"Choi Minho"

Choi Minho (Hangul: 최민호; Hanja: 崔珉豪; born December 9, 1991) is a South Korean idol singer, rapper, dancer, actor, model, lyricist, promotional model, MC, and radio host. He is a member of South Korean boy group Shinee under the label of SM Entertainment, as the main rapper, sub-vocalist, and visual.

Minho was discovered at the 2006 S.M. Casting System. In 2008, he was chosen as a member of the group Shinee, the 5-member boy group debuted on May 25, 2008 on SBS's Inkigayo.

Before debuting with Shinee, Minho modeled for Ha Sang Baek's Seoul Collection F/W 08-09 in March 2008, two months before Shinee's debut stage.

Minho appeared in both the Korean and Japanese version of Girls' Generation's music video "Gee" . He was also featured in the music video of VNT's debut song Sound.

Minho debuted as an actor on November 20, 2010 in a KBS2's drama special, entitled "Pianist" with actress Han Ji-hye.
On December 7, 2011, it was announced that Minho would be taking on a comedic acting role in SBS‘s new sitcom, "Salamander Guru and The Shadows", which would air in early 2012. Minho played the role of Min-hyuk, a genius hacker, alongside actors Im Won-hee and Oh Dal-soo. Salamander Guru and The Shadows was SBS’s first sitcom in 5 years and revolved around two robbers who impersonate a guru. The sitcom aired in January 2012.

On April 26, 2012, Minho was confirmed to be the lead role, alongside f(x)'s Sulli and Lee Hyun-woo, for the Korean drama "To The Beautiful You", a Korean version of "Hana Kimi". The drama started broadcasting on August 15, 2012 on SBS. Minho's character is Kang Tae-joon, a high jump gold medalist who gives up high jumping after being injured. In preparation for his role as Tae-joon, Minho received personal training from coach Kim Tae-young, former national high jump athlete and a member of the Korea Association of Athletics Federations, for a month and a half. His personal record at the moment is 175 cm.

Minho is known to have written and co-written several of the raps in Shinee's albums. For their earlier albums he co-wrote with JQ, a lyricist under SM.

In their 1st studio album The SHINee World, he co-wrote the raps to "Replay", "Love Like Oxygen", "Love's Way", "One for Me", "Graze", and "Best Place".

In 2009, for their 2nd mini-album Juliette, he co-wrote "Talk to You", "Juliette", "Hit Me", and "Romeo + Juliette". For their 3rd mini-album 2009, Year of Us, he along with fellow member Key, and lyricist JQ wrote the song "Get Down", which features fellow labelmate Luna of f(x).

In their 2nd studio album Lucifer released in July 2010, he wrote the raps to "Up & Down" (which was co-written by fellow member Jonghyun), "Obsession" (also written by Jonghyun), "Your Name" (written by fellow member Onew), and co-wrote the songs "WOWOWOW" with JQ and "Shout Out" with the fellow members and MISFIT. In the repackaged album Hello, he wrote the rap for the title track "Hello", and co-wrote the raps for "One" and "Get It".

He is also credited for creating additional raps to the songs "Better", "To Your Heart", and "Stranger" in their 1st Japanese studio album, The First released in December 2011.

For their 4th mini-album Sherlock released in March 2012, he wrote the raps to the songs "Alarm Clock" and "Honesty" (written by Jonghyun).

He also wrote the rap for a cover that he did at London, called "Rocketeer". Performing it with f(x)'s Amber.

Minho hosted MBC's Music Core, alongside fellow Shinee member, Onew in 2011. However, due to oversea schedules, they are on temporary leave.
He is a permanent cast member on KBS's Let's Go Dream Team! Season 2. He is often dubbed as the "Ace" of the show, having won the challenges at numerous occasions. He was put on temporary leave after an injury in January 2010, and only returned in the second half of the year. On October 16, 2011, Minho won Let's Go Dream Team! Season 2 ACE Special episode and took a Kia Cadenza (K7) home.

