SUNG Yu-bin, born in 2000, began acting when he was 9, after someone recommended him to attend acting lessons. He debuted in the thriller <Blind> in 2011 and played later that year a younger version of YOO Ah-in’s lead character in the surprise hit drama film <Punch>. He received a lot of praise for his performance in the special TV drama <The Murder of Haneuljae Pass> (2013), set during the Korean War, and became particularly busy in the following years ...
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SUNG Yu-bin, born in 2000, began acting when he was 9, after someone recommended him to attend acting lessons. He debuted in the thriller <Blind> in 2011 and played later that year a younger version of YOO Ah-in’s lead character in the surprise hit drama film <Punch>. He received a lot of praise for his performance in the special TV drama <The Murder of Haneuljae Pass> (2013), set during the Korean War, and became particularly busy in the following years with a large number of roles, usually younger versions of main characters, like in <Secretly Greatly> (2013), <Hide and Seek> (2013) and <The Fatal Encounter> (2014). After playing the son to CHOI Min-shik’s hunter in historical blockbuster <The Tiger> (2015), one of his first important roles, he was brought to large notice with another role in a critical flashback in the latter part of <Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds> (2017). SUNG landed his first top billing role in the indie drama <Last Child> (2017). The film was embraced by festivals all over the world, including the Berlinale, and notably won the FIPRESCI award in Busan, while SUNG personally went back home with newcomer awards from the Busan Film Critics Association and the Buil Film Awards, as well as Best Actor from the Wildflower Film Awards Korea. He was then cast in LEE Jong-un debut feature <Birthday> (2018), on the 2014 Sewol Ferry disaster, and also appeared in one of the major TV series of the year, <Mr. Sunshine> (2018). In 2019, he could be seen in <The Battle: Roar to Victory>, which retraced the events that led to the first military victory of the Korean independence fighters during the Japanese Occupation, and he starred in the indie romance <Moonlit Winter> (2019), the sophomore feature effort from <Merry Christmas Mr. Mo> director LIM Dae-hyung.
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