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Lee Seung-gi ( korean : 이승기 ; Hanja : 李昇基 ; born January 13, 1987 ) is a south korean singer, actor, host, and entertainer. [ 1 ] He has numerous hit songs as a singer such as “ Because You ‘re My Woman ”, “ Will You Marry Me ”, “ return ” and “ The Ordinary homo ”. He has garnered far recognition as an actor and rose to popularity in parts of Asia with leading roles in popular drama such as Brilliant Legacy ( 2009 ), My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho ( 2010 ), The King 2 Hearts ( 2012 ), Gu Family Book ( 2013 ), You’re All Surrounded ( 2014 ), A Korean Odyssey ( 2017–2018 ), Vagabond ( 2019 ), and Mouse ( 2021 ). He was a member of the first season of weekend kind show 1 Night 2 Days from November 2007 to February 2012, and the host of talk display Strong Heart from October 2009 to April 2012. [ 2 ] Lee Seung Gi ‘s success as a singer, actor and host earned him the style “ triple terror ” entertainer. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He was first included in Forbes Korea Power Celebrity number in 2010 placing seventh, [ 5 ] subsequently ranking fourth in 2011 [ 6 ] and sixth in 2012 and 2015. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The achiever of his television drama in parts of Asia established him as a top Hallyu star. [ 9 ] He is besides included in the list of Highest paid korean actors in 2021 placing one-fourth. [ 10 ] Most recently, he has been selected as one of the 200 actors ( 100 males and 100 females ) to feature in the korean actors 200 campaign, run by the Korean Film Council ( KOFIC ). This methodical visualize ‘s aim is to select actors that best represent the portray and future of Korean film and introducing them to film people abroad. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] On 1 June 2021, he has reportedly left Hook Entertainment and established his own one-man means Human Made. [ 13 ] On 10 June 2021, Hook Entertainment formally announces that they have signed a new management shrink with Lee Seung Gi, and they will support him pursuing autonomous and creative activities through his own one-man means Human Made. [ 14 ]

education [edit ]

Lee Seung Gi graduated from Dongguk University obtaining his degree in International Trade and Commerce on February 20, 2009 and received a special accomplishment award during commencement. He then continued his studies obtaining two victor ‘s degrees, Marketing, Trade Theory adenine well as Finance and cultural Contents at Dongguk Graduate School. [ 15 ] He successfully received Child Psychiatry Counselling Certificate while he was doing Little Forest variety show picture. [ 16 ]

career [edit ]

2004–present : As singer [edit ]

Scouted by singer Lee Sun-hee, Lee Seung Gi trained for two years before debuting on June 5, 2004, at the historic period of 17. “ Because You ‘re My Girl ”, his debut song from his first gear album The Dream of a Moth, became a popular ballad which created a ‘liking older women ‘ syndrome in South Korea. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] With this sung, he won the Best newcomer award in diverse music awards ceremonies in 2004, such as the M.net KM Music Festival and Seoul Music Awards. In 2007, he besides won the Best male Solo Artist award at the M.net KM Music Festival with his song White lie from his third base album Story of Separation. [ 19 ]
At Yeosu Expo Pop Festival, 2012 He released a digital one titled Will You Marry Me in 2009, [ 20 ] which became a hit in South Korea. With this single, he received the Digital Single Bonsang award in the 24th Golden Disc Awards. [ 21 ] The same year, he released his fourthly album Shadow, which was a success and received 40,000 pre-order copies before its dismissal. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] In 2010, he recorded a duet interpretation of his 2007 sung Smile Boy with south korean calculate skater Kim Yuna, which became the official 2010 FIFA World Cup commercial song in South Korea. [ 24 ] He besides received the Digital Single Bonsang prize for the second consecutive time at the 25th Golden Disc Awards with his sung Love Taught Me To Drink. [ 25 ] This was followed by the release of his fifth album, Tonight in 2011, a departure from his usual traditional ballads and encompasses more of a rock band-style sound and melodies. [ 26 ] The title song Are n’t We Friends instantaneously topped on-line music charts upon release. [ 27 ] His other single, Era of Love besides earned the No. 1 smudge on that workweek ‘s Billboard K-Pop Hot 100. [ 28 ] On March 6, 2012, Seung Gi made his debut in Japan with the free of his first japanese album Time for Love ( besides translated as Alone in Love ) and a single of the lapp title. [ 29 ] Both the album and individual ranked number one on the Oricon Daily Chart. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] To celebrate his achiever, Lee held a fanmeeting at Tokyo Dome City Hall. [ 32 ] He held a concert at Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, on June 1, 2012, three months after his debut. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] back in South Korea the lapp class, he released an EP titled Forest. [ 35 ] The title song Return set a record for being issue one for six straight weeks on Billboard ‘s Korea K-Pop Hot 100. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] On June 10, 2015, he made his music rejoinder with his sixth album And… after a hiatus of two years and seven months. [ 38 ] [ 39 ] On January 21, 2016, his representation, Hook Entertainment, announced that he would be enlisting for his mandate military service on February 1. As a gift to fans, he besides released a new track on January 21 at noon, titled I Am Going to the Military. [ 40 ] On March 3, 2016, his song Meet person Like Me was released. The one is the stopping point song he recorded before joining the army, and was produced by Psy. [ 41 ] On November 15, 2020, he released a pre-released track titled The Ordinary Man ( 뻔한 남자 ), ahead of his predict one-seventh album The Project, which was released on December 10, 2020. [ 42 ]

