Um Ki-joon

Um Ki-joon
Um Ki-joon
	Um Ki-joon in 2018.
Born	March 23, 1976; Seoul, South Korea
Education	Seoul Artspool Conservatory - Musical Acting
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1995-present
Agent	SidusHQ[1][2]
Korean name
Hangul	엄기준
Hanja	嚴基俊
Revised Romanization	Eom Gi-jun
McCune–Reischauer	Ŏm Ki-chun
Website	www.umkijoon.com

Um Ki-joon (Korean: 엄기준; born March 23, 1976) is a South Korean actor.

Career

Um Ki-joon made his acting debut in 1995 in the stage play Richard III, though he later became best known as a musical theatre actor, starring in Singin' in the Rain,[3] The Sorrows of Young Werther,[4] Grease, The Three Musketeers,[5] Jack the Ripper,[6] The Count of Monte Cristo,[7][8] Catch Me If You Can,[9][10][11] and Rebecca. He also appeared in the Patrick Marber play Closer.[12][13]

Um's popularity increased after he began playing supporting roles in television dramas such as Life Special Investigation Team, Worlds Within, Hero,[14] Dream High,[15] Scent of a Woman and Phantom.[16][17] He was also the leading actor in Good Job, Good Job and The Virus.[18]

Um played the villain in his first film Man of Vendetta, opposite Kim Myung-min.[19] This was followed by a role as Lee Ki-cheol, a detective investigating serial murders in horror film Killer Toon, opposite Lee Si-young.[20]

Most recently, Um is known for playing the villain in the hit legal thriller Innocent Defendant.[21] He is set to reunite the director and writer of Innocent Defendant in upcoming medical drama Heart Surgeons.[22]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
2010	Man of Vendetta	Choi Byeong-chul
	Villain and Widow	Representative Ha (cameo)
	Finding Mr. Destiny	Kim Jong-wook (cameo)
2013	Killer Toon	Lee Ki-cheol

Television series

Year	Title	Role	Network
2006	Drama City "Who Loved Her?"	Park Cheol-ho	KBS2
2007	Drama City "Grim Reaper with Amnesia"	Dong-wook	KBS2
2007	Kimchi Cheese Smile	Um Ki-joon	MBC
2008	Drama City "Secret, Only You Don't Know"	Park Hyeong-joo	KBS2
	Life Special Investigation Team	Park Chan-ho	MBC
	Worlds Within	Song Gyu-ho	KBS2
2009	Good Job, Good Job	Choi Seung-hyun	MBC
2009	Hero	Kang Hye-sung	MBC
2011	Dream High	Kang Oh-hyuk	KBS2
	Miss Ripley	Prosecutor (cameo, episode 14)	MBC
	Scent of a Woman	Chae Eun-suk	SBS
	Can't Lose	Cha Seok-hoon (guest, episodes 14-17)	MBC
2012	Phantom	Jo Hyun-min	SBS
2013	The Virus	Lee Myung-hyun	OCN
2013	I Can Hear Your Voice	Public defender Um Ki-joon (cameo, episode 14)	SBS
2014	Golden Cross	Michael Jang	KBS2
2015	The Man in the Mask	Kang Hyun-woong	KBS2
2016	Nightmare Teacher	Han Bong-gu	Naver TV Cast
2017	Innocent Defendant	Cha Sun-ho / Cha Min-ho	SBS
2017	I'm Not a Robot[23]	Hong Baek-kyun	MBC
2018	Heart Surgeons	Choi Suk-han	SBS

Music video

Year	Song Title	Artist
2007	"Goodbye, 20 Years Old"	Toy
2007	"Three People"	Lee Ki-chan
2015	"April Snow"	Huh Gak

