Lim Young-woong Height, Age, Family, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Lim Young-woong

• Lim Young-woong initially wanted to be a ballad singer, but he changed his plan after realising that he was good at singing trot music.

• He once participated at a singing contest in his hometown Pocheon and sang ‘What’s Wrong with My Age?’ by Oh Seung-geun.

• In 1997, he was awarded a grand prize in the KBS ‘TV Kindergarten One Two Three Speech Contest.’

• In middle school, he served as class leader for three years.

• Lim was interested in sports and played soccer for a year during elementary school.

• He is left handed.

• He is known as ‘Lim Hero,’ a nickname taken from his given name, Young-woong, which means ‘hero’ in Korean.

• Lim served in the military in the rank of situation sergeant as a part of 3rd Infantry Division (Baekgol Unit) near his hometown.

• In 2016, he appeared on the singing competition show ‘Korea Sings,’ which aired on the Korean Broadcasting System’s KBS1 channel. Participation in this program encouraged his professional desire to become a trot singer.
  

  Lim Young-woong performing on a television show

• In the same year, he also participated in the first season of ‘Fantastic Duo,’ which was aired on Seoul Broadcasting System. After these appearances, Lim began his professional career by signing under agency Mulgogi Music.

• On 8 August 2016, Lim officially started his music career with the release of his first digital single ‘Hate You.’

• In 2016, Lim created his YouTube channel and uploaded the audio of his first song, Hate You.

• On 4 December 2016, he uploaded his first song cover on his YouTube channel, performing the duet ‘I Like You,’ originally sung by Nam Jin and Jang Yoon-jeong.

• Following this, Lim continued to upload song covers regularly on his channel and use the platform to support the promotion of his music and to interact directly with his audience.

• He also shared a wide range of content other than music, including behind the scenes footage, recordings of live performances, compilation of highlights, reading of comments, birthday live broadcasts, and personal vlogs.

• On 2 January 2017, he released another single titled ‘What’s So Important?.’ Nevertheless, these initial releases did not achieve much commercial success.

• Despite the slow start, he gradually became more recognised after appearing on Korean Broadcasting System’s morning program ‘AM Plaza.’ He competed and won the show’s televised audition segment ‘Challenge! Dream Stage.’

• On 21 December 2018, he collaborated with another trot singer Park Seo-jin to release a medley album called ‘Newness of Trot.’ The album especially gained popularity at expressway rest stops all across South Korea, leading the public to call Lim the “Expressway Idol Star.”

• On 23 July 2019, Lim was chosen as an official ambassador for his hometown, Pocheon.

• Lim gained nationwide attention when he joined the TV singing competition Mr. Trot (2020), which aired on TV Chosun. He competed with about 17,000 contenders and won.
  

  Lim Young-woong crowned Mr. Trot (2020)

• After winning Mr. Trot, Lim thanked his mother and grandmother. He also shared that the live finale was held on the anniversary of his father’s death. He added that he felt his win was a gift from his father.

• Lim later signed another one-and-a-half-year management contract with New Era Project.

• He also joined the main cast of the variety programs ‘Romantic Call Centre’ and ‘Ppongsoongah School,’ both of which were conceived as follow on series for Mr. Trot.
  

  A poster of the television show ‘Romantic Call Centre’

• In March 2020, Lim’s YouTube channel reached the milestone of 100,000 subscribers, earning the YouTube’s Silver Play Button.

• On 3 April 2020, he released the single ‘Trust in Me.’ The song was written by lyricist Kim Eana and composer Cho Young-soo; it was produced especially for him as the winner of Mr. Trot.
  

  Lim Young-woong, while performing ‘Trust in Me’

• ‘Trust in Me’ soon became a major success and marked his first top-20 hit in South Korea. It entered the Gaon Digital Chart at number 20 and later climbed to number 11.

• In August 2020, Sisa Journal ranked Lim 5th (5.8%) in its ‘2020, Who Makes Korea Move’ survey. He shared the spot with Lee Hyori for leading the Mr. Trot trend and appearing in many advertisements.

• In October of 2020, his YouTube channel reached the one-million subscriber mark, making him the first trot singer to achieve such a level of popularity on YouTube. He expressed appreciation to his fans with a handwritten letter, promising to always give them his best, as well as to remember where he came from.

• The next month, Lim was given YouTube’s Gold Play Button in recognition of this achievement.

• On 23 February 2021, he launched a YouTube Shorts channel under the name Lim Young-woong Shorts and posted a 28 second video of his Mr. Trot competition practice on its first day.

• Among all the videos on his main channel, his rendition of  ‘The Story of an Old Couple in Their 60s’ from Mr. Trot turned out to be the most popular, with over 47 million views by 15 November 2021.

• On 8 March 2022, Lim donated KRW100 million to the Fruit of Love Social Welfare Community Chest, supporting people suffering from the large wildfire started from Uljin, Gyeongbuk and then spread to Samcheok, Gangwon.

• On 11 March 2022, he donated ₩1 million, which was earned from the February Good Han Star singing competition, as support for children with Paediatric Leukaemia.

• On 9 June 2022, Lim donated ₩1.2 million, the prize money from the May Good Han Star competition, to cover emergency medical expenses for children affected with cancer, leukemia, and other rare incurable conditions.

• On 8 August 2022, he donated ₩2 million from the money won at the July Good Han Star singing competition to Emotional Support Program for children with Pediatric Leukemia and their families.

• On 1 September 2022, Lim again donated ₩2 million from the August Good Han Star competition to support the same emotional support program for children with leukemia.

• In October 2022, he donated the prize money of ₩1.5 million from the Good Han Star Singer Competition to the help children with cancer, leukemia and incurable illnesses.

• On 4 November 2022, Lim donated another 1.5 million KR from October’s Sunhan Star Gawangjeon prize money to help the emotional care of children suffering from pediatric cancer and leukemia.

• On 23 December 2022, Lim made a donation of ₩300 million through the Fruit of Love Social Welfare Community Chest on behalf of his fandom, ‘Heroic Age.’

• Lim consumes alcohol occassionally. He enjoys having wine alone.

• He admires singer Shin Yu.

• He loves animals and has a pet dog named Si-wol.
  

  Lim Young-woong with his pet dog