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Lee Sung-min ( have a bun in the oven January 1, 1986 ), [ 1 ] known mononymously as Sungmin and besides LIU, [ 2 ] is a south korean singer, song-writer and actor. He is a member of the south korean boy band Super Junior and its sub-groups Super Junior-T, Super Junior-H and Super Junior-M .

biography [edit ]

Sungmin was born in the Ilsan district of Goyang, Gyeonggi. He has a younger buddy, Lee Sung-jin. Sungmin ‘s beget Lee Chun-hwa, is the CEO of two companies : SendBill, which creates e-tax software, and Network Mania, an analytics company. [ citation needed ] In 2001, he entered the SM Youth Best Contest and jointly won beginning position for the Best Outward Appearance award with future bandmate Donghae. together, they signed a contract with SM Entertainment and received discipline in scorch, dancing, and acting. [ 3 ]

Music career [edit ]

Sungmin was placed in a project R & B group with Junsu and future bandmate Eunhyuk. In 2002, along with Typhoon, Rose and Attack, the six of them made their first television appearance in a picture called Heejun vs. Kangta, Battle of the Century: Pop vs. Rock. Moon Hee-jun teach Typhoon, Rose and Attack on to sing rock while Sungmin, Xiah, and Eunhyuk were taught other singing techniques by Kangta. The six trainees separated a year late, then Typhoon, Rose, and Attack debuted as members of rock band TRAX. The trio separated when Junsu went on to debut as a extremity of TVXQ. [ 3 ] then Sungmin and Eunhyuk joined ten other trainees to form Super Junior 05, the first generation of rotational male child isthmus Super Junior. In 2005, he played young Kang Dong-shin in MBC play Sisters of the Sea. [ citation needed ]

2005–2009 : debut, acting debut and sub-groups [edit ]

Sungmin debuted as part of 12-member rotational group Super Junior 05 on 6 November 2005, on SBS ‘ music broadcast Inkigayo, performing their first single, “ Twins ( Knock Out ) “. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Their debut album SuperJunior05 (Twins) was released a calendar month later on December 5, 2005 and debuted at issue three on the monthly MIAK K-pop album charts. [ 6 ] In March 2006, SM Entertainment began to recruit fresh members for the future Super Junior generation. however, plans changed and the company declared a stop in forming future Super Junior generations. Following the addition of thirteenth member Kyuhyun, the group dropped the suffix “ 05 ” and became formally credited as Super Junior. [ 7 ] The re-polished group ‘s first compact disk single “ U “ was released on 7 June 2006, which was their most successful individual until the passing of “ Sorry, Sorry “ in March 2009. [ 8 ] Sungmin guest starred in SBS ‘ Banjun Theatre play Finding Lost Time and played Yoochun ‘s eminent school acquaintance. In February 2007, Sungmin was placed in sub-group trot -singing Super Junior-T. [ 9 ] In July, Sungmin participated with fellow Super Junior members in Attack on the Pin-Up Boys, a SM Pictures output. He played the role of a pretty school male child attacked by an unknown criminal. [ 10 ] He replaced bandmate Kangin as one of the DJs at Reckless Radio, with Girls ‘ Generation members from June 2007 to July 2008. In 2008, he became a member of sub-group Super Junior-H and participated in a shortstop half-hour drama Super Junior Unbelievable Story with Leeteuk. Sungmin played himself, a penis of Super Junior-T, who is constantly overshadowed by his members. In 2009, he starred as male lead, Ro, in musical Akilla at the Hanjeon Art Center in Seoul from October 9 to November 8. [ 11 ]

2010–2012 : disk jockey, musical dramaturgy, and comeback with Super Junior [edit ]

