Choi Min-ho (singer)

For the judoka, see Choi Min-ho (judoka).
This is a Korean name; the family name is Choi.
Minho

Minho at American Eagle Outfitters launching event in October 2015
Native name 최민호
Born Choi Min-ho
(1991-12-09) 9 December 1991
Incheon, South Korea
Residence Seoul, South Korea
Occupation
Television
Relatives

Musical career

Genres
Instruments Vocal
Years active 2008–present
Labels SM Entertainment
Associated acts
Signature
Stage name
Hangul 민호
Hanja 珉豪
Revised Romanization Min-ho
McCune–Reischauer Min-ho
Birth name
Hangul 최민호
Hanja 崔珉豪
Revised Romanization Choe Min-ho
McCune–Reischauer Ch'oe Min-ho

Choi Min-ho (born December 9, 1991[1]) most often credited as Minho, is a South Korean singer, actor, and presenter. He is the main rapper and the visual of the South Korean boy group Shinee.

Career

Pre-debut

Before debuting with Shinee, Minho modeled for Ha Sang Baek's Seoul Collection F/W 08-09 in March 2008, two months before Shinee's debut stage.[2]

Shinee

Main article: Shinee

Minho was discovered at the 2006 S.M. Casting System. In 2008, he was chosen as a member of the group Shinee, the 5-member boy group debuted on 25 May 2008 on SBS's Inkigayo. [3]

Solo

Minho appeared in both the Korean and Japanese version of Girls' Generation's music video "Gee" .[4] He was also featured in the music video of VNT's debut song Sound.

Acting

Minho at “HEAD Skiwear Project X” store opening event in November 2015

Minho debuted as an actor on 20 November 2010 in a KBS2's drama special, entitled Pianist with actress Han Ji-hye.[5]

On 7 December 2011, it was announced that Minho would be taking on a comedic acting role in SBS‘s new sitcom, Salamander Guru and The Shadows, which would air in early 2012. Minho played the role of Min-hyuk, a genius hacker, alongside actors Im Won-hee and Oh Dal-soo. Salamander Guru and The Shadows was SBS’s first sitcom in 5 years and revolved around two robbers who impersonate a guru. The sitcom aired in January 2012.[6]

On 26 April 2012, Minho was confirmed to be the lead role, alongside f(x)'s Sulli and Lee Hyun-woo, for the Korean drama To The Beautiful You, a Korean version of "Hana Kimi".[7] The drama started broadcasting on 15 August 2012 on SBS.[8] Minho's character is Kang Tae Joon, a high jump gold medalist who gives up high jumping after being injured. In preparation for his role as Tae-joon, Minho received personal training from coach Kim Tae-young, former national high jump athlete and a member of the Korea Association of Athletics Federations, for a month and a half.[9] His personal record at the moment is 175 cm.[10]

On 29 July 2013, it was announced that Minho will be returning to the small screen via MBC's Medical Top Team as the handsome youngest member of a medical team. His love line with Oh Yeon Seo will lighten the mood of the love triangle among the drama's main leads Kwon Sang-woo, Jung Ryeo-won, and Ju Ji-hoon.[11]

Minho starred as the lead in the OnStyle drama Because It's The First Time formerly known as (Friends 2015) together with New comer Actress Park So-dam, which was broadcast in September 2015. It is the first drama premiered by OnStyle with a total of 8 episodes.[12]

This 2016 Minho confirmed to star on historical drama entitled Hwarang: The Beginning alongside with Park Seo-joon and Go Ara. The drama will be premiered this coming September 14, 2016 via KBS2.

