Chani is a South Korean entertainer who began his professional career as a child
actor before joining the K-pop boy band SF9 in 2016. Born in Daejeon on January
17, 2000, Kang Chan-hee landed his first TV role in 2009, appearing in the MBC
series Queen Seondeok at nine years old. His career flourished with appearances
in television dramas like The Queen's Classroom and The Innocent Man, the latter
of which won five KBS Drama Awards in 2012. Still using his birth name, he
starred in his first movie, the South Korean box office hit Familyhood, in 2016.
Later that year, he adopted h...