Top 10 Most Popular and Handsome Korean Drama Actors

Here’s the list of the top 10 most popular and handsome Korean drama actors, the ones who make our hearts melt from the very first time we look at them! Their talent, appearance, and charisma are out of this world. Here you'll also find recommendations for their best drama performances, so you won't miss out!

Top 10 Most Handsome Korean Actors

10. Seo In-guk

9. Nam Joo-hyuk

8. So Ji-sub

7. Park Bo-gum

6. Kim Soo-hyun

5. Lee Min-ho

4. Ji Chang-wook

3. Song Joong-ki

2. Lee Jong-suk

1. Lee Joon-gi

10. Seo In-guk

Seo In-guk is one of the most beloved K-drama actors in Korea, and it isn’t surprising. He is incredibly handsome, and he has also challenged his talent by playing diverse roles! He shows tremendous range by playing Joseon era royals, young students, and even murderers.

He's not only an incredible actor, but has also launched his singing career! In fact, it was even before his onscreen acting debut. Back in 2009, he became a winner of the first season in the talent show Superstar K.

Seo debuted as an actor with a supporting role in Love Rain, but it was Reply 1997 that was his real breakthrough! Since then, he has acted in various television series. Here are some of his best performances:

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Reply 1997 (2012)

In this series, Seo is a quiet and broody boy, but a great student. As a teenager, he falls in love with a girl he grew up with.

Squad 38 (2016)

Seo is a professional swindler here: he is in the team of bad guys, collecting taxes from tax evaders.

The King's Face (2014)

Finally, we see Seo as royalty. He is starring in this historical K-drama as the crown prince of Joseon who lives through quite difficult times as an illegitimate prince.

The Smile Has Left Your Eyes (aka Hundred Million Stars From the Sky) (2018)

This Korean drama is all about mystery and intrigue. Seo is a free and unpredictable assistant in a craft brewery who turns out to be the main suspect in a woman’s suicide.

9. Nam Joo-hyuk

You simply can’t resist the gaze of Nam Joo-hyuk! It melts everyone’s heart! He started as a model, and made a big break in acting soon after! It was Who Are You: School 2015 that became his breakthrough. Wonder what characters he played in dramas? Well, there are so many of them!

He was a high school star swimmer (Who are You: School 2015), an unbelievably handsome flower prince (Moon Lovers: Scarlet Ryeo), an amazing friend (Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo), and even a vain water god (Bride of Habaek). Whether he is a sweet guy or cool gentlemen, you can’t stop admitting his looks!

You definitely should check out his breakthrough performance in Who are You: School 2015. Nam plays a popular swimmer in a high school, who falls for his childhood friend. However, the catch here is that he has no idea he has been talking to her twin sister all this time, after her disappearance. Even though he does doubt her identity, he ends up falling in love with her instead.

8. So Ji-sub

So Ji-sub debuted as a jeans model first, but two years later his television acting debut followed! Coincidentally, the drama series in which he received his first role was called Model. But it wasn’t until K-drama I’m Sorry, I Love You that he became a top star in the country and in Asia overall.

Since then, he has starred in a great number of popular television dramas, especially he became well recognized for his leading roles in such dramas as Master's Sun, Oh My Venus, Cain and Abel, and Phantom.

7. Park Bo-gum

Park Bo-gum is a true Hallyu star (the Korean Wave, the increase of Korean culture popularity around the world driven by the spread of K-dramas and K-pop). He was even called the “Nation’s Crown Prince” after his appearance in highly popular Korean period drama Love in the Moonlight.

Park is the youngest to become Actor of the Year (according to Gallup Korea) and the first among all the actors ever to get to the top in the Korea Power Celebrity list (according to Forbes)! He gained popularity for his diverse range of roles in dramas he played. Here are some of his best:

Love In The Moonlight (2016)

One of Bo Gum's biggest projects is this historical romantic drama where he stars as the Crown Prince. He desperately falls in love with a girl pretending to be a male eunuch. This period TV series became a real hit all across Asia!

Hello Monster (2015)

Bo Gum surprised his fans with his acting in the dark crime drama, Hello Monster (also called I Remember You). The story follows a criminal profiler who gets entangled with an elusive serial killer.

Reply 1988 (2015–16)

The well-known Reply drama series follows the story of five childhood friends living in a small town. It follows their complicated lives (and the lives of their families') back in the '90s. Park plays a wealthy boy whose biggest problem in his life is winning baduk matches.

6. Kim Soo-hyun

Kim Soo-hyun is an internationally well-known Korean star. Starting his career at the age of 19, now he is one of the most popular and wanted, and most expensive actors in the industry! The top Hallyu star started his acting career playing a country guy who turned out to be a true musical genius in a drama Dream High.

His iconic role in My Love From the Star, where he played the leading role of an alien professor, sky-rocketed his popularity! “The man who came from the star” is also incredibly famous for his acting in another popular drama, Moon Embracing the Sun. There, he starred as the young king Lee Hwon. This historical even earned the “national drama” status!