Who is Lee Sun Gyun (Korean Actor)
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All about Lee Sun Gyun: His Bio, Photos, Films and Videos
You may know Lee Seon-gyoon (Lee Sun Gyun) as the cocky and difficult chef in Korean drama Pasta or the sweet and charming music producer in The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince but did you know that there's so much more to this versatile South Korean actor?
He has already acted in several movies and dramas and the diversity of the roles he has taken on is quite impressive. In 2010 he won the Best Actor award at the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival in Spain for his work in arthouse film Paju. He also won a Golden Acting Award at the 2007 MBC Drama Awards for his role in White Tower.
Learn more about this fine Korean actor, and see photos and videos of his TV series and commercials right on this page.
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Who is Lee Sun Gyun?
A short biography of the talented Korean actor.
South Korean actor Lee Seon-gyoon was born on March 2, 1975. He took up acting and graduated from the Korea National University of Arts. In 2001, he debuted in the musical The Rocky Horror Show.
Lee graduated from the Korea National University of Arts and took up acting at the Seoul Unification Arts Institute. His acting debut was in the musical The Rocky Horror Show in 2001. Since then, he appeared in several dramas and movies in supporting roles but he finally attained lead actor status in 2007 with MBC's popular romantic TV series The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince and the critically-acclaimed medical drama White Tower.
Among his recent projects are the TV series Pasta in which he plays a tough and headstrong Italy-trained chef who falls in love with the kitchen assistant / junior cook; K-drama Triple which reunited him with Lee Yoon-jung (director of Coffee Prince and Taereung National Village); a Jeonju Digital Project short by arthouse director Hong Sang-soo; and Paju for which he won a Best Actor award at the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival in Spain.
According to the film's producer TPS Company, the film festival in Spain awarded Lee the best male actor for his restrained tone of acting which well expressed the agony of a man who has fallen in love with his wife's sister.
Lee was appointed as ambassador for the Health Insurance Review Agency in 2007 and he also won an award from the Korean Advertisers' Association in 2008.
Information sourced from Wikipedia and DramaWiki / Photo from HanCinema
Lee Seon Gyoon in his award-winning role as Joong-shik in "Paju" (2009)
Lee Sun Gyun's Profile and Filmography
Quick facts about this prolific South Korean actor
Name: Lee Sun Gyun (Lee Seon Kyoon)
Profession: Actor
Birthdate: March 2, 1975
Height: 180cm
Weight: 70kg
Star sign: Pisces
Blood type: A
Family: Wife - actress Jun Hye Jin and son (born 2009-Nov-25)
Talent agency: J & H Film
Films
Psycho Drama (short, 1999)
Make It Big (2002)
Surprise Party (2002)
A Perfect Match (2002)
Boss X-File (2002)
Scent of Love (2003)
Show Show Show (2002)
Hitchhiking (short, 2004)
My Mother, the Mermaid (2004)
Love, So Divine (2004)
R-Point (2004)
Sa-kwa (2005)
Curry Rice Story (short, 2006)
The Customer is Always Right (2006)
A Cruel Attendance / Educating Kidnappers (2006)
Our Town (2007)
Romantic Island (2008)
Night and Day (2008)
Lost in the Mountains (Jeonju Digital Project short, 2009)
Paju (2009)
Oki's Movie (2010)
Petty Romance (2010)
TV Series
Lovers (MBC, 2001)
Thousand Years of Love (SBS, 2003)
Drama City: Sweet 18 (KBS, 2003)
Drama City: Semi-transparent (KBS, 2004)
Drama City: Innocent Love (KBS, 2005)
Drama City: Love of a Spider Woman (KBS, 2005)
Loveholic (SBS, 2005)
Best Theater: Taereung National Village (MBC, 2005)
Best Theater: Behind (MBC, 2006)
Fugitive Lee Doo Young (KBS, 2006)
White Tower (MBC, 2007)
The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince (MBC, 2007)
My Sweet Seoul (SBS, 2008)
Triple (MBC, 2009)
Pasta (MBC, 2010)
Drama Special: Our Slightly Risque Relationship (KBS, 2010)
Music videos
"You Remain in My Heart" (Lucid Fall, 2001)
"Arirang" (SG Wannabe, 2007)
"Between Hidden Time" (Yoon Gun, 2008)
Musical theater
The Rocky Horror Show (2001)
Grease (2003)
Lee Sun Gyun as music director Choi Han Seong in "Coffee Prince" (2007)
Watch and listen to Lee Sun Gyun (as Choi Han Seong) singing "Ocean Travel"
A scene from the K-drama series "The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince"
Below is a video clip of a scene from The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince which shows Lee Sun Gyun (as music producer Choi Han Seong) singing Tearliner's tender ballad "Ocean Travel" to his girlfriend Han Yoo Joo (Chae Jung Ahn) on the phone. This is one of the sweetest, most memorable moments in the series.
Buy a DVD of The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince (with English Subtitles)
Lee Sun Gyun plays the charming music producer Han Seong in the series.
