Namkoong Min
|Born|
|Nationality||South Korean|
|Education||Chung-Ang University|
|Occupation||Actor, director, screenwriter|
|Years active||1999–present|
|Agent||935 Entertainment|
|Height||179|
|Korean name|
|Hangul|
|Hanja|
|Revised Romanization||Nam koong Min|
|McCune–Reischauer||Nam koong Min|
(Mechanical Engineering)[1]
Namkoong Min (Hangul: 남궁민, born March 12, 1978) is a South Korean actor, director and screenwriter. He first gained recognition with neo-noir film A Dirty Carnival (2006), and has since received praise for his performances in Remember: War of the Son (2015–2016), Beautiful Gong Shim (2016), Good Manager (2017), Falsify (2017), Doctor Prisoner (2019) and Hot Stove League (2019–2020), and Awaken (2020–2021).
Early life[edit]
Namkoong Min was born on March 12, 1978, in Seoul. He has a brother, Namkoong Yoon. His father, Namkoong Hwon, was a principal of Sinneung Middle School (2005-2009). Namkoong was educated at Daesung High School in Eunpyeong-gu, Seoul, and Ilsan Seongsa Elementary School. He graduated from the Chung-Ang University with a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering. After his graduation, on August 31, 2006, he had worked as a Social Service Agent for 18 months at Korea Army Training Center in Nonsan.
Career[edit]
Namkoong Min debuted as an actor in the film Bungee Jumping of Their Own as the protagonist's best friend, and subsequently appeared in the movie Bad Guy as the female lead's boyfriend. In 2002, Namkoong featured in the sitcom Dae Bak Family and attracted attention with his performance. Since then, he appeared in the television series and single-act dramas such as Rose Fence, Pearl Necklace, Mould Flower and After Love. Namkoong also became known as "little Bae Yong-joon" due to his resemblance with the actor. In 2004, Namkoong starred in the KBS daily drama My Lovely Family, which garnered over 30% in ratings and led to increased recognition for the actor.[2][3][4]
Namkoong subsequently received acclaim with neo-noir film A Dirty Carnival (2006),[5][6] and drew widespread notice for his performance in melodrama Listen to My Heart (2011).[7][8]
Namkoong subsequently returned with a changed mindset and new-found determination.[9] His efforts paid off when he achieved recognition for his villainous role as a serial killer in The Girl Who Sees Smells (2015),[10][11] and he won the Best Villain Award at the annual 2016 DramaFever Awards.[12] Since then, he has received praise for his performances in legal thriller Remember: War of the Son (2015–2016) and romantic comedy Beautiful Gong Shim (2016).[13][14][15][16]
Namkoong's breakout role was in the hit comedy drama Good Manager (2017), where he played the central protagonist.[17][18] Namkoong was praised for his "perfect amalgamation of character creation and acting" which contributed to the success of the drama.[19][16] He then starred in SBS's legal thriller Falsify (2017), playing a trashy tabloid reporter with no work ethics.[20]
In 2018, Nam starred alongside Listen to My Heart co-star Hwang Jung-eum in the romantic comedy series The Undateables.[21][22]
In 2019, Nam starred in the medical prison drama Doctor Prisoner.[23]
From 2019 to 2020, Nam starred in the sports television series Hot Stove League.[24][25] The television series received positive reviews for its high quality script and attained high ratings.[26] He played the role of the new leader of the last-place team, the Dreams. Hot Stove League won 56th Baeksang Arts Awards 2020 for best drama. Through that drama, he also received his first daesang/grand prize in his career from 2020 SBS Drama Awards.
