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He is best known from leading roles in period drama Portrait of a Beauty ; adventure film The Pirates ; disaster blockbuster Pandora ; crime thriller Memoir of a Murderer and the crime-comedy television drama The Fiery Priest His breakthrough role was Bidam in the hit television period drama Queen Seondeok Kim is also the founder and CEO of a non-profit organization Gilstory that focuses on preserving cultural heritage, promoting arts and raising special purpose relief funds.

Kim is known for his versatility as an actor and for often balancing projects with commercial value and roles that are artistic in nature.

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He was placed 17th in the top 40 most powerful stars in Korea by Forbes. Kim began his acting career on television with a minor role in the KBS youth drama School 1. In , Kim was cast as one of the supporting characters in the historical drama Queen Seondeok , in a role that would soon change his life. The writers rewrote the script to respond to Bidam's popularity with the viewing audience, giving the character more screen time and emphasizing his romance with the titular Seondeok despite the incredible historical inaccuracy , until there were two main male leads in the series.

He won several awards for his performance, gained more local and international fans, [ 15 ] [ 16 ] received advertisement offers, and was flooded with film and TV scripts. In he played an antihero lead role in Bad Guy , a dark melodrama about revenge, ambition, and fatal love.

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He received four weeks of basic training at Nonsan , and served for two years as a public service worker. In he starred in the time-slip medical drama Live Up to Your Name. In , Kim returned to the small screen with the SBS drama Through the Darkness as a criminal behavior analyst , which was his return to terrestrial television in three years, [ 31 ] excluding Kim as a special appearance in the drama, SBS's One the Woman in which he appeared to support one of his previous co-star Lee Ha-nee.

Kim debuted on the big-screen in gangster movie Low life. In , he made the bold decision to portray a homosexual character in the controversial queer indie No Regret in a role which included several gay sex scenes. Upon the influence of the film's director Kang Woo-suk but against the advice of his agent and manager [ 4 ] , Kim stopped using the stage name Lee Han and reverted to his birth name.