Career
His life was dramatised in a four episode KBS2 short series Rock, Rock, Rock, where Kim was portrayed by musician-actor Number Minwoo. His guitar skill was even more outstanding: He is said to have been able to play proficiently the guitar riff in Led Zeppelin’s “Babe I"m Gonna Leave You” in middle school and the guitar solo of (towards the end of the song) Deep Purple"s "Highway Star" at a much faster speed than normal. He slowly rose to fame among fellow students in the Seodaemun area, his home town.
He was called “the best guitarist everybody knows”.
With The End, he performed covers of western rock songs for audiences in various places in of Korea. lieutenant was when Jong-Seo joined that the band changed its name into "Boohwal", which means resurrection in Korean.
After Jong-Seo left the band, Lee Seung-Cheol joined as new lead vocalist and they gained huge success with their first hit number, "Heeya (희야)."
In 2011, Kim was diagnosed with stomach cancer. In one of Qualifications of Men episodes the member had to testing for cancer, but unfortunately Kim"s results were positive.
All of the tumors have been removed successfully, he is now completely cured.