


Jin-Heon suffers from his sad past. He had everything until the unfortunate accident 3 years ago. A handsome and smart man with promising future, having wealthy hotel owners as parents, it seemed that he had nothing to fear. 3 years ago, he made a mistake while driving, and the accident killed both his brother and his wife in the car. Jin-Heon injured his left leg from the accident. And later, his long loved girlfriend left him without giving him any explanation. He became cold-hearted and twisted after the accident. His feeling of guilt was too much to bear. He becomes to despise himself and convinced that he doesn’t deserve to be happy. When he was in such great agony and pain, the woman he loved left him with no explanation. She only asked him to wait for 3 years. That was it.
In the debut film released last week, Hyun plays an immature third-generation millionaire who is awakened to love. "My part in the movie is the heir of a millionaire grandfather who is just filthy rich without any special preferences or interests. He is rude to the elderly and quite arrogant. I don't know why, but I keep playing arrogant parts,” Hyun said.
"A Millionaire's First Love" focuses on the boy’s struggle with a clause in his grandfather’s will that says he will only get his inheritance if he graduates from a high school in the country. Relocated into the mountains, Hyun finds puppy love with a naive country girl. Can love change the spoilt urbanite and awaken his gentler side?
Although Hyun is still a fledgling actor, the web survey offers a glimpse of how far he has already come. Inevitably, women are his main fan base, as witness the huge crowd of them that turned up at a promotion stunt where the heartthrob himself applied lip gloss to 20 participants. His popularity owes much to his image as an arrogant but ultimately romantic lover and to clean-cut and well-bred looks that suggest a rebellious streak underneath. But Hyun is having none of it, flatly assessing his appearance as "ordinary."
"I have to look at myself in the mirror dozens of times when I shoot dramas or movies. When I look at myself, I can’t really see myself as good-looking," Hyun said. But with a 184-cm tall, toned physique thanks to his time as a swimmer in school, the strapping 24-year old has clearly struck a chord. His consistently improving performances look likely to strengthen rather than dissipate his popularity as time goes by.
Not to be mistaken for the gorgeous and very popular star of Taegukgi and Autumn Story (원빈), Hyun Bin or Kim Tae Pyung in real life gained prominence this year for starring oppposite Kim Sun Ah in this year’s famous drama “My name is Kim Sam Soon”. He was Sam Soon’s hot-tempered boss (owner of the French restaurant “Bon Apetit”). Unfortunately for him, he had to work with Daniel Henney whose charm and good looks had made him a national hearththrob. Imagine that he had to compete for audiences’ attention with the Korean-American.
I had never seen Hyun Bin in a drama or any other TV show. Maybe I’d seen him in “Nonstop 4″ but I didn’t really notice. In the Bridget Jones-inspired drama, he was an “abused” son (better watch the show to know what I mean!) who almost always was in an argument with the show’s heroine. I would like to tell more about his role in the drama but I don’t want to spoil the fun for those who haven’t seen it.
Anyway, here are some facts about him: