Kim Seung-jun
Kim Seung-jun is a South Korean voice actor born and raised in Seoul, South Korea.
In 1990, he debuted as a voice actor by joining Korean Broadcasting System's Voice Acting Division. After four years of exclusive work at KBS, he became a freelancer.
In the late 1990s, Kim shot to stardom with voicing Zelgadis Greywords on Slayers and Kaede Rukawa on Slam Dunk. Since then, he has voiced leading roles in a variety of animated works including Pet Shop of Horrors, His and Her Circumstances, Saiyuki, Fruits Basket, The Prince of Tennis, Detective School Q and Demon King from Today!. For movie fans, he is well recognized for covering film stars such as Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Cillian Murphy, Johnny Depp, Leslie Cheung, Matt Damon and Stephen Chow. Kim also dubbed Saladin on a 1999 South Korean role-playing video game The War of Genesis III.
Many fans of Kim often refer to him as 왕자님 meaning "The Prince". The nickname seems to have been derived from his tender voice and the characters who the voice actor mainly dubs.
Kim is best known for his voicing SpongeBob SquarePants on the Korean dub of SpongeBob SquarePants, Sesshomaru on the Korean dub of InuYasha, Roronoa Zoro on the Korean dub of a Japanese television animation series One Piece, the Tenth Doctor on the Korean dub of a British science fiction television series Doctor Who and more recently, Captain Marvelous on the Korean dub of Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger.
Career
Voice acting
TV animation dubbing
A
- Animal Detective Kiruminzoo
- * Pulse Ryūdō
- * Taizo Sanders
- * Tatsurou Komusubi
B
- Being Ian
- * Ian Kelley
- Black Cat
- * Train Heartnet
- Blood+
- * Hagi
C
- Le Chevalier D'Eon
- * D'Eon de Beaumont
- Cooking Master Boy
- * Leon
- * Shouan
- Cowboy Bebop
- * Grencia Mars Elijah Guo Eckener
- Curious George
- * The Man with the Yellow Hat
- Curious Play
- * Tamahome
D
- The Daughter of Twenty Faces
- * Twenty Faces
- Demon King from Today!
- * Wolfram von Bielefeld
- Detective Conan
- * Harley Hartwell
- * Makoto Okuda on the episodes "Murderer, Shinichi Kudo" and "Shinichi's True Face and Ran's Tears"
- Detective School Q
- * Ryū Amakusa
- Dragon
- * Beaver
- Dragon Ball
- * Yamcha
- Dragon Ball Z
- * Yamcha
- Dragon Ball Z Kai
- * Vegeta
F
- The Fairly OddParents
- * Cosmo
- Fruits Basket
- * Yuki Sohma
- Futari wa Pretty Cure
- * Pisard
- * Shougo Fujimura
- Future GPX Cyber Formula
- * Asurada
- * Knight Shoemach
H
- His and Her Circumstances
- * Soichiro Arima
- Honey and Clover
- * Takumi Mayama
I
- InuYasha
- * Sesshomaru
L
- The Legend of the Legendary Heroes
- * Sion Astal
- Legendz
- * Bruno Sparks
- * Shiron the Windragon
M
- '
- *
- '
- * Time Turner/Doctor Whooves
N
- Nurse Angel Ririka SOS
- * Kanon
O
- One Piece
- * Roronoa Zoro
- Origami Warriors
- * Hyeon Dal-gook
P
- Patlabor
- * Asuma Shinohara
- Pet Shop of Horrors
- * Count D
- Powerpuff Girls Z
- * Professor Utonium
- The Prince of Tennis
- * Shusuke Fuji
S
- Saiyuki
- * Cho Hakkai
- Saiyuki Reload Gunlock
- * Cho Hakkai
- Scryed
- * Ryuho
- SD Gundam Sangokuden Brave Battle Warriors
- * Sousou Gundam
- Shōnen Onmyōji
- * Rikugō
- Slam Dunk
- * Kaede Rukawa
- Slayers
- * Zelgadis Greywords
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- * SpongeBob SquarePants
- The Story of Saiunkoku
- * Seiran Shi
- Sugar Sugar Rune
- * Pierre Tempête de Neige
T
- Thomas & Friends
- * All the characters
- * The Mayor of Sodor
- * The Storyteller
- A Town Called Panic
- * Cowboy
- The Twelve Kingdoms
- * Keiki
- Twin Spica
- * Mr. Lion
V
- VeggieTales
- * Larry the Cucumber
- Viva Piñata
- * Franklin Fizzlybear
W
- Wedding Peach
- * Yousuke Fuuma
- Whistle!