2004–present : As actor with pan-Asian fame [edit ]

In 2004, Lee Seung-gi starred in MBC ‘s situation comedy Nonstop 5. [ 43 ] He then officially debuted as an actor in KBS ‘s 2006 weekend play The Infamous Chil Sisters. [ 44 ] He was then cast as the male lead in SBS ‘s weekend drama Brilliant Legacy in 2009, co-starring Han Hyo-joo. [ 45 ] The drama maintained its exceed smudge in spectator ratings throughout its test, with its final episode attaining a viewer rate of 47.1 %. [ 46 ] The huge success boosted Lee ‘s popularity as an actor and led to increased advertising offers for the actor. [ 47 ] With this drama, he received the “ Excellence in Acting ” award, the “ top 10 Stars ” award and the “ Best couple ” award with Han Hyo-joo at the 2009 SBS Drama Awards. [ 48 ] This was followed by SBS ‘s fantasy drama My Girlfriend Is a Nine-Tailed Fox in 2010, playing a university scholar who ( despite hard discouragement from his grandfather ) wants to drop out in order to pursue his dream of becoming an action movie ace. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] His performance earned him his second “ excellence in Acting ” award at the 2010 SBS Drama Awards. [ 51 ] He then starred in MBC ‘s action drama The King 2 Hearts ( 2012 ), [ 52 ] [ 53 ] fantasy-historical play Gu Family Book ( 2013 ) with Bae Suzy, [ 54 ] [ 55 ] and SBS ‘s patrol play You’re All Surrounded ( 2014 ). [ 56 ] [ 57 ] In 2015, Lee Seung Gi made his film debut with quixotic drollery Love Forecast which co-star Moon Chae-won. [ 58 ] [ 59 ] In July 2015, Lee was cast in the menstruation drollery film The Princess and the Matchmaker with Shim Eun-kyung, directed by The Face Reader conductor Han Jae-rim. [ 60 ] The film was released in 2018. [ 61 ] In 2017, he was the lead actor in the illusion play A Korean Odyssey, written by the Hong sisters. This marks his first project after enlistment. [ 62 ] [ 63 ] In 2019, he and Bae Suzy starred in the spy action drama Vagabond as their second drama together. [ 64 ] [ 65 ] With this drama, he received the clear Excellence Award in a Miniseries and the “ Best couple ” award with Bae Suzy at the 2019 SBS Drama Awards.

2021AAA-Actor of the Year Daesang ( TV category ) In 2021, he led a cast of full actors and actresses in the crime thriller Mouse. [ 66 ] On December 2, 2021, Lee won the Grand Award ( Daesang ) for television receiver category on Asia Artist Awards for his character as Bareum in Mouse. [ 67 ]

2007–present : As host and entertainer [edit ]

Lee Seung Gi was a permanent extremity of the first season of 1 Night 2 Days, a segment of KBS ‘s weekend kind show Happy Sunday, from November 2007 to February 2012. Known by his nickname heodang, his appearance on the show shot him to fame in Korea and made him a family diagnose. [ 68 ] [ 69 ] In 2008, he received the Best popularity award in the KBS Entertainment Awards ascribable to his popularity with consultation in 1 Night 2 Days. He besides earned the Top Excellence Host award in the 2010 KBS Entertainment Awards and the Daesang prize with the other frame members of the first season at the 2011 KBS Entertainment Awards. [ 70 ]
He took on a host function in SBS ‘s Tuesday night talk show Strong Heart in October 2009, with Kang Ho-dong. [ 71 ] It was recognized as the Best program at the 2009 SBS Entertainment Awards and he was awarded the Netizens ‘ Popularity award. [ 72 ] He was again recognized for his character in the talk express and received the Top Excellence Host award for two back-to-back years at the 2010 and 2011 SBS Entertainment Awards. [ 70 ] [ 73 ] In March 2012, Lee announced his deviation from Strong Heart in order to focus on his singing career. He recorded his last episode on March 15, which was broadcast on April 3. [ 74 ] Lee Seung Gi reunited with 1 Night 2 Days cast members and PD Na Young-seok in the travel-reality express New Journey to the West in 2015. [ 75 ] [ 76 ] In 2017, he was announced to be joining the cast of SBS variety display Master in the House. [ 77 ] In 2018, he was chosen to be the MC of Mnet ‘s reality/survival plan, Produce 48. [ 78 ] The same class, it was announced that he will join the second season of Netflix ‘s variety show Busted!. [ 79 ] He was nominated and awarded the Grand Award ( Daesang ) at the 2018 SBS Entertainment Awards for SBS assortment show Master in the House. He became the youngest entertainer who won the Grand Award ( Daesang ). [ 80 ] In 2019, he joined the casts of Little Forest, a curative assortment course of study designed as a home plate kids garden development project for children. [ 81 ] The same year, he featured in the Netflix travel show Twogether alongside Taiwanese actor Jasper Liu. In 2020, he hosted Friday Joy Package, Hometown Flex and a spill the beans world show Sing Again. [ 82 ] In 2021, he rejoined the cast of Netflix ‘s assortment show Busted! for a third season and besides joined the vomit extremity of Team Up 072, an SBS golf entertainment prove. On July 24, Lee joined the world program Loud as an MC and Special Agent, a singular position whose undertaking is to provide the remaining contestants with affectionateness, guidance, and support as they prepare for the stopping point. [ 83 ] [ 84 ] On November 20, Lee featured in a Netflix game variety show show, New World. [ 85 ] On December 6, he rejoined the hit world television display, Sing Again, for a second base season as its MC and Host. [ 86 ] In the lapp year, he won the Baeksang Arts Award for Best Male Variety Performer for his work in Busted!, Twogether, Hometown Flex, Sing Again ,and Master in the House. [ 87 ]

