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Lee Kyu-han

South Korean actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ6782579 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lee Kyu-han (Korean: 이규한; born August 4, 1980) is a South Korean actor. He made his acting debut in 1998, but first drew viewers' attention in 2005 as the heroine's ex-boyfriend in romantic comedy My Lovely Sam Soon, later going on to more high-profile supporting roles in Que Sera, Sera (2007), Smile, You (2009), and More Charming by the Day (2010). Lee has since played leading roles in the television dramas The Wedding Scheme (2012), The Birth of a Family (2012), and Only Love (2014). Appearances on variety-reality shows such as the second season of Real Men in 2015 further boosted his popularity. And he was further known for his role as Baek Seok in a 2015–2016 drama series I Have a Lover.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980, 1998, 2005, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980-08-04. For this dossier, Kyu-han, South and Korean is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “south Korean 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 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6782579. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1980, 1998, 2005 and 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lee Kyu-han” 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.