Powerful acting school, model born, misunderstood and damaged image, handsome sexy cute and funny Lee Minji. Born on January 16, 1985 in Gyeongsangnam-do, he describes himself as a "country folk" who lives in Gimhae City, next to Busan. When he was in college, he went to Daegu to study modeling and pediatrics, and his slim figure and small face made him look taller, while he looked more mischievous and had a personality.
He debuted as an advertising model in 2003, and the following year he debuted as an actor in a one-act drama. In 2005, in the TV series "Come on! Jin Shun played a supporting role, and this Japanese drama is very popular among mothers-in-law, which not only broke through the high rating of 40%, but also made the popularity of the actors in the play to a higher level. Lee Min-ki, who was originally not well-known, also opened his popularity through this drama and won the MBC Acting Awards Male Newcomer Award. In the same year, he also began to be active in variety shows, when he participated in the popular variety show "X-Man" to create many classic scenes, and also appeared in other popular variety shows, and the activity in variety shows allowed him to accumulate a lot of popularity.
After that, he also performed in many TV series such as "The Legend of the Chicken Dragon Fairy", "Rainbow Romance", "Tatsuko's Spring", etc., playing many roles with different faces, and although he was born as a model, he showed stable acting skills to the audience. In 2007, he first starred in the movie "Good Day of An Affair" in which he played the role of a college student who was having an affair with the powerful actor Kim Hye-so, even if he played against the senior Kim Hye-so, he also showed a no-less acting skill. He was originally often seen in TV dramas and variety shows, and then he was rarely seen in TV series and variety shows where he focused more on film works. Later, he played the cheerful unemployed vagabond in "Romantic Island" to show his good style.
Played a young singer who was forced to give up his musical path due to hearing impairment in the Japanese-Korean film "Delicious Man". From this time on, Lee Min-ki began to seek transformation and even released albums in addition to different roles in the past. In the same year, he starred in the super popular disaster movie "Haeundae" in which he played a member of the rescue team, and the scene of sacrificing himself to save others also became a famous scene. The film's box office exceeded 10 million people and the popularity was very high, and he also rose to a higher level of popularity. Although he could thus become a star actor who only played the safety card, he chose to constantly try different types of roles, which showed his passion for acting.
However, it will also have an impact on his original evaluation because of the quality of the choice of works. Although "My Ghost Girlfriend" and "The Temperature of Love" have received good reviews. But try to change the image of the works "Express Horror", "Monster", "For the Emperor", "Shoot at My Heart" and so on. Although the courage to challenge is appreciated, the price of the higher nature of the experiment is that the quality will become more or less low, so the audience reaction is polarized. He has developed steadily in the show business circle.
In 2016, while working as a public welfare soldier, he met a woman with a friend in a Busan bar and had a relationship with each other, but was later reported for sexual violence by the woman. However, all the evidence pointed to a friend who went to the bar with Lee Min-ki, and also said that he had misunderstood the victim and canceled the telling, and finally the police determined that he was not suspected, but the news broke has severely damaged his image. In 2017, he returned to the TV series to star in the drama of his best romantic comedy type "This Life is the First Time" as a man who closed his heart due to a love injury, and his process of opening the new house with the role received many praises through delicate acting performances.
In the 2018 movie "North Korean Detective 3", he specially starred in the role of the Great Demon King. This film is his first time acting in a costume drama, although it is a special appearance, but in order to show the role with mysterious power in the film, he also went to the martial arts academy to receive difficult hanging wire training and he also perfectly digested the domineering and mysterious role. Although he was a special actor, he also had many scenes, and many viewers expressed their expectation that he would be able to take over the costume drama after that, and received good reviews. After that, he partnered with the powerful actor Xu Xuanzhen to star in the TV series "Inner Beauty", which was adapted from the movie of the same name, but replaced the role that the original would transform into a female protagonist, and he played the male protagonist with face blindness in the play.
Although the ratings were average at first, the ratings have doubled and grown, and many female audiences aged 2 or 30 have supported it. Because the actress will transform into a completely different person in seven days of a month, the actors who will play special roles have also caused a topic, so that the topicality of this drama is very high during the broadcast. In 2019, he played a criminal police officer who searched for the truth with members of Congress in the TV series "Everyone's Lies" and he also deliberately gained 10 kilograms for this role, although this sentence did not attract attention, but his superb acting skills in the play impressed many viewers.
And recently he has returned to the romantic comedy in the hit TV series "Oh! In "Joo In-jun", partner Lin Jinna (NANA) tells the story of the best suspense thriller TV writer in Korea who does not talk about love, and the comedy actress who has the title of comedy queen but does not talk about love. The screenwriter of the suspenseful thriller TV series who plays the self-centered selfishness in the play can see the unique romantic comedy acting skills belonging to Lee Min-ki. Although the first two episodes were well received, many viewers said that the characters in the show were very attractive, the plot was also novel and interesting, and they could look forward to the development later.