He was also a permanent cast member in the KBS program Oh! My School, also known as 100 Points Out of 100 .
On October 3, 2011, Minho co-hosted the Hallyu Dream Concert held at the Kyungju Citizen Stadium alongside 2PM’s Taecyeon and actress Park Shin Hye, which was broadcasted on October 6, 2011 by Mnet Broadcasting Station. On October 6, 2011, Minho, alongside Kara's Nicole, helped in the torch run for the opening ceremony of the 92nd National Sports Festival held in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province which featured 17,983 athletes.

Minho showed his athletic ability by breaking the cup stacking record on November 17, 2012 "Star King". Elementary school student Kang Hee-joon, the top "sport stacker" in South Korea, appeared on the show. As the last competitor, Minho, was able to stack 12 cups within a faster time. However, he was disqualified for not returning the cups to their original position. Kang Hee-joon offered a rematch, and Minho gladly accepted and beat the champion’s record by 0,24 points.

In 2008 he was the 3rd Youth International Video Festival "the aura" Goodwill Ambassador with fellow Shinee member, Key. Minho was appointed as the ambassador of Konkuk University in 2010.

Minho graduated from Konkuk University's affiliated high school on February 10, 2010. After taking the college admissions test the previous year, he was admitted in 2010 to Konkuk’s part-time admittance for the arts and culture film major where he is currently attending. His father, Choi Yun-Gyeom, is a well-known South Korean soccer coach. He has an older brother named Choi Minseok.

In March 2010, Minho was injured during a filming for Dream Team Season 2. He had to withdraw from his activities while fellow Shinee member Taemin replaced him on the show during his absence. After his recovery, Minho finally came back in August 2010 to continue his activities and promotions of Shinee's second full length studio album, "Lucifer".

On May 23, 2011, he was named Honorary Ambassador for Youth 2011. He then received a name plate at the Youth Week celebration held in the COEX auditorium.

Television dramas

Year	Title	Role	Network	Notes
2010	Pianist	Oh Je-ro	KBS	Drama special
2012	Salamander Guru and The Shadows	Min-hyuk	SBS	Sitcom
2012	To The Beautiful You	Kang Tae-joon	SBS	Korean ver. of Hana Kimi

Variety shows

Year	Title	Network	Notes
2008	Shinee's Yunhanam	Mnet
2009	Invincible Youth	KBS
2009–2011	Let's Go Dream Team! Season 2	KBS
2010	Hello Baby	KBS
2010–2011	100 Points Out of 100	KBS
2012	Running Man	SBS	guest ep75 and ep 129
	Shinhwa Broadcast	JTBC	guest with Shinee

Music Video Appearances

Year	Song title	Artist	Role
2009	Gee	Girls' Generation	Employee
2010	Gee (Japanese Ver.)	Girls' Generation	Customer
	Sound	VNT	DJ

MC programs

Year	Title	Role	Network
2009	Flower Boys Generation	Co-Hosted	MBC
2011–2012	Show! Music Core	Co-Hosted with Onew, Suzy, and Jiyeon	MBC
2011	Hallyu Dream Concert	Co-Hosted with Park Shin Hye and Taecyeon	Mnet
2011	New York Korea Festival	Co-Hosted	KBS
2011	Show Show Show	Co-Hosted	JTBC
2011 (2 & 9 December)	Music Bank	Special Host *(2 December with Sohee & Yeeun) *(9 December with Sohee & Yubin)	KBS

Radio programs

Year	Title	Role	Note
2008–2009	Shindongs and Shinyoungs „Shim Shim Tapa Radio“	DJ	with Jonghyun and Onew
2009	Taeyeons „Chin Chin Radio“	DJ	with Onew
2010	Super Juniors „Kiss the Radio“	Special DJ	with Key
2010	Heechuls „Youngstreet Radio“	Special DJ	with Key

Fashion Show Modeling

Year	Title	Designer
2008	The Ninth World Knowledge Forum	Andre Kim
2009	Seoul Collection S/S 2009	Han Saeng Baek
2008	Lee Sang Bong’s Fashion Show at Dream Forest Festival	Lee Sang Bong

Awards

Year	Awards	Result
2010	SBS Entertainment Awards: Variety New Star Award	Won
2011	Honorary Ambassador for Youth 2011	Won
	Best Male Idol as Model	Won
2012	MBC "Idol Star Olympics" – Hurdles (110 m)	Won
	SBS Drama Awards - New Star Award	Won

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org