27 Facts About Yoon Kye-sang

Yoon Kye-sang is a South Korean actor and singer.

Yoon Kye-sang made his acting debut in the film Flying Boys, for which he won Best New Actor at the Baeksang Arts Awards.

In 1997 Yoon Kye-sang answered an advertisement for Park Joon-hyung's project music group and had auditioned with aspirations of becoming a rock star.

However, Yoon Kye-sang left the band in 2004 and went into acting, making his film debut in Flying Boys, directed by Byun Young-joo.

Yoon Kye-sang made his television debut that same year in My 19 Year Old Sister-in-Law with Jung Da-bin.

Yoon Kye-sang has since clarified in his 2012 cooking show Yoon Kye-sang's One Table that he left the group with the intention of leaving the entertainment industry altogether as he had begun to detest the spotlight, but stumbled upon an opportunity to try acting and enjoyed it.

Yoon Kye-sang enlisted in the Republic of Korea Army on December 7,2004, and was assigned to the 102nd Reserves at Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, on the Korean Demilitarized Zone.

Yoon Kye-sang was discharged from the army on December 6,2006.

In January 2007, Yoon Kye-sang returned to show business in the television drama Crazy in Love ; he portrayed a gangster who falls in love with the widow of a man he'd accidentally killed.

Yoon Kye-sang played the role of a junior prison guard who takes up his post after failing an examination, and unluckily finds himself assigned to carry out executions after the only other guard in the prison with such experience quits.

Yoon Kye-sang was recognized with Best Actor nominations from the 2011 Grand Bell Awards and Blue Dragon Film Awards.

Yoon Kye-sang pulled out from Acting Class when the big-screen comedy encountered pre-production delays.

Yoon Kye-sang then appeared in Kim Jee-woon's short film One Perfect Day in 2013.

Yoon Kye-sang starred in a Chinese film titled Hello My Love, which premiered online and garnered over 100 million hits.

Yoon Kye-sang then signed with a new talent agency, Saram Entertainment.

Yoon Kye-sang wrote the lyrics for the song "Wind", which was released after the conclusion of their nationwide tour as a gesture of gratitude to fans.

In 2014, Yoon Kye-sang starred in the melodrama series The Full Sun, in which he played a con man who enters a complicated romance with a jewelry heiress.

Yoon Kye-sang next starred in Last, a cable series based on Kang Hyung-kyu's webtoon about a fund manager whose financial ruin leads to life among the homeless living underground at Seoul Station, followed by Love Guide for Dumpees, a play-turned-movie about a man and woman who agree to be casual lovers but end up finding something more.

In 2016, Yoon Kye-sang was cast in the Korean remake of American television series The Good Wife.

Yoon Kye-sang then played a disabled man in the film The Bacchus Lady, a bittersweet drama about an elderly prostitute helmed by E J-yong.

Yoon Kye-sang played a villain role in crime noir The Outlaws, which premiered in late 2017.

Yoon Kye-sang next starred in the thriller Golden Slumber, playing a friend of the protagonist tasked to chase him down.

In 2019, Yoon Kye-sang starred in Mal-Mo-E: The Secret Mission, which depicts two men who travel the country to collect Korean words in secret in 1910.

Yoon Kye-sang is the youngest of two siblings in his family.

Yoon Kye-sang describes having been very embarrassed as a young boy when he ran errands for his mother and elder sister, such as buying tampons for them at the store.

Yoon Kye-sang's mother drank the drink and had to have her stomach pumped.

In June 2021, Yoon Kye-sang's agency confirmed that he was in a relationship with a non-celebrity.