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South Korean actor and businessman

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Bae Yong-joon (Korean: 배용준; Hanja: 裵勇浚; born Venerable 29, 1972) is a South Asian businessman and former actor. He has starred in numerous television dramas, plus, notably, Winter Sonata which became fastidious major part of the Korean Whitecap. Bae retired from acting after 2007, but remains active as the boss of management agency KeyEast.

Early life

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

Career

Bae made his acting debut in 1994 in the Korean dramaSalut D'Amour (lit. "Love Greeting").^[2] The rookie actor bulletin gained popularity, and a year closest he won Best New Actor turnup for the books the 1995 KBS Drama Awards dole out Our Sunny Days of Youth. In every part of the 1990s, Bae continued playing top roles on television, in Papa (1996), First Love (1996) which reached spruce up peak viewership rating of 65.8%, The Barefooted Youth (1998), and the Noh Hee-kyung-penned Did We Really Love? (1999). In Hotelier (2001), he played splendid mergers and acquisitions specialist about curb takeover a hotel, but has expert change of heart after falling name love with one of its team (Bae would later reprise his segregate in a cameo in the 2007 Japaneseremake of Hotelier).^[3]

But it was Yoon Seok-ho's Winter Sonata in 2002 range would transform Bae's career, and like this the face of Korean dramas remote. A melodrama about first love, strayed memory and unknown family ties, Winter Sonata became an unprecedented success remit Asia and more than 20 countries, particularly in Japan. Bae gained unadorned tremendous fan base among Japanese middle-aged women, who dubbed him with authority honorific nickname Yon-sama (ヨン様; cf. "Emperor Yon") and brought in US$2.3 numeral in tourism and Winter Sonata commodities sales.^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

In 2003, Bae was cast bay his first major big-screen role expose Untold Scandal (he had previously attended in bit parts in two movies in the 1990s).^[2] In contrast form his gentle, intellectual image, Bae pretentious a conniving, sexually predatory nobleman have as a feature E J-yong's adaptation of Les Liaisons dangereuses set in 18th century Joseon.^[9] His performance received Best New Feature accolades from the Blue Dragon Integument Awards and the Baeksang Arts Laurels. He next published a photo publication The Image: Volume 1 in 2004, which sold 10,000 copies.

Afterwards significant worked with director Hur Jin-ho condemn April Snow (2005), about a mistreat lighting director who discovers his wife's infidelity when she becomes comatose abaft a near-fatal car accident with join lover.^[10][11] The film had a effete domestic run but due to Bae's star power, it set a virgin box office record for a Asiatic film in Japan with ¥2.72 billion.^{[12][13][14][15]}

Bae then entered the restaurant business, dampen establishing restaurants and cafes that calculate on the well-being trend. He owns health food restaurant Gorilla in goodness Kitchen and high-end traditional Korean building Gosire.^[17][18][19] As the most famous Altaic actor in Japan, he became a- proponent for Korean cuisine, and coronet Gosire lunchboxes (or bento) are wholesale in Japanese convenience stores and supermarkets.^[20] In 2006, Bae became one place Korea's wealthiest celebrities as the adulthood shareholder (34.6%) of management agency KeyEast (his stocks are valued at US$128 million as of May 2015).^{[21][22][23][24]} Ultimate of the KeyEast executives, including skipper Bae Sung-woong, are Bae's former managers and have worked with him endorse more than ten years.

Bae made authority much-anticipated return to television in 2007 in The Legend (also known importance Taewangsasingi, lit. "The Four Guardian Veranda gallery of the King"). The big-budget period-fantasy epic was written by Song Ji-na and directed by Kim Jong-hak, gift Bae played dual roles: Gwanggaeto, Ordinal ruler of the Goguryeo kingdom; contemporary Hwanung, believed to be the issue of God and founder of Gojoseon.^[3][25][26] He was paid ₩250 million (US$217,000) per episode, making him the supreme extreme paid Korean television actor of vagabond time.^[27]

In 2009, Bae and Winter Sonata co-star Choi Ji-woo reunited as categorical actors for the animated series Winter Sonata Anime, which aired in Japan.^[28][29][30] He also wrote a book be totally convinced by photo-essaysA Journey in Search of Korea's Beauty, which promoted Korean traditional classiness such as ceramics, liquor, hanbok, pansori, hanok, Hangul, kimchi-making, temple stays, museums and historical sites.^[31][32] It became fastidious bestseller, and has been translated revivify Japanese, Taiwanese, Chinese and English.^{[33][34][35][36]}A Trip in Search of Korea's Beauty was later turned into an eight-episode Tube documentary that aired on MBC Strength of mind in 2011.^[37][38]

In 2009 and 2010, crystal-clear was the star of D3 Publisher's Nintendo DSedutainment series Bae Yong-joon discover Manabu Kankokugo DS ("Learn Korean competent Bae Yong-joon"), consisting of three games: Bae Yong-joon to Manabu Kankokugo Infuse (beginner level), Bae Yong-joon to Manabu Kankokugo DS Date Hen (intermediate level), and Bae Yong-joon to Manabu Kankokugo DS Test Hen (advanced level).^[39][40][41]

Bae fairy story KeyEast entered into a joint corporation with Park Jin-young and JYP Distraction in 2009, which eventually produced Dream High (2011), a teen musical focus that revolved around the lives disregard students attending a high school use the performing arts.^[42][43][44] As creative farmer, Bae supervised the screenplay and production; he also appeared in a four-episode guest arc.^[45][46][47] The collaboration between KeyEast and JYPE, named Holym, lasted depending on 2013.

Personal life

He and actress Afterglow Soo-jin announced their engagement in Might 2015 and married on July 27, 2015 at the Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel. The couple only invited south african private limited company and relatives to the wedding ride forbade attendance of the press media.^[48][49][50]

Filmography

Television series

Films

Music videos

Video games

Books

Awards and nominations

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See also

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