Kim Tae-hwan
BIOGRAPHY
Kim Tae-hwan (Korean: 김태환; born July 12, 1992) is a South Korean actor and former fashion model. He plays Lee Ro-a (“Roa”), a kind senior who has just returned from military service, opposite Han Hyun-jun’s Cha Ji-woo in Love Class (2022), the first season of the Love Class boys’ love franchise.
He began his career as a runway and print model before moving into acting with a lead role in the Chinese series My Amazing Boyfriend (2016), playing Xue Lingqiao in a drama billed as an homage to My Love from the Star. He later appeared as a contestant on Netflix’s dating show Single’s Inferno (2021) before joining the cast of Love Class (2022) as Roa.
BLGLFlix editorial view
A runway model, a Chinese fantasy lead, a Netflix dating show, then a BL. Four unrelated things in nine years.
Kim Tae-hwan began in print and runway work, took a lead in the Chinese series My Amazing Boyfriend in 2016, appeared as a contestant on Single’s Inferno in 2021, and then played Lee Ro-a in Love Class in 2022, the season that started the franchise.
The dating show in the middle is the modern part. Korean reality television now functions as a casting pool: a season on a popular format produces name recognition that no supporting role can, and productions hire from it directly. It is a faster route than a decade of small parts and it selects for entirely different qualities.
The 2016 Chinese lead is also worth noticing, because that door has since narrowed considerably for Korean actors. A filmography can record a market that no longer exists in the same form, which is one of the more useful things a database does.
PROFILE DETAILS
- Native Name
- 김태환
- Real Name
- Kim Tae-hwan
- Pronouns
- he/him
- Born
- (Age 34)
- Gender
- Male
- Western Zodiac
- Cancer ♋
- Chinese Zodiac
- Monkey 🐒
- Profession
- Nationality
- Debut
- 2016 — My Amazing Boyfriend (2016), Chinese drama, as Xue Lingqiao
- Years Active
- 2016-present
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