Won Bin

Won Bin is one of those rare people who makes you genuinely wonder whether the universe ran out of flaws when it built him — the face alone launched a thousand magazine covers, but what keeps me coming back is that he actually delivered. His breakout in Autumn in My Heart in 2000 hit Korean audiences like a freight train, and then he went and topped himself with The Man from Nowhere in 2010, a lean, brutal action film where he carried nearly every frame on pure screen presence. What's fascinating is how selective he's been — long gaps between projects, almost no tabloid noise — which in an industry that chews people up for content feels almost rebellious. The Grand Bell Award is well-earned, but honestly his biggest achievement might be staying genuinely compelling while barely showing up.

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Name (English)

Won Bin

Name (Japanese)

ウォンビン

Reading

うぉんびん

Born

November 10, 1977 (age 48)

Origin

Jeongseon County, South Korea

Occupation

film actor / actor / television actor / model

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Snake

High school

Chuncheon Mech Tech High School

University

Yong In University

Awards & achievements

• Grand Bell Awards

• Official sitehttp://www.wonbinus.co.kr
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Won%20Bin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%93%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q494856

Tags

• film actor
• actor
• television actor

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.