Yoo Seung-ho

Yoo Seung-ho (born 17 August 1993) is a South Korean actor. He rose to fame as a child actor in The Way Home (2002), and has since featured in films and televisions series, including teen drama Master of Study (2010), suspense thriller Blind (2011), and romantic comedy Operation Proposal (2012). After his military service, Yoo starred in Remember: War of the Son (2015).

Early life

Yoo Seung-ho was born and raised in Incheon. The younger of two siblings, Yoo later said his family had been poor.

Career

Beginnings as child actor

Yoo made his entertainment debut in a N016 cellphone commercial in 1999. The advertising agency responsible for the campaign had been looking for a "new face," not a professional model, so Yoo's mother sent in a photo of her son and he was chosen.

When he was seven years old, Yoo began his career as a child actor in 2000, first appearing in television dramas. But Yoo rose to stardom in his first film The Way Home, playing a bratty city boy who learns to appreciate country life when he's forced to spend the summer with his deaf-mute grandmother. The low-budget film was a surprise box office hit in 2002, drawing more than 4 million admissions. Thereafter affectionately labeled as "Korea's Younger Brother," Yoo also starred in Heart Is... (2006) about a boy and his beloved dog, and Unforgettable (2008) about schoolchildren from a remote island who go on a field trip to a candy factory in Seoul during the 1970s.