KIM Kang-hyun, born in 1977, first started playing as a way to fight off his timidity and soon acquired a taste for it. Announcing to his parents that he would pursue a theater career represented, as he would recall it, his first act of rebellion. He gave himself at least five years to see how things would turn out for him. After making his official debut in the play <Bachelor Party> with the company Geumbyeonguisuk, KIM joined the company Cheonggukjang Repertory, with ...
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KIM Kang-hyun, born in 1977, first started playing as a way to fight off his timidity and soon acquired a taste for it. Announcing to his parents that he would pursue a theater career represented, as he would recall it, his first act of rebellion. He gave himself at least five years to see how things would turn out for him. After making his official debut in the play <Bachelor Party> with the company Geumbyeonguisuk, KIM joined the company Cheonggukjang Repertory, with which he would notably play <Chuncheon, There>. During one of the performances of the latter, he made a particularly strong impression on aspiring film director ROH Deok, to the point where he became the first actor attached to her debut feature project, which would take the shape of <Very Ordinary Couple>, released in 2012. Although this film was technically the first he was cast in, KIM made his first appearance on the big screen through in LEE Joon-ik’s <Sunny> (2008), playing one of the soldiers, and went on with a couple more bit roles. The decent success of <Very Ordinary Couple> was instrumental in making his name known. His mundane demeanor and soft voice, deemed ideal for office worker roles, led him to get many roles on television starting in 2013, such as in the romantic fantasy series <My Love from the Star> (2014), a massive success across Asia. He was then cast in the drama film <The Whistleblower> (2014) and the comedy drama <Slow Video> (2014), and was offered the male lead role in the award-winning indie film <A Matter of Interpretation> (2014). He was next seen in the surprise hit comedies <MY ANNOYING BROTHER> (2016) and <Extreme Job> (2018), and recently made a strong impression in <EXIT> (2019), appearing briefly - without his characteristic glasses - as a former climbing club member.
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