Kim Byung Chul is a South Korean character actor. After making his acting debut in the 2003 film “Once Upon a Time in a Battlefield,” he has worked mainly as a supporting actor in films. He branched into television with “Descendants of the Sun” (2016), Viki’s first original series “Dramaworld” (2016), and “Shopping King Louie” (2016).

Kim Byung Chul

KBS2

Life was perfect for Choi Jin Hyeok (Kim Byung Chul), his wife Ha Eun Ju (Yoon Se Ah), and their beloved daughter Sun Hui (Park Ju Hyun) – until the day the young girl came home covered in blood, saying she thinks she killed her friend… When the latter’s house burns down, suspicions at home and school begin to surface. When another kid goes missing too, family members and friends begin to point fingers at one another. Will the truth about this “perfect family” ever emerge? This 2024 South Korean drama series was based on a webtoon by Nyangpa and Joo Eun and was directed by Yukisada Isao.

Perfect Family

Nobody's Perfect Team

Choi Jin Hyeok

In 1980s South Korea, Lee Eui Shik (Oh Dal Soo) is a popular left-wing politician and potential presidential candidate who returns from spending time abroad to find he has been placed under house arrest.

His political rivals have nothing but trumped-up charges to accuse him of, however, so must urgently come up with something concrete to charge him with – or risk needing to let him go free.

In a desperate move, a government agency assigns a team of poorly performing covert spies to pose as a family and move into the house next door.

Headed by Dae Kwon (Jung Woo) and featuring the clumsy bugging expert Dong Shik (Kim Byung Chul), this team – somehow – successfully manages to plant surveillance devices in Lee Eui Shik’s house.

Finally privy to his conversations with family members and others, they start to get to know more about the real Lee Eui Shik.

However, the more they listen in to his private conversations, the more they realize that Lee Eui Shik is perhaps is not the corrupt villain his political rivals have been so keen to paint him as after all…

“Best Friend” is a 2020 South Korean movie that was directed by Lee Hwan Kyung.

Best Friend

KBS02

After unfortunate events in his life, Yi Je being one of Seoul's most exalted physicians, turns into a prison doctor who finds hereditary diseases that send the innocent and guilty away from death row and confinement. His goal of finding justice for bereaved families is all he's after, so he works around his excellence as a medical doctor to get around the law. With his prescriptions, he turns himself as the god above the law.

Doctor Prisoner

The Prisoner's Dilemma Team

JTBC

SKY Castle, a private luxury condo community, where wealthy doctors and professors live. It was built by the first president of Joo Nam University, the most prestigious university in Korea. Most of the residents are doctors and law school professors of the university.

The drama describes all the ins and outs of how the wealthy make their children enter a top university. It is a comic satirical drama that closely looks behind the scenes at the materialistic desires of the upper-class parents in Korea and how they ruthlessly secure the successes of their families at the cost of destroying others' lives.

SKY Castle

The Sky High Team

Betrayed by his king, Kim Shin (Gong Yoo), a decorated military general from the Goryeo Dynasty, was forced to watch his family die before him. Saved by the Almighty, yet condemned to an eternal life as a goblin, Kim Shin uses his supernatural abilities to save humans, including the mother of Ji Eun Tak (Kim Go Eun), an optimistic high school student with a strange connection to the supernatural. When Eun Tak is repeatedly drawn to him, Kim Shin wonders if she might be the one he has spent an eternity searching for, the only one who can set his soul free, the Goblin Bride. Written by Kim Eun Sook, this award-winning 2016 South Korean fantasy romance series was directed by Lee Eung Bok and Kwon Hyuk Chan.

Guardian: The Lonely and Great God

The Immortal Team

Park Joong-Hun

Louis, a young and handsome heir of vast business empire, who lived a luxurious life happens to become a homeless by a car accident that caused him to loose his memories. He meets an angelic country girl who agrees to take care of him until he finds out his real identity. She tries to teach homeless Louis on right amount of spending, but she is astounded by his spending habits, never knowing his real identity before he lost the memory.

Shopaholic Louis

The Shopaholics Team

What is the most exciting — and most terrifying — thing that can happen to a K-drama fanatic? Claire Duncan (Liv Hewson) is a 20-year-old college student who finds her real life boring. Maybe that’s because she’s never looking up, instead having her nose buried in her smartphone and watching her favorite Korean drama, “Taste of Love,” starring her favorite actor Joon Park (Sean Dulake). Joon Park plays the hot chef and protagonists in “Taste of Love” who is still waiting for his one true love to come into his life. Through a touch of the supernatural and a sprinkle of magic, Claire’s desire to shed her own boring life and live in the world of “Taste of Love” comes true when she is transported into her favorite drama and comes face-to-face with Joon Park! There, Claire also meets the mysterious waiter Seth Ko (Justin Chon), who made his own journey into the drama years ago from the real world and mentors Claire on how to navigate the dramaworld. When the appearance of Claire throws “Taste of Love” off-balance, causing other dramas to splice into the series, what kind of crazy adventure will Claire experience? “Dramaworld” is a 2016 Viki original series. Set in Los Angeles and Seoul, the first-ever American-Korean mashup series is written by Josh Billig and Chris Martin and directed by Chris Martin.

Dramaworld

The K-Drama Lovers

South Korean special forces officer Yoo Si Jin (Song Joong Ki) falls for surgeon Kang Mo Yeon (Song Hye Kyo) but their ideological differences force them to split up. Now, war has broken out in a faraway nation, and Si Jin’s unit is deployed on the battleground. Coincidentally, an unpleasant workplace incident has forced Mo Yeon to join a group of medical volunteers in the same country. The former lovers reunite, but can they find love again – against the backdrop of a bloody war? This 2016 South Korean drama series was directed by Lee Eung Bok and Baek Sang Hoon.

Descendants of the Sun

The Sunshine Team

Park Byeong Soo

Living with a debilitating phobia of all forms of social interaction, Chun Soo Ro (Go Hyun Jung) has done the best she can to make a life for herself. A timid and slightly geeky cartoonist, Soo Ro does well enough when it comes to work, but her constant panic attacks make it nearly impossible for her to leave her home. Relying heavily on her sister’s help, Soo Ro is devastated by the fact that her sister is about to leave the country.&nbsp;

Overcoming her fears long enough to accompany her sister to the Busan port terminal, Soo Ro bids her sister farewell; but her ability to fight off the rising panic she feels only lasts so long. Stricken by a panic attack before she can even leave the terminal, Soo Ro is helped by a nearby nun. To repay the woman for her kindness, Soo Ro agrees to deliver flowers and a cake for her; but upon arriving at the provided address, she finds the intended recipient dead! Fleeing the scene in terror, Soo Ro soon finds herself unwillingly caught up in the middle of a multi-million dollar drug operation.

Wanted by the police and hunted by not one but two of the area’s biggest crime syndicates, Soo Ro finds herself accepting the help of five strangers who manage to turn her life completely upside down. Will she ever find a way out of this mess or will she end up embracing this new life of crime?

A story of cake and crime, “Miss Conspirator” is a 2012 action comedy film directed by Park Chul Kwan.

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