Kim Jae Hyun

Kim Jae Hyun (김재현) sits in a lane that plays better every year: working drummer, credible screen presence, and one of the few idol-adjacent performers who still feels loose once the camera gets close. Best known as the drummer of N.Flying under FNC Entertainment, he has built an acting run that works because it does not fight his natural rhythm. He reads warm, quick, and slightly off-center in a way that gives lighter scenes real lift.

That quality has helped him move from early drama work like Love in Black Hole, Dear.M, and Miracle into a more visible 2026 stretch. In Coupang Play's Absolute Value of Romance, he joins Kim Hyang Gi and Cha Hak Yeon in a role that keeps widening the frame around him. The pitch is not that he abandoned music for acting. It is that he now brings both identities into the same career arc, which makes the upside stronger than a routine idol-to-actor pivot.