KIM Jun-han, born in 1983, moved to Seoul after high school to pursue a career in music and was the drummer of modern rock band izi that debuted in 2005. Their agency however went through problems that forced it to relocate in Japan, bringing with it the group. By the time izi disbanded in 2007, KIM had become quite proficient in Japanese, which would prove a valuable asset for his move to acting. Although he tried his hands at film directing with the short <Frog> (2015...More

KIM Jun-han, born in 1983, moved to Seoul after high school to pursue a career in music and was the drummer of modern rock band izi that debuted in 2005. Their agency however went through problems that forced it to relocate in Japan, bringing with it the group. By the time izi disbanded in 2007, KIM had become quite proficient in Japanese, which would prove a valuable asset for his move to acting. Although he tried his hands at film directing with the short <Frog> (2015) which he made with KIM Jun-ho, and after a minor role in <Confidential Assignment> (2016), he made a short yet memorable apparition as a Japanese judge in LEE Jun-ik’s Colonial Era-set drama <Anarchist from the colony> (2017), and therefore won Best New Actor at the Grand Bell Awards. His Japanese ability also helped him get a role in two other films connect to Japan’s colonization of Korea, the courtroom drama <Herstory> (2017) that looks back on the issue of “comfort women”, and action film <The Battleship Island> (2017), about the forced labor camp on Hashima Island. That wasn’t even the end of his busy schedule for 2017, as KIM also appeared in LEE Jun-ik’s <Sunset in My Hometown>, SONG Kang-ho vehicle <The Drug King> (2017) and the television series <Prison Playbook> (2017-2018). The following year, KIM was given top billing part in the drama series <Time> (2018). He was most recently seen in the period court drama <The King’s Letters> (2019).
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