True that he melts into every character he plays, even the dark ones... except when the killer dimples show up and ruin everything!

Well besides looks, I guess he was with a very good agency to reach peak stardom very early. My name is Kim Sam Soon is the show well deserving to be called a classic because it still holds up well minus the dated cinematography. And now I want good rom coms like this again.

So, he is our Chaebol king! I see he likes a lot to play Chaebols! But he is good not that I have seen him doing anything else.

Kim sam soon is one of all time fav dramas but thats because of Kim Sun Ah, I don't remember any thing about Hyun Bin there.

And Secret garden was all about the tracksuits, I think the only drama where the tracksuits become more audacious is Drinking Solo!

gotta agree. whatever i have seen him in, he is good..
but again he is mostly always playing a rich guy and barring secret garden, an almost playboy :) .. and this cheerful cool high on confidence charming jerk chaebol role kinds suits him

You say Hyunbin, I say Secret Garden! This hit drama will always be the first thing I think of, if anyone mentions him. I will never forget bawling my eyes out when he wrote that farewell letter before driving into that damned storm. 😭😭

I'm impatiently waiting for Memories of the Alhambra to end so I can start on it. I learnt my lesson from live watching W - 2 Worlds, so I promised myself I will never go thru that 2 months of emotional torturous roller coaster ever again in my life. 💪

OMO dramabeans, this post really come at the right time. I've been spending this week by analysing his dimples and planning our first date.
I watched him for the first time in Secret Garden, but that drama is too weird for me so I dropped it early on the second or third episode. Then I tried again with World's Within, actually for Song Hye-kyo, but I couldn't pass it for more than 15 minutes. I also try My Name is Kim Sam-soon, because it's classic, but my eyes couldn't stand the picture quality. Now I have new appreciation for Hyun bin, my eyes might strong enough to endure it.
So far, beside MoTA, I've seen two of his movies Negotiation and Confidential Agreement. I especially love him in Confidential Agreement in which he played a swoony North Korean officer and it gave me idea, why Promotheus PD dont cast him? Please call him PD-nim.

Gosh. Another reason to watch MNIKSS. It’s been on my watch list for the better part of 2 years, since @bbstl recommended it to me when I first started kdramas. (And now, I’m reminded why!) But HB is so enthralling in MOA right now. I’m really just in this one for him.

Hyun Bin will always be my first love because secret garden was my gateway drama.

I loved him so much I watched Snow Queen after...still not over that ending.

*side note* crinkles lol, I love that description of lee won geun 😂

Hyun Bin is wine. In it's initially stages, it is not very good, but as it ages it becomes FINNNNE. I hated my lovely Sam Soon, in fact I hate watched that drama and wanted his character to die. He didn't become hot to me until I saw him in the World's within. He has gotten hotter ever since. His characters have been better too, except in Jekyll Hyde and me (Yikes). Anywho, cheers to aging like fine wine and growing in charm.

He has this charisma about him, and anyone who saw the scene when he trapped himself in the shower in Memories of the Alhambra has to acknowledge that the guy can seriously act.

Absolutely love him :))
And his dimples.
The guys got charisma and oozes charm. And can act. And he is awesome when he fights.

Friend our legend will alwasys be my waiting list since forever... it might be too heavy. So I always on hold. For a heavy drama, I always looking for the right mood to appreciate them. Only watched The first episode in, and Hyun Bin is already on fire.

Okay, so #true confessions, BigTimeDivision. I love Hyun Bin and I have since Kim Sam Soon. I've been carrying around a Hyun Bin tissue holder since 2006 and his name was a password on an account. My nieces know him as "the handsomest man in the world" (whose pictures hang at auntie's house). I've seen nearly everything he's ever appeared in and I know his real name (it's Kim Tae Pyung).

I wish new fans could see The Snow Queen and Worlds Within for a good picture of his early range in dramas, especially for those who think he only plays chaebols. Forget Jekyll, Hyde (for any reason - I'll even say, it's his weakest work). Ugh. If you're looking for dimples, don't see his later films where he's all taciturn and action-y. But hot! See The Fatal Encounter anyway.

Thank you, @missvictrix, for this lovely year-end salute to HB especially to welcome all his well-deserved new fans to the fold. I don't think they can do any better picking an oppa 😍

He's making me swoon each week with his charm and that smile. From now on, Granada is synonymous with Hyun Bin and his dimples.