Coffee Prince is based on a romance novel titled Coffee Prince Ilhojeom by Seon-mi Lee. Go Eun Chan (Yoon Eun Hye) is a tomboyish girl who tries to make ends meet by taking on various jobs. She meets food mogul Choi Han Kyul (Gong Yoo) who mistakes her for a boy and hires her to work in his coffee shop. Hilarity and heartbreak ensues when they fall for each other before he even learns that she is a woman after all. Soft-spoken music producer Choi Han Seong (Lee Sun Gyun) enters the picture and forms a bizarre love triangle with the two although he has love problems of his own with his longtime sweetheart Han Yoo Joo (Chae Jung Ahn).
Korean Tv Series: Coffee Prince w/ English Subtitles
Amazon Price: $119.99 (as of 06/01/2012)
The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince is not the first Korean drama I saw but it's the first one I really loved. Watch it from beginning to end, you won't regret it!
Lee Sun Gyun as the hard-to-please Chef Choi Hyun-wook in "Pasta" (2010)
Watch Lee Sun Gyun in a cute scene from "Pasta"
Lee Sun Gyun plays head chef Choi Hyun-wook in this series.
Here's a video clip of one of the scenes from Korean drama Pasta, starring Lee Seon Gyoon and Kong Hyo-jin. It's the scene where Chef Hyun-wook admits to kitchen assistant / junior cook Yoo Kyung that he likes her back. Watch and revel in their amazing chemistry.
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Lee Sun Gyun plays the stuck-up head Chef Choi Hyun Wook in this TV series.
Pasta is a light and refreshing love story between a young kitchen assistant / junior cook and the big boss, their Italian restaurant's Head Chef. Lee Sun Gyun was so convincing as the cocky and difficult head chef Choi Hyun Wook that it was hard to believe that the tender & charming Choi Han Seong in Coffee Prince was played by the same person. Get a copy of the DVD, it's worth watching over and over.
Pasta
Amazon Price: $249.99 (as of 06/01/2012)
A K-drama about a young kitchen assistant who dreams of becoming a top pasta chef and eventually falls in love with her head chef starring Lee Sun Gyun and Kong Hyo-jin.
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A Lee Sun Gyun tribute video
A compilation of video clips featuring the actor in his various roles and photo shoots.
The following video is a tribute to Lee Sun Gyun and it shows clips and photos of him in his various movie and TV drama roles. Enjoy!
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starring Lee Sun Gyun on Amazon.- Stars Dazzle at the VIP Premiere of "All About My Wife"
- "All About My Wife" stars Lim Soo Jung, Lee Sun Gyun and Ryu Seung Ryong. This rom-com about a man (Lee Sun Gyun) who is desperate to get rid of his beautiful but difficult wife (Lim Soo Jung) and asks a famous casanova (Ryu Seung Ryong) to try to win ...
- 'Everything About My Wife' Lim Soojung becomes the trend
- In the movie, she casted as a wife with lovely looks, but she abuses and harasses her husband, Lee Sun-gyun. Over 1 million people watched the movie in less than one week after its release, and it is said that Lim Soojung led the major hit of the movie ...
- [Photo] Bae Yongjoon at the VIP Premiere of 'Everything About My Wife'
- ... Kim Soohyun, Joo Jihoon, Shin Jisoo, Choi Ganghee, Hwang Jung-eum, Yoo Sun, and Park Heesoon were invited. Lim Soojung, Lee Sun-gyun, and Ryu Seung-ryong made a 'state of art' acting collaboration, and the movie will be released on May 17th.
- 'Everything About My Wife' tops in BoxOffice ranking
- ... are visiting the theaters to watch the movie as the time passes. The movie fans are showing explosive reactions for the acting collaboration of Lim Soojung, Lee Sun-gyun, and Ryu Seung-ryong, and the perfect plot is also getting high compliments.
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Mia
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- SARANGHAE OPPA!!!! lol just kidding. i've heard its creepy for Korean guys to hear non-Korean girls say that to them..(like he's ever gonna see this comment. lol) but seriously. I LOVE YOU!!!
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- Such a good looking young man with a beautiful name!
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- You've done a great job, nice tribute to him.
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Lee Sun Gyun was in Coffee Prince and Pasta
Learn more about the K-drama series Seong-gyoon was in.
Lee Sun Gyun was also in White Tower
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Inside the White Tower
Amazon Price: $29.95 (as of 06/01/2012)
Brilliant and ambitious, Jang Joon Hyuk (Kim Myung Min, The Immortal Lee Soon-Shin) will do anything to become the next chief surgeon. But his new rival, Noh Min Guk (Cha In Pyo, Star in My Heart), is more than willing to give Jang a taste of his own medicine. Committed to the well-being of his patients, fellow doctor Choi Do Young (Lee Seon Gyun, Coffee Prince) is prepared to risk his career in order to do the right thing. Find out what really goes on Inside the White Tower.
Lee Sun Gyun was also in Loveholic
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Loveholic Korean Drama Dvd Korean Version English sub Ntsc All Region
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It's a love story between the disobedient student Kang-uk and his teacher Yul-ju set in a high school in Chuncheon. Before meeting Kang-uk, Yul-ju has been dating Tae-hyeon, a public prosecutor. But over time Yul-ju and Kang-uk fall deeply in love with each other despite social prejudices, the age gap and the teacher-student relation.
