Kim Sung-min (actor) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Kim Sung-min (actor) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Kim Sung-min (Korean: 김성민, February , â€" June , ) was a South

Korean actor.Kim made his acting debut in , as a member of the theatre

troupe Constellation (Korean: 성좌). In , he rose to stardom in the

hit television drama Miss Mermaid. Miss Mermaid screenwriter Im

Sung-han cast him again in her next drama, Lotus Flower Fairy (also

known as Heaven's Fate, ). But when Miss Mermaid was exported to

Taiwan and the Philippines, foreign viewers had difficulty pronouncing

his given name "Sung-taek," so to further build his Korean Wave

profile, Kim adopted the stage name Kim Sung-min in . He then starred

in leading roles in Single Again and Tears of Diamond.Comic supporting

roles followed in Couple or Trouble () where he played a selfish yet

hapless husband to an heiress, and Family's Honor () where he played a

playboy twin brother who has an unlikely romance with a tomboyish

policewoman. Then Kim surprised audiences by portraying a darker

character, an adulterous husband in What's for Dinner? (), followed by

his first period drama, The Reputable Family (). He also appeared in

the popular variety-reality show Qualifications of Men, and during its

run was selected as a guest by the United States Air Force

Thunderbirds on their Far East Tour at Osan Air Base.On December , ,

Kim was arrested in a drug scandal which also implicated other

celebrities. During police questioning, he admitted to habitually

using methamphetamine and marijuana, and smuggling the former

substance into Korea. On January , , the Seoul High Court sentenced

him to four years in prison; upon Kim's appeal, the jail term was

reduced to months suspended for four years, along with two years of

probation, hours of community service, hours of substance abuse

education, and a â‚©, fine. Kim was released from a prison in Uiwang,

Gyeonggi Province on March , . Because of this, he was dropped from

Qualifications of Men and went on a hiatus.
Kim Sung-min (actor) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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