Theater

Year	Title	Role
1995	Richard III
1996	Oliver!
1998	Gwanggaeto the Great
1999	Tripitaka Koreana
1999	Jang Bogo, the Sea God
2000	Oh! Happy Day
2001	Singin' in the Rain	Don Lockwood
2002	The Sorrows of Young Werther	Werther
	Songshan Nights	Kim Hyun
	Carmen	Escamillo
2003	Grease	Danny Zuko
2003-2004	The Sorrows of Young Werther	Werther
2004	Men's Impulses	Yoo-jung
	Singin' in the Rain	Don Lockwood
	Anakji Love Story
2005	Assassins	John Wilkes Booth
2005	Grease	Danny Zuko
2005-2006	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	Hedwig
2005	Love Diary
2006-2007	Singin' in the Rain	Dong-hyun
2006	The Sorrows of Young Werther	Werther
	Le Passe-Muraille	Dusoleil
	Finding Kim Jong-wook	Man/Kim Jong-wook
	Grease	Danny Zuko
	Passion of the Rain
2007	A Day	Han Min-ho
2007	Hedwig Concert Together with John Cameron Mitchell[24]
2007-2008	Mad Kiss	Jang Jung
2007-2008	Separated Man and Woman	Kang Yeon-oh
2009	The Lower Depths	Satine
2009	The Three Musketeers	D'Artagnan
2009-2010	Jack the Ripper	Daniel
2010	The Count of Monte Cristo	Edmond Dantès
	Jack the Ripper	Daniel
	Closer	Dan
2010-2011	The Three Musketeers	D'Artagnan
2011	The Count of Monte Cristo	Edmond Dantès
	Jack the Ripper	Daniel
	The Three Musketeers	D'Artagnan
2012	Catch Me If You Can	Frank Abagnale Jr.
2012	Jack the Ripper	Daniel
2012-2013	Catch Me If You Can	Frank Abagnale Jr.
2013	The Three Musketeers	D'Artagnan
	The Count of Monte Cristo	Edmond Dantès
	Jack the Ripper	Daniel
	Bonnie & Clyde	Clyde Barrow
2013-2014	The Sorrows of Young Werther	Werther
2013-2014	The Three Musketeers	D'Artagnan
2014	Bonnie & Clyde	Clyde Barrow
2014-2015	Rebecca	Maxim de Winter
2015	Robin Hood[25]	Robin Hood
2015	Cinderella[26]	Prince Christopher
2015-2016	Werther	Werther
2016	Rebecca	Maxim de Winter
	Mata Hari	Armand
	Jack the Ripper	Daniel
2016-2017	The Count of Monte Cristo	Edmond Dantès
2017	Mata Hari[27]	Armand
2017	Rebecca	Maxim de Winter
2018	The Three Musketeers	D'Artagnan
2018-2019	The Days	Cha Jung-hak
2019	Jack the Ripper	Daniel
	Artus-Excalibur	Lancelot
	Dracula	Dracula
2019-2020	Rebecca	Maxim de Winter

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result
2007	MBC Entertainment Awards	Excellence Award, Actor in a Sitcom/Comedy	Kimchi Cheese Smile	Won
2008	KBS Drama Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Worlds Within	Won
2009	45th Baeksang Arts Awards	Best New Actor (TV)	Worlds Within	Nominated
2010	47th Grand Bell Awards	Best New Actor	Man of Vendetta	Nominated
2010	8th Korean Film Awards	Best New Actor		Nominated
2011	8th Max Movie Awards	Best New Actor		Nominated
	47th Baeksang Arts Awards	Best New Actor (Film)		Nominated
	15th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival	It Star Award[28]	N/A	Won
	4th Korea Drama Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Dream High, Scent of a Woman	Nominated
	SBS Drama Awards	Excellence Award, Actor in a Weekend Drama	Scent of a Woman[29]	Won
2012	SBS Drama Awards	Excellence Award, Actor in a Drama Special	Phantom	Nominated
2012	SBS Drama Awards	Netizen Popularity Award	Phantom	Nominated
2017	MBC Drama Awards	Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Miniseries	I'm Not a Robot	Nominated
	SBS Drama Awards	Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Monday–Tuesday Drama	Innocent Defendant	Nominated
	SBS Drama Awards	Character of the Year	Innocent Defendant	Won
2018	SBS Drama Awards[30]	Excellence Award, Actor in a Wednesday-Thursday Drama	Heart Surgeons	Nominated
2018	SBS Drama Awards[30]	Producer Award	Heart Surgeons	Won