2021–present : As CEO and producer [edit ]

Humanmade, a output company founded by Lee has prepared a one and only performance entirely for Moment House Japan which will feature a hybrid of documentary and alive performance contents. Actor and artist Lee Seunggi, will oversee the product of the show to make certain Jessi ‘s might and charms will break through your screen and into your heart. [ 88 ] [ 89 ]

In the media [edit ]

In South Korea, Lee Seung-gi has earned multiple nicknames such as Nation ‘s Umchina ( your mother ‘s supporter ‘s bright son ), Nation ‘s Little Brother, and Nation ‘s Heodang ( adorable klutz ), an double he had earned from his appearance in the usher, 1 Night 2 Days. [ 90 ] [ 91 ] Lee ’ second success as a singer, actor and server besides earned him the titles “ treble threat ” entertainer, Emperor, and Prince of Ballad. [ 92 ] [ 93 ] [ 94 ] other nickname given to him by the media include Human amulet and Weather fairy. [ 95 ] In 2011 and 2012, he was one of the most in-demand and popular commercial models and celebrity endorsers. [ 96 ] [ 97 ] Throughout his career, he has endorsed a across-the-board diverseness of products and services and had ranked high in the monthly subscriber review of the Korea Advertisers Association. [ 98 ] [ 99 ] On June 23, 2012, Lee was one of the torchbearers in the 2012 London Summer Olympics Torch Relay chosen by Samsung. [ 100 ] [ 101 ] On October 30, 2012, he was appointed as the Honorary Online Ambassador of the state ‘s campaign by the National Election Commission of South Korea for a fair and clean presidential elections. [ 102 ] In 2021, he was dubbed by the media as the MC with “ Sincerity and Empathy ”, a name he earned from the JTBC ‘s endowment display, Sing Again. [ 103 ]

personal animation [edit ]

compulsory Military servicing [edit ]

At Military concert, 2017 On February 1, 2016, Lee Seung Gi began his 21-month mandatary military service as an active duty soldier, entering Nonsan Army Recruit Training Center in Chungcheongnam-do. [ 104 ] After training there for five weeks he was dispatched to his put character following the completion ceremony. [ 105 ] He was formally discharged on October 31, 2017 from the military at Jeungpyeong County in North Chungcheong Province where he was a extremity of the 13th especial Forces Brigade Black Panther, Republic of Korea Army Special Warfare Command serving as a military intelligence specialist. [ 106 ] [ 107 ] [ 108 ] It ‘s reported that Lee Seung Gi had volunteered to complete trainings not required for engage soldiers and administrative soldiers, this includes parachute aim, wherein he succeeded in a chute descent drill conducted 730 meters above the ground, other trainings include Krav Maga flush 1 and long distance march, where he was in the top 10 % of the 1000 marathoners, [ 109 ] as separate of the ‘Black Panther ‘ Brigade which was re-designated as the decapitation unit named 13th special Mission Brigade on 1 December 2017 with the mission of assassinating north korean leaders following latent hostility with North Korea in the event a war broke out within the two nations, he successfully completed the same educate as other soldiers during the unit ‘s transformation, including those not required for enlist soldiers. [ 110 ] [ 111 ] [ 112 ]

discography [edit ]

  • The Dream of a Moth (2004)
  • Crazy For U (2006)
  • Story of Separation (2007)
  • Shadow (2009)
  • Tonight (2011)
  • And… (2015)
  • The Project (2020)

Filmography [edit ]

Awards and nominations [edit ]

References [edit ]