School-aged Pictures of Popular Hallyu K-actors Show the Before and After

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• Yoo Seungo, Kim Soohyun, Lee Minho. Love them.
  Kim Woobin transformed most. Lee Jongsuk too.

  • Kimwoobin he just grow up no surgeries

    • He did. It's quite obvious that he did something to his jaw. At least. Just saying.

• So Ji Sub expressions crack me up. they look the same. Love him ?

  • I know! I couldn't help but chuckle!

  • I thought the same! haha He still looks half asleep haha although who cares when you're that handsome :p

  • lmao yes! He had that sleepy sad expression even as a kid, no wonder he grew up to become a melo actor lol

• Jung Kyung-ho was surprising. I cracked up at Kim Bum and Lee Jong-seok's pre-fame hairdos. Wonder how they acted back then.

• Just like what koala mentioned, those guys above who went under the knife had not gone crazy, the resemblance is still there..

  Unlike lots of Korean female actresses, their before and after pictures put side by side are weird. Many of their faces are bloated, not thinking they are uglier without natural face expressions.

  • Kim Woo bin and Lee Jung Seok are more pronounced.
    Yoo Seung Ho was so cute!!!!!!

    • YSH looks the same from the very first film I saw him on which was The Way Home...he was so freaking adorable...I've loved him ever since.

  • if they did the same for Korean actresses, I'm quite sure more than a few would turn out to be natural beauties/no obvious surgeries. Jun Ji Hyun, Song Hye Kyo, Gong Hyo Jin, Shin Min Ah, Moon Chae Won, Moon Geun Young, Han Hyo Joo, are all top actresses and don't appear to have any obvious work done.

    And even the younger-gen girls like Park Shin Hye, Go Ah Sung, Kim Ji Won, Ha Yeon Soo, Jo Bo Ah, not to mention the child actresses etc.....all at least appear to look the same as their younger days.

    • I thought Jun Ji Hyun looks very different in My Sassy Girl compared to the more recent My Love from the Stars. I am very sure she has had work done.

    • ^That's because there's a 10 year+ gap between the two.

    • Just watched Sassy Girl for the first time awhile ago and first have to say that she was crazy pretty in that movie. Also, she has aged incredibly well and apart from looking more mature and just older, she looks mostly the same.

      I hate how the comment above bashes female actresses for getting PS like they aren't under ridiculous pressure to fit into a EXTREMELY NARROW standard of beauty and scrutinized more for their appearance than these male actors. Yeah, some of them get (a lot of) painful and potentially dangerous surgery for shits and giggles. I notice you only see these youth photos for celeb men and I'm sort of glad because the reception to the women would probably be much more harsh and judgemental.

  • In reply to Beb:

    I am not sure if your comment about "bashing female actresses" and "judgemental" are addressed to me, if so, then I can only say that my comments are based on what are physically obvious, and not being judgemental, and that I have also seen similar articles for female actresses.

    There are also lots of actresses that have retained their natural state, which are commendable.

    • correcton, Deb instead of Beb

• I don't know why folks think that a face changes only because of plastic surgery or weight loss. Yes, they are the reasons too but just look at your own pics of yester years....people do change as they mature. Everyone is raw before a certain age and then we start paying attention to our looks and all....

  btw, everybody is looking great!

  • People are envious, that's why. The vast majority of the stars posted in this page were handsome before ever becoming famous.

• I love that Daniel Choi's look like the gradual progression of most drama leads:
  Happy childhood, something bad/tragic happens causing them to change/begin plotting revenge throughout adolescence, and then he falls in love with his candy in adulthood.

• I'm most surprised by lee soo hyuk 'non'-transformation. I was quite sure his looks can't be for real, but he looks exactly the same as before, including the mile high nose

  • his bone structure is absolutely spectacular.

    I'm not surprised he's looked like that from day 1. He's a very good-looking man but none of his most distinctive features are the kind that would be achieved by the hand of a plastic surgeon (prominent nose, very unfashionably prominent cheekbones, really full lips on a man)

• young lee seung gi is so handsome!!!he looks the same

• Actually i don't think any of them went for plastic surgery, but what's clear about the then and now comparison is that they paid attention to their looks and grooming after they joined the entertainment business.

  It's great to know that they were normal guys before. And from the looks of LMH's school pics, he was already a Kimura Takuya in the making tat that age ^.^

• Kim Woo Bin! OMG!