When Lee was in high school, he was enthusiastic about basketball and used to play basketball for almost twelve hours a day.In his high school days, he also liked music and advertising and wanted to work as a producer in radio shows.Lee Sun-kyun was a part of the lightening unit of the drama club of his college. When they were practising for a drama, one of his seniors excluded his name from the play, and Sun-kyun was chosen as his seniors replacement. While acting on stage, Sun-kyun felt a connection with the stage and decided to become an actor. He dropped out of his college and enrolled at Korea National University of Arts in Seoul to pursue BFA in Acting.He has acted in many popular musical theatres including, Grease (2003), Indangsu Love Song (2005), and Love, Love, Love (2013).Lee made his television debut with the 2002 MBCs K-drama Lovers, in a very small supporting role and went on to act in supporting roles in many popular K-dramas and television theatres like, Thousand Years of Love (2003), Chakhan Dangshin Loveholic (2003), Semi-transparent (2004), Innocent Love (2005), Loveholic (2005), Taereung National Village (2005), and Fugitive Lee Doo-yong (2006).He has acted in several short films such as, Goodbye Day (2003), Survival Meeting Game (2003), Hitchhiking (2004), Curry and Rice Story (2005), and Lost in the Mountains (2009).Lee Sun-kyun made his breakthrough with the 2007 medical K-drama White Tower and went on to star in famous K-drama such as, Coffee Prince (2007), Triple (2009), Pasta (2010), Golden Time (2012), Miss Korea (2013), Listen to Love (2016), My Mister (2018), and Prosecutor Civil War (2019).He made his feature film debut with Make It Big (2002) as Woo Jung-chul and appeared as a supporting character in many feature film such as, A Perfect Match (2002), Scent of Love (2003), Survival Meeting Game (2003), My Mother, the Mermaid (2004), Love, So Divine (2004), Our Town (2007), and Night and Day (2008).He made his breakthrough in the film industry with the 2008 film Sa-kwa and acted in many successful Korean films like Paju (2009), Okis Movie (2010), Helpless (2012), Nobodys Daughter Haewon (2012), A Hard Day (2014), The Kings Case Note (2017), Take Point (2018), and Parasite (2019).His trademark is impatient perfectionist type role. This trait came into the radar of the audience after Lees hit serial Pasta (2010). According to netizens, it would be weird to see him, not showing frustration. [3]Koreaboo.