Choi shi won

Choi Si-won (born February 10,
1987; his real birthday is actually
April 7, 1986, but his parents didn't
register his birth with national
registry until February 10, 1987),
sometimes mononymously
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]
Early life
Siwon was born and raised in an
affluent, strict Protestant family in
Seoul, South Korea. He was scouted
by a talent agent when he was 16,
who recommended him to audition
for the Starlight Casting System to
become an entertainer. Siwon's
parents disapproved him pursuing
in an entertainment career, so he
had to secretly audition. He
successfully passed auditions, and
after consideration, his parents
allowed him to sign under the talent
agency SM Entertainment. Siwon
said that although his father allowed
him to sign the contract, he would
not give any help to his son.[2] He
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 he was still a
solo singer in 2003. A year after, he
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.
Music 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
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]
He also appeared in Girl's Generation
music video "Hoot".
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] A 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
SBS drama Oh My Lady which
began airing on March 22. 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 two
years.
On June 17, 2010, it was confirmed
that Choi Siwon would take the role
of Kim Joon Ho, a new data analyst
in the drama Athena, a spin-off of
just ended drama Iris.
Personal life
Siwon continued his education after
his debut with Super Junior in 2005.
He graduated from Gu Jeong 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 of Girls'
Generation in 2004 to learn about
the country's language and history.
He studied there for three months
before his return to Korea to prepare
for his debut in Super Junior a year
later.
Siwon is a devout Christian. He 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.
On May 18, 2010, Siwon underwent
surgery to remove his inflamed
salivary gland. He had been taking
anti-inflammatory medicine for the
inflammation during filming for the
SBS drama Oh My Lady. However,
his condition worsened and he had
to undergo an operation for it.