unfortunately, he used to pick up wei4d project. my most fav of his drama is white christmas.

My favourite role for him was in Valid Love. The drama itself wasn't so great. But I think it was his most natural role.

White Christmas and What's up were very good drama but it played the same kind of "emo" role and it was a ensemble cast, so he only got a little part.

He was a good villain Scholar Who Walks the Night but I didn't like this drama.

Oh damn! As much as some of us beanies like Lee Soo Hyuk, he is one fine case of a decent actor with little to no luck in getting good project. Even if his drama is watchable his role would pretty much be a short stint like in "Tomorrow". So, I will do you guys one better and name one drama of his that you need to avoid at any cause: Born Again!

Personally, High School King of Savvy cracks me up... although that's mostly to See In Guk's credit...

I quite liked Handmade Love. It's a very short web-drama on YouTube but if you're looking for at least a little more of world-weary, broody, and romantic Lee Soo-hyuk, you can't go wrong with this.

Wow, started us off with a challenge, eh? 😂

I loved him in High School King of Savvy although, as usual, there was never enough 🙁

Oh! he was a tennis-playing jock in Lucky Romance - of course, the SL 😴 - but that is one pretty unwatchable show.

Vampire Idol eh
I dont watch that drama but there's Lee Soo-hyuk in it and 79 eps

Pen and paper in hand

Oh, don’t we all wish we had more Lee Soo-hyuk in our lives? Unfortunately, he’s one of those guys who, despite having the looks and the talent (not to mention that voice!), rarely seems to get substantial, meaty roles. Even in dramas where he’s credited as a lead (i.e. Doom at Your Service, Tomorrow), he basically only gets like 5 minutes of screen-time per episode or side plots with little impact to the main story.

But, there is some content out there. I’d say his most iconic role to date is in Scholar Who Walks the Night, where he plays a hot, evil vampire. The drama itself is kinda trashy, but he kills it as the main villain. Even if he definitely needed more screen-time.

My favourite drama which Lee Soo-hyuk’s been in has to be the drama special White Christmas. It isn’t necessarily a good recommendation as a Lee Soo-hyuk drama as he’s only a small part in an ensemble (featuring more than a few actors who achieved mainstream success after this), but a great recommendation as a drama. Lee Soo-hyuk, as much as I love him, has a notoriously hard time picking good projects and this one sticks out within his filmography because it’s actually good. I say you guys should check it out if you haven’t yet.

I liked him in the Man who lives in My house (Not sure if the tile is correct). The one with Soo-A. But the drama has a super weird premise.

He was lovely to look at as an assassin in Tree With Deep Roots. I also second White Christmas.

Well, I would recommend youtube clips/compilation of his character Gwi from Scholar who walks the night. The drama itself ...no. For whole drama -it's Handmade love and High school king of savvy. First drama for LSH only and other drama is one of his more enjoyable drama. The drama I would not recommend is Doom, even with all the pretty.

My fav of his projects is definitely the high school psychological drama White Christmas. It's an ensemble, but he does get an interesting character storyline, and it was also the first work for a lot of other actors that have broken out since (Kim Woo-bin, Sung Joon, Esom, etc.). Because of this the acting in the show is a little green, but it has terrific writing, cinematography and music.

White Christmas (all around stellar rookie line up ). As Vampire Gwi, he greatlY intrigued me (Scholar Who Walks the Night). It’s such a great vampire name~

White Christmas! Tree With Deep Roots! Obviously! They've only been mentioned a dozen times already! hahaha
He's only supporting in those but still makes an impression.

If you don't want to watch all of Scholar Who Walks in the Night- may I second the suggestion of just bingeing Gwi MVs on youtube? :P :P

The first half is funny, but back half of Man Living in Our House is Not Good, and drags and is boring, and his role is kinda not very interesting (typical SL)- except that I finished that show for Jo Boa's bitchy second lead and her crush on LSH soooo ...yaknow, if you knew that going in it might be doable. (plus Model Avengers MLs because as a bonus you get KYK!)

I just realised that Ziggy and LSH have been in multiple projects together, dramas and movies, and I like none of them- that is grossly unfair and rude, on both me and both of them, whom I like immensely. (No, I didn't like HKOS, and yes, I never finished it... 👀 Ziggy was great but when is Ziggy not great.)
Also full squad Model Avengers Reunion when.

(if none of these options work for you: may I suggest drowning yourself in the countless LSH gifs that exist on tumblr and crying ;) )

Scholar Who Walks the Night. Such a great performance!

WHITE CHRISTMASSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! It was his first drama. The cast was green. But that’s what made it lightning in a bottle.

And The Man Living in Our House. Imagining him as a man child with robot toys makes me smile every time. And there’s Kim Young Kwang as former thug turned mandu maker. That was awesome. He’s so underrated too.

His visuals are unmistakable. I’d recommend just FF any of his shows to his parts and skipping the rest. 😆

Doom at your service is where I started to find him hot. I guess I used to find him sort of ethereally pretty but age had added hotness and manliness. That drama sort of went off the rails (which was disappointing since I found both couples so shippable!), but his role is sort of divorced from the main story, so you can technically fast-forward.

