Choi Jin-hyuk

Choi Jin-hyuk

Born: February 9, 1986
in Mokpo, South Jeolla, South Korea
Choi Jin Hyuk is one of the most popular South Korean actors working today. Born as Kim Tae Ho on February 9, 1986, Choi Jin Hyuk broke into entertainment in 2006 after he won the grand prize in the reality talent show “Survival Star Audition.” He adopted his stage name in 2010 before his role in the drama “It’s Alright, Daddy’s Daughter.” He also starred in “I Need Romance” (2011) and “Panda and Hedgehog” (2012), but it was his memorable roles of a fierce spirit god in the drama “Gu Family Book” and a moody chaebol in “Heirs” in 2013 that elevated Choi Jin Hyuk to superstardom. Leading roles quickly followed starting in 2014 with the popular dramas “Emergency Couple,” “Grandpas Over Flowers Investigation Unit,” “Fated to Love You” and “Pride and Prejudice.” In March 2015, Choi Jin Hyuk enlisted for his mandatory military service, and he made his comeback after discharge in the 2017 drama “Tunnel.”

Movies for Choi Jin-hyuk...

Title: A Woman With Different Day and Night
Character: Gye Ji-woong
Released: June 15, 2024
Type: TV
Lee Mi-jin, who has blown away her brilliant youth with 8 years of trying to pass the civil service examination while doing all kinds of part-time jobs, wakes up one night as Lim Soon, a middle-aged woman.
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Title: Numbers
Character: Han Seung-jo
Released: June 23, 2023
Type: TV
A high-achieving high school graduate, battles for justice at South Korea’s most reputable accounting firm.
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The Siren
Title: The Siren
Character: Choi Tae-seung
Released: November 12, 2021
Type: Movie
Manager Oh, an employee at a noise pollution treatment center, takes his own life after suffering verbal abuse by local residents demanding a huge amount of compensation. Amid public criticism of regional self-centeredness, Taeseung joins the center as his successor. With his heart set on getting promotion, Taeseung immediately goes around asking for signatures. As the local residents cooperate in order to avoid further public criticism, the promotion seems to be just around the corner. However, when Youngsik and Donggyu get in the way, Taeseung suspects that they may have killed Manager Oh.
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Title: Genesis
Character: Choi Jae-Hyuk
Released: June 18, 2021
Type: TV
A man who digs into his mother's mysterious death meeting humans with the same faces as him one by one and becoming embroiled in a bigger conspiracy.
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Title: Mr. Queen
Character: Jung Bong-hwan
Released: December 12, 2020
Type: TV
In the modern age, Jang Bong-hwan is a chef who works for the country's top politicians at the Blue House. He has a free spirit, but he one day finds himself in the body of Queen Cheorin in the Joseon period.
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Title: Zombie Detective
Character: Kim Moo-Young / Kang Min-Ho
Released: September 21, 2020
Type: TV
Kim Moo-Young wakes up to find he has become a zombie with no memories of his past. Witnessing the death of a Detective, he has assumed his identity to try discover the mysteries of his past. Meanwhile, Kong Sun-Ji works as investigative journalist who quits whilst investigating the 'Santa Killer' case. By chance the two are brought together and various circumstances lead to Sun-Ji working at Moo-Young's detective agency as an intern.
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Title: Rugal
Character: Kang Ki Beom
Released: March 28, 2020
Type: TV
A police detective who loses everything to a criminal organization seeks payback when he gains special abilities through biotechnology.
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Title: Justice
Character: Lee Tae-Kyung
Released: July 17, 2019
Type: TV
Lee Tae Kyung is a star lawyer with the best win rate. He is able to win cases by using his sharp logic and intelligent speeches. He amasses power and wealth by dealing with clients who are part of the elite class. His cases are usually referred from Song Woo Yong who is the owner of a construction company. Lee Tae Kyung gets these high class criminals acquitted or at minimum receive probation. He first became a lawyer to get revenge for his younger sister, but has since become focused on money. He changes when he deals with a series of cases involving missing actresses. Meanwhile, Song Woo Yong has grown his construction company by funneling criminal cases involving wealthy people to Lee Tae Kyung. For his family, he desires even more power. He comes into conflict with Lee Tae Kyung over the cases involving missing actresses.
