Sung Hoon
| Sung Hoon | |
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| Born |
Bang Sung-hoon February 14, 1983 Nam District, Daegu, South Korea |
| Education |
Yong In University Social and Physical Education |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2011-present |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 성훈 |
| Revised Romanization | Seong Hun |
| McCune–Reischauer | Sŏng Hun |
| Birth name | |
| Hangul | 방성훈 |
| Revised Romanization | Bang Seong-hun |
| McCune–Reischauer | Pang Sŏng-hun |
Sung Hoon (born Bang Sung-hoon on February 14, 1983) is a South Korean actor. Sung Hoon was a member of the national swim team and specialised in butterfly stroke. He swam on the team for 14 years but had to quit because of a spinal injury. He then enlisted into the military, but the same injury sent him home early. Sung Hoon debuted as an actor in 2011 with New Tales of Gisaeng, landing the lead role despite having no modeling or acting experience.
Sung Hoon's breakthrough role in New Tales of Gisaeng he portrayed a character of an arrogant chaebol Ah Da Moo who was excellent in sports, business, women and popularity. His acting in this drama earned him an SBS Acting award for the Best New Actor in 2011.
In 2012 he acted in his first Chinese drama The Bodyguard. His character was of a Security chief named Guo Xu. The same year he acted in Faith as Chun Eum-ja, a villainous white-haired man with a deadly flute. Later that year he was cast in the drama The Birth of a Family as a businessman named Han Ji-hoon. He was once again cast as a lead character, a chaebol named Kang Moo Yool in 2013 in the drama Passionate Love. In 2014, Sung Hoon acted in a web drama 6 Persons Room. His character Min Soo, a successful businessman and womaniser until he suffers an injury and finds himself in a hospital surrounded by strange patients.
His popularity arose with the mini-series in 2015 Noble, My Love, in which he played a chaebol named Lee Kang Hoon, CEO of the Korean Branch of D.O.L, the world's biggest corporation. One day, he is kidnapped and dramatically escapes from the bad guys but he bleeds so much that he blackouts in front of one animal hospital. Yoon Seo, a veterinarian, finds him and cures him. This fame led him to be chosen to his next project Oh My Venus where he plays a professional boxer Jang Joon-sung trained by John Kim (played by So Ji-sub), his alias is "Korean Snake." He used to be an orphan but John Kim gladly took him as his student and trained him to become a successful boxer.
Sung Hoon is also a talented musical Disc jockey. He is conducting his DJ activities under the name ROI. In June 2015, Sung showcased his DJ skills at Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. Same year in August Sung performed in Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.
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