Lyric writing

Minho at Gangnam Hallyu Festival in October 2013

Minho is known to have written and co-written several of the raps in Shinee's albums. For Shinee's earlier albums he co-wrote with JQ, a "idol rap instructor" who works under SM Entertainment to improve and direct the rapping abilities of their artists.[13]

For Shinee's 1st studio album The SHINee World, he co-wrote the raps to "Replay", "Love Like Oxygen", "Love's Way", "One for Me", "Graze", and "Best Place".[14][15] One year later, he wrote the rap lyrics for their 2nd mini-album Romeo, he also co-wrote "Talk to You", "Juliette", "Hit Me", and "Romeo + Juliette".[16] For their 3rd mini-album 2009, Year of Us, he along with fellow member Key, and lyricist JQ wrote the song "Get Down", which features fellow labelmate Luna of f(x).[17]

In their 2nd studio album Lucifer released in July 2010, he wrote the raps to "Up & Down" (which was co-written by fellow member Jonghyun), "Obsession" (also written by Jonghyun), "Your Name" (written by fellow member Onew), and co-wrote the songs "WOWOWOW" with JQ and "Shout Out" with the fellow members and MISFIT. In the repackaged album Hello, he wrote the rap for the title track "Hello", and co-wrote the raps for "One" and "Get It".[18][19]

He is also credited for creating additional raps to the songs "Better", "To Your Heart", and "Stranger" in their 1st Japanese studio album, The First released in December 2011. For their 4th mini-album Sherlock released in March 2012, he wrote the raps to the songs "Alarm Clock" and "Honesty".[20]

For their 3rd full album Chapter 1. Dream Girl – The Misconceptions of You he wrote the rap lyrics for the title song "Dream Girl" as well as "Girls, Girls, Girls" together with his member Key, "Aside", "Beautiful" and "Dynamite".[21][22] For Chapter 2. Why So Serious? – The Misconceptions of Me, Minho wrote the raps to the songs "Shine" (Medusa I), "Music Box" (Orgel), "Excuse Me Miss" and "Can't Leave" (Sleepless Night).[23][24]

For the group's fifth EP Everybody, Minho wrote the rap lyrics for the songs "Destination", "Close the Door" and "Colorful" (together with member Key).[25]

Minho is also credited for writing and producing the raps for their songs "Romance" and "Farewell My Love" in their fourth studio album, Odd.[26]

Personal life

In 2008 he was the 3rd Youth International Video Festival "the aura" Goodwill Ambassador with fellow Shinee member, Key. Minho was appointed as the ambassador of Konkuk University in 2010.

Minho graduated from Konkuk University's affiliated high school on 10 February 2010. After taking the college admissions test the previous year, he was admitted in 2010 to Konkuk’s part-time admittance for the arts and culture film major and graduated in 2015.[27] His father, Choi Yun-kyum, is a well-known South Korean soccer coach. He has an older brother named Choi Minseok.

In March 2010, Minho was injured while filming for Dream Team Season 2. He had to withdraw from his activities while fellow Shinee member Taemin replaced him on the show during his absence.[28][29] After his recovery, Minho finally came back in August 2010 to continue his activities and promotions of Shinee's second full-length studio album, "Lucifer".[30]

On 23 May 2011, he was named Honorary Ambassador for Youth 2011.[31] He then received a name plate at the Youth Week celebration held in the COEX auditorium.

Choi Minho was listed among Korean Top Stars, receiving 300 Million Won as his annual advertising rate.[32]

On 5 December 2014, Minho and Yoona were appointed as UNICEF Unihero Campaign Ambassadors "Giving hope to the children" [33]

In early April 2016, Shinee's Minho had gained so much popularity in the film industry , he has been cast on a new traditional Korean drama "Hwarang", and his movie "Canola" which was filmed last year will be out on big screen this coming May.

Discography

Main article: Shinee discography

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2013 I AM. Himself Documentary Film
2015 SMTOWN The Stage Himself Documentary Film
2016 Spring Granny Lee Ji-han Lead Role[34]
Marital Harmony Prince Candidate Supporting Role
Two Men Jin Il Lead Role [35]

Television dramas

Year Title Role Network Notes
2008 My Precious You Himself KBS2 Special Appearance
2010 Pianist Oh Je-ro Drama special (Lead Role)
2012 Salamander Guru and The Shadows Choi Min-hyuk SBS Sitcom (Lead Role)
To The Beautiful You Kang Tae-joon Korean ver. of Hana Kimi (Lead Role)
2013 Medical Top Team Kim Seong-woo MBC Medical Drama (Lead Role)
2015 Because It's The First Time Yoon Tae-oh OnStyle Lead Role
2016 Mrs. Cop 2 N/A SBS Special Appearance
Hwarang: The Beginning Soo-ho KBS Historical Drama (Lead Role)
One Liter of Tears N/A MBC Based on Japanese Drama " 1 Litre no Namida"(Lead Role).