- * Tatsuya Mizuno
Y
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters
- *Ryota Kajiki
- *Ryuji Otogi
- Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's
- *Jack Atlas
Animated movie dubbing
1990s
2000s
2010s
Film dubbing
0-9
- * Christian Bale as Dan Evans
- 10 Promises to My Dog
- * Etsushi Toyokawa as Yuichi Saito
B
- A Better Tomorrow
- * Leslie Cheung as Sung Tse-Kit
- A Better Tomorrow 2
- * Leslie Cheung as Sung Tse-Kit
- Breakfast on Pluto
- * Cillian Murphy as Patrick/Patricia "Kitten" Braden
- The Brothers Grimm
- * Heath Ledger as Jakob Grimm
C
- A Chinese Ghost Story
- * Leslie Cheung as Ning Caichen
- A Chinese Ghost Story: Part II
- * Leslie Cheung as Ning Caichen
- Closer
- * Clive Owen as Larry Gray
- Cool Runnings
- * Doug E. Doug as Sanka Coffie
- * Benoit Magimel as Detective Reda
D
- Days of Being Wild
- * Leslie Cheung as Yuddy
- The Departed
- * Matt Damon as Staff Sergeant Colin Sullivan
- Django Unchained
- * Leonardo DiCaprio as Calvin J. Candie
E
- Ed Wood
- * Johnny Depp as Ed Wood
F
- Face/Off
- * Alessandro Nivola as Pollux Troy
- The Faculty
- * Josh Hartnett as Zeke Tyler
- Farewell My Concubine
- * Leslie Cheung as Cheng Dieyi
G
- Girl with a Pearl Earring
- * Cillian Murphy as Pieter
- Gokaiger Goseiger Super Sentai 199 Hero Great Battle
- * Ryota Ozawa as Captain Marvelous/Gokai Red
- Good Will Hunting
- * Matt Damon as Will Hunting
- The Great Gatsby
- * Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby
H
- Heroic Duo
- * Ekin Cheng as Inspector Ken Li
I
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- * Colin Farrell, Johnny Depp, and Jude Law as Tony within the Imaginarium
- The Incredible Hulk
- * Edward Norton as Dr. Bruce Banner/Hulk
K
- Kung Fu Hustle
- * Stephen Chow as Sing
L
- L.A. Confidential
- * Guy Pearce as Det. Lt. Edmund "Ed" Exley
- Legends of the Fall
- * Brad Pitt as Tristan Ludlow
- Lucky Number Slevin
- * Josh Hartnett as Slevin Kelevra
M
- The Machinist
- * Christian Bale as Trevor Reznik
- Meet the Fockers
- * Owen Wilson as Kevin Rawley
- Meet the Parents
- * Owen Wilson as Kevin Rawley
- Memento
- * Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby
- Moonlight Express
- * Leslie Cheung as Shek Kar Bo/Tetsuya Misawa
N
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- * Chris Sarandon as Jack Skellington
O
- Ocean's Eleven
- * Brad Pitt as Rusty Ryan
- Ocean's Thirteen
- * Brad Pitt as Rusty Ryan
P
- '
- * Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow
- '
- * Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow
- * Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow
- Purple Noon
- * Alain Delon as Tom Ripley
R
- Romeo and Juliet
- * Leonard Whiting as Romeo Montague
S
- Seven
- * Brad Pitt as Detective David Mills
- Seven Years in Tibet
- * Brad Pitt as Heinrich Harrer
- Shanghai Knights
- * Owen Wilson as Roy O'Bannon
- Shanghai Noon
- * Owen Wilson as Roy O'Bannon/Wyatt Earp
- Shaolin Soccer
- * Stephen Chow as "Mighty Steel Leg" Sing
- The Storm Riders
- * Ekin Cheng as Whispering Wind
T
- Taxi
- * Naceri as Daniel
- The Time Traveler's Wife
- * Eric Bana as Henry DeTamble
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley
- * Cillian Murphy as Damien O'Donovan
W
- Wedding Crashers
- * Owen Wilson as John Beckwith
Foreign TV show dubbing
- Ben Hur
- * Joseph Morgan as Judah Ben Hur
- Charlie Jade
- * Jeffrey Pierce as Charlie Jade
- Cold Case
- * Blake Robbins and Jade Carter as David Lake on the episode "Late Returns"
- * Jimmi Simpson as Ryan Bayes on the episode "Churchgoing People"
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- * Peter Ho as Luo Xiaohu
- Dinotopia
- * Tyron Leitso as Karl Scott
- Doctor Who
- * David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor
- Home Improvement
- * Taran Noah Smith as Mark Taylor
- Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger
- * Ryota Ozawa as Captain Marvelous/Gokai Red
- Masked Rider Kabuto
- * Hiro Mizushima as Souji Tendou
- The Legend of Tarzan
- * Tarzan
- * Benno Fürmann as Erik/Siegfried of Xanten
- Three Kingdoms
- * Peter Ho as Lü Bu
Narrations
- The Age of Romance
- Best Food Recipe
- Classical Destinations
- Environment Special
- Interview Game
- The Most Beautiful Journey in the World
- Our Sole Earth
- Supernanny
- tvN eNEWS
Commercial film dubbing
- Heineken
- * Brad Pitt on a 2005 Super Bowl commercial "Beer Run"
- Nutrilite
- * Narration for "Farmer" commercial
- * Narration for "Nutrilite Double X" commercial
- * Narration for "The Vitality of Plant Nutrients" commercial
- Toyota Corolla
- * Narration for the commercial "Big Dream" featuring Hatsune Miku
Video game dubbing
- Aion Online
- Dota 2
- * Timbersaw
- The Epic of the Girls in the Sengoku Period
- * Yoshiyuki
- '
- * Curian
- MapleStory
- * Male Demonslayer
- Elsword
- * Ain
- '
- * Amuro Ray
- * Kozo Fuyutsuki
- * Ryoji Kaji
- * Shigeru Aoba
- The War of Genesis III
- *
- The War of Genesis III: Part 2
- * Saladin
TV appearance
Stage appearance
Awards
Toonichoice
KBS Radio Drama Awards
Trivia
- Kim sang some theme songs of his works, including "A New World, the opening theme for the first season of InuYasha and "Ripped Pants ", a soundtrack from SpongeBob SquarePants. The latter became popular in South Korea, through lots of Internet parodies of the lyrics beginning with "그런 짓은 하지 말아야 했는데 ". These parodies were used as a satire of someone for doing what should not have been done as near as the person is not stupid.