1. Hwang Jung-min established himself as a leading man in the romantic drama You Are My Sunshine.
27 Facts About Hwang Jung-min
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One of the highest-grossing actors in South Korea, Hwang has starred in several box office hits such as The Unjust, Dancing Queen, New World, Ode to My Father, Veteran, The Himalayas, A Violent Prosecutor, The Wailing, The Spy Gone North, Deliver Us from Evil, 12.12: The Day.
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Hwang Jung-min is the second actor in South Korea to be part of the "100 Million Viewer Club" in Chungmuro.
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Hwang Jung-min began his career in musical theatre, making his acting debut in Line 1 in 1995.
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Hwang Jung-min then starred in various musicals and plays in Daehangno such as Jesus Christ Superstar and Cats.
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Hwang Jung-min's big break came when he was cast in Waikiki Brothers, a 2001 film that was a sleeper hit in Korea.
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Hwang Jung-min went on to have prominent roles in Road Movie, A Good Lawyer's Wife, Heaven's Soldiers and A Bittersweet Life.
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Hwang Jung-min received further acclaim for his roles as an insurance investigator in Black House, a troubled club CEO who falls in love with a woman with a terminal illness in Happiness, a superhero in A Man Who Was Superman and a private detective in Private Eye.
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Hwang Jung-min has said that when choosing scripts, he looks at the overall storyline rather than the character itself.
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Hwang Jung-min then exerts effort to continuously bring out the character's inner workings.
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Hwang Jung-min made a triumphant return to the stage in the 2008 production of Nine.
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The theater producer said that it took three years to cast the leading role because in Hwang Jung-min he had found the right actor to rival Antonio Banderas' Broadway performance.
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Hwang Jung-min has since starred in University of Laughs, The Wedding Singer and Man of La Mancha.
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Hwang Jung-min then reunited with actress Uhm Jung-hwa in the 2012 box office hit Dancing Queen.
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Hwang Jung-min returned to TV in the 2012 cable drama Korean Peninsula, but it was less successful.
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In late 2012, Hwang Jung-min made his debut as a theatre director in Stephen Sondheim's musical Assassins, which he starred in.
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Hwang Jung-min returned his focus to films, starring in noir film New World, where his performance was singled out by The New York Times.
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Hwang Jung-min worked with Uhm Jung-hwa in the queer film In My End Is My Beginning.
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Hwang Jung-min then played a middle-aged fighter in the sports film Fists of Legend, performing all the stunts himself.
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In 2014, Hwang Jung-min starred in romance drama Man in Love.
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Hwang Jung-min said that he chose to star in the film to support diversity in the Korean film industry, and because he wanted to show the human side of his character, a terminally ill gangster who falls in love for the first time.
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Hwang Jung-min reunited with The Unjust director Ryoo Seung-wan in 2015 for Veteran, playing a hot-tempered police detective tracking an arrogant and heartless chaebol heir.
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Hwang Jung-min then starred in the budget mountaineering film The Himalayas, where he plays renowned Korean mountaineer Um Hong-gil, who became the first person to reach the 16 highest mountain peaks on Earth.
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Hwang Jung-min was named Gallup Korea's Films Actor of the Year for 2016.
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Hwang Jung-min then starred in the war film The Battleship Island alongside So Ji-sub and Song Joong-ki.
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Hwang Jung-min was cast in the science fiction film Return.
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Hwang Jung-min married musical theatre actress Kim Mi-hye on September 6,2004.