Choi Siwon is a Korean singer and actor born in 1987. He is a member of the popular boy band Super Junior and its Chinese subgroup Super Junior-M. Siwon debuted in 2005 as part of Super Junior and has since gained fame in both Korea and China for his music and acting roles. He is known for his role in the 2006 Hong Kong film A Battle of Wits and has had leading roles in television dramas like Oh My Lady.

1. Choi Siwon
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Choi Siwon
Birth name Choi Si-won
February 10, 1987 (age 22)
Born
Seoul, South Korea
Genres Pop, dance, R&B
Occupations Singer, dancer, actor, model
Instruments drums, piano
Years active 2005–present
Labels SM Entertainment
Associated acts SM Town, Super Junior, Super Junior-M
Website www.onlysiwon.com
Choi Siwon
Hangul 최시원
Hanja 崔始源
Revised Romanization Choe Siwon
McCune–Reischauer Ch'oe Siwŏn
Choi Si-won (born February 10, 1987), also credited as Siwon, is a Korean pop singer
and actor. He is a member of super boy band Super Junior and is part of its subgroup,
Super Junior-M. Siwon is best known for his role in the 2006 Hong Kong historical
action film A Battle of Wits as the young prince, Liang Shi. He is also one of the first four
Korean artists to be on Chinese postage stamps.[1]
Contents
[hide]
• 1 Early life
• 2 Music career
• 3 Acting career
• 4 Personal life

2. • 5 Discography
• 6 Filmography
o 6.1 Film
o 6.2 Television series
o 6.3 Music video appearances
• 7 References
• 8 External links
[edit] Early life
Siwon was born and raised in a strict Christian family in Seoul, South Korea. Choi was
scouted by a talent agent when he was 16, who recommended him to audition for the
Starlight Casting System to become an entertainer. His parents disapproved him pursuing
in an entertainment career, so Choi had to secretly audition. Choi successfully passed
auditions, and after consideration, his parents allowed him to sign under the talent agency
SM Entertainment. Choi said that although his father allowed him to sign the contract, he
would not give any help to his son.[2] Choi later moved into dormitories with fellow
trainees and he was trained in areas of singing, acting, and dancing. He made his first
appearance in a music video of The Grace's Dana when she was still a solo singer in
2003. A year after, Choi made a brief appearance in the short drama, Precious Family. In
2005, Siwon made a brief appearance in the KBS drama Eighteen, Twenty-Nine as the
young Kang Bong-man.
[edit] Music career
See also: Super Junior's musical career
Not long after Siwon's first television appearance, SM Entertainment released an
announcement that he would officially debut as one of the twelve members in a boy band.
This band later became officially known as Super Junior 05, the first generation of the
rotational music group Super Junior. A few months before the debut of Super Junior 05,
Siwon made his first official media appearance with band mate Han Geng as a runway
model in a fashion show by Bum Suk.
Super Junior 05 officially debuted on November 6, 2005 on SBS's music program
Popular Songs, performing their first single, "TWINS (Knock Out)". Their debut
performance attracted over 500 fans and also garnered oversea viewers from both China
and Japan. A full studio album was released a month later, which debuted at #3 on the
monthly MIAK K-pop album charts.[3]
In March 2006, SM Entertainment began to recruit new members for the next Super
Junior generation. However, plans changed when the company added in a thirteenth
member, Kyuhyun, and the company declared a halt in forming future Super Junior
generations. The group dropped the suffix "05" and became officially credited as Super

