Sung Hoon (Full Name: Bang Sung-hoon) is a popular South Korean actor and a model whose breakthrough role was in the supernatural romance drama, New Tales of Gisaeng. Sung’s performance in this drama earned him a New Star Award at the 2011 SBS Drama Awards. In 2012, Sung became cast in his first Chinese drama, The Bodyguard.
That same year, Sung featured in the historical drama Faith, playing an antagonist role. Afterward that year, Sung was cast in the daily drama, The Birth of a Family. In 2016, came back to the Korean small screen with KBS’s weekend drama Five Enough, playing a model turned professional golfer, where his pairing with Shin Hye-sun gained fame among the viewers.
In 2017, he starred in the romantic comedy-drama My Secret Romance, in which Sung played a second-generation chaebol. Sung later played an entertainment company producer in The Idolmaster KR, which is based on The Idolmaster Japanese video game. That same year, he was cast in the romance-fantasy film Are You in Love? opposite Kim So-eun. The film began in 2020.