The first time I saw him, it was in Snow Queen. It was not a chaebol and was already super hot. I loved his looks in this drama! In My Name Is KSS the color of his shirts was awful but the love story was lovely. And the stairs scene is a classic now!
I really liked The World We Live In. The couple was very natural. They dated in the real life so maybe it helped :p
Secret Garden was so funny! All the body swap part was so good.
His last drama was terrible but because of the writting. I'm happy that MoA is better!

Thanks to Alhambra, I rediscovered him. I've been marathoning his older works for the last few weeks, and almost reluctant to watch his movie with Im Soo-jung because that means I'll have no other marathon material anymore. Maybe it's time to pick up his older drama like Friend, Our Legend. (Any opinion about it, beanies? Is it good?)

Hyun Bin has this superior aura around him, I guess that’s why playing the charismatic and arrogant chaebols suits him so much. He’s a strong actor and I’ve never enjoyed watching him more than in Memories of Alhambra.

I googled his childhood and teen photos and now I’m jealous. He’s all natural and it’s so unfair for someone to be born with those cheekbones and dimples.

I have only watched about 6 from his project list. As of now, i personally think the shower scene in MotA is the most memorable showcase of his acting chops. JW was so dejected and emotionally drained, huddled in the corner of his shower room.

Now that i think of it, i see some similarities in his character in The Negotiation and JW in MotA. Maybe the way he portrayed the character is similar, since both of them are from completely different backgrounds.

He’s one of my favorite - but sometimes I struggle because his roles often seem to dismiss women. Esp secret garden when the male lead was borderline stalkerish and couldn’t take no for an answer. Same for MOA where he often tell hee Joo what to do.. this could all be the writing but it’s pretty consistent in his roles so I’m wondering if it’s interpretation (hmmm...) or he can make nasty roles on paper look good. Perhaps it’s both.

I just watched ep9 of MoA and it’s blown my brains. It’s a pity because if they have give the female lead a more active personality I would say this drama is one of the best especially in concept. Why couldn’t the writer do better for girls - esp since she’s a women. I just wonder

Confession: I... hate My Name Is Kim Sam Soon. It's one of my least favourite dramas. *hides*
That's... the only thing I've seen Hyun Bin in before.
However it's not HB I don't like about it, and if there's one thing I'm enjoying about MOA, it's his character and acting.

One word : Dimples

I don't know about other things, but Hyun Bin is really handsome.

I hope he gets reunited and reconcile with Kang Sora and find happiness in his real life besides doing well in his reel life.

MNIKSS is my first K drama! It was totally groundbreaking (at that time) with a plump badass heroine who gets the chaebol hero. Totally different from cryfest classics Winter Sonata and Autumn, which unfortunately has typecasted K dramas as most non K drama viewers still thinks of K dramas as Winter Sonata *roll eyes*. Hyun Bin was good but the heart of the show is Kim Su Nah.
Now, in Secret Garden, Hyun Bin is the star of the show, he is perfect as the childish insecure yet vulnerable hero, and surprisingly good at comedic moments when he swap body into female.
I'm not surprised at all that he is killing it again bin MoA. He is as good as he was in Secret Garden.

While I wait for the next episode of Memories of the Alhambra, I'll watch Secret Garden to get my newly found Hyun Bin fix 😀

Thanks missvictrix!
Now i feel like rewatching MNIKSS while i wait for the next episode of Alhambra!

I have had this hugest crush on this guy since 2009 when I first watched his movie 'A Millionaire's First love' which was my first introduction to kdrama/movies. And now after almost 10 years later, that crush is still going strong.

Even though a serious Hyun Bin (also a villain too which I learned recently) is a treat to the eyes and fun watching on screen my absolute favorite and the one I always adore will be the silly funny comical snooty Binnie. Like the one in Secret Garden. His character was so snooty and arrogant and posh I wanted to kick the hell out of him, but HB played it such a way that you cant help but roll your eyes at him but at the same love him for it. He plays them so well it fits him so prefectly. I would love to see him in more dramas but may be not a chaebol for the time being. May be an unemployed normal country guy with a accent?

