Shin Dongho (born June 29, 1994) is a South Korean singer, actor and member of the boyband, U-KISS under NH Media. Dongho is the youngest member of the band that include Soohyun, Kiseop, Eli, AJ, Hoon and Kevin.
Dongho can communicate in Mandarin because he studied in Beijing, China. At a young age, he was known to have a deep voice and an unpredictable personality.
He studied middle school in Seoul Yonggang Middle School and is currently attending first year High School in Hanrim Entertainment Arts School.
Dongho is the most active member of the group having participated in the most number of projects compared to the other six members. He had appeared on reality shows such asRaising Idol, Idol Maknae Rebellion, and Sonyeon Sonyeo Gayo Baekseo. Dongho also appeared on SBS' Strong Heart, Love Chaser, MBC's Star Do Do Chores, SBS' Quiz Sixth Sense, KBS' Star Golden Bell, Quiz to Change the World and movies such as My Black Mini Dress, Villain and Widow, and Mr. Idol. He also dubbed the voice of the lead character for an animated movie, Hong Gil Dong 2084.
Pre-debut
Dongho is oriented to the world of show business, since his father owns a magazine company. He became a trainee for NH Media and was chosen as one of the potential members for an upcoming boyband.
[edit]2008-2010: Debut and Road to Stardom
Dongho is one of the members of a Korean boyband, probably the third member to join U-KISS in 2008. He was known to have a corn row hairstyle in their first music video, Not Young. Dongho is notable as the most active member of the group having participated in the most number of projects comparing to the six other members. He had TV appearances on reality shows such as Idol Maknae Rebellion, Raising Idol, and Sonyeon Sonyeo Gayo Baekseo. Dongho even gained much popularity on his TV guestings on SBS' Strong Heart, Love Chaser, MBC's Star Do Do Chores, SBS' Quiz Sixth Sense, KBS' Star Golden Bell, and Quiz to Change the World.
Aside from solo projects, Dongho also participated in their reality show as a group. Among these are UKISS Vampire, You Know U-KISS and Chef Kiss. As a member, he had released 5 mini albums to date entitled N-Generation, Bring It Back 2 Old School,ContiUkiss, Breaktime, and Bran New Kiss and 2 full album entitled, Only One and Neverland.
He was also one of the casts for many films such as My Black Mini Dress where Dongho's scene with Yoo In Na caught a lot of attention.U-KISS received good reviews by appearing on a preview event of the movie My Black Mini Dress, which Dongho acted in. In Idol Maknae Rebellion, Jung Jun Ha challenged the maknaes to a challenge, Jja Jjang Myun (noodles with a black bean sauce) Eating Contest. Dongho, downed the whole bowl in only 59 seconds, which then featured on an article, U-KISS Dongho can take on any food challenge. In his appearance in SBS's Strong Heart on April 12, Dongho admitted that he ran away from home during hischildhood life.During that tumultuous time in his life, Dongho revealed that he had packed everything into his bag and left home. Despite his young age, Dongho explained that he even withdrew everything he had in his bank account.
[edit]2011-present: TV shows and movies
He starred in his first acting role, Villain & Widow where he plays as a good-looking middle school student. Dongho also star in the MBC full-length drama, Royal Family. Due to his busy schedule as a U-KISS member, Dongho turned down five leading roles for movies and stated that he lacks more aspect as a leading actor. Dongho emphasized that he want to learn first in his smaller roles before accepting major role as an actor.
Aside from his career as an entertainer, Dongho is also a member of a Baseball team. In one episode of SBS's Invincible Team, he revealed that he wanted to build a baseball park for Korean baseball fans. On February 28, U-KISS began filming a movie with Jay Park, Kim Soo Ro and Korean actress Park Ye Jin with a working title, Mr. Idol. This was the group's first movie. On the June edition of the magazine Cosmopolitan Korea, Dongho along with co-member Kim Eli, including actress Seo Hyo Rim were featured to show off summer outfits. Dongho wears the most popular sunglasses during summer time, which are called the aviators. The aviators go well with his outfit like grey jacket, royal blue shirt and his flower boy hairstyle.
Dongho also starred in a 3D animation movie titled Hong Gil Dong 2084 as the voice of the lead character, Hong Gil Dong which had its premiere on August 18. The production company stated "Dongho has a cute face with versatile talents[...] thus having a fanbase that consists of both younger and older generations[...] bold personality especially resembles the animation's character, Hong Gil Dong". It took three years to accomplish 'Hong Gil Dong 2084' which costs reaching 36 billion won.Shin, along with co-U-KISS member, Hoon has been casts as one of the lead role for a TV-movie series, Holy Land. This will be Dongho's fourth acting career and is expected to be shown on-air on April. Holy Land is about a high school student who does not fit in at school or at home and spends endless nights rebelling against society in the streets, picks up boxing and begins to learn his worth, picking up love and friendship along the way.
He act as a lead role for an upcoming movie Don’t Cry Mommy, and is expected to premiere soon in Japan.On October 15, 2012 during the press conference of the movie Kim YongHan, the director praises Dongho's acting ability. He stated, "...I didn’t expect to receive such a big response to Dongho’s character, a minor sexual predator". In the film, Dongho plays an over-confident high school student, who performs the crime of sexual assault on a female student, Eunha (played by Nam Bora) and does not feel the consequences of his actions. The director further stated, "...he truly acts very well. If another idol had tried, they wouldn’t have been able to as there is a lot of depth in the confidence of the character to make such bold decisions.he acts extremely well".
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