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In 2019, Kim starred in the war film Battle of Jangsari.

In 2018, Kim again reprised his role as Detective K in Detective K: Secret of the Living Dead, the third installment in the Detective K series. The same year, he returned to the small screen in the melodrama Miracle That We Met.

In 2017, Kim starred in the noir film V.I.P, playing a police detective.; followed by mystery thriller A Day. The same year, he was cast in the period comedy film Monster.

In 2015, Kim reprised his role as Detective K in Detective K: Secret of the Lost Island, the second installment in the Detective K series. The historical television series Six Flying Dragons followed, in which he played Jeong Do-jeon, who served as the First Prime Minister of the Joseon Dynasty.

Kim made a comeback to the small screen after four years in satire dramaedy The King of Dramas, where he played a drama production company CEO. He next played a brilliant but cynical lawyer who gets into an accident and loses his memory in A New Leaf (2014).

Summer of 2012 saw Kim as a pharmaceutical agent in disaster movie Deranged. The film, directed by Park Jung-woo became the fastest Korean film in 2012 to reach 2 million admissions, eight days after its July 5 release date. and topped the box office for three consecutive weeks. Kim then starred in The Spies, his second collaboration with Woo Min-ho, director of his 2010 film, Man of Vendetta. The movie tells about Agent Kim and his three North Korean comrades who are working undercover in South Korea.

In January 2011, Kim took on the role of Joseon's Sherlock Holmes in historical comedy-mystery film Detective K: Secret of the Virtuous Widow. He then starred in sports movie, Pacemaker, where he played a marathon runner.

Subsequently, his performance as a maestro in the 2008 TV series Beethoven Virus created a sensation in Korea referred to as "Kang Mae Syndrome" and again earned him acclaim from critics and viewers. Kim received the Grand Prize (Daesang) for the second time at the MBC Drama Awards.

In late 2008, it was announced that his next project is a film about a character living with Lou Gehrig's disease, titled Closer to Heaven. To realistically portray the role of the dying patient, Kim painstakingly lost 20 kilos during the course of the filming. Kim was widely commended for this feat, and won Best Actor Awards in Korea's leading film ceremonies, the 46th Grand Bell Awards and the 30th Blue Dragon Film Awards. Closer to Heaven was followed by another film, Man of Vendetta, where Kim portrayed the role of a father for the first time.

When he starred in the 2004 KBS family drama More Beautiful than a Flower, he was expected to have a successful career as a lead actor. He was badly injured while performing a stunt and his film contracts kept being withdrawn. This series of unfortunate events led him to quit stage acting in 2004. However, he was then given the opportunity to play the lead role in a historical drama Immortal Admiral Yi Sun-shin, a 104-episode TV series based on the life of Korea's beloved hero of the Imjin War. The series, which aired in 2004-2005, put Kim in the spotlight and brought him a host of awards including Grand Prize at KBS Drama Awards.

Kim' first leading role came with critically appraised 2001 horror film Sorum, the feature debut of the director Yoon Jong-chan, telling the story of a taxi driver moving into a decrepit building that hides several dark secrets. For this part Kim received Best New Actor award at 2001 Busan Film Critics Awards and Director's Cut Awards

Kim Myung-min debuted as an actor when he won the 6th SBS public talent audition in 1996. Over the next five years he appeared in a number of television series in various supporting roles.

Kim Myung-min (Korean: 김명민 , born October 8, 1972) is a South Korean actor. He is best known for his leading roles in the television series Immortal Admiral Yi Sun-shin (2004), White Tower (2007), Beethoven Virus (2008), and Six Flying Dragons (2015-2016), as well as the films Closer to Heaven (2009) and the Detective K film series.