06/07/2020
15 Unique Facts About Lee Min-ho You Need to Know
Lee Min-ho is South Korea's most famous actor, singer and model all over the world. The man who was born on June 22, 1987 won great popularity after starring in several popular Korean dramas such as Boys Over Flowers (2009), action drama City Hunter (2011), and romantic comedy drama The Heirs (2013). Three years absent from the screen, Lee Min-ho made a comeback through the drama The Legend of the Blue Sea with Jun Ji-hyun who succeeded in getting a very high rating.
Let's get acquainted further with the figure of this handsome Korean artist!
1. Actually, Lee Min-ho's dream when he was little was to become a soccer player. But while still in the fifth grade of elementary school he got an injury that made him have to bury his dream deeply. But he still pays attention to the world of football and Christiano Ronaldo is his favorite player.
2. Failing to become a soccer player, Lee Min-ho tried his luck in acting and modeling when he was in high school. After training hard, he got his first chance, which is a small role in several Korean TV series.
3. Early in his career, Lee Min-ho used the name Lee Min only, because according to his agent his real name was too simple. But then he went back to using his birth name because in Korean the word imin means "immigration" so that internet search results that are relevant to his stage name are very few.
4. When shooting the film Our School’s E.T, Lee Min-ho was best friends with actor Kim Soo-ro, who then in a variety show said that he would later become Korea's top actor.
5. In 2006, Lee Min-ho's career almost ended when he suffered a car accident that seriously injured him.
6. He began to attract the attention of many people when in 2009 played in the romantic comedy series Boys Over Flowers, a Korean drama adapted from a Japanese TV drama titled Hana Yori Dango. His opponent is Ku Hye-sun and they have been an iconic K-Drama couple until now.
7. Lee Min-ho claimed to be very challenged to play heavy characters like in the MBC drama, Personal Taste, where he played a gay character who became a roommate of a young woman played by Son Ye-jin.
8. His neat role in the action drama City Hunter made him successful in capturing the attention of many viewers in Asia, especially in Japan, the Philippines and China.
9. On January 30, 2014, Lee Min-ho became the first Korean actor to appear on China CCTV's Lunar New Year’s Gala, a program watched by more than one billion people worldwide.
10. In July 2012, Lee Min-ho was chosen to be the most attractive male celebrity for advertising cosmetic products. In the poll held by DC Inside, he got 17,532 votes (38.9%) out of a total of 45,049 votes.
11. Lee Min-ho apparently has an older sister named Lee Yong-jung. He is now the CEO of his agency, MYM Entertainment.
12. His 2016 action comedy film, Bounty Hunters, was a huge success at the box office and scored US $ 29 million in China.
13. In 2016, Ba Suzy's ex-girlfriend played a role as one of the top actors who helped to enliven the web drama 7 First Kisses which was broadcast on Naver TV Cast.
14. In mid-2018, Lee Min-ho was recorded to have 3 million followers on Instagram, 29 million on Weibo, and 17.4 million on Facebook. This makes him one of the most popular Korean actors in the world. The numbers are certainly rising.
15. Lee Min-ho served his mandatory military service on March 15, 2018 and will be released in 2020.
Now that's interesting facts about Lee Min-ho. If you miss him, just watch old school dramas..!