Ahn Hyo-seop

Ahn Hyo-seop is one of those guys who kind of snuck up on the K-drama world and suddenly everyone was obsessed. Born in Seoul but raised in Canada, he brings this quietly confident, bilingual energy that reads differently on screen than most of his peers — there's a naturalness to him that's hard to fake. He broke through big with Business Proposal and A Time Called You, and honestly both roles showed real range: goofy rom-com charisma in one, emotionally layered melodrama in the other. What gets me is how he started as a singer with One O One back in 2015 and pivoted so cleanly into acting without it ever feeling like a detour. He's still young, still building his filmography, and I think his best work is genuinely ahead of him.

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Name (English)

Ahn Hyo-seop

Name (Japanese)

アン・ヒョソプ

Reading

あん・ひょそぷ

Born

April 17, 1995 (age 31)

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Occupation

actor / singer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Boar

High school

Cheongdam High School

University

Kookmin University

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/imhyoseop/
• Xhttps://x.com/Ahnhyoseopj
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahn%20Hyo-seop
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%92%E3%83%A7%E3%82%BD%E3%83%97
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24000262

Tags

• actor
• singer

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.