Kim Junhan, born in 1983, moved to Seoul after high school to pursue a career in music and was the drummer of modern rock band izi that debuted in 2005. Their agency however went through problems that forced it to relocate in Japan, bringing with it the group. By the time izi disbanded in 2007, Kim had become quite proficient in Japanese, which would prove a valuable asset for his move to acting. Although he tried his hands at film directing with the short <Frog> (2015)...
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Kim Junhan, born in 1983, moved to Seoul after high school to pursue a career in music and was the drummer of modern rock band izi that debuted in 2005. Their agency however went through problems that forced it to relocate in Japan, bringing with it the group. By the time izi disbanded in 2007, Kim had become quite proficient in Japanese, which would prove a valuable asset for his move to acting. Although he tried his hands at film directing with the short <Frog> (2015) which he made with Kim Junho, he had a minor role in <Confidential Assignment> (2016), followed by a short yet outstanding appearance as a Japanese judge in Lee Junik’s Colonial Era-set drama <Anarchist from the colony> (2017). His Japanese skills also helped him land a role in two other 2017 films connected to the Japanese Colonisation, ie. the courtroom drama <Herstory> (2017), in which “comfort women” brings the issue to Japanese courts, and the action film <The Battleship Island> (2017), which is set in the forced labor camp on Hashima Island during WWII. That wasn’t even the end of his busy schedule for 2017, as Kim also reunited with Lee Junik in <Sunset in My Hometown>, while also appearing in the Song Kangho vehicle <The Drug King> (2017) and the television series <Prison Playbook> (2017-2018). The following year, Kim was given top billing in the drama series <Time> (2018). He was next seen in the period court drama <The King’s Letters> (2019) and the crime thriller <BEASTS CLAWING AT STRAWS> (2018), and he also appeared in the historical films <The King’s Letters> (2019) and <The Book of Fish> (2019). He gained wider recognition playing a resident neurosurgeon in the 2020 drama series <Hospital Playlist>, but he didn’t reprise his role in the second season.
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