In 2010, Sungmin starred in the title character of musical Hong Gil Dong, aboard group mate Yesung who besides played the diachronic trope Hong Gildong. The musical race at the Woori Financial Art Hall at the Olympic Park from February 18, 2010 for two months. [ 12 ] In October, Sungmin was one of 20 south korean singers selected to record the theme song, “ Let ‘s Go ”, for the 2010 G-20 Seoul peak. He provided vocals along with labelmates Seohyun, Jonghyun and Luna. [ 13 ] In December, he starred in KBS drama The President as Jang Sungmin, the ambitious son of Jang Il Joon the president of the united states. [ 14 ] In January 2011, he was placed in Mandopop sub-group Super Junior-M, as one of two new members along with Eunhyuk. They spent the next few months promoting their third EP Perfection in Taiwan and China. In July and August, Sungmin performed as the male head Daniel, rotating with Ahn Jae-wook, Um Ki-joon, and Lee Ji-hoon, in the musical Jack the Ripper at Chungmu Arts Hall. [ 15 ] In 2012, Sungmin took part in We Got Married ‘s by-product program with Sistar ‘s Hyorin called “ pit-a-pat Shake ” to publicize as a Lunar Year especial. [ 16 ] Sungmin along with bandmate Ryeowook, took over Super Junior’s Kiss the Radio, when former DJs Leeteuk and Eunhyuk left due to their busy schedules. On 29 March 2012, Sungmin released his inaugural solo digital single, “ Oh Wa ”, the ending subject song for KBS situation comedy, We Need a Fairy. [ 17 ] In September and October 2012, Sungmin reprised his function of Daniel, with Ahn Jae-wook, in the korean melodious Jack the Ripper and held its japanese tour at Aoyama Theater in Tokyo, Japan. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] The musical was well-received and, due to its popularity, it was brought back to Japan for another rivulet at the Kanagawa Arts Theatre in Yokohama the pursuit year. japanese media noted that the affect of the Hallyu Wave in general and specifically the draw of Sungmin helped build popularity for the prove in 2012. [ 20 ] 2012 was considered a successful class of musicals for Sungmin due to his performance in Jack the Ripper musical, he was ranked by OBS ’ second Unique Entertainment News as the second most herculean musical idol of the year, after Kim Junsu, based on the total of tickets sold. [ 21 ] In June 2012, Sungmin reunited with his Super Junior bandmates for their sixth studio apartment album, Sexy, Free & Single released on July 4. On June 25, his teaser photograph was released showing a side-profile of Sungmin with a feminine look and long blond hair holding a big bouquet of baby ’ s breath flowers. [ 22 ]

2013–2015 : success in acting and far activities [edit ]

Sungmin in 2014 On January 7, 2013, Super Junior-M released their second album, Break Down, along with the music video for the tip single of the same appoint. A press league took stead in Beijing on January 7, and they would promote the album in China. [ 23 ]

On February 14, 2013 Super Junior ‘s one-fifth World go : Super Show 5 was announced, [ 24 ] along with eight active members, excluding Yesung from SS5 Seoul ‘s last date, and Heechul made comeback in SS5 Manilla [ 25 ] Sungmin participated in all Super Shows from March 23, 2013 to February 22, 2014. [ 26 ] On December 14, 2013 it was announced that Sungmin would be participating in his new Musical “ The Three Musketeers ” [ 27 ] after group extremity Kyuhyun ‘s survive appearance. He worked along with tag mate Key from Shinee as the lapp character d’Artagnan. The first showings of The Three Musketeers ended on January 25, 2013 and returned in March 2014. Sungmin continued participating in musicals, with a comeback in Summer Snow which was held in Taiwan for three straight days. Sungmin held a iron league on the same day as his Summer Snow Musical, which was on January 16, 2014. [ 28 ] After one year and three months since their second album Break Down, Super Junior-M released their one-third EP, Swing [ 29 ] in China on March 21. previously on March 18, 2014 Super Junior-M had unveiled the teaser image for the EP.
Sungmin returned to another show of The Three Musketeers Musical precisely ahead rejoinder promotions for Swing, which started on March 14 and ended on March 19. [ 30 ] In February 2014, Sungmin applied to enlist as a Seoul Metropolitan Police, which would make him enlist in August 2014 [ 31 ] but he postponed his enlistment date due to his musicals and seventh album rejoinder plans. [ 32 ] On July 1, 2014, it was announced that Sungmin would be acting as the main quality in Vampire musical as Dracula. Due to former label-mate Junsu ‘s musical Dracula, [ 33 ] the musical claim Dracula was renamed to VAMPIRE, as the two musicals were under the same management, but with unlike plots and casts. [ 34 ] On August 5, 2014, Super Junior World Tour Super Show 6 was announced to be held in Seoul on September 21, 2014, as its common starting enlistment in Seoul. [ 35 ] Sungmin returned on the musical stage on August 10, 2014, and returned with a rejoinder as a Super Junior member between Aug–Oct 2014 with their seventh album Mamacita. Before beginning his compulsory military serve on March 31, 2015, he continued to perform in Super Show 6 until the tour ‘s end in Macau in early March .

