Moon Bin

Moon Bin (Hangul: 문빈, January 26, 1998 – April 19, 2023) was a South Korean actor and singer. He was a member of Astro since 2016 and its subunit Moonbin & Sanha since 2020 until his death. Moon's first acting role was playing a younger version of So Yi-jung in the 2009 drama, Boys Over Flowers. He died in 2023 of an apparent suicide.

Biography[]

Early life[]

Moon was born on January 26, 1998 in Cheongju, South Korea.^[1] He had a younger sister, Moon Sua.^[2] Moon graduated from Hanlim Multi Art School in 2016.^[3]

Career[]

In 2004, Moon entered the entertainment industry as a child model.^[4] He appeared in a music video for TVXQ's "Balloons" playing a young Yunho in 2006.^[5] In 2009, Moon made his television debut portraying a younger version of Kim Bum's character in Boys Over Flowers. For several years, Moon was a trainee under Fantagio.^[6] Fantagio announced Moon's placement in the six-member band Astro in August 2015. Prior to their official debut, he appeared with his bandmates in the web series To Be Continued.^[7] The group made their debut in early 2016 with the extended play Spring Up.^[8] They released two more extended plays, Summer Vibes and Autumn Story, that year.^[9] Astro was named one of the best new K-pop groups of 2016 by Billboard.^[10]

In early 2017, Astro released a special album titled Winter Dream.^[11] That year, they released two extended plays, Dream Part.01 and Part.02.^[12]^[13] In 2018, the band went on hiatus due to a internal struggle at their label. They released their second special album Rise Up in July of that year.^[14] In 2019, Moon joined the cast of At Eighteen playing Jung Oh-je^[15] and Astro released their first studio album All Light.^[16] Moon went on hiatus later that year to focus on his health and recovery.^[17] In 2020, Moon joined the cooking program, Food Avengers.^[18] He had a starring role in the web series The Mermaid Prince the same year.^[19] Moon reprised his starring role in the series' second season.^[20]

In August 2020, Moon and Yoon San-ha formed Astro's first subunit Moonbin & Sanha.^[21] Their debut extended play In-Out released the following month.^[22] Astro's second studio album All Yours came out in 2021.^[23] Later that year, Moon joined the cast of Saturday Night Live Korea for season eleven.^[24] Moonbin & Sanha's second extended play Refuge released in February 2022^[25] and Astro's third studio album Drive to the Starry Road in May.^[26] Moon decided to renew his contract with Fantagio later that year.^[27] In January 2023, Moonbin & Sunha's third extended play Incense came out.^[28] At the time of his death, Moon was set to perform at Dream Concert with Yoon.^[29]

Death[]

On April 19, 2023, his manager found Moon dead at his home in the Gangnam District of Seoul at around 8:10 PM.^[30] He was twenty-five. A statement by the Seoul Gangnam Police indicate that it was a probable suicide.^[31]^[32] Wake services were held at Seoul Asan Hospital with Moon's sister Sua serving as the chief mourner.^[33]^[34] Astro bandmates Yoon and Jinjin attended the wake. MJ was granted urgent leave from the military and Cha Eun-woo cut short his work in the United States to attend the services.^[35] Moon's funeral was held privately on April 22 for family and close friends.^[36]

Filmography[]

Television dramas

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2009	Boys Over Flowers	So Yi-jung (young)
2014	Forever Young	Trainee
2015	Persevere, Goo Hae Ra
2015	To Be Continued	Himself	Web series
2016	My Romantic Some Recipe	Cameo	Episode 6
2017	Idol Fever	Cameo	Web series
2017	Sweet Revenge	Himself	Web series
2019	At Eighteen	Jung Oh-je
2019	Soul Plate	Angel Muriel	Web series
2020	Mermaid Prince	Choi Woo Hyuk	Web series
2020	Mermaid Prince: The Beginning	Choi Woo Hyuk	Web series
2021	No Going Back Romance	Cameo	Episode 2
2021	Find Me If You Can	Cameo	Episode 6

Notes[]

General

Moon was born the same day as Jung Chan-woo, who played a young Gu Jun-pyo. After Moon's passing, Jung shared a photo of them as children on social media.^[37]

References[]

External links[]

Boys Over Flowers Wiki has 6 images related to Moon Bin.

Moon Bin (@moon_ko_ng) on Instagram
Moon Bin on Wikipedia
Moon Bin on Korean Wikipedia
Moon Bin at the Internet Movie Database

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[2] ttps://apnews.com/article/kpop-singer-death-moon-bin-korea-5bdede75eb4e7d1775a8b8bcaa32c991

[3] ttps://star.mbn.co.kr/view.php?sc=71600002&year=2016&no=121136 (Korean)

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[6] ttps://tenasia.hankyung.com/music/article/2017030437154 (Korean)

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[8] ttps://www.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2016/02/16/2016021600870.html (Korean)

[9] ttps://tenasia.hankyung.com/topic/article/2016103173634 (Korean)

[10] ttps://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/best-k-pop-debuts-2016-7625235/

[11] ttps://tenasia.hankyung.com/topic/article/2017022271484 (Korean)

[12] ttps://osen.mt.co.kr/article/G1110655001 (Korean)

[13] ttps://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/astro-crazy-sexy-love-video-dream-pt-02-ep-8022233/

[14] ttps://www.topstarnews.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=268949

[15] ttps://www.starnewskorea.com/stview.php?no=2019011716392553459 (Korean)

[16] ttps://star.mbn.co.kr/view.php?year=2019&no=659 (Korean)

[17] ttps://www.news1.kr/articles/?3767328 (Korean)

[18] ttps://www.newsen.com/news_view.php?uid=202005261006126710 (Korean)

[19] ttps://www.news1.kr/articles/?3871432 (Korean)

[20] ttps://www.xportsnews.com/article/1311061 (Korean)

[21] ttps://n.news.naver.com/entertain/article/382/0000847011 (Korean)

[22] ttps://n.news.naver.com/entertain/article/112/0003342132 (Korean)

[23] ttps://n.news.naver.com/entertain/article/311/0001274338 (Korean)

[24] ttps://entertain.naver.com/now/read?oid=003&aid=0010902614 (Korean)

[25] ttps://n.news.naver.com/entertain/article/108/0003029088 (Korean)

[26] ttps://n.news.naver.com/entertain/now/article/109/0004600667 (Korean)

[27] ttps://entertain.naver.com/now/read?oid=117&aid=0003682725 (Korean)

[28] ttps://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=382&aid=0001019810 (Korean)

[29] ttps://www.nme.com/news/music/astro-moonbin-dead-3432736

[30] ttps://www.yonhapnewstv.co.kr/news/AKR20230420001700640?currentURI=tvscript%2FAKR20230420001700640%2F (Korean)

[31] ttps://variety.com/2023/music/news/moonbin-dead-k-pop-band-astro-1235588813/

[32] ttps://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/19/asia/south-korea-kpop-moonbin-astro-death-intl-hnk/index.html

[33] ttps://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/music/astro-moonbin-death-younger-sister-moon-sua-to-be-chief-mourner-at-wake-as-k-pop-idols-postpone-shows-promotions-8566326/

[34] ttps://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2023/04/20/entertainment/kpop/moonbin-astro-moonbin--sanha/20230420153620957.html

[35] ttps://n.news.naver.com/entertain/article/433/0000092636 (Korean)

[36] ttps://entertain.naver.com/ranking/read?oid=112&aid=0003627204 (Korean)

[37] ttps://m.newsen.com/news_view.php?uid=202304211800542510 (Korean)

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