TW-ent Lists Hyun Bin, Kim Soo Hyun, Gong Yoo, and Song Joong Ki as Top 4 K-drama Actors of the 2010-2020 Decade

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• Agree only on 1-3. Song Joong Ki is meh for me.

• Where is lee min ho? Whose dramasare big everywhere and till to this day remain most popular k actor overseas. He smbecome king and faced ksh sjk for pan asia popularity. You dont have to like his acting but lmh deserved it more. He has more hit dramas thus decade than hyun bin and gong yoo( yes they have many but i m talking this decade ) . Peoole who wanna fight and argue with me have a great day. I am not changing my opinion.
  Sorry you cant cut off lmh's name from this decade list

  • He become first king of new wave and new faced ksh sjk but outlasted them and with new bug drama coming, he is going ti start new decade on high note. Lmh belongs there. Haters can hate but cant deny this fact
    Though this list dont matters but still his name should be there

  • Its because LMH acting not in the same level with them.

    • Sorry sjk n ksh r not much better actors. Onoy gy n hb. N this is about starpower n success. Lmh deserved it. Period. Biggest actor of decade

  • Was asking the Same! I agree with ksh, hb and gy, but i I don’t know why jk was included and w/o lmh

    • Dots impact was huge so maybe. But kmh deserved it

    • Because sjk already hit it big since 2012. Dots only elevated his status into superstardom. His movie werewolf boy and nice guy were huge hit in 2012. He was the only actor with kim soo hyun who was included in gallup korea and forbes korea power list in 2013.

  • More than agree

  • I can't agree more.. His name is supposed to be Number one!!!!

  • I love his movies. I also love to listen to him sing.

  • ...the list says THIS decade ie 2010-19

    Now compare the hit projects of the others in film and tv for those years:

    Kim Soo Hyun: Dream High (2011), Moon/Sun (2012), The Thieves (2012), Secretly Greatly (2013), You From Another Star (2013). I'm not even including Producer in this btw even though it was successful.

    Hyun Bin: Secret Garden (2010), Confidential Assignment (2017), The Swindlers (2017), Crash Landing On You (2019)

    Gong Yoo: The Silenced (2011), Train to Busan (2016), The Age of Shadows (2016), Goblin (2016).

    (I left out Kim Ji Young Born 1982 because he's only a supporting role in that, the movie is Han Ji Min's show)

    Song Joong Ki: Nice Guy (2012), Werewolf Boy (2012), Descendants of the Sun (2016)

    (I left out Tree with Deep Roots since he appears in only the first half)

    Lee Min Ho: Heirs (2013). (Legend of the Blue Sea was not the YFAS-level buzz hit SBS wanted, but I'll be generous and include that too).

    Basic maths shows who has had the most impactful projects out of the people listed. Even the 'doesn't deserve to be here' Song Joongki has had more hit projects THIS decade than LMH, stop being stuck in 2009 thinking this is still Gu Jun Pyo era.

    • Ignoring city huntee which was massive oan asia hit and had highest endorsement rate in korea and time slot leadee, bigger than nice guy amd producers . Lobs might not be mlfts but it is bigger than arthal n nice guy pan asia, producers. His chinese movie was hit his korean graphic movie was hit. 5 successful projecys

      Hyun bin flopped with 4 r 5 movies including last 2 in 2018. Only hit drama was secret gardern moa was jnderperformer and cloy success came in 2020. If we tale poll from 1 jan 2010 to rnd kf 2019. He has more more flops than hits lmao. And took one decade ti get hit drama. Success of cloy is in 2020

      Gong yoo had massive 2016 with 1 hit drama m 2 hits. Also 2011 hit movie but he haa flops too. But i will rank him above hyun bin

      Sjk has nice guy which was local hit and firat as male lead anyways. Werewolf boy was hit and dots made him hallyu star but arthdal flop n movie underperformed. He has lost his cfs. So he couldnt maintain the pace

      Ksh is only one who might be ranked at top sucxess wise. No disagree but in longevity his popularity has faded and next prject quite look bad. But i hope it works

      Lmh has 5 hut projects. So ur jaths skills jeed work

      Moreover south korean givt took poll in 16 halkyu popular countrues and he topped 14 out of 16 when he wa in army and u say he has no impact beating gong yoo who was coming of massive success. Yes bof ended om 2009 and he has followed it massiveky becominf bugger. I rather take sk govt poll over a hatera opinion n distortion of facts and selective criteria and a random taiwan thjng wjich has no credibility
      U will cry more when king becomes bugger thab ckoy and any drama this year. Cant wait

    • Cool, add City Hunter AND LOTBS (if you think it had that much impact) and he has 3.

      That's still only equal with Song Joong Ki, and still behind the hits count of Hyun Bin, Gong Yoo and Kim Soo Hyun. I have stated that I left out some of their successful and buzzed-about projects too.

      Crash Landing On You is a drama that began airing in 2019 and started getting its bumpup in ratings in 2019, so nice try but it still belongs to the decade.

      I don't know why LMH fans keep banging on about China when the market has been all but closed for years because of THAAD and no matter how much they like a Korean star, their homegrown stars are 20xbigger there. Downgrade the other actors' work as "local" hits all you want, it doesn't change facts and I don't get the logic of claiming LMH career isn't affected at all by flops like Personal Taste or Faith but somehow....Kim Soo Hyun's "longevity" is damaged because ONE project he did was a flop in a decade full of smash hit projects? Come on.

