His monthly revenue reportedly exceeds what many major-company employees make in an entire year.
Click-B member Kim Sanghyuk has revealed the impressive scale of his success as a businessman after years of preparing for a future beyond the entertainment industry.
Kim Sanghyuk appeared on the July 16 episode of Channel A’s Groom Class Season 2, becoming the program’s first divorced cast member. The episode followed Kim Sanghyuk as he rode a scooter to a tailor shop he operates. He revealed that he is directly involved in clothing design and had even created one of the suits worn by Rain in a music video.
The tailor shop, however, is only one part of his growing business portfolio. Kim Sanghyuk shared that he has also ventured into health patches and bags. Singer Lee Seung Chul was visibly surprised to learn that Kim Sanghyuk had designed the bags himself, revealing that he had already purchased two without realizing the connection.
When asked how much revenue his businesses generated, Kim Sanghyuk gave an eye-opening response.
It basically exceeds the annual salary of someone working at a major corporation.
— Kim Sanghyuk
His answer appeared to indicate that his businesses can bring in the equivalent of a highly paid corporate employee’s yearly salary in a single month. Kim Sanghyuk explained that the drive behind his numerous ventures was not simply ambition, but anxiety created by the instability of working in entertainment. Having personally experienced periods without celebrity work, he felt he needed to continually prepare for an uncertain future.
Kim Sanghyuk debuted as a member of Click-B in 1999, but his career suffered a major blow following a 2005 drunk-driving and hit-and-run scandal. He was accused of fleeing after causing a traffic accident and did not report to the police until approximately 11 hours later. He was ultimately sentenced to 10 months in prison, suspended for two years, and ordered to complete 120 hours of community service. The controversy was further intensified by his now-infamous attempt to distinguish between drinking and driving under the influence during a press conference. The remark became so widely mocked that it followed him long after he suspended his entertainment activities. More than two decades later, his latest television appearance has drawn renewed attention to the lucrative career he quietly built away from the stage.
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