Um Sang-hyun

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.

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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)

Origin

South Korea

Occupation

voice actor / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Boar

University

Chung-Ang University

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Um%20Sang-hyun
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%92%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3
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Tags

• voice actor
• actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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