5 things to know about K-drama actor Hyun Bin, star of Crash Landing on You

South Korean actor Hyun Bin has been busy. He’s been working out and sunbathing to toughen up his image for his Crash Landing on You character, Ri Jung-hyuk (confiding in co-star Son Ye-jin that he knows he looks handsome in his military uniform), and all that hard work has evidently been paying off: he’s has been making fans’ hearts flutter every Saturday and Sunday when his popular tvN drama airs.

Here are five interesting facts about lead star Hyun Bin.

He is an introvert

The Korea Times describes him as “an actor of a few words”, who prefers to shy away from the limelight. Hyun Bin told KBS World that unlike Secret Garden’s Joo-won, his real-life personality is closer to his The Late Autumn character, Hoon. “I am more like Hoon because he keeps his thoughts inside and expresses his feelings in different ways.”

He almost joined a rock band 

Rock ballad band Buzz have revealed that Hyun Bin almost became their lead vocalist. Band vocalist Min Kyung-hoon joked on an SBS PowerFM show that the reason Hyun Bin was dropped from the band was: “because it’s only my singing style that fits Buzz’s songs”.

He recharged while in the military

At the height of his acting career, Hyun Bin enlisted in the military, and joined the Marine Corps. Less than a month before starting his national service, Hyun Bin told KBS World: “In my twenties, I spent most of time analysing the works and characters that I had to play, but I want to concentrate on only myself for the next two years and I want to find my own world, the world of the human being named Kim Tae-pyung,” referring to his real name.