2017–present : Continued solo activities and alone introduction [edit ]

After completing his military service and getting discharged at the end of 2016, Sungmin resumed his musical solo activities. In January 2017, it was announced that he had been cast in the musical Boys Over Flowers for his first base rejoinder melodious function. The musical was scheduled for showing from February 25 to May 7. [ 36 ] In March 2018, Sungmin released a solo ballad “ Day Dream ” as the 47th cut of ‘SM Station ‘ project ; this was his first solo track since 2012 with the passing of “ Oh Wa ” as an original soundtrack for the korean drama “ I Need a Fairy. ” [ 37 ] In January 2018, Lee Sungmin started his own YouTube distribution channel [ 38 ] under the SM pronounce, and by February 2018 he took on the name Liu and named his channel Liu Studio. [ 2 ] He does a kind of shows, from answering letters sent in by fans to advertising unlike products he discovers, vlogs, video games and composing music. In March 2018, he introduced his newfangled composed group along with his friend Haeun called “ MilkyWave ”. They have collaborated on several songs together : Toward the Moon, You are You, Seu~Reu~Reu ( Zzz ), and Make the Earth Move. [ 39 ] In November 2019, Sungmin made his debut with his inaugural mini-album, Orgel, meaning “ music box ”. The album and entitle song music video recording were released on November 22. All five tracks on the album were acoustic tracks. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] [ 42 ] The mini ranked # 1 in iTunes acme album chart in 11 countries. [ 43 ] In January 2020, Sungmin was featured in the title digital singer “ As it is ” released by Korean composer Lee Haeun, a sung which he besides took region in writing and write. [ 43 ] On September 7, 2021, Sungmin released the digital single “ Goodnight, Summer ”. [ 44 ]

personal liveliness [edit ]

Dating and marriage [edit ]

On September 24, 2014, Sungmin confirmed that he was dating actress Kim Sa-eun. [ 45 ] They got married on December 13, 2014 in a private marry. [ 46 ]

compulsory military service [edit ]

On March 31, 2015, Sungmin enlisted for his mandate military service. [ 47 ] He was discharged from his military duty on December 30, 2016 after serving 21 months of active duty at the 17th division in Incheon. [ 48 ]

discography [edit ]

Extended plays [edit ]

soundtrack and singles contributions [edit ]

Year Album Track Artist
2007 Student’s Cheer Song “Power” Sungmin
2008 ROCK&GO “For Tomorrow” Sungmin, Moeyan
Sanggeunie’s Hope Album “Now We Go to Meet” Yesung, Sungmin
2009 The Royal Musical OST “I Akilla You” Sungmin
2010 The President OST “Biting My Lips” Sungmin, Ryeowook, Kyuhyun
2010 G-20 Seoul summit Theme Song “Let’s Go” Sungmin, Group of 20 (G20 summit artists)
2012 We Need a Fairy OST “Oh Wa” Sungmin
2018 SM Station Season 2 “Day Dream” Sungmin

Filmography [edit ]

film [edit ]

television receiver play [edit ]

television shows [edit ]

Year Title Network
2005-06 Hello Chat Mnet
2006 Show Music Tank KMTV
2009 Oppa Band MBC
2011 Celebrity Leading the Way Dongfeng TV
2021 Taste of Wife TV Chosun

server [edit ]

Year Title
2013 7th Daegu International Musical Festival

Musical theater [edit ]

Year Title Role
2009 Royal Musical Akilla Ro
2010 Hong Gildong Hong Gildong
2011-2013 Jack the Ripper Daniel
2013-2014 Summer Snow Jinha
The Three Musketeers D’Artagnan
2014 Vampire Drácula
2017 Boys Over Flowers Hanazawa Rui
2018-2019 At The Age Of 30 Hyonshiku

radio shows [edit ]

Year Name
2007-2008 Chunji Reckless Radio (천방지축 라디오)
2011–2013 Super Junior Kiss the Radio (Sukira)

Awards [edit ]

References [edit ]