And his dimples... I can write poems all day about it. 🦋

I may be a very weird girl, but I watched Kim Sam soon, long time ago per recommendation of a friend and I didn't like it. I only read the secret garden recaps and again I didn't like it, and however I see Hyun Bin in a pic, I don't like him either😂😂😂😂
Don't know why, but I just don't.
But whatever, he doesn't care🤓
Beanies, forgive me. I am not even tempted to read the MoA recaps. But happily there are all kind of oppas to all kind of beanies! 😊

for some reason hyun bin has this 'ahjussi actor' image for me (like so ji seob). maybe because i watched MNIKSS late.. then i read his birth year and damn, he's my age XD *runningfromreality*

OMG, I can't move on from his character in "My Name is Kim Sam-soon", and he fits with Samshik. Even when he plays his newest character, I still have a post Samshik syndrome, LoL. And these days, I was directed to tons of scene of him and KSA in "My Name is Kim Sam-soon", and those videos are really made my day.

To me, his film with Tang Wei in "Late Autumn" has the longest kisses in K/C drama. And their stories really broke my heart.

I might be minor, but I love his film "Come Rain. Come Shine." It's so surreal, but I love how he and Im Soo-jung character revisited their relationship and how the relationship/marriage started to fall down.

Watched his last movie, "Rampant" a month ago. Isn't funny that he's Kim Eui-sung's character - the current Prof. Cha in MoA.

The only other work of his aside from MotA that I ever saw was Secret Garden and I honestly didn't like it that much.. I even cringed during that farewell letter scene (*sorry!*). But I guess it's 'coz I watched the show pretty late, after I've watched Lee Jong Suk crying his heart out in Pinocchio. So yeah. I guess that set a pretty high bar for me. Haha

But man! Hyun Bin in Memories in the Alhambra is another story entirely. I mean, I didn't get the HB craze before but I totally get it now because of this show. How could someone get way more gorgeous than he was a decade ago? Age becomes him truly. MotA is truly a tailor-made project for him. I hope his future projects will be the same, if not better.

One of the biggest problems (among many) with Hyde, Jekyll, Me was that the female lead fell for the wrong version of the male lead and refused to let go. You were left feeling that she only settled for the male lead once he showed some characteristics of the alternative personality that she was really in love with - overall a very unsatisfying ending. The other dramas airing around the same time of Hyde, Jekyll, Me that had male leads with alternative personalities/identities (i.e., Kill Me Heal Me, Healer) were soooo much better, not in small part because the female lead fell in love with the correct version of the male lead.

Fell in love with him on MNiKSS haha so cute. The drama is one of my favorites. So funny and heartbreaking at times.
And SeGa wahhh got me crazy about him.
💞

Waiting for MOA ep9 recap because i am still confused...as always. 😆

I think Hyun Bin is gorgeous but he is not one of my K-drama crush. He is talented but I don't fan-girl over him.
I think he can become a solid leading man in Chungmuro and he is growing as an actor by playing more diverse roles in films than before.

i also found him in my name is kim sam soon and i fell in love with both his acting and his dimples. i am loving every minute of alhambra. it is superbly written and acted.

DIMPLES

I don’t know how I managed to miss ALL is past works but I do think he’s good in MoA. Don’t love his character though. *sobs for sec Seo*

In my previous comment I failed to mention that I do truly adore HB as an actor and for his dimples/ charm/ total hotness.

Am now watching Snow Queen and wanted to say that his character is a complete departure from the chaebol jerk that people think of from SamSoon and Secret Garden. Sounds like Snow Queen was pretty poorly received but I think its bc it was ahead of its time.
HB plays a sensitive, gentle patient kind boxer former math guy totally unlike the character he is known for. All this niceness makes even HB kind of a dull tho handsome boy however...
In any case the setup would probably have done better with today's audience and while I do have some issues with it I would say check it out to get you HB fix on...

I have had a crush on HB recently after watching World within. I find him very handsome and his acting and chemistry with SHK was great. He is really eye-catching when younger and fatter. I am routing MoA because of HB mainly and find myself addicted to the plot, his acting is very convincing. I hope HB can get the top acting award this year for this role. Besides I prefer him a bit fatter which makes him more cute. I think now all K-actors are too thin to make me find them attractive.