Kim Yong-seok

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A caution first, because this one is easy to get wrong. He is frequently listed as playing Kim An in Love Class and Love Class Season 2. He is not in season one. TMDB credits him with ten episodes of the series as a whole; season one runs six episodes and season two runs ten, so ten can only be season two, and the season one record lists a different pair of leads. The error comes from treating a franchise as if it were one continuous show, which is a specific and easy mistake to make when a database holds three seasons under a single title.

That mistake is worth pulling apart, because the franchise is genuinely unusual. Across the three records, Love Class does not carry its cast forward at all: season one, season two and season three each have their own leads, with no overlap between them. It is a format rather than a story, closer to an anthology built around a recurring premise than to a continuing series. Very little Korean BL has run to three seasons of anything, and the one that has did it by replacing everybody each time.

What that means for him specifically is that his single credit is a lead in the middle instalment of a running format, which is a real job and not a small one, and also that the format moved on without him. Whether that is by choice, by casting, or because Korean short-form drama simply does not retain performers, is not documented anywhere and will not be speculated on here.

Beyond the role, the record is thin in the way it usually is for this corner of the industry. TMDB holds a date of birth, two photographs and an Instagram handle. There is no biography, no place of birth, no IMDb entry, no Wikidata item and no agency that can be confirmed. None of that will be filled in from fan databases, and the page is short as a result.