Variety show

Year Title Network Role
2008 Idol Army MBC Every 1 Guest with SHINee and 2PM
2008-2011 Star King SBS Guest
2009-2012 Strong Heart
Dream Team KBS Dream Team member
2010 Hello Baby Himself with SHINee
Oh My! School Himself
Infinite Challenge short appearance with SHINee episode 210
2011 Music Bank Special host with Sohee and Yubin
2012 Shinhwa Broadcast JTBC with SHINee
Running Man SBS guest episode 75
Weekly Idol MBC Guest with SHINee episode 41-42
2013 Hello Counselor KBS Guest Episode 147
Mamma Mia Host
You Hee-yeol's Sketchbook Himself Guest with SHINee .
Running Man SBS guest episode 129
M! Countdown Mnet Guest Host
Tooniverse Nangam Highschool Tooniverse Guest with Onew and Key
SHINee's Wonderful Day MBC Himself with SHINee
Barefooted Friends SBS Guest with SHINee episode 31
Beatles Code 2 ' ' Mnet Guest with SHINee ep 51.
2013-2015 Show! Music Core MBC Host
2014-2015 Running Man SBS ep, 201, cameo 254,
2015 Fluttering India KBS himself
1 vs 100 Guest Player
SNL Korea TVN Guest with SHINee
Non-Summit JTBC Guest with Onew episode 47
2016 Section TV MBC Guest with Kim Go-eun and Youn Yuh-jung
Happy Together (Season 3) KBS Guest
Section TV MBC Guest with Jonghyun & Onew & Taemin
Weekly Entertainment KBS Guest with Kim Go-eun and Youn Yuh-jung

Music video appearances

Year Song title Artist Role
2009 Gee Girls' Generation "Employee Of The Month"
2010 Gee (Japanese Ver.) Girls' Generation Customer
Sound VNT DJ

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Nominated work Result
2010 SBS Entertainment Awards Best Newcomer in a Variety Show[36] Won
2011 Honorary Ambassador for Youth 2011[37] N/A N/A Won
Best Male Idol as Model[38] N/A N/A Won
2012 SBS Drama Awards New Star Award[39] To the Beautiful You Won
Best Couple Award (with Sulli)[40] Nominated
2013 MBC Drama Awards Best New Actor[41] Medical Top Team Nominated
2014 Baeksang Arts Awards Most Popular Actor (TV)[42] Nominated
2014 MBC Entertainment Awards Music Talk Show Popularity Award [43] Show! Music Core Won
2015 Popularity Award

