Lim Ju-hwan

@South Korean Men, Life Achievements and Childhood

Lim Ju-hwan is a South Korean actor

May 18, 1982

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: May 18, 1982
  • Nationality: South Korean
  • Famous: South Korean Men, Film & Theater Personalities, Actors
  • Known as: Im Joo-hwan
  • Birth Place: Seoul, South Korea
  • Gender: Male
  • Sun Sign: Taurus

Lim Ju-hwan born at

Seoul, South Korea

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Birth Place

Lim Ju-hwan is fairly secretive about his personal life and there have been no reports of him being in a relationship with someone.

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Personal Life

Actor Shin Dong-wook and Lim Ju-hwan are good friends since their school days and they have also done a few plays together.

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Personal Life

Lim Ju-hwan was born in Seoul, South Korea on May 18, 1982. He has admitted in his interviews that ever since he was a kid, he had a very ‘cold’ nature. He wasn’t very close to his family, and mostly didn’t communicate with them at all. This trait allowed him to spend more lonely time with himself, and hence he independently thought about a career in different sectors.

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Childhood & Early Life

In the high school, Lim participated in several dramas and sharpened his acting skills. He was known as one of the best actors from his school acting troop and by the third year of high school, he became a part of play ‘Good Doctor’, which was performed at the National Youth Film Festival. He received the best actor award for his performance. He also donned the director’s hat for the play ‘Pay Tuition Back’ in his high school senior year.

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Childhood & Early Life

Lim always carried an independent spirit inside him and wanted to lead a life where there were no limits as a result of which he moved out of his parent’s house at a very early age, right after high school. By now he had realised that his interest lay the entertainment world.

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Childhood & Early Life

Meanwhile, he also pursued his higher education from the Daejin University in theatre and films to further sharpen his acting skills.

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Childhood & Early Life

His struggles came to a pleasant halt when he was signed up by one of the biggest South Korean modelling agencies ‘The Men’, which also managed actors. Soon, he started modelling and not much later, also started auditioning for roles in TV.

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Childhood & Early Life

Lim Ju-hwan started his acting career playing minor and supporting roles and made his acting debut in 2004 with the series ‘Magic’ and in 2005 he appeared in a small role in the series ‘A Love to Kill’.

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Career

He gained further exposure with the 2006 film ‘A Millionaire’s First Love’. He next appeared in ‘Arang’ wherein he portrayed the younger version of the lead character Hyun-ki.

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He carried on with his acting stints in the series’ ‘The Snow Queen’ and ‘Drama City’ in the next couple of years, but his career was not picking up the desired pace as he was mostly getting offered the side or the supporting roles.

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His role as a blind painter in an episode of ‘Auction House’ received some favourable reviews.

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All his hard work paid-off with ‘Tamra, the Island’, a show which combined romantic comedy with historical fiction. The series premiered in 2009 and although the initial reviews for the show were polarising, the series picked up pace and was later acclaimed as a cult TV series. Lim received first major acting award of his career ‘New Actor of the Year’ award at the Korean Culture and Entertainment Awards.

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