Like others, I recommend White Christmas. It had a stellar ensemble and story. Who would have thought all these unknowns in a shorter-length drama would hit it big?

Watch him in the film Pipeline with Seo In-guk.

Why nobody mentioned Local Hero/Nieghbour Hero? He appears in every episode and is actually a second lead in the every meaning of the word. He is on screen bigger part of the episode, and has to play a fun character. The drama is also quite nice. Not the best, but entertaining (ignore the FL, please, she gets better later). No romance for him tough, but other than this, he is funny, positive, a bit aloof. Try, it worth it (even if only for LSH)!

Sadly, he does get pushed into those tsundere-type characters. I watched Scholar all the way through because of him (and I love Lee Jun-Ki in anything... except this). If you accept Scholar Who Walks at Night as campy vampire trash, it will help to get through it. Gwi is something to behold.

The thing about Lee Soo-hyuk, is that he is a bit of a goofball. His bestie is Kim Young-kwang, so watching them together in Sweet Stranger/Man Who Lives in Our House is fun. But really, it's all the behind the scenes stuff that endears LSH to me. Watching he and Seo In-Gyuk try to out-model each other on a catwalk is hilarious. Or he and KYK do silly model poses... But yes, stay away from Born Again lol! The actors tried their damnedest, to no avail. I do hope he gets something with more substance soon.

I would love to see Lee Soo-hyuk and the whole TOMORROW crew (including Rowoon) in the sageuk sequel or would it be prequel?

Nice to see a post dedicated to Lee Soo-hyuk's body of work in kdramaland. Hopefully he'll continue to get good roles and be cast in worthwhile kdramas. I've watched Lee Soo-hyuk in the following dramas (asterisk denotes a top pick/role of his to check out):

*White Christmas (2011)
*Tree with Deep Roots (2011)
*Don't Look Back : The Legend of Orpheus (2013)
*High School King of Savvy (2014)
*Valid Love (2014-2015)
*Scholar Who Walks the Night (2015)
*Local Hero (2016)
Lucky Romance (2016)
*Tomorrow (2022)

Javabeans & Girlfriday were fans of *Vampire Idol which aired 2011-2012:
https://www.dramabeans.com/2012/01/interview-with-the-vampire-idols/
https://www.dramabeans.com/2012/05/thing-vs-thing-vampires-in-dramaland/

I remember first seeing him in Tree with Deep Roots. Man, I said this man will be lead someday. Although he had small parts in the said drama, he stole the scene quite a bit with the broody persona of an assassin.

I have pretty much watched whatever shows that has Lee Soo Hyuk in it since a decade ago :X I have watched majority of his dramas AND movies AND variety show/MV appearances, no matter how small the role it or how bad the storyline was, because... we all know he has visuals to die for, the model height, the tall built, the sexy manly voice...

As pointed out by majority, some of the To-watch dramas (excluding Tomorrow) includes, and in my order of favourites:

1. High School King of Savvy - funny romcom as 2nd ML, he was portrayed as this cool, emotionless/emotional role lol

2. Scholar Who Walk Through The Night - a helluva sexy/hawt and sometimes topless Joseon vampire. Most of the time I wasn't even paying attention to what he's saying... just mainly salivating the aesthetics he displays lol

3. Valid Love - he's the younger 2nd ML who falls in love with an older woman who has seems to lead quite a tragic life. It's a melo drama and I have to say it's rather hard to watch but his scenes with the FL were quite sweet whenever they're together.

4. Tree With Deep Roots - although Lee Soo Hyuk's role quite small here as a masked assassin but his appearance will definitely grow on you. I personally love this saeguk palace drama that I even teared at the scenes King Sejong teared too. Wonderful performances by other veteran actors in the show.

5. Vampire Idol/White Christmas - I grouped them together because they're kinda similar and like an extended version of each other?? Vampire Idol is a funny shit variety/drama-ish kinda show. Nice entertainment. White Christmas is a little suspense and emo? But idk, both seem very teeny bopper & entertaining to me.

5. Ipanema Boy - this is a movie of him as a slim surfboard guy who lives at a beach. Quite a sweet coming-of-age kinda show. The acting was quite raw cos it was one of his early works. Not much a plot either but u get to see a lot of him and the FL haha.

The below are in between 'meh' to 'acceptable'. You're welcome to drop/skip the show if it doesn't interest you:
1) Lucky Romance - started out promising then turned quite disappointing. He's a star tennis player but I don't find this set up helpful in the story nor his relationship with the FL. It mainly showed his manager likely having a crush on him instead lol

2) Sweet Stranger & Me - I basically don't get the whole story and thought they could have done better with the casting/setup. I mainly fast fwd to his scenes the entire show.

3) Born Again/Doom At Your Service - I grouped both together cos... both are quite meh to me lol Even watching Lee Soo Hyuk as a cameo on Runway Cop (starring Kang Jihwan) is more entertaining than these 2 shows that I totally absolutely don't get it.

Bonus:
-Lee Soo Hyuk & Hong Jonghyun hosted Style Log for under 20 episodes introducing street wear, active wear or other fashion trends. It's available on YT.
-When he was signed on with YG, he appeared in...