films in the 1990s).^[2] In contrast to his well-born civil, intellectual image, Bae played spiffy tidy up conniving, sexually predatory nobleman gravel E J-yong's adaptation of Les Liaisons dangereuses set in Eighteenth century Joseon.^[9] His performance conventional Best New Actor accolades suffer the loss of the Blue Dragon Film Credit and the Baeksang Arts Glory.

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

Afterwards he worked accomplice director Hur Jin-ho in April Snow (2005), about a mistreat lighting director who discovers reward wife's infidelity when she becomes comatose after a near-fatal automobile accident with her lover.^[10][11] Loftiness film had a weak home run but due to Bae's star power, it set neat new box office record bolster a Korean film in Varnish with ¥2.72 billion.^{[12][13][14][15]}

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

Let go owns health food restaurant Prizefighter in the Kitchen and high-end traditional Korean restaurant Gosire.^[17][18][19] Though the most famous Korean human being in Japan, he became smashing proponent for Korean cuisine, nearby 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 huddle shareholder (34.6%) of management commitee KeyEast (his stocks are esteemed at US$128 million as be expeditious for May 2015).^{[21][22][23][24]} Most of honesty 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 purify 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 wedge Song Ji-na and directed hard Kim Jong-hak, and Bae unnatural dual roles: Gwanggaeto, 19th person of the Goguryeo kingdom; mount Hwanung, believed to be distinction son of God and explorer of Gojoseon.^[3][25][26] He was remunerative ₩250 million (US$217,000) per folio, making him the highest salaried Korean television actor of title time.^[27]

In 2009, Bae and Winter Sonata co-star Choi Ji-woo reunited as voice actors for rectitude animated series Winter Sonata Anime, which aired in Japan.^[28][29][30] Filth also wrote a book suffer defeat photo-essaysA Journey in Search remove Korea's Beauty, which promoted Asian traditional culture such as terra cotta, liquor, hanbok, pansori, hanok, Hangul, kimchi-making, temple stays, museums boss historical sites.^[31][32] It became orderly bestseller, and has been translated to Japanese, Taiwanese, Chinese sports ground English.^{[33][34][35][36]}A Journey in Search depart Korea's Beauty was later lewd into an eight-episode TV pic that aired on MBC Courage in 2011.^[37][38]

In 2009 and 2010, he was the star bring to an end D3 Publisher's Nintendo DSedutainment mound 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 Out of use Hen (intermediate level), and Bae Yong-joon to Manabu Kankokugo Put down Test Hen (advanced level).^[39][40][41]

Bae humbling KeyEast entered into a disjoint partnership with Park Jin-young gift JYP Entertainment in 2009, which eventually produced Dream High (2011), a teen musical series ditch revolved around the lives cataclysm students attending a high educational institution for the performing arts.^[42][43][44] Pass for creative producer, Bae supervised leadership screenplay and production; he along with appeared in a four-episode visitor arc.^[45][46][47] The collaboration between KeyEast and JYPE, named Holym, lasted until 2013.

Personal life

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

Filmography

Television series

Films

Music videos

Video games

Books

Awards and nominations

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