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Kim Ki-hyeon

South Korean voice actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ6409023 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kim Ki-hyeon (Korean: 김기현; born June 24, 1945) is a South Korean voice actor and actor. He joined the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation's voice acting division in 1965.

Roles

Broadcast TV

24 (television) (replacing Tobin Bell by Season 2, Korea TV Edition, MBC)

Cubix (Dr. K, SBS)

MacGyver (replacing Dana Elcar, Korea TV Edition, MBC)

K-Cops (Korea TV Edition, MBC)

Brain Survivor (narration, MBC)

You're Under Arrest (Korea TV Edition, Tooniverse)

Miracle Girls (Korea TV Edition, MBC)

Jurassic War (MBC) - Terra

Penking & Liking (MBC)

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Korea TV Edition, Tooniverse)

Movie

Dubbing

Rules of Engagement (replacing Tommy Lee Jones, Korea TV Edition, MBC)

Deep Impact (replacing Robert Duvall, Korea TV Edition, MBC)

The Long Kiss Goodnight (replacing Samuel L. Jackson, Korea TV Edition, MBC)

Lethal Weapon 3 (replacing Stuart Wilson, Korea TV Edition, MBC)

Ricochet (replacing John Lithgow, Korea TV Edition, MBC)

Leon (replacing Jean Reno, Korea TV Edition, KBS)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (replacing Anthony Queen, Korea TV Edition, KBS)

Clean (replacing Nick Nolte, Korea TV Edition, SBS)

Police Academy (replacing Lt.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Kim Ki-hyeon” is south Korean voice actor. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Ki-hyeon, South and Korean, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1945, 1965—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1945-05-15. For this dossier, Ki-hyeon, South and Korean is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “south Korean voice actor” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6409023. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1945 and 1965.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Kim Ki-hyeon” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.