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.
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
- Occupation
- voice actor / actor
2. Background
- University
- Chung-Ang University
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Frequently asked questions
When was Um Sang-hyun born?
Born December 29, 1971 (age 54).
Where is Um Sang-hyun from?
Um Sang-hyun is from South Korea, United States.
What does Um Sang-hyun do?
Um Sang-hyun works as voice actor, actor.
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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 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.