Kim Seo-yeong

Kim Seo-yeong (Korean: 김서영; born January 19, 1977) is a South Korean voice artist who started her career in 1999 at Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation, as in-house voice artist. After three years, she became freelance and made remarkable presence in South Korean entertainment district with her outstanding voice acting skills.

For the South Korean swimmer, see Kim Seo-yeong (swimmer).
This is a Korean name; the family name is Kim.

Remaining as the best voice artist in South Korea for over 20 years, she has dubbed countless main characters in mainstream animation and movies. Especially, her presence in high quality TV commercials as voice-over narrator is remarked irreplaceable. Her unique voice performs such wide range of characters, it makes almost hard to believe it's coming from one person. She is much admired among South Korean voice artists as their role model, her voice tone and acting style sets a trend and is popularly copied by many in South Korean voice acting community.

Career

TV commercial voice-over

"Genius Seo-young" is what South Korean commercial community refers her to. Creative improvisation and outstanding acting skill make her irreplaceable within the field. Many producers in the field evaluate her performance as ever-growing as her career goes. Seo-young not only manages to act various voice tones within single piece of work but also has high voice imitation skills which many producers applaud for its conveniences. Below is an example piece of work (link to reference video) where first line is acted by Kim Seo-yeong, imitating the original actress (Bae Doona)' voice and second line is acted by the original actress, Bae Doona.

She also is capable of acting in English. Below is example piece of work (link to reference video):

Seo-young performs over 1,000 TV commercials annually and over 10,000 pieces of work have been broadcast so far.

Awards

Portfolio

Dubbing

Film

(2017) Beauty and the Beast - Belle (Emma Watson)

(2017) The Emoji Movie - Jailbreak

(2017) Smurfs: The Lost Village - Smurfette

(2017) Despicable Me 3 - Agnes

(2014) How to Train Your Dragon 2 - Astrid

(2013) Despicable Me 2 - Agnes

(2010) Despicable Me - Agnes

(2010) How to Train Your Dragon - Astrid

(2008) WALL-E - Eve

(2006) Hula Girls - Sanae by Yū Aoi

(2004) Crying Out Love, in the Centre of the World - Aki Hirose by Masami Nagasawa

(2002) The Bourne Identity - Marie Kreutz by Franka Potente

(2002) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Ronald Weasley by Rupert Grint

(2001) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Ronald Weasley by Rupert Grint

(2001) Lord of the Rings - Eowyn by Miranda Otto

(2001) Shallow Hal - Rosemary by Gwyneth Paltrow

(2000) Charlie's Angels - Alex Munday by Lucy Liu

(1993) The Heroic Trio - Chat by Maggie Cheung

TV series

(China) Legend of Lu Zhen - Lu Zhen by Zhao Liying

(USA) Prison Break - Maricruz Delgado by Camille Guaty

(USA) CSI: NY Season 4, 5 - Detective Jessica Angell by Emmanuelle Vaugier

(USA) 24 - Kimberly Bauer by Elisha Cuthbert

(USA) Smallville - Chloe Sullivan by Allison Mack

Animation

(Japan) Doraemon - Doraemon

(Japan) Bonobono - Bonobono

(Japan) Dr. Slump - Arale

(Japan) PriPara - Falulu, Jururu, Unicorn

(Japan) The Boy and The Beast - Kyuta

(Japan) Your Lie in April - Tsubaki

(Japan) Haikyu!! Talent and Sense - Hitoka Yachi

(Japan) Haikyu!! Concept no Tatakai - Hitoka Yachi

(Japan) Junji Ito Collection - Tomie

(Japan) Kaleido Star - Sora Naegino

(Japan) Sgt. Frog Keroro - Seol-hwa Kwon

Voice-over

PSA

COSMETICS

ELECTRONICS / MOBILE

FOOD / BEVERAGE

LIVING NECESSITIES

Game character

Electronic Device
  • BMW Navigation
  • LG cell phone

Discography

Animation OST

Filmography

(2015) MBC Infinite Challenge : Ep.447 The film of the Weekend - Begin Again dubbing for Violet

(2011) MBC News Desk : Ep.Voice Masters - introduced as master of baby voice

On-Stage

Concert MC

(2017) ‘November Rain’ - The November love story telling by genius voice artist Seo-young Kim (Collaboration of Japanese animation with Jazz)

(2017) ‘Classic detox concert with voice artist Seo-young Kim’ MC

(2017) ‘Orchestra story telling with Musical actor Kai and MBC voice artist Seo-young Kim ’ MC : Seo-san, Ul-san, Ga-pyeong, Busan National Tour

Theater

(2001) Eugène Ionesco ‘The lesson’ - Main student

See also
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