References

"[공식입장]엄기준, 싸이더스HQ와 재계약 체결…'12년 인연' 이어간다". The Chosun Ilbo (in Korean). October 8, 2018.
"엄기준, 싸이더스HQ와 재계약...12년 인연 계속". JoongAng Ilbo (in Korean). October 8, 2018.
Lee, Eun-joo (30 July 2008). "Talk of the town: Poor ticket sales take wind out of festival's sails". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2015-04-30.
Sohn, Ji-ae (6 December 2013). "Werther's heartbreaking story revived on Korean stage". Korea.net. Retrieved 2015-04-30.
Kwon, Mee-yoo (19 December 2010). "The Three Musketeers defends justice, friendship". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
Park, Min-young (11 July 2011). "Musical fans get star-studded bonanza". The Korea Herald. Retrieved 2013-01-15.
Chung, Ah-young (10 February 2010). "Star-Studded Cast Shine in Monte Cristo". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
Jang, Kyung-jin (22 April 2010). "PREVIEW: Musical Monte Cristo". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
Sunwoo, Carla (2 February 2012). "Three join Catch Me if You Can". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2013-01-15.
Kwaak, Je-yup (27 March 2012). "Hallyu star Kim leads in new musical". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
Hong, Lucia (30 January 2012). "SM Entertainment artists cast in musical Catch Me If You Can". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
Chung, Ah-young (13 July 2010). "Um, Moon to perform in Closer". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
Jang, Kyung-jin (21 July 2010). "Moon Geun-young says "trying to be less friendly"". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
Yoon, Hee-seong (28 October 2009). "PREVIEW: MBC TV series Hero". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
Kwon, Mee-yoo (28 December 2010). "Yonsama-JYP soap to reignite hallyu". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
Park, So-jung (1 June 2011). "Kim Suna, Lee Dong-wook and Um Ki-joon cast in new drama". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
"Uhm Ki-joon in "Ghost - Drama"". Hancinema. 21 March 2012.
"Uhm Ki-joon stars in "The Virus"". Hancinema. 14 January 2013.
Jang, Kyung-jin (25 June 2010). "INTERVIEW: Um Ki-joon Man of Vendetta". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
"Webtoon spooks movie audiences". The Korea Herald. 19 June 2013.
"'Defendant' shows there's more to K-dramas than time-slip fantasies". Yonhap News Agency. 22 March 2017.
"Uhm Ki-joon Joins "Cardiothoracic Surgery" as Complex Villain". Hancinema. 29 June 2018.
"Uhm Ki-joon turns into genius robotics professor for "I'm Not a Robot"". Hancinema. 15 September 2017.
"Hedwig". The Dong-a Ilbo. 24 May 2007. Retrieved 2015-04-30.
Yim, Seung-hye (10 February 2015). "Robin Hood the musical strikes familiar chord". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2015-04-30.
"[Herald Review] 'Cinderella' musical enchanting, comical". The Korea Herald. 29 September 2015.
"[Herald Review] Music, lust, betrayal swirls around female spy in 'Mata Hari'". The Korea Herald. 29 June 2017.
Hong, Lucia (13 July 2011). "Park Hae-il, Soo-ae, Choi Daniel, Sin Se-gyeong to win awards at PiFan". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
Kim, Jessica (2 January 2012). "Han Suk-kyu reclaims glory at SBS Drama Awards". 10Asia. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
Lee, Jihyun (January 1, 2019). [SBS 연기대상] 감우성·김선아, 공동 대상..베스트 커플상까지(종합) [[SBS Drama Awards] Gam Woo-sung, Kim Sun-ah, co- grand prize.. Best Couple Award (Comprehensive)]. News1 (in Korean). Archived from the original on December 31, 2018. Retrieved June 26, 2020.

External links

Official website (in Korean)
엄기준 (Um Ki-joon) on Cyworld (jekyll666) (in Korean)
Um Ki-joon at SidusHQ (in Korean)
Um Ki-joon at HanCinema
Um Ki-joon at the Korean Movie Database
Um Ki-joon on IMDb

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[1] "[공식입장]엄기준, 싸이더스HQ와 재계약 체결…'12년 인연' 이어간다". The Chosun Ilbo (in Korean). October 8, 2018.

