One commenter had a very different public figure in mind.
Koreaboo
1 hour ago
HYBE Chairman Bang Si Hyuk‘s radically changed appearance is once again the subject of online buzz as netizens compare his new look to a very famous face.
| HYBE
Just days after Bang Si Hyuk turned heads with his noticeably slimmer, sharper-jawed look at CORTIS’s recent concert, another post on the Korean community site Pann has gone viral. This time, a netizen remarked, “Wow, Bang Si Hyuk lost a ton of weight and turned into Lee Byung Hun.”
| Pann
The poster went on to say that they “can’t even imagine how intensely he must’ve dieted” to pull off the change. The highly acclaimed Lee Byung Hun, best known to many international viewers for his roles in Netflix’s Squid Game and KPop Demon Hunters, is also widely regarded as ruggedly handsome.
Lee Byung Hun, 2016 | DAZED Korea
Many other netizens, however, weren’t so convinced by the comparison, with one even naming North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a closer look-alike.
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- “There’s nothing left to do viral marketing with, so now they’re using someone who’s not even a celebrity… The person who wrote this looks like Bang Si Hyuk.”
- “I guess that photo with Juice Seyeon was a shock to him too lol.”
- “Doesn’t he look like Kim Jong Un?”
- “The HYBE stans have gotten to the point where they’re even hyping up Bang Si Hyuk.”
- “What about that wrinkly neck fat though?”
Others raised the HYBE Chairman’s looks during his 2024 controversy in which he was seen with streamer Juice Seyeon, who is 28 years younger than him, in California.
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Bang Si Hyuk’s weight has been a hot topic since he first appeared with a slimmer look last year, but many Korean netizens continue to dismiss the news as HYBE “media play.”