Lee Sung Kyung (South Korean model, actress and singer)

Lee Sung-kyung (이성경) is a South Korean model, actress and singer. She acted in the television dramas Cheese in the Trap (2016) and Doctors (2016) before taking her first leading role as the titular character in Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo (2016) and Dr. Romantic 2 (2020).

Name: Lee Sung Kyung (이성경)

Birthday: August 10, 1990

Zodiac sign: Leo

Nationality: Korean

Height: 176 cm (5‘9”)

Weight: 49 kg (108 lbs)

Blood Type: B

Instagram: @heybiblee

Youtube: heybiblee

TikTok: heybiblee_official

Agency:

YG Entertainment (Acting)

YGKPlus (Modelling)

Early life and education

She was born on August 10, 1990 in Goyang city, Gyeonggi, South Korea. On February 22, 2016, Lee graduated from Dongduk Women's University.

Career

She began her entertainment career as a model where she competed at the local Super Model Contest in 2008. In 2013, The Papers collaborated with Lee Sung Kyung with the single "I Love You".

In 2014, she made her acting debut with a supporting role in television drama It's Okay, That's Love, being the first model-actress promoted under the joint venture of YG Entertainment and K-Plus. This was followed by weekend drama, Flower of Queen in 2015. She won "Best New Actress" in a Special Project Drama at the MBC Drama Awards for her role.

In January 2016, Sung Kyung featured in tvN's college romance series, Cheese in the Trap. On April 28, 2016, she released a collaboration single with Eddy Kim, which is a cover of Sharp's "My Lips like Warm Coffee". She then starred in the SBS' prime-time medical drama, The Doctors as a neurosurgeon. The same year, she took on her first leading role in Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo, a youth sports drama inspired by the real life story of Olympic weightlifting champion Jang Mi-ran. In 2017, Lee Sung Kyung dubbed the film Trolls alongside Park Hyung-sik. She was also cast in the romance film Love+Sling, directed by first-time director Kim Dae-woong. She was also featured in Psy's 4X2=8 with the single "Last Scene". In 2018, Lee Sung Kyung starred in the fantasy melodrama About Time. She was cast in the action comedy film Miss & Mrs. Cops released on May 9, 2019 alongside Ra Mi-ran.

In 2020, Lee Sung Kyung starred in the second season of the hit medical drama Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim, playing a cardiothoracic surgeon.

Personal life

Lee Sung Kyung publically dated fellow actor Nam Joo Hyuk for 4 months. (Confirmed by their agency, YG Ent.)

On August 18, it was announced that the couple broke up. YG Entertainment: “It’s true that Lee Sung Kyung and Nam Joo Hyuk have decided to break up.”

Lee Sung Kyung’s ideal type: “If I have mutual feelings with him and like him back, I wouldn’t be the type to hide it. If I look back [at my past], I think I always found that the guys who were true to their feelings were the most masculine.”