HOW HIGH CAN YOU GO

Just thought I’d share a few words on a deeply significant topic. Given that I often fall a mindless victim to Youtube’s algorithms, it was no surprise I clicked on a video promising vital statistics on the physical height of kdrama’s top male stars.

I thought I’d jot a few names and make one or two (deeply significant) observations. Let me state from the outset that I am a 5ft10 female, so that gives you an idea of what I look up to and down on (physically of course, not morally or aesthetically).
There was quite a list of them, so I only jotted down the few that I was both familiar with and interested in, and where I’ve seen them:

5 foot 9
Proof that great things come in small packages:
• Kwak Dong-yeon (Taec’s abused little brother in Vincenzo)
• Yoo Seung-ho (wonderful star of I Am Not a Robot)
• Jang Hyuk (lovelorn gangster in Greasy Melo)
• Lee Je-hoon (Signal)

5 foot 10
I’m eye-to-eye with these gorgeous leading men.
• Song Joong-ki (Vincenzo, Descendants of the Sun)
• Lee Jun-ho (King the Land, Greasy Melo, 2pm)
• Jung Hae-in (Pretty Noona, One Spring Night, Tune in for Love)

5 foot 11
• Wi Ha-joon (Pretty Noona, Romance is a Bonus Book)
• Kim Bum (Boys Before Flowers)
• Lee Sun-Kyun (Coffee Prince)
• Kim Soo-hyun (You From Another Star, It’s OK to not be OK)

6 foot
• Yoo Yeon-suk (Hospital Playlist)
• Choi Tae-jun (Suspicious Partner)
• So Ji-sub (Oh my Venus)
• Gong Yoo (Coffee Prince)
• Kim Seon-ho (Hometown Cha Cha Cha)
• Ji Chang-wook (Healer, Empress Ki, Suspicious Partner, et al)
• Park Bo-gum (Love in the Moonlight)

6 foot 1
In these last two sections we’re really getting into our towering alpha males.
Most of these guys look really tall and I wasn’t suprised to learn their height. Lee Jong-suk looks exceptionally tall, partly because he’s so lanky. And Taec towers in 2pm. The exception was Kim Young-dae who I have only ever seen in Shooting Stars, who I tended to think of as small. Then of course I now realise he was acting with Lee Sung-kyung who is a very tall, slim model/actress, and he’s definitely taller than her. I think it was his off-duty persona that made him seem small, all hunched up and vulnerable in his over-sized sweats. And that lawyer towered over him.
• Ok Taec-yeon (Vincenzo, 2pm)
• Kim Young-dae (Shooting Stars)
• Lee Jong-suk (W Two Worlds, Romance is a Bonus Book)
• Park Seo-jun (What’s Wrong With, Itaewon Class, Fight for my Way)
• Hyun Bin (Crash Landing)

6 foot 2
Up where the air is clear.
• Kim Woo-bin (Heirs)
• Nam Joo-hyuk (Weightlifting Fairy, 25 21, Start up, Bride of….)
• Lee Min-ho (Boys Before Flowers, Heirs, King Eternal Monarch, Legend of the Blue Sea)

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    This is hilarious. I’ve kept a list of Tall Korean Actors for years, but the heights I have for these actors are a little lower than yours – tbf official heights are always a little inconsistent and sus – …

    Should I go find my list to compare??? 🤣

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    Whoa lowkey wild, I had thought that most of the actors who are listed as 5’10 were shorter than the ones that are listed as 5’9 🤯 I also didn’t realise JCW was 6 foot?? And same with Kim Young-dae – didn’t realise he was quite tall! Park Seo-joon and Hyun-bin being the same height is also not computing. I did not realise LMH was that tall either.

    Thanks for posting – I love learning random bits of trivia like this. Funnily enough I was also just searching up actors heights this morning because I was wondering if Song Kang was as tall as Rowoon. Rowoon has said he’s around 6’3 and I’m actually not sure exactly how tall Song Kang is because there’s an array of different “stats” on his height ranging from 5’8 upwards, but most common “consensus” seems to be 6’1 – fun fact!

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      LMH isn’t that tall, that’s one I’m VERY sure about haha

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      Wow, that’s quite a range for Song Kang!

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        I just looked up Asian Wiki, and it lists (for example) Kim Young-dae as 185cm which is just under 6ft 1, and Lee Sung-Kyung as 176cm, ie just over 5ft 9. I would have thought she was taller than that…

        And I’ve found several varying heights for JCW. I can see this is a rabbit hole…!

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          Ahh yeah no defs a rabbit hole when you start digging I think with some of them – and often times I know with idols they play up or play down heights for whatever marketing reason so I’m not sure if it’s the same in broader K-ent 🤷‍♀️

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        Right! He seems like 6’1 is reasonable because yes camera angles in dramas but even in just interview videos and what not he seems tall tall – I think I’m going to figure out what height his co-stars are in promo videos and then try eyeball it from there 😂

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          Camera angles and 360 o orbital spins create dreamy height illusions! I fall for it every time!

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      You were not kidding about the range on Song Kang LMFAO, I can’t find a common consensus at all actually! ((173, 183, 184, 186) – only one of those makes him 6’1″!) but also he’s definitely not as tall as Rowoon. Very few are.

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    Great list! Very handy list 😇

    LMH can’t be 6’ 2”. No way.
    Kim Young Kwang definitely is 6 2 I would think.
    Rowoon too.

    As far as I know Lee Ki-woo is the tallest one I know. More than 6’3”.

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      Asian Wiki lists LMH as 187cm, which is 6ft 1.6in.
      Wikipedia says “187cm (6ft 2)” and cites LMH’s official website as source…

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        You know now that you mention it… rounding to the nearest inch, yeah fair enough for 6’2″. My list is by metric, and I have many more above him and I think I just don’t think of him as that tall haha.

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          IN the video I watched, there were quite a few above LMH but none that I was familiar with….

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          Am replying here to your most recent comment, since there’s no reply tab on it…. the shows are helpful, I think, if you can be bothered! There must be a wide variation in people’s knowledge here. For my list I only picked out the few that I knew, and also that I liked! The video I referenced had faces with the names, and for some actors, it’s the face I recognise first, which then makes me connect with the name.

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            Quick fact about reply threads- if you clicked reply to your own comment, since you would still in theory be replying to my previous comment, I believe I would still get the notification. Feel free to test it in reply to this haha.

            I’ll see what I can do! (for as long as I stay interested in this today at least haha).
            Do you have a link to the video? I will add it to my sources.

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