3. Junior. The re-polished group hit big after they released their first CD single "U" the
following summer, which became Super Junior's most successful single in the music
charts until the release of "Sorry, Sorry" in March 2009.
In late 2007, Siwon was put into Super Junior-M, the Chinese subgroup version of Super
Junior. Super Junior-M is the first international music group in the Chinese music
industry to have members of both Chinese and Korean descent, and brought an influence
in the mainland music industry to produce multi-national music groups.[4] Super Junior-M
debuted in China on April 8, 2008 at the 8th Annual Music Chart Awards with the release
of their first single music video, "U". The subgroup released their first Chinese-language
studio album, Me on May 2, 2008 to critical success. The album debuted on Taiwan's G-
music combo charts as #2 and #1 on many of China's and Thailand's music charts.[5]
[edit] Acting career
After Siwon's appearances in Eighteen, Twenty-Nine and "Precious Family", he was
casted in a larger role for the mini-series Spring Waltz, playing the supporting role Park
Sang-woo, the teenage cousin of a diligent and working young woman. Not long after
Siwon's musical debut, he was casted in a large supporting role in the Hong Kong epic
film A Battle of Wits starring opposite Andy Lau. The cast promoted the movie
throughout China with a short tour of four cities in November 2006.[6] While the film
received mixed reviews, Siwon garnered positive notices for his performance. He also
received praises from co-star Lau, stating that Siwon is a wonderful actor and that he sets
a good example for young Hong Kong idols.[7]
Half a year after the release of A Battle of Wits, Siwon starred in the high school mystery/
comedy film Attack on the Pin-Up Boys with other Super Junior members. He played the
lead role as a controlling and severe class president who was one of the popular possible
subjects of being attacked by mysterious forces. Despite positive critical ratings, that film
did not do well in the box-office, but all four versions of the film's DVD were all sold out
and broke chart records.[8] Few months later, Siwon was cast in mini-drama Legend of
Hyang Dan as the lead role, Lee Mong-ryong.
In January 2010, Siwon was confirmed to be a lead role in the upcoming SBS drama, Oh
My Lady airing starting March 15. It is a romantic comedy about a top star who finds
himself living with his manager, a 35 year old woman who is trying to earn money to
have custody of her child. This is Siwon's first lead role in about 2 years.
[edit] Personal life
Siwon continued his education after his debut with Super Junior in 2005. He graduated
from Hyun Dae High School in February 2006 and later went on to attend Inha
University. For continuity of his role in A Battle of Wits, his company arranged him to
travel to Beijing, China along with labelmate, Hyoyeon, in 2004 to learn about the

4. country's language and history and studied there for three months before his return to
Korea to prepare for his debut in Super Junior a year later.
Siwon is also a drummer, having performed with his senior label mates TRAX in
September 2006 on SBS's music show Popular Songs due to the fact that their drummer,
Rose, had left the band. He is skilled in Taekwondo and became the youngest in Korea
holding the fourth rank in the black belt.
[edit] Discography
Main article: Super Junior discography
[edit] Filmography
Main article: Super Junior filmography
[edit] Film
Year Title Role Other notes
A Battle of Wits Liang Shi
2006
墨攻 梁適
Attack on the Pin-Up
2007 Boys himself limited release in South Korea
꽃미남 연쇄 테러 사건
[edit] Television series
Networ
Year Title Role Other notes
k

5. Eighteen, Twenty-
Nine young Kang Bong-man KBS Cameo role
열여덟 스물아홉
2005
Precious Family
KBS
부모님 전상서
Spring Waltz
2006 Park Sang-woo KBS
봄의 왈츠
Legend of Hyang Dan
2007 Lee Mong-ryong MBC
봄의 왈츠
Stage of Youth
2009 himself CCTV2 Guest star (Ep. 12)
青春舞台
[edit] Music video appearances
• 2003: "What is Love" – DANA
• 2006: "Timeless" – Zhang Liyin (Feat. Xiah of TVXQ)
• 2008: "I WILL" – Zhang Liyin
• 2008: "The Left Shore of Happiness" – Zhang Liyin
• 2009: "Fireflies" – Ariel Lin
• 2009: "S.E.O.U.L."
[edit] References
1. ^ "Super Junior-M to appear on postage stamps" (in Korean). Newsen: pp. 1.
2008-12-08. http://www.newsen.com/news_view.php?news_uid=281401.
Retrieved 2008-12-08.
2. ^ An episode of Behind Story
3. ^ "Album Sales of December 2005" (in Korean). Recording Industry Association
of Korea: pp. 1. http://www.miak.or.kr/stat/kpop_200512.htm. Retrieved
2007-10-16.
4. ^ (Chinese) Jinhua.cn. Super Junior debuts today, Han Geng as group leader April
8, 2008. Retrieved April 8, 2008.
5. ^ (Chinese) Top in Music

6. 6. ^ "Actor Choi Si-won Set to Become Next-Generation Korean Star". KBS Global.
2006-11-23. http://english.kbs.co.kr/entertainment/news/1426623_11858.html.
Retrieved 2006-11-29.
7. ^ (Chinese) "Choi Siwon A Battle of Wits receives attention, receives praise from
Andy Lau". Sina.com. 2006-11-23.
http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/2006-11-23/14061340574.html. Retrieved 2007-12-15.
8. ^ (Chinese) 釜山电影节 10 月 4 日开幕 将举办 "SM 之夜" August 20, 2007.
Retrieved August 27, 2007.
[edit] External links
• SM Entertainment Official Site
• Choi Siwon Official Site
• Super Junior Official Site
• Super Junior Official Avex Site (Chinese)
• Super Junior Official Japanese Site (Japanese)
• Super Junior-M Official Site
• Super Junior-M Official Avex Site (Chinese)
• Super Junior-M Official Blog (Chinese)