Singer and actor Kim Hyun-joong said he may have earned more than 10 billion won during the time of "Boys Over Flowers."
On the 27th, a new video titled "We invited a space mega-star who was sleeping!" was posted on the YouTube channel "B-grade Studio." Guests in the video were Kim Hyun-joong and Park Hyo-jun, who talked together.
On that day Nam Ho-yeon mentioned "Boys Over Flowers," saying, "In Kim Hyun-joong's case, he was in SS501 and then walked the path of an actor." He said, "At that time the ratings for "Boys Over Flowers" were almost number one," and Kim Seung-jin agreed, saying, "If you didn't watch it, you couldn't have a conversation about it." In response, Kim Hyun-joong explained, "People misunderstand that this was the number-one rated show. The number one was MBC's "East of Eden."
However, Kim Hyun-joong recalled the popularity at the time, saying, "I don't think I could feel that popularity because it was so great. Looking back now, I would wake up and film a commercial, wake up and film something else, so I couldn't go out." Listening to this, Choi Sung-min said, "Then you must have made an enormous amount of money," and Kim Hyun-joong admitted, "I earned a considerable amount."
When Nam Ho-yeon said, "Then you never know, you just kept working. You don't know how much is piling up in my bank account," Kim Hyun-joong emphasized, "But you know that. 'I'm so busy that I don't know how much I'm making' seems like a lie. You have to be busy enough to know roughly how much you made; there's no one who doesn't know."
At that time Kim Hyun-joong was only 23 years old. When Choi Sung-min said, "If you made that much, you must have earned about 10 billion won," Kim Hyun-joong said, "Well, I may have earned even more than that."
Meanwhile, Kim Hyun-joong debuted in 2005 with the group SS501, and in the same year started appearing in the MBC sitcom "Nonstop 5," followed by appearances in the dramas "Boys Over Flowers," "Playful Kiss," "The Greatest Love: Birth of a Feat," and "When Time Stops," among others. He married his first love, a non-celebrity of the same age, in February 2022, and they welcomed a son in October of the same year.
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