Filmography[edit]
Film[edit]
|Year||English title||Original title||Role||Notes|
|2001||Bungee Jumping of Their Own||번지점프를 하다||Kim Sung-chul|
|2002||Bad Guy||나쁜 남자||Hyun-soo|
|2006||A Dirty Carnival||비열한 거리||Min-ho|
|2007||Beautiful Sunday||뷰티풀 선데이||Min-woo||[27]|
|2015||Hot Service: A Cruel Hairdresser||화끈한 써비스: 어느 잔인한 미용사의||N/A||credited as production staff|
|Light My Fire||라이트 마이 파이어||N/A||short film; credited as director/screenwriter[28]|
|2016||Moonlit Motive||夜色撩人||Chowbei||Chinese film[29]|
|2017||Part-Time Spy||비정규직 특수요원||Min-seok||[30]|
Television series[edit]
Variety show and other TV appearances[edit]
|Year||Title||Network||Notes|
|2004–2005||Music Bank||KBS2||Host, with So Yi-hyun[50]|
|2014||We Got Married Season 4||MBC||paired with Hong Jin-young[51]|
|2016||Saturday Night Live Korea||tvN||Host (Ep. 142)|
|2016–2017||Singing Battle||KBS||Host (Pilot, Ep. 1-21)[52]|
|2017||KBS Drama Awards 2017||KBS||Host with Lee Yoo-ri, Park Soo-hong[53]|
|2020||I-Land||CJ E&M & Mnet||Namkoong Min is the main storyteller of the survival/reality show, I-Land.[54]|
|2021||My Little Old Boy||SBS||Special Host (Ep. 229)|
Music video appearances[edit]
|Year||Song title||Artist|
|2002||"백설공주를 사랑한 난장이"||Cool|
|"작년, 오늘"|
|2006||"The Thing That I Forget You"[55]||Lee Jung Bong|
|2014||"Cheer Up"[56]||Hong Jin-young|
|2016||"Sketch"[57]||Hyomin|
Awards and nominations[edit]
|Year||Award||Category||Nominated work||Result||Ref.|
|1999||KMTV Music Star Contest||VJ Grand Prize||N/A||Won||[58]|
|2003||KBS Drama Awards||Best Actor in a One-Act/Special Drama||To William||Won||[59]|
|Best New Actor||Pearl Necklace||Nominated|
|2005||KBS Drama Awards||Popularity Award||My Rosy Life||Won||[60]|
|2011||MBC Drama Awards||Excellence Award, Actor in a Miniseries||Listen to My Heart||Nominated|
|2012||KBS Drama Awards||Best Actor in a One-Act/Special Drama||Still Picture||Nominated|
|2013||MBC Drama Awards||Excellence Award, Actor in a Serial Drama||Hur Jun, the Original Story||Nominated|
|2014||MBC Entertainment Awards||New Star of the Year||We Got Married||Won||[61]|
|2015||SBS Drama Awards||Special Award, Actor in a Miniseries||The Girl Who Sees Smells||Won||[62]|
|2016||52nd Baeksang Arts Awards||Best Actor||Remember: War of the Son||Nominated|
|5th APAN Star Awards||Excellence Award, Actor in a Miniseries||Won||[63]|
|1st Asia Artist Awards||Best Celebrity Award, Actor||Won||[64]|
|KBS Entertainment Awards||Best Entertainer Award — Variety Show Category||Singing Battle||Won||[65]|
|26th SBS Drama Awards||Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Romantic Comedy Drama||Beautiful Gong Shim||Won||[66]|
|Top 10 Stars||Remember: War of the Son, Beautiful Gong Shim||Won|
|2017||53rd Baeksang Arts Awards||Best Actor||Good Manager||Nominated|
|44th Korean Broadcasting Awards||Best Actor||Won||[67]|
|10th Korea Drama Awards||Top Excellence Award, Actor||Nominated|
|1st The Seoul Awards||Best Actor||Nominated||[68]|
|8th Korean Popular Culture and Arts Awards||Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Commendation||N/A||Won||[69]|
|2nd Asia Artist Awards||Best Artist Award, Actor||Good Manager||Won||[70]|
|32nd KBS Drama Awards||Top Excellence Award, Actor||Won||[71]|
|Excellence Award, Actor in a Mid-length Drama||Nominated|
|Best Couple Award with Lee Jun-ho||Won|
|28th SBS Drama Awards||Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Monday–Tuesday Drama||Falsify||Won||[72]|
|2019||34th KBS Drama Awards||Top Excellence Award, Actor||Doctor Prisoner||Nominated||[73]|
|Excellence Award, Actor in a Miniseries||Nominated|
|2020||56th Baeksang Arts Awards||Best Actor||Hot Stove League||Nominated||[74]|
|33rd Grimae Awards||Best Actor||Won||[75]|
|30th SBS Drama Awards||Grand Prize (Daesang)||Won||[76][77]|
|Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Miniseries Action Drama||Nominated|
|2021||7th APAN Star Awards||Top Excellent Actor in a Miniseries||Nominated||[78][79]|
|Popular Star Award, Actor||Nominated|
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