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Title: The Last Empress
Character: Na Wang-shik
Released: November 21, 2018
Type: TV
In an alternate-reality South Korea, where a constitutional monarchical system prevails, Oh Sunny, a musical actress, becomes the empress of the country. Thus begins a dispute for power in the royal palace. Nothing is what it seems, and Oh Sunny is ready to fight until the end to uncover a mysterious homicide within the royal palace, fighting to protect those she loves the most and obtain happiness.
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Title: Devilish Joy
Character: Gong Ma-Sung
Released: September 5, 2018
Type: TV
The strange but beautiful love story of a genius doctor who suffers from "Cinderella Memory Disorder" in which the memories of the previous day disappear at twelve o'clock and a washed-up actress.
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Title: Tunnel
Character: Park Gwang-Ho
Released: March 25, 2017
Type: TV
A police detective from 1986 travels in time to the present to save his daughter.
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Title: Dining Together
Character: Himself
Released: October 19, 2016
Type: TV
As more and more people are getting used to eating dinner alone, Kang Ho-dong and Lee Kyung-kyu visit ordinary Korean families at dinner time and share their lives as they eat dinner together.
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Title: My Little Old Boy
Character: Self
Released: August 26, 2016
Type: TV
How much do you know about your grown up son? In Mom’s Diary, the daily lives of the grown up celebrity sons are closely observed by their mothers. Do you know why your son drinks so much these days? How much do you know about your son’s philosophy in his life style? Heart-warming moments of observational communication between a mother and a son can be seen on Mom’s Diary.
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Title: My Little Old Boy
Released: August 26, 2016
Type: TV
How much do you know about your grown up son? In Mom’s Diary, the daily lives of the grown up celebrity sons are closely observed by their mothers. Do you know why your son drinks so much these days? How much do you know about your son’s philosophy in his life style? Heart-warming moments of observational communication between a mother and a son can be seen on Mom’s Diary.
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Vampire in Love
Title: Vampire in Love
Character: Mike
Released: April 17, 2015
Type: Movie
Kiira seems like an ordinary young girl, who likes to talk with her friends and to dress up. Her ultimate goal is to become the world's best baker, but what differentiates her from others is that she is a vampire. She has never told anyone her secret, including her childhood friend Tetsu, whom she played with everyday and liked as a child. After her parents died when Kiira was only 12-years-old, she had to go live with her relatives and lost contact with Tetsu. Now, 8 years later, Tetsu appears at the bakery where Kiira is working part-time. Kiira is ecstatic to see her first love again. Soon, they are dating and Kiira dreams of having a family with Tetsu. Kiira also becomes filled with worries because she is vampire.
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Title: Pride and Prejudice
Character: Gu Dong-chi
Released: October 27, 2014
Type: TV
A legal drama about team of young and passionate prosecutors who banded together to fight against injustice and oppression that befall weak and poor people. Besides face many hardships from higher authority, they also learn to cooperate and adjust with the clash of different personalities and backgrounds.
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The Divine Move
Title: The Divine Move
Character: Player
Released: July 3, 2014
Type: Movie
A professional GO player gathers a team to help him carry out his revenge against the man who killed his brother.
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Title: Fated to Love You
Character: Daniel Pitt
Released: July 2, 2014
Type: TV
The hard working, kind and timid Kim Mi Young has little in the way of education, beauty or wealth, but all that changes after a fateful night of accidental passion with the spoiled, rich heir of a family company, Lee Gun. Her insignificant existence completely transforms when she finds out she is pregnant and must tie her life to his in a shot-gun wedding. The couple decides to make the best of a bad situation, but just when Lee Gun begins to show his growing affection for Kim Mi Young, his first love re-enters the picture to stake her claim.
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Title: Emergency Couple
Character: Oh Chang-min
Released: January 24, 2014
Type: TV
Medical school student, Chang Min, and a dietitian, Jin Hee, fall in love and marry despite his family's strong opposition. When Chang Min marries Jin Hee, he gives up his medical internship to become a pharmaceutical salesman despite the fact that the rest of his family are successful doctors. Their married life is miserable as Chang Min's family looks down on Jin Hee and Chang Min begins to treat her poorly. They finally divorce and go their separate ways until they are suddenly reunited as interns working at the same hospital. Will this couple's tumultuous feelings for each other be rekindled?
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Title: The Heirs
Character: Kim Won
Released: October 9, 2013
Type: TV
After a chance encounter in LA, two teens from different social backgrounds reunite at an exclusive high school attended by Korea's über rich.
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Title: Gu Family Book
Character: Gu Wol-ryung
Released: April 8, 2013
Type: TV
Choi Kang Chi is a half-beast and half-human and was adopted by a merchant Park Mu Sol when he was a infant. Kang Chi has a kind of unusual power. Dam Yeo Wool is the daughter of Dam Pyeong Joon who is the owner of the Invisible Knife Moo Kwan and also a patriotic warrior. Kang Chi and Yeo Wool meet and fall in love with each other. However, there is hatred between their fathers. Jo Gwan Woong is a traitor. He uses his power to frame faithful and upright individuals and obtain profit for himself. His criminal plots are destroyed by Kang Chi time and again. Therefore, he is determined to kill Kang Chi through different ways. Kang Chi is troubled by his identity but stands up for justice.
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Love Clinique
Title: Love Clinique
Character: Min-soo
Released: November 29, 2012
Type: Movie
A comedy about a woman who tries to overcome tone-deafness and a man who tries to help her but joins the romance.
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Title: Panda and Hedgehog
Character: Choi Won-il
Released: August 18, 2012
Type: TV
Ms Panda and Mr Hedgehog is a South Korean romantic comedy television series starring Lee Donghae of Super Junior and Yoon Seung-ah. It was broadcast on Channel A from August 18, 2012 to October 7, 2012. The story is about Go Seung-ji, a prickly patissier who teams up with Pan Da-yang, an easygoing pastry shop owner, to open a successful new cafe.
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Title: My Daughter the Flower
Character: Koo Sang-hyeok
Released: November 14, 2011
Type: TV
Yang Kkot-Nim is a therapist at a rehabilitation hospital. She is bright and brave, but highly emotional inside. Since her father passed away, Kkot-Nim gets through the world with her step mom Jang Soon-Ae, who has been always nice to her step-daughter Kkot-Nim.
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Title: I Need Romance
Character: Bae Sung-hyun
Released: June 13, 2011
Type: TV
Revolves around three thirty-something career women and their complicated love lives.
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Title: It's Okay, Daddy's Girl
Character: Choi Hyuk-ki
Released: November 22, 2010
Type: TV
Being the youngest and spoiled in her family, Eun Chae-ryung would always completely rely on her father, Eun Ki-hwan. When he has a brain hemorrhageone day, she begins to realize that she must grow out of her sheltered life and face numerous hardships before becoming an independent person.
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Title: Running Man
Released: July 11, 2010
Type: TV
A reality and competition show where members are joined by celebs to complete a weekly mission to win the race with Seoul as the beautiful backdrop.
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Title: KBS Drama Special
Character: Choi Tae-seung
Released: May 15, 2010
Type: TV
Forget the existing one-act dramas! Short but impactive! KBS Drama Special presents high quality single episode dramas. Dramas are the broadcast content with the widest public appeal. KBS Drama Special will produce short dramas of far-reaching impact involving at times a serious social message, unique emotions or perspectives. It will stay abreast of modern viewership.
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Title: Radio Star
Character: Self
Released: May 30, 2007
Type: TV
“Radio Star” is a South Korean music talk show where the guests and hosts talk openly and intimately about their lives, their pasts and their work. It is part of Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation's "Golden Fishery" programming block.