Nam Da-reum

I'll be honest — Nam Da-reum is one of those actors who quietly crept up on me. He spent years doing the "young version" job in Korean dramas, the thankless role where you have to convincingly set up a performance that someone else gets to finish, and he was consistently excellent at it. Then Beautiful World (2019) handed him the lead and he carried it without flinching, which is a pretty big deal when you're a teenager and the drama deals with school violence and systemic silence. What strikes me most is how naturally he's navigating the tricky child-actor-to-adult-actor transition — studying at Chung-Ang University while still working, building range instead of coasting on early fame. He's only in his early twenties as of 2024, and that foundation already looks solid.

Name (English)

Nam Da-reum

Name (Japanese)

ナム・ダルム

Reading

なむ・だるむ

Born

June 13, 2002 (age 24)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Horse

Origin

Gyeonggi Province, South Korea

Occupation

actor / television actor / film actor / child actor

High school

Yulcheon High School

University

Chung-Ang University

• Official sitehttps://breeze-artist.com/NAMDAREUM
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/namdareum_mom/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nam%20Da-reum
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8A%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%83%AB%E3%83%A0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12589788

Tags

• Gyeonggi Province
• actor
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.