Bae Yong-joon
| Bae Yong-joon | |
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| Born |
August 29, 1972 Mapo District, Seoul, South Korea |
| Occupation | Actor, Businessman |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Agent | KeyEast |
| Spouse(s) | Park Soo-jin (m. 2015) |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | http://www.byj.co.kr/ |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 배용준 |
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Bae Yong-jun |
| McCune–Reischauer | Pae Yongjun |
Bae Yong-joon (born August 29, 1972) is a South Korean actor and businessman. He starred in numerous television dramas, notably Winter Sonata which became one of the major proponents of the Korean Wave. Bae retired from acting after 2007, but remains active as the chairman of management agency KeyEast.
Bae Yong-joon was born in Mapo District, Seoul. He entered Sungkyunkwan University in 2000 as a Film Studies major, but later dropped out.
Bae made his acting debut in 1994 in the Korean drama Salut D'Amour (lit. "Love Greeting"). The rookie actor quickly gained popularity, and a year later he won Best New Actor at the 1995 KBS Drama Awards for Our Sunny Days of Youth. Throughout the 1990s, Bae continued playing leading roles on television, in Papa (1996), First Love (1996) which reached a 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 a mergers and acquisitions specialist about to takeover a hotel, but has a change of heart after falling in love with one of its employees (Bae would later reprise his role in a cameo in the 2007 Japanese remake of Hotelier).
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