Lee Beom Soo is a popular veteran South Korean actor. Born on January 3, 1970, he made his acting debut in the 1990 film “Yes, Let’s Look Up at the Sky Now and Again.” He rose to stardom after his 2003 film role in “Singles” and has since starred in many popular films, including “Over My Dead Body” (2012), and television dramas, including his recent hits “Giant” (2010), “History of the Salaryman” (2012), “Dr. Jin” (2012), “IRIS 2” (2013), “The Prime Minister Is Dating” (2013), “Triangle” (2014), “Last” (2015) and “Moorim School” (2016). After a four-month first marriage in 2003, Lee Beom Soo married Lee Yoon Jin in 2010 and they have two children. With daughter So Eul and son Da Eul, Lee Beom Soo joined the cast of the popular reality show “The Return of Superman” in 2016.

Lee Beom Soo

With his family struggling to make ends meet, Uhm Bok Dong (Rain) dutifully does his part to help out by selling water to local merchants. Tired of the daily struggle to carry water to his customers, Bok Dong dreams of someday being able to make his deliveries on wheels. As if fate had been listening to his silent prayers, Bok Dong soon comes across a man selling a bicycle. Sharing his dream with his siblings, his younger brother decides to help Bok Dong turn his dream into a reality by using his school tuition money to buy the bicycle. But Bok Dong’s joy soon turns to sorrow as his newly acquired bike is stolen.

After facing the wrath of his furious father, Bok Dong has no choice but to find a way to pay his brother back. Leaving his small town, he travels to Seoul, where he soon comes across an advertisement for an upcoming bicycle competition organized by the Japanese Government General of Korea. Enticed by the prize money, Bok Dong enters the race. Competing against Japanese and Korean participants alike, Bok Dong beats them all, taking home the title of champion, as well as the prize money. A month later, he wins his second race and becomes a national hero overnight.

Raising the spirits of his fellow countrymen, in a time of Japanese colonial rule, Bok Dong’s string of victories bring with them a glimmer of hope; but not everyone is pleased with Bok Dong’s success. Desperate to put an end to Bok Dong’s winning streak, the Japanese referees are willing to do anything; but will their efforts be enough to stop this hero of the people?

Inspired by the true story of famed cyclist Uhm Bok Dong, “Race to Freedom - Um Bok Dong” is a 2019 biographical drama film directed by Kim Yoo Sung.

Race to Freedom - Um Bok Dong

The Freedom Fighter team.

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Lately, many people have complained about how life is getting harder and harder. Such thing as hope is perishing fast in this fiery pit called Korea. It\u2019s almost impossible to look further into our future and set goals, but instead, we live from hand to mouth from day to day. There is no time to look back and reflect on oneself. Rather people are busy blaming others for everything. But \u201CMoorim School\u201D wants to tell the world to find the true power within themselves and believe in friendship and love. Youth itself has always been beautiful, with its potential to grow and improve. There is no crisis you cannot overcome, and anyone can be the strongest when they\u2019re true selves. Hope is for those who encouraged it.

Moorim School

Minions Reloaded Team

This is a different kind of identity crisis.

Woo Jin is a young man who works as a furniture designer. He has a great life with the woman he loves, Yi Soo (Han Hyo Joo), if it weren’t for one little problem.

Every morning, Woo Jin wakes up to discover that he is inhabiting a different body. It could be the body of a young, good-looking man (Do Ji Han), a portly everyman (Kim Dae Myung), a middle-aged man (Bae Sung Woo), an old man (Chun Young Woon) or even a beautiful young woman (Park Shin Hye)!

Every time Woo Jin wakes up in a new body, he has to figure out where he is and how he can find his way back to Yi Soo, who is always waiting for him. Will there be a day that Woo Jin can’t find his way back?

“The Beauty Inside” is a 2015 South Korean film directed by Baik. It is based on the 2012 American social film by the same title directed by Drake Doremus.

The Beauty Inside

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When a man goes from a successful career in finance to the dangerous underworld, can he survive? Jang Tae Ho (Yoon Kye Sang) was once a successful fund manager, but his fate changes when he loses $300 million in a failed stock investment. Overnight, Tae Ho finds himself homeless and on the run from loan-shark gangsters. When Tae Ho joins the underground world of homeless people in Seoul Station, he discovers that even the homeless have an organized ranking system. Entering this new social order, Tae Ho tries to fight back against the vicious Kwak Heung Sam (Lee Beom Soo), a gangster who exploits the homeless to make a tremendous amount of dirty money. Can Tae Ho climb his way up the ranking to topple Heung Sam’s leadership? “Last” is a 2015 South Korean drama series directed by Jo Nam Kook. It is adapted from a webtoon by the same title written by Kang Hyeong Gyu.

Last

The Last Ones Standing

Kwon Yul, a stickler for rules, is the youngest prime minister in the history of Korea. Da Jeong is a 20-year-old reckless girl who happens to be one of the worst paparazzi. The righteous prime minister meets Da Jeong, who is desperate to get married to him, and their turbulent romance begins. Also, Yul's family, who hasn't had a mother for a long time, may have a mother figure now! A heart-fluttering and tear-jerking love story between the two people unfolds for the sake of the father, who doesn't have many days left, and the kids, who don't have a mother.

Prime Minister and I

The Ministry Team

Kwon Yool

Celebrity dads take care of their children on their own without any help! While the moms enjoy their freedom away from childrearing, dads who aren't as familiar raising them must spend time with them. How will dads who aren't as skilled and children who like their moms more spend their days? A childrearing reality TV show about celebrity dads and cute children filled with emotional, funny, and surprising moments. Let's take a look at their lives.

The Return of Superman

Super Daddies Team

In those days when leading a wealthy and prosperous life was all that mattered, Gangnam was the critical point where the power took the lead in the development. All kinds of people who dream of making a fortune and desire a new world gathered at Gangnam. There, machinations and veiled enmity were rampant, and everyone did whatever they could to achieve what they wanted. The success story of a man who continues to win his victory only with wisdom and courage in the weak-to-the-wall kind of society will give considerable comfort and joy.

Giant

Lee Kang Mo

Han Ki Chul (Lee Beom Soo) is a mid-level gangster in South Korea. One day, his boss tasks him with looking after a powerful gangland figure from Hong Kong. He and his mobster associates are expecting a fearsome male gangster, but their charge actually turns out to be a woman named Lim Aryong (Shu Qi). She has been accused of killing a rival gang leader in Hong Kong and an assassin has been dispatched to hunt her down.

Lim Aryong turns out to be cold and abrasive, and Han Ki Chul isn’t too fond of her. But he must complete the mission nonetheless. So he decides to pretend that she is his girlfriend – and take her to visit his mother. But when the assassins close the net on Lim Ah Ryong, she ends up returning to Hong Kong...with Han Ki Chul in tow. Could love spark amid the chaos for this pair of very different mobsters?

“My Wife Is a Gangster 3: HK Edition” is a 2006 South Korean movie that was directed by Cho Jin Gyu.

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