Lee Hyeong-min

Lee Hyeong-min is a South Korean television director whose identifiable credits include romance melodrama, supernatural comedy, and body-swap fantasy. His work is especially associated with dramas written by Lee Kyung-hee and Baek Mi-kyung, and with projects made for major Korean broadcasters including KBS, JTBC, and MBC. One of his best-known early directing credits is KBS2’s 2004 I’m Sorry, I Love You, written by Lee Kyung-hee. The series stars So Ji-sub as Cha Moo-hyuk, a Korean adoptee raised in Australia, and Im Soo-jung as Song Eun-chae. Moo-hyuk’s return to Korea, his troubled connection to his birth family, and his relationship with Eun-chae drive the drama. Its cast also includes Jung Kyung-ho and Seo Ji-young. The series ran for sixteen episodes on KBS2 from November 8 through December 28, 2004, and recorded a reported 28.6-percent peak nationwide rating. Lee later directed JTBC’s Strong Woman Do Bong-soon, which premiered in 2017. Baek Mi-kyung’s story centers on Do Bong-soon, played by Park Bo-young, a woman born with hereditary superhuman strength. Park Hyung-sik plays Ahn Min-hyuk, the CEO who hires Bong-soon as his bodyguard, while Ji Soo plays detective In Gook-doo. Rather than treating strength only as spectacle, the series places Bong-soon’s power within workplace, romance, and crime-story plots, including kidnappings in the Dobong district. His collaboration with Baek continued on KBS2’s 2018 Miracle That We Met. In that fantasy drama, Kim Myung-min plays Song Hyun-chul, while Kim Hyun-joo plays his wife, Sun Hye-jin. After a traffic accident, the two men’s identical names and exchanged circumstances create the program’s central identity and family conflict. One works at a bank; the other owns a Chinese restaurant. Ko Chang-seok plays the other Hyun-chul, and Ra Mi-ran plays his wife. In 2019 Lee directed Chocolate for JTBC, reuniting with writer Lee Kyung-hee. Yoon Kye-sang plays neurosurgeon Lee Kang, and Ha Ji-won plays chef Moon Cha-young. Their histories are connected by a childhood encounter and by food, while much of the drama unfolds around a hospice. The series uses patients’ and families’ stories alongside the leads’ gradual relationship. Lee also directed MBC’s 2022 From Now On, Showtime!, starring Park Hae-jin as Cha Cha-woong, a magician who can see and employ ghosts, and Jin Ki-joo as police officer Go Seul-hae. The series combines stage magic, police cases, and ghostly helpers. Across these credits, Lee’s filmography is marked by collaborations, broadcaster shifts, and distinct dramatic premises among Korean broadcasters.