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Lee Won-keun

South Korean actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ268717 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lee Won-geun (born June 27, 1991) is a South Korean actor. He made his acting debut in the 2012 historical television series Moon Embracing the Sun (2012) and is known for starring in the high school drama Cheer Up! (2015) and romantic-comedy One the Woman (2021), as well as the film Misbehavior (2017).

Personal life

Lee mandatory military service on June 13, 2019, in the National Police Agency Compulsory Police Sugyeong Military Service and was discharged from the conscripted police on January 7, 2021.

Editorial summary

“Lee Won-keun” enters the record as south Korean actor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Won-keun, South and Korean can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 2012, 2015, 2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1991-06-27. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Won-keun, South and Korean.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Lee Won-keun” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Won-keun, South and Korean provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q268717. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991, 2012, 2015 and 2021.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lee Won-keun” 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.