Photo: Um Sang-hyun / CC BY-SA 3.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Um Sang-hyun is the sort of craftsman I genuinely admire. He came up through the stage, playing roles like a Japanese assassin and a royal servant in the 1997 musical The Last Empress and even assistant-directing, before joining EBS's voice acting division in 1998. That theatrical grounding is exactly why I trust voice actors of his generation: they know how to act a whole body's worth of emotion with nothing but their voice. He never needs to show his face to disappear into a dozen characters. To me, that quiet, total transformation is the purest form of performance, and it rarely gets the credit it deserves.
Overview
Um Sang-hyun (Korean: 엄상현; born December 29, 1971) is a South Korean voice actor who began his career by joining Educational Broadcasting System's voice acting division in 1998. Before making his debut as a voice actor, he used to work in theaters, including performing his roles as a Japanese assassinator and a royal servant in a 1997 South Korean musical The Last Empress and working as the assistant director for Sou…
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Um Sang-hyun
- Name (Japanese)
- オム・サンヒョン
- Reading
- おむ・さんひょん
- Born
- December 29, 1971 (age 54)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Boar
- Origin
- South Korea, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- voice actor / actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Chung-Ang University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.