  • Dont say ridiculous thing,,you know that any korean actors deserved to be on the list,,but that’s what they think and i backed their opinion..dont stuck up to 1 person,,the on list actors had shown their worth..This is not the story of being handsome,the thing is the acting skill they all had..And that list of guys up there are the versatile one..

  • Dont say ridiculous thing,,you know that any korean actors deserved to be on the list,,but that’s what they think and i backed their opinion..dont stuck up to 1 person,,the on list actors had shown their worth..This is not the story of being handsome,the thing is the acting skill they all had..And that list of guys up there are the versatile one..you need to endure the fact that lmh got the looks but His acting skills are still dearth...

• Where can I find the original source of this list? Someone tell me please

  • Ikr?? It baffles me how koala never put the source of her articles.

• Lists are just list but if it’s mine, I think LMH should be one of the 4 and if that’s the case it should be song Joon ki that will be left out. Main reason boys over flowers defined kdrama during that moment. it was insane, ridiculous but all of us were sucked in. He also did city hunter (which I love), heirs (which i hated), and LOTBS (which I enjoyed but forgettable) - yet all 3 had good ratings and that makes a worthy top 4.

  You can’t take Hyun bin off this list (especially now with CLOY on a high. Secret garden was on fire on the early 2000s and he’s ending the decade with another fire drama that is worthy definitely ) and Goo Yoo with goblin is untouchable. The vulnerable one is SJK- other than descendants of the sun, A. Chronicles was hard to watch and he hasn’t had a hit since then

  • Oh I missed out Kim Soo Hyun - simply because there’s no way he can be off the list. Period

  • Not only descendants of the sun, He also had critical and commercial hit like innocent man and werewolf boy before dots.

    • The movie and innocent man were no where hit outside korea like lmh dramas. His every drama sold out overseas. So lmh deseeved it more

• Gong Yoo all the way than Hyun Bin second for me. How I wish Gong Yoo have another drama soon. Waiting to watch his movie with PBG.

• My personal list would be Kim soo hyun at no.1 , gong yoo at second place, lee min ho at third, song Joong ki at 4th and hyun bin at fifth. The reason for hyun bin is that except secret garden, he never had any memorable or big hit Movie or drama, unlike rest of four actors who had back to back hit project. His current Crash landing will definitely help him to get back at top.

  • Hyun bin had 3 hit dramas in the 2000s - Kim sam soon (with a high of 50+% ratings do we even see this nowadays) , secret garden (hitting almost 30%) and now CLOY (running for tvN TOP rated drama now). Even MOA had decent ratings for tvN. Put it next to SJK , it’s obvious.

    • This is about 2009 to 2019 and cloy most success is in 2020. so hyun bin has least success this decade tbh

    • Well, this list is about this decade so sam soon is out of questions. Both him and sjk enlisted to military right after their huge success. In case of sjk he found his roaring success right after coming back from military which is impossible feat for actors. Lee seung gi, ji chang wook their comeback drama were not a success, even hyun bin, it took him a while to find a major hit. MOA was a hit rating wise but it was a forgettable drama.

  • Agree with the 4, even though I hated DoTS and never watched Hyun Bin’s dramas with the exception of My Name is Kim Sam Soon.

    And I do think that LMH doesn’t belong in this list as Boys over Flowers was released in 2009.

    • The heirs, city hunters, legends of blue sea were oan asia hits. His track record is best this decade. Anyone who denies lmh dint belo here is a blind hater

  • My personal opinion, Hyun Bin is at the top list instead of KSH.

• What about park Ji song! ! He is a great artist also

• Gong Yoo

• Gong Yoo for me.

• I agree with the above list, those four names are relevant for the last decade. As for LMH detractors, I believe the reason why LMH is not on this list is because he hasn't been working steadily unlike Gong Yoo, Kim Soo Hyun, Song Joong Ki and Hyun Bin. Although Kim Soo Hyun doesn't have a recent drama and his last movie, Real, flopped big time. He still retains a lot of online buzz and press for his recent cameos in highly rated dramas. The global impact of SJK's DOTS cannot be underestimated. Consider this: in China, this year there are at least five different romcoms dramas between soldiers and female doctors. What does that say about imitation? The sincerest form of flattery. And SJK followed up his phenomenal success in DOTs with Battleship Island and Arthdal Chronicles. Whether or not his latest works were well received, the point is that he is constantly working which implies generating more press and online buzz and keeping him at the top of people's minds. Hyun Bin's and Gong Yoo's relevancy does not need to be discussed here at all. Even though, Hyun Bin's post MS had the epic fail Hyde Jekyll and Me; he followed it up with two well received dramas: 'Memories of Alhambra' and 'Crash Landing on You', plus his movies did well at the box office. Contrast that with LMH, the mega successful Boys Over Flowers was 2009 (this was two decades ago) and the last drama he starred in was in 2016, which opened up to mixed reviews and wasn't mega successful compared to Secret Garden, DOTS or Goblin. I'm not saying that LMH doesn't have the potential to be one of the top actors for this new decade, I'm merely arguing that his name could be left off this list. He needs to churn out more work on a more frequent basis than he did in the past so he can continue to stay buzz-worthy. I'm sure that starring in a KES drama is the best move he can make for now. It is sure to keep him in the press and relevant for a long time to come, as she is a confirmed hit maker.

  • @Adal - exactly. LMH fans throw tantrums about Hallyu like it's still 2009 but the other guys simply had more successful projects in the last decade, and had more of them. The ratings, CPI indexes and ticket sales are cold hard numbers, and the list was right.

    He will probably recover his status with that Kim Eun Sook drama though, KES dramas are always hits.