Li Bingxian

Lee Byung-hun (Korean: Lee Byung-hun/plumByung-hun, Romanized: I Byeong-heon, July 12, 1970 -), a South Korean actor, was mistranslated into Chinese as Lee Byeong-hun. In 1991, he graduated from the 14th acting class of KBS TV station. In the first four years after entering the TV industry, he won the Best Newcomer Award at the KBS Drama Awards and the Best Actor Award at the KBS Drama Awards three times. He started acting in movies in 1995. He is a popular and capable actor in both film and television. He is a Korean national actor who is highly praised and trusted for his acting skills. He has won four Baeksang TV Awards and one Baeksang Movie Awards. In 2016, Lee Byung-hun swept the three major Korean film awards (Blue Dragon, Baeksang, and Daejong) with the movie "The Insiders" and became the third actor in the history of the Korean film industry to win the Grand Slam Best Actor in the same year. From 2005 to 2020, he was selected into Gallup Korea's "Most Active Movie Actors" TOP10 a total of 12 times, tying with Song Kang-ho for the most No. 1 selection among Korean movie stars. In 2006, he co-founded the brokerage company BH Entertainment with his agent Sun Xiyu. In 2025, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) announced that acclaimed actor Lee Byung-hun won the Special Contribution Award.