References

  1. ↑ Mark Russell (29 April 2014). K-Pop Now!: The Korean Music Revolution. Tuttle Publishing. p. 67. ISBN 978-1-4629-1411-1.
  2. ↑ (Korean)민호맞아? 파격 변신 샤이니 티저 사진 공개 Nate. Retrieved 15 December 2010.
  3. ↑ "SHINee's iple profile" (in Korean). Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  4. ↑ "SHINee's Minho, Girls' Generation's "Gee"". Good Day Sports (in Korean). 7 January 2009. Retrieved 19 January 2009.
  5. ↑ SHINee Minho to make acting debut through KBS drama. 10asia.co.kr 9 November 2010. Retrieved 13 November 2010
  6. ↑ Hwang, Gun Yong (2012-01-28). "'도룡뇽도사' 민호, 첫 시트콤 도전 합격점..'연기까지 접수'". SEGYE. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
  7. ↑ "SHINee’s Minho and f(x)’s Sulli confirmed as lead roles for SM Entertainment’s adaptation of ‘Hana Kimi’". allkpop.com. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
  8. ↑ "SM Entertainment’s ‘To the Beautiful You’ drama began airing in August". allkpop.com. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  9. ↑ (Korean) '아그대' 민호, 높이뛰기 선수로 완벽 '빙의' :: 네이버 뉴스. News.naver.com (2012-07-18). Retrieved on 2012-10-14.
  10. ↑ 아름다운 그대에게> 민호 "제 높이뛰기 기록은요..." – 오마이스타. Star.ohmynews.com. Retrieved on 2012-10-14.
  11. ↑ Jeon, Su Mi. "SHINee′s Minho Joins ′Medical Top Team′ as Another Doctor". MWave. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
  12. ↑ "OnStyle drama". Hankyung. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
  13. ↑ "SM Entertainment rap instructor JQ reveals Minho's personality + interview". Retrieved 24 September 2012.
  14. ↑ "Shinee's Official Homepage". SM Entertainment. 22 August 2008. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
  15. ↑ "Shinee's Official Homepage - Amigo". SM Entertainment. 22 August 2008. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
  16. ↑ "Shinee's Official Homepage: Romeo (EP)". SM Entertainment. 25 May 2008. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
  17. ↑ "Shinee's Official Homepage: 2009, Year of Us". SM Entertainment. 22 October 2009. Retrieved 7 February 2010.
  18. ↑ "Shinee's Official Homepage: Lucifer". SM Entertainment. 22 July 2010. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
  19. ↑ "Shinee's Official Homepage - Hello". SM Entertainment. 22 July 2010. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
  20. ↑ "Shinee's Official Homepage - Sherlock". SM Entertainment. 22 December 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  21. ↑ "Shinee's Official Homepage - Dream Girl – The Misconceptions of You". SM Entertainment. 25 August 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  22. ↑ "Shinee's Official Homepage - The 3rd Album ‘The misconceptions of us’". SM Entertainment. 25 August 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  23. ↑ "Shinee's Official Homepage - Why So Serious? – The Misconceptions of Me". SM Entertainment. 25 August 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  24. ↑ "Shinee's Official Homepage - The Misconceptions of Us". SM Entertainment. 25 August 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  25. ↑ "Shinee's Official Homepage: Everybody". SM Entertainment. 10 October 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  26. ↑ "Odd (Shinee album)". Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  27. ↑ (Korean)샤이니 민호, 건국대 정시 합격 Today Korea. Retrieved 15 December 2010.
  28. ↑ SHINee’s Minho injured during Dream Team recording. Allkpop.com (2010-03-17). Retrieved on 2012-10-14.
  29. ↑ Taemin replaces Minho on Dream Team. Allkpop.com (2010-08-08). Retrieved on 2012-10-14.
  30. ↑ Following injury, SHINee’s Minho returns to the dance floor! | Ningin. Blog.ningin.com. Retrieved on 2012-10-14.
  31. ↑ (Korean)샤이니 민호, '청소년 홍보대사 위촉' Osen. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
  32. ↑ 中대륙 뒤흔든 김수현·이민호, CF 10억 '훌쩍' | hankyung. hanyung.com. Retrieved on 2014-11-01.
  33. ↑ Minho and Yoona appointed as UNICEF ambassadors | ttwigo. ttwigo.com. Retrieved on 2014-12-05.
  34. ↑ SHINee's Minho to make his big screen debut through 'Grandmother Gye-choon'
  35. ↑
  36. ↑ (Korean)"2010 SBS Entertainment Awards' Winners" GoKPop. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
  37. ↑ "SHINee Minho Named Honorary Ambassador for Youth 2011". Retrieved 23 May 2011.
  38. ↑ "SHINee Minho won Best Male Idol as Model". Retrieved 2 February 2011.
  39. ↑ "SHINee Minho’s Speech for New Star Awards". Retrieved 31 December 2012.
  40. ↑ "Best Couple Nominees for SBS Drama Awards 2012". Retrieved 23 December 2012.
  41. ↑ "MBC연기대상 男신인상 후보, 박서준 오창석 최진혁 등 확정". Retrieved 27 December 2013.
  42. ↑ "Baeksang Award, Most Popular Male Actor" (in Korean). 28 April 2014.
  43. ↑ "Winners of The 2014 MBC Entertainment Awards".

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