south korean actor
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Kim Ji-soo ( korean : 김지수 ; born 30 March 1993 ), professionally known as Ji Soo, is a south korean actor .

early life and education [edit ]

In elementary educate, Ji Soo was a judo athlete and competed at national flat before giving it up due to injuries. [ 1 ] He was an actor trainee under JYP Entertainment in 2012. [ 2 ] Ji Soo is a scholar of Digital Seoul Culture Arts University, where he majors in Film. [ citation needed ]

career [edit ]

Ji Soo made his acting debut on stage in 2009 and consequently starred in several short films, including having a precede role in the Korean-Filipino independent film Seoul Mates. [ 3 ] He first gained recognition in high school play Angry Mom ( 2015 ). [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Since then, he has starred in television series Cheer Up! ( 2015 ), Page Turner ( 2016 ) and Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo ( 2016 ) ; vitamin a well as the film One Way Trip ( 2016 ). [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] In 2017, he co-starred in JTBC ‘s fantasy romance comedy Strong Woman Do Bong-soon, playing a passionate cub patrol policeman. [ 10 ] He future starred in OCN ‘s crime drama Bad Guys 2. [ 11 ] In 2018, Ji Soo was cast in JTBC ‘s drama extra Ping Pong Ball, [ 12 ] and Netflix ‘s young person love affair drama My First First Love. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] In 2020, Ji Soo signed a abridge with KeyEast. [ 15 ] In 2021, Ji Soo was approved to play the separate as the male lead role in the korean drama River Where the Moon Rises. The play began airing on 15 February 2021 with the actor Ji Soo portraying the character function of On Dal. He starred in the drama for six aired episodes until reported school blustery and assail accusations were made against him, therefore KBS replaced Ji Soo so he was from then on removed from the show. The role of On Dal was re-cast by actor Na In Woo, that then appeared from episode nine ahead of the drama. [ 16 ] Actor Ji Soo was announced to be enlisted for mandate military service duties in October 2021, reports say that Ji Soo received compulsory military service duties summon in December 2020. After completed four weeks of basic military train, he was announced to carry out the rest of his services in the impute social worker department. [ 17 ] On 6 July 2021, the legal representative of Ji Soo, jurisprudence company Shin & Kim, revealed a newfangled affirmation about the open-ended legal procedures of before-reported school strong-arm and assail allegations. In May 2021, the lapp congressman has stated the actor has decided to take legal action against the people who made false accusations and spread false rumors .

“ In March 2021, there were many blatant lies posted on the Internet including those accusing our customer of sexual offense allegations. The serviceman who wrote a post accusing our node has sexually assaulted his wife in the by has come ahead and apologized, but the stay of the accusative posts made their direction around the network without any confirmation. thus, our node has decided to take legal military action against the circulators of false data to reveal the truth. recently, we were able to locate one of the writers of false accusative posts thanks to search and seizure on IP addresses and more. The man turned out to be a soldier who recently enlisted. He admitted that everything he claimed in his post was false. He then sincerely apologized to our node with a handwritten letter and plead for his forgiveness given that his beget is presently battling cancer.

Our client has dropped the aforesaid man from the lawsuit after considering both his and the perpetrator ‘s circumstances. however, most publishers are laying low after deleting their false accusative posts. We will take stern legal action against these people. meanwhile, the posts accusing him of school strong-arm were largely out of true ampere well. Our node has sued them for libel. We are writing to notify the search guarantee has been issued by the court and the investigations pertaining to the case is afoot. ” [ 18 ]

personal life [edit ]

Ji Soo received operation for acute osteomyelitis ( inflammation of bone or bone marrow, normally due to infection ) on 13 September 2016. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] On 27 September, he returned to filming Fantastic and was formally discharged from the hospital on 1 October. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] He is part of a celebrity group of friends known as BYH48 which consists of EXO ‘s Suho, Ryu Jun-yeol, Byun Yo-han, Lee Dong-hwi and more. The name was coined by their fans, with BYH referring to Byun Yo-han – the group ‘s drawing card – and 48 is a spoof of japanese idol group AKB48. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] Ji Soo is besides best friends with chap actor Nam Joo-hyuk. [ 25 ]

controversy [edit ]

In a argument posted on an on-line forum by an anonymous person on March 2, 2021, Ji Soo was accused of being a bully during his school years. [ 26 ] The pursuit day, his agency, KeyEast, released a instruction saying that “ [ they ] are looking at this incident seriously and will do [ their ] extreme to verify the facts. ” [ 27 ] Following a series of similar accusations, Ji Soo posted a hand-written apology to his Instagram account on 4 March 2021. [ 28 ] He stated :

“ I would like to sincerely apologize to those who were hurt by me. I have absolutely no room for excuses for my actions in the past. They were inexcusable. As I began acting, I was able to come this army for the liberation of rwanda due to the fact that I covered up my past, and as a resultant role received undeserving love and attention from the public. But deep inside, I constantly held a sense of guilt in one part of my heart, and an irreversible sorrow haunted me anxiously. I was always pressed down by my dark past. I now beg forgiveness to those who were undoubtedly deeply distress for a farseeing time, seeing me acting, and I will reflect on the inexcusable actions of my past and repent. I feel deplorable and guilty for inflicting so much damage on all of my boyfriend drama roll and crew members, the broadcast station, and all those affiliated with the production, entirely due to my own personal mistakes. I sincerely pray that the drama will not suffer any more damages. once again, I beg for forgiveness on my knees to all those who were hurt by me. ” [ 29 ]

It was late reported that Ji Soo would be replaced by actor Na In-woo in the television series River Where the Moon Rises. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] [ 32 ] KeyEast issued a argument confirming Ji Soo ‘s activities will be halted prior to his military enlistment in October 2021. [ 33 ] [ 34 ]

Filmography [edit ]

film [edit ]

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2007 Beastie Boys
2010 Boy in Pain Short film
2014 Han Gong-ju Member of Min-ho’s gang
Seoul Mates Joon Indie Film
Adult Short film
More Than
2016 One Way Trip Yong-bi [9]
2020 Our Joyful Summer Days Chan Hee Independent film [35]

television receiver series [edit ]

Web series [edit ]

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2015 Lunch Box Yong K-Food Fair 2015 [44]

Variety show [edit ]

music video recording appearances [edit ]

Year Song title Artist Ref.
2018 “Wind” (바람사람) Bolbbalgan4 [47]

dramaturgy [edit ]

Year Title Ref.
2009 Bong-sam Wasn’t There
2010 The Dreamers
Monster
Controlled Experiments on Human Subjects
13th Hero
2011 Soulmates
2012 A Fool for Children

Awards and nominations [edit ]

References [edit ]