[2] "엄기준, 싸이더스HQ와 재계약...12년 인연 계속". JoongAng Ilbo (in Korean). October 8, 2018.

[3] Lee, Eun-joo (30 July 2008). "Talk of the town: Poor ticket sales take wind out of festival's sails". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2015-04-30.

[4] Sohn, Ji-ae (6 December 2013). "Werther's heartbreaking story revived on Korean stage". Korea.net. Retrieved 2015-04-30.

[5] Kwon, Mee-yoo (19 December 2010). "The Three Musketeers defends justice, friendship". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2012-11-18.

[6] Park, Min-young (11 July 2011). "Musical fans get star-studded bonanza". The Korea Herald. Retrieved 2013-01-15.

[7] Chung, Ah-young (10 February 2010). "Star-Studded Cast Shine in Monte Cristo". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2012-11-18.

[8] Jang, Kyung-jin (22 April 2010). "PREVIEW: Musical Monte Cristo". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-11-18.

[9] Sunwoo, Carla (2 February 2012). "Three join Catch Me if You Can". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2013-01-15.

[10] Kwaak, Je-yup (27 March 2012). "Hallyu star Kim leads in new musical". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2012-11-18.

[11] Hong, Lucia (30 January 2012). "SM Entertainment artists cast in musical Catch Me If You Can". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-11-18.

[12] Chung, Ah-young (13 July 2010). "Um, Moon to perform in Closer". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2012-11-18.

[13] Jang, Kyung-jin (21 July 2010). "Moon Geun-young says "trying to be less friendly"". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-11-18.

[14] Yoon, Hee-seong (28 October 2009). "PREVIEW: MBC TV series Hero". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-11-18.

[15] Kwon, Mee-yoo (28 December 2010). "Yonsama-JYP soap to reignite hallyu". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2012-11-18.

[16] Park, So-jung (1 June 2011). "Kim Suna, Lee Dong-wook and Um Ki-joon cast in new drama". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-12-01.

[17] "Uhm Ki-joon in "Ghost - Drama"". Hancinema. 21 March 2012.

[18] "Uhm Ki-joon stars in "The Virus"". Hancinema. 14 January 2013.

[19] Jang, Kyung-jin (25 June 2010). "INTERVIEW: Um Ki-joon Man of Vendetta". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-11-18.

[20] "Webtoon spooks movie audiences". The Korea Herald. 19 June 2013.

[21] "'Defendant' shows there's more to K-dramas than time-slip fantasies". Yonhap News Agency. 22 March 2017.

[22] "Uhm Ki-joon Joins "Cardiothoracic Surgery" as Complex Villain". Hancinema. 29 June 2018.

[23] "Uhm Ki-joon turns into genius robotics professor for "I'm Not a Robot"". Hancinema. 15 September 2017.

[24] "Hedwig". The Dong-a Ilbo. 24 May 2007. Retrieved 2015-04-30.

[25] Yim, Seung-hye (10 February 2015). "Robin Hood the musical strikes familiar chord". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2015-04-30.

[26] "[Herald Review] 'Cinderella' musical enchanting, comical". The Korea Herald. 29 September 2015.

[27] "[Herald Review] Music, lust, betrayal swirls around female spy in 'Mata Hari'". The Korea Herald. 29 June 2017.

[28] Hong, Lucia (13 July 2011). "Park Hae-il, Soo-ae, Choi Daniel, Sin Se-gyeong to win awards at PiFan". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-11-18.

[29] Kim, Jessica (2 January 2012). "Han Suk-kyu reclaims glory at SBS Drama Awards". 10Asia. Retrieved 2014-01-31.

[30] Lee, Jihyun (January 1, 2019). [SBS 연기대상] 감우성·김선아, 공동 대상..베스트 커플상까지(종합) [[SBS Drama Awards] Gam Woo-sung, Kim Sun-ah, co- grand prize.. Best Couple Award (Comprehensive)]. News1 (in Korean). Archived from the original on December 31, 2018. Retrieved June 26, 2020.