Woo-bin Kim

About Woo-bin Kim

Who is it?: Actor
Birth Day: June 20, 1992
Birth Sign: Leo
Native name: 김우진
National team: South Korea
Education: Juseong University, Chungbuk Physical Education High School, Iwon Middle School, Iwon Elementary School
Sport: Archery
Club: Cheongju City
Medal record Men's archery Representing  South Korea Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team World Championships 2011 Torino Individual 2011 Torino Team 2015 Copenhagen Individual 2015 Copenhagen Team World Cup 2012 Tokyo Individual Asian Games 2010 Guangzhou Individual 2010 Guangzhou Team Men's archeryRepresenting  South KoreaOlympic GamesWorld ChampionshipsWorld CupAsian Games: 2016 Rio de JaneiroTeam2011 TorinoIndividual2011 TorinoTeam2015 CopenhagenIndividual2015 CopenhagenTeam2012 TokyoIndividual2010 GuangzhouIndividual2010 GuangzhouTeam
Hangul: 김우진
Revised Romanization: Gim U-jin
McCune–Reischauer: Kim U-jin

Woo-bin Kim Net Worth

Woo-bin Kim was born on June 20, 1992, is Actor. Kim Woo Bin wanted to become a model while he was in high school and didn't have much intention of becoming an actor. However as his modeling career grew bigger, and he started getting offers to do commercials he was soon told that some basic acting was required and he decided to take on classes. Right away he was amazed by his acting teacher Won-joo Moon who quickly became his role model, and fell in love with acting profession. His acting debut was in a TV series "White Christmas" where he played character called Mad Mireu, a red haired genius prankster and bully of bullies and quickly became audience favorite. After this, he and two other model turned actors from White Christmas moved on to do sitcom "Vampire Idol" in which he played lovable vampire Gabri Ratis who spent his life thinking he was ugly, and only upon moving to earth became interesting to girls, and women too. Sitcom was meant to have 120 episodes, but has failed to attract viewers and was abruptly ended after 79. He moves on to do "A Gentleman's Dignity" where he played a problematic high school kid with crush on his sociology teacher. His character was meant to be small, but as show progressed and his talent shined trough, writer Eun-sook Kim, wrote more material for him and his role grew. Similar thing happens with School 2013, where he only shows up by the end of third episode, and was meant to be supporting role, but he stole audience's hearts instantly and was given much bigger role. His acting in this drama was often described as brave, as there were many scenes of him crying with and his relationship with co-star Jong-suk Lee became infamous. Soon, He will play lead in Friend 2, sequel to Friend (2001) of which he said it's his favorite movie and he knows all the quotes by heart. He is also set to appear in a TV series Heirs (Inheritors) again written by Eun-sook Kim who now refers to him as "her muse", where he will play rich, spoiled, and genius Choi Young Do trying to get revenge on his childhood friend by stealing his girl. Kim Woo Bin usually has words "charismatic actor" attached to his name in Korean media.
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Biography/Timeline

2011

Kim was part of the 2011 World Archery Championships gold medal winning men's team, and won the individual gold medal at the 2011 World Archery Championships and the 2012 FITA Archery World Cup. Despite this, he was not selected for the 2012 Korean Olympic team.

2015

In 2015, Kim was again selected for the Korean national team, and became the first man since 1985 to win the World Archery Championships twice.

2016

During the 2016 Summer Olympics, Kim set a world record during the individual men's qualifying round with a score of 700 out of a possible 720 (held under World Archery Federation rules at a distance of 70 meters). The previous record of 699 was set by Im Dong-hyun (also of South Korea) at the 2012 Olympics. However, in a major upset, Kim lost 2-6 in the second round in the individual category to Indonesia's Riau Ega Agatha. He was also one of the three members of the South Korean men's team who won the Olympic gold medal in the team competition.