Kim Seo-yeong


Kim Seo-yeong is a South Korean voice artist who started her career in 1999 at Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation, as in-house voice artist. After three years, she became freelance and made remarkable presence in South Korean entertainment district with her outstanding voice acting skills.
Remaining as the best voice artist in South Korea for over 20 years, she has dubbed countless main characters in mainstream animation and movies. Especially, her presence in high quality TV commercials as voice-over narrator is remarked irreplaceable. Her unique voice performs such wide range of characters, it makes almost hard to believe it's coming from one person. She is much admired among South Korean voice artists as their role model, her voice tone and acting style sets a trend and is popularly copied by many in South Korean voice acting community.

Career

TV commercial voice-over

"Genius Seo-young" is what South Korean commercial community refers her to. Creative improvisation and outstanding acting skill make her irreplaceable within the field. Many producers in the field evaluate her performance as ever-growing as her career goes. Seo-young not only manages to act various voice tones within single piece of work but also has high voice imitation skills which many producers applaud for its conveniences. Below is an example piece of work where first line is acted by Kim Seo-yeong, imitating the original actress ' voice and second line is acted by the original actress, Bae Doona.
She also is capable of acting in English. Below is example piece of work :
Seo-young performs over 1,000 TV commercials annually and over 10,000 pieces of work have been broadcast so far.

Awards

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Film

Beauty and the Beast - Belle
The Emoji Movie - Jailbreak
- Smurfette
Despicable Me 3 - Agnes
How to Train Your Dragon 2 - Astrid
Despicable Me 2 - Agnes
Despicable Me - Agnes
How to Train Your Dragon - Astrid
WALL-E - Eve
Hula Girls - Sanae by Yū Aoi
Crying Out Love, in the Centre of the World - Aki Hirose by Masami Nagasawa
The Bourne Identity - Marie Kreutz by Franka Potente
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Ronald Weasley by Rupert Grint
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Ronald Weasley by Rupert Grint
Lord of the Rings - Eowyn by Miranda Otto
Shallow Hal - Rosemary by Gwyneth Paltrow
Charlie's Angels - Alex Munday by Lucy Liu
The Heroic Trio - Chat by Maggie Cheung

TV series

Legend of Lu Zhen - Lu Zhen by Zhao Liying
Prison Break - Maricruz Delgado by Camille Guaty
Season 4, 5 - Detective Jessica Angell by Emmanuelle Vaugier
24 - Kimberly Bauer by Elisha Cuthbert
Smallville - Chloe Sullivan by Allison Mack

Animation

Doraemon - Doraemon
Bonobono - Bonobono
Dr. Slump - Arale
PriPara - Falulu, Jururu, Unicorn
The Boy and The Beast - Kyuta
Your Lie in April - Tsubaki
Haikyu!! Talent and Sense - Hitoka Yachi
Haikyu!! Concept no Tatakai - Hitoka Yachi
Junji Ito Collection - Tomie
Kaleido Star - Sora Naegino
Sgt. Frog Keroro - Seol-hwa Kwon

[Voice-over]

TV Commercial (''link to reference video'')

PSA
COSMETICS
ELECTRONICS / MOBILE
FOOD / BEVERAGE
LIVING NECESSITIES

Animation OST

MBC Infinite Challenge : Ep.447 The film of the Weekend - Begin Again dubbing for Violet

On-Stage

Concert MC

‘November Rain’ - The November love story telling by genius voice artist Seo-young Kim
‘Classic detox concert with voice artist Seo-young Kim’ MC
‘Orchestra story telling with Musical actor Kai and MBC voice artist Seo-young Kim ’ MC : Seo-san, Ul-san, Ga-pyeong, Busan National Tour
Eugène Ionesco ‘The lesson’ - Main student