1. Yoo Seung-ho was labelled with the honorific title "Nation's Little Brother" in his country.
27 Facts About Yoo Seung-ho
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Yoo Seung-ho decided not to pursue a college degree in order to concentrate on his acting career.
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Yoo Seung-ho made his entertainment debut in a cellphone commercial in 1999 after Yoo Seung-ho's mother sent in a photo of her son to an ad agency.
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In 2000 Yoo Seung-ho began his career as a child actor, first appearing in the television drama Daddy Fish.
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Yoo Seung-ho rose to stardom in his first film The Way Home, playing a bratty city boy who learns to appreciate country life when he's forced to spend the summer with his deaf-mute grandmother.
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Yoo Seung-ho was then affectionately labeled as "Nation's Little Brother".
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Thereafter, Yoo Seung-ho starred in animal movie Hearty Paws about a boy and his beloved dog, and Unforgettable about school children from a remote island who go on a field trip to a candy factory in Seoul during the 1970s.
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Yoo Seung-ho further built his filmography, playing younger counterparts of male protagonists in television dramas, including general Yi Sun-sin in Immortal Admiral Yi Sun-sin, King Seongjong in The King and I, and Gwanggaeto the Great in The Legend.
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In 2009, Yoo Seung-ho starred in the action film City of Fathers and thriller film 4th Period Mystery.
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Yoo Seung-ho played Kim Chunchu in the period epic Queen Seondeok.
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Yoo Seung-ho then played a more mature role in Flames of Desire, as the second-generation son of a wealthy chaebol family who is uninterested in the battles of succession among his relatives and becomes a married man at 21.
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The song's lyrics was based on a diary that Yoo Seung-ho had written while seeing orphans of war in the slums of Sri Lanka.
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In 2011, Yoo Seung-ho trained in swordplay and martial arts in his role as an assassin in Warrior Baek Dong-soo, an action-period drama based on the manhwa by Lee Jae-heon.
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Yoo Seung-ho voiced Greenie, Leafie's adopted son, on Leafie, a Hen into the Wild, which was adapted from a bestselling children's novel by Hwang Sun-mi.
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Yoo Seung-ho then co-starred with Kim Ha-neul in the thriller Blind.
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In 2012, Yoo Seung-ho was cast in his first role as a leading man in Operation Proposal, a Korean remake of the Japanese drama Proposal Daisakusen.
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Yoo Seung-ho was next cast as a stubborn webcomic writer raising a cat in the TV adaptation of webtoon Imaginary Cat.
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Yoo Seung-ho followed this by starring in the joseon-era romance film The Magician directed by Kim Dae-seung, in which he plays a circus magician who falls in love with a princess.
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Yoo Seung-ho was then cast in SBS's legal thriller series Remember as a lawyer with hyperthymesia who defends his father on death row.
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In 2016, Yoo Seung-ho starred in the historical comedy film Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River as the titular character Kim Seon-dal.
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In 2020, Yoo Seung-ho starred in the mystery thriller Memorist as a detective in the police force with the power to read people's memories.
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In 2021, Yoo Seung-ho played a passionate inspector in KBS2 historical drama Moonshine.
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In March 2022, Yoo Seung-ho signed with new agency YG Entertainment.
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In 2023, Yoo Seung-ho returned to the small screen with his first streaming project, Wavve's crime thriller The Deal portraying a completely different character than his previous ones - a financially struggling young man who accidentally kidnaps his school friend for a 10 billion won ransom.
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Yoo Seung-ho walked the red carpet at VOX Cinemas in the Red Sea Mall together with the director Lee Jung-gon and took part in the screening of the first three episodes of the drama.
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In March 2025, Yoo Seung-ho signed with 333, a new management company established by Son Ho-jun.
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Yoo Seung-ho enlisted for his mandatory military service in the army on March 5,2013, where he became an instructor training new recruits.