The Best Looks of Hyun Bin’s Most Iconic K-Drama Characters
From ‘My Name is Kim Sam-soon’ to ‘Crash Landing On You’, take a peek at our favorite oppa’s most memorable fashion moments on-screen!
The #KFeveronMetro is running high and all eyes are on new digital cover boy Hyun Bin! As we get up close and personal with the Korean superstar, we can’t help but feel nostalgic remembering every character that made us all fall in love with him.
Hyun Bin has played a lot of memorable characters in his career, which have all stayed with us in one way or another. From his breakout role as Hyun Jin-heon in My Name is Kim Sam-soon to Captain Ri Jeong-hyeok in Crash Landing On You, he’s given us a kind of thrill—all the flutters and the works!—that we can’t forget no matter how many dramas we go through in a year. Honestly, who didn’t go on a Hyun Bin binge after their first Hyun Bin series?
With the many skins he’s donned throughout his career, we remember him in our favorite K-Dramas and imagine him looking just as he did when we first watched him. Whether you loved him as a chaebol in Secret Garden or as a villain in The Negotiation, his most memorable fashion statements on TV and film will always remind us of how amazing our favorite oppa really is!
But before you do, catch our exclusive Metro.Style interview with Hyun Bin himself in the video below!
Hyun Bin's Most Iconic Characters
Hyun Bin's Most Iconic Characters
The Restaurateur
(1/2) One of the highest-rating Korean dramas of all time, My Name is Kim Sam-soon (2005) introduced us to Hyun Bin’s restaurant owner Hyun Jin-heon who had a penchant for throwing on sport jackets over T-shirt and jeans combos.
Photo Credit: Han Cinema
(2/2) Though fashion has come a long way since then, we still love our Hyun Bin then and now!
Photo Credit: Han Cinema
The Millionaire
In his first lead role in a film, A Millionaire’s First Love (2006) Hyun Bin played a bad boy millionaire-in-the-making who was suddenly shipped off to school in a rural area of South Korea. We think this look is so mid-aughts, from the open button-down shirt to the ripped jeans and, of course, the sport jacket!
Photo Credit: Han Cinema
The Director
(1/2) The actor’s turn as a broadcasting professional Jung Ji-oh in the The World They Live in (2008) gave us a taste of a preppy Hyun Bin we’ve yet to see before!
Photo Credit: Han Cinema
The CEO Part 1
(1/2) Kim Joo-won in Secret Garden (2010-2011), possibly one of Hyun Bin’s most career-defining roles, served us with the best looks. From three-piece suits…
Photo Credit: Han Cinema
(2/2) ...to a sequined track jacket, Joo-won was one of Hyun Bin’s most fashion forward characters ever!
Photo Credit: Han Cinema
The Gigolo
A mysterious man in an equally mysterious coat and a headturning pompadour, Hyun Bin’s Hoon in the English film Late Autumn (2010) draws you in without even a word!
Photo Credit: Han Cinema
The CEO Part 2
(1/2) Though Hyun Bin played two characters in Hyde, Jekyll, Me (2015), Gu Seo-jin’s style choices are next on our list of the actor’s trendiest roles. When a man is man enough to wear the pants (in pink!), you know you’ve got a winner.
Photo Credit: Han Cinema
(2/2) We’re all for this knit henley shirt that subtly shows off Hyun Bin’s post-military physique, too. Thank you, Hyde, Jekyll, and Me!
Photo Credit: Soompi Forum
The Investigator
North Korean special investigator Im Cheol-ryung in Confidential Assigment (2017) may have run around the South chasing counterfeiters, but he did so looking every bit the dashing action star Hyun Bin truly is.
Photo Credit: Han Cinema
The Scammer
(1/2) Con artist Hwang Ji-sung in The Swindlers (2017) blessed us with a swaggy Hyun Bin who looked 300% in a leather jacket and white tee. We’re in love!
Photo Credit: Han Cinema
(2/2) We mean, these rare photos went viral for a reason. When you can pull off a James Dean this easy...
Photo Credit: Koreaboo
The Abductor
How about Hyun Bin as a hot kidnapper? His dark turn as Min Tae-gu in the crime thriller film was mostly spent in this white linen button-down, but we’re not complaining. Rare is a man who can elevate basics the way Hyun Bin can!
Photo Credit: Han Cinema
The CEO Part 3
(1/2) The first time we lay eyes on Yoo Jin-woo in the intro for Memories of the Alhambra (2018-2019), he looked equal parts cool and commanding in a light suit that perfectly set him up as the cold and cunning CEO.
Photo Credit: Han Cinema
(2/2) The two episodes he spent in this linen suit while running around Granada, Spain will forever be ingrained in our memories. The fresh blue and white combo is just classic!
Photo Credit: Han Cinema
The Captain
(1/2) Granted, this isn’t really a “fashion moment” knowing that this is supposed to be the North Korean military uniform; however, we can’t just discount how our Captain Ri took our breath away the first time we saw him in full regalia on Crash Landing On You (2019-2020).
Photo Credit: Han Cinema
The Boyfriend
(2/2) Who didn’t gasp audibly when Captain Ri first stepped out of the changing room while Yoon Se-ri (Son Ye-jin) shopped for him? Hyun Bin in a three-piece suit is always gold!
Photo Credit: Han Cinema
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