Yoon Shi-yoon

Yoon Shi-yoon
Native name	윤시윤
Born	Yoon Dong-gu (1986 -09-26) September 26, 1986 Suncheon, South Jeolla Province, South Korea
Nationality	South Korean
Occupation	Actor, Television personality
Years active	2009–present
Korean name
Hangul	윤시윤
Hanja	尹施允
Revised Romanization	Yun Si-yun
McCune–Reischauer	Yun Siyun
Birth name
Hangul	윤동구
Hanja	尹東久
Revised Romanization	Yun Dong-gu
McCune–Reischauer	Yun Tonggu

Yoon Shi-yoon (Hangul: 윤시윤; born Yoon Dong-gu on September 26, 1986) is a South Korean actor and television personality. He is best known for his leading roles in King of Baking, Kim Takgu (2010), Flower Boys Next Door (2013) and Mirror of the Witch (2016). In 2016, he became a member of the variety show 2 Days & 1 Night.

Early life

Yoon was born as Yoon Dong Goo, a name he used until his agency recommended an official change of name upon his entry into college, in a small town in Suncheon. He is the only child of his family. When he was a little boy he was raised by his grandparents. At the time, while the peer of his age went to kindergarten and learned English, Yoon went to seodang, a traditional school that taught Confucianism and learned Chinese characters.^[1] Yoon's unique childhood was then unveiled through his song Grandpa's bicycle for Barefooted Friends.^[2][3]

Career

2009: Debut acting and recognition

Yoon debuted in the daily sitcom High Kick Through the Roof and rose to fame. In the sitcom, Yoon played as Jun-hyuk, a semi-rebellious teenage boy.^[4] He was nominated for Best New Actor in TV at the Baeksang Arts Awards, and won MBC's Best Couple award with his co-star Shin Se-kyung.

2010: Breakthrough with The King of Baking

The following year, 2010, Yoon was cast as the main character in the slice-of-life television series King of Baking, Kim Takgu. The drama's writer, Kang Eun-kyung, saw Yoon in High Kick Through the Roof and picked him for the role. The series was one of the most watched shows in South Korea in 2010, with a final episode viewership rating of 50.8%. It is also the 25th highest rated Korean drama of all time, thereby attaining "national drama" status. Yoon's popularity skyrocketed, and he won the Drama Daesang at the 11th Korean Entertainment Culture Awards.

The same year, Yoon had his first big screen debut with a leading role in the horror movie Death Bell 2: Bloody Camp.^[5]

2011 - 2014: Leading roles

In 2011, Yoon was cast over Kim Jaewon, who suffered from multiple injuries, in the romantic-comedy Me Too, Flower!, as a millionaire masquerading a parking attendant and entering into relationship with an abrasive female police officer (Lee Ji-ah). However, the drama scored low viewership ratings and had to be pre-empted.

In 2012, Yoon starred opposite Yeo Jin-goo in the film Mr. Perfect, where he plays a professional golfer who loses everything but later becomes a golf coach. He then filmed his first Chinese drama Happy Noodles. On December 8, Yoon won the Popular Star Prize in China at the 2012 Asia Top 10 Popular Star Awards by CETV.^[6][7]

In 2013, he starred in the cable series Flower Boys Next Door, the third installment of tvN 's "flower boy" series. Yoon plays a genius game developer, who accidentally enters into the life of a modern Rapunzel (played by Park Shin-hye).^[8] The series was the highest sold cable drama ever to Japan.^[9][10] Yoon then became a cast member of Barefooted Friends, which was his first variety show.^[11][12] In October, Yoon was cast in KBS's drama Prime Minister and I,^[13] alongside Lee Beom-soo and Girls' Generation's Yoona.

2016 - present: Comeback from Military Service

After completing military service, Yoon was confirmed to star in JTBC's historical fantasy drama Mirror of the Witch, playing Joseon's famous doctor Hur Jun. The drama is a fiction story about Hur Jun in his young age and his journey to lift a curse for a princess (played by Kim Sae-ron), whom he later fell in love with.^[14][15][16] Since May 2016, he became a regular cast member of the third season of 2 Days & 1 Night.^[17][18]

In October 2016, Yoon was confirmed to star in a 3-episode miniseries, Romance Full of Life, which is part of MBC's 9-episode miniseries, Three Colors of Fantasies.^[19][20]

Personal life

Yoon is addicted to books. He has over 2000 books at home.^[21] He even reads books during breaks when filming.

On April 28, 2014, Yoon secretly enlisted into the Republic of Korea Marine Corps. Yoon had previously expressed his desire that he wanted to enlist secretly to avoid harming the other soldiers.^[22] On January 27, 2016, Yoon finally completed his military service.^[23]

Filmography

Television series

Films

Variety Shows

Radio

Host

Discography

Soundtrack

Music Video

Awards and nominations

References

External links

• Moa Entertainment Profile (Korean)
• Yoon Shi-yoon at HanCinema
  
• Yoon Shi-yoon at the Internet Movie Database