Hyun Bin and Kim Soo Hyun Leads the List of Highest Paid K-actor Drama Salaries

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• This list is already been proven wrong by knets. Lee Minho got 100 million for City Hunter. For Heirs he got around 150 million. Kim Soohyun probably around 200 million.

  • If they paid that much then the drama wouldn't be able to make any profit. There's a limit for ad/ppl allowed in each drama, and exports would barely make up for that big salary. I think 1mil won per episode is the cap.

    The Faith couldn't make its budget back and they still owe money to the workers, you think Lee Minho's price went up after that to the point that they contracted him at 150mil won per episode for Heirs?

    • I meant: I think *100mil won per episode is the cap

    • Here's the article about Hyun Bin, JDG and Lee Minho getting 100 million won http://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=018&aid=0003220772
      And his pay didn't got cut for Heirs to 70 million from 100 . It was increased because Heirs production was big.

    • That's why I said 100mil is the cap. The Faith was a big production too and it bombed, there's just no way in hell his rate suddenly went up after his last drama bombed so badly to being paid 150mil won for Heirs.

  • As a k-minoz I have to refute your comment.
    The payment Lee Min Ho received for CH has never been revealed. And I have never seen anywhere that he got 150 million for Heirs. Most Korean actors don't reveal their salaries for TV shows. There was a news article that showed Lee Min Ho along with HB and JDG was paid more than 100 million per episode. According to the article, it was revealed by a congressman at a parliamentary inspection last year.
    Therefore, we just got to know that he was paid at least 100 million for Heirs.
    I'd like to ask you not to spread uncertain claim about his payment without verified grounds.

    • Unf this comment.

• Even the list of actresses was wrong. Park Shinhye got around 50-60 million for Pinocchio.

• the list has already been proven wrong.KWB,JCW and JW dont receive that amount.ever since CH,LMH has been receiving 100W per ep.and CJW and KWB definately does not receive that amount.it's impossible.the only accurate ones that knet agree with are LJS and KSH cos their dramas has always been HITS.

• A lot of other top actors/actresses received around 50000 per-episode, but they prefer not to reveal it-the name listed are exclusively done for media play by their agencies.

• Isn't 200 mill won around 170k dollars? Why do they keep saying actors do not get payed properly then? There are some Hollywood actors who don't get that much money/ep. For example if you work for the CW you'll be lucky if you get 70k/ep, but in Korea there are actors who even get $170k? Now I understand why they don't mind the live shooting. There's big bucks coming after of all the torture.

  • Not everyone gets 100 mill/ep. This is the top circle for Korea. For hollywood, Jim Parsons gets 1 million dollars per episode.

    • I'm very well aware of the fact that not everyone gets that money in Korea, but following your point, not everyone gets 1 mill dollars per episode in Hollywood either. I was just pointing out how there are actors in a small country like Korea who get more money than actors from a country that's one of the largest world economies. And I was surprised by it considering how I always hear rumors about how east asian actors always overwork and get paid next to nothing.

    • @lila I don't get your point. SK is a small country but its one of the G20 and its economy has a big chunk based on the entertainment buisness. For my part, I am actually surprised at how much a discrepancy there is between the salary of the top k-actors than american actors and c-actors. Their salaries are about the 1/10 of the US and China equivalent. And yes 'they get more money than actors from US' but you can't compare A grade actors with C grade actors.

  • As I mentioned in the earlier post on the actresses' salaries, it is misleading to always read of actors/actresses being paid these much because the fees also include salaries of their management team and/or agencies' cut.

    So unless you can show that the basis for comparison is the same, then it is groundless to state that Korean actors are being better paid than Hollywood ones just based on the reports.

• I know koala will post about this.. Let fanwar girls so her blog can get hit. Bye

  • LMAO right. OP - female hormone and its readers - bunch of female hormones. No difference than that of kpop forums and its dumb teenager girls.

    • no different from teen boys and grown men except they have fanwars about different stuff equally as crazy.

• It's funny that people on the internet act like they know the salaries of these stars. This seems about right for most of them.

• Who in right mind says that Kim Woobin got 50 million won for Heirs? He got popular AFTER that drama.

  • This is probably his rate for his new drama with Suzy and writer Lee Kyunghee, not Heirs.

• No matter this list is true or not but it was suprising that how much k-netizen were displeased by hyun bin, kim woo bin and lee sungi's salaries and called them bubbles!!!!

  • No, they didn't.

    • What do u mean by they didn't??! I scrolled down the top 400 comments and they were targeted very much!! KSH, JIS, SJS,SJK and LJS were the ones in safe comments!

    • I mean many times!!!!

• Hey fan girls. All your oppars are overrated as fuck.

  • Yup