Nam Joo-hyuk남주혁Nam Joo-hyuk
남주혁
Nam Joo-hyuk is an actor with Fable Company who won best new actor at the Blue Dragon Film Awards for The Great Battle and starred in Twenty-Five Twenty-One and Start-Up. Back from military service in 2024, he plays Gu-cheon in Netflix's The East Palace (2026).
- Agency
- Fable Company
- Born
- 22 February 1994
- Known for
- The East Palace
Who is Nam Joo-hyuk?
Nam Joo-hyuk (남주혁) is an actor with Fable Company. Cine21’s person database gives his birth date as 22 February 1994. Nocut News reported on 2 January 2026 that he had signed with Fable Company after finishing five years with Management SOOP; the same report names Choi Woo-shik and Jeon So-nee as labelmates and dates the end of his military service to September 2024.
Filmography
Cine21 lists three films and fourteen television titles. The television list opens with Big in The Idle Mermaid (2014), Han Yi-an in Who Are You: School 2015 and Glamorous Temptation (2015), and runs through Kwon Eun-taek in Cheese in the Trap, the 13th prince Wang Wook in Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo and Jung Joon-hyung in Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo (2016), Ha-baek in Bride of the Water God (2017), Lee Jun-ha in The Light in Your Eyes (2019), Nam Do-san in Start-Up and Hong In-pyo in The School Nurse Files (2020), Baek Yi-jin in Twenty-Five Twenty-One (2022) and Kim Ji-yong in Vigilante (2023). The three films are Samul in The Great Battle (2017) and, both in 2020, Young-seok in Josée and Park In-gyu in Remember.
Awards
Cine21 records best new actor at the 39th Blue Dragon Film Awards for The Great Battle, and lists a nomination for best new actor in the film section of the 55th Baeksang Arts Awards for the same film.
2026
His return after military service is Netflix’s The East Palace, released on 17 July 2026. He plays Gu-cheon, who crosses between the world of the living and the world of the dead; Roh Yoon-seo plays the palace maid Saeng-gang and Cho Seung-woo the king.
The East Palace, in which Gu-cheon crosses between two worlds, drew 8.1 million views in its second week and was second on Netflix’s non-English TV list in both of its first two weeks, by Netflix’s weekly figures. The four weeks are on the The East Palace page.
Known for
Stories
Where Ggeokmeoksali in The East Palace came from: the writers on its folklore source
On 7 August 2026 OhmyNews interviewed 제갈승 of Dexter Studios, the visual effects lead on Netflix's 'The East Palace', about how Ggeokmeoksali was designed. The writers traced the creature to a modern oral urban legend, and the series ranked number two in Netflix's non-English TV top 10 in July.
Translated from the Korean original.
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