Dong-hae gets first lead movie role

Lee Dong-hae, a member of the popular K-pop group Super Junior, has landed his first leading movie role. According to the online news outlet OSEN, the 28-year-old singer will play the role of a high school student who digs up a surprising truth about his girlfriend, in an omnibus film tentatively titled “Rumor.”

The film will consist of five 25-minute shorts, and producers say they intend on submitting the final project to the nation’s film festivals in the latter half of this year.

Dong-hae debuted as a member of Super Junior in 2005 and joined the group’s Chinese-language subgroup Super Junior-M in 2008.

Dong-hae has been working on his acting career, appearing in the Korean drama series “It’s Okay, Daddy’s Girl” in 2010 and the Taiwanese drama series “Skip Beat” in 2011.

By Sung So-young