Born in Daegu in 1953, KIM Young-cheol started his acting career in the 1970s following physical education studies at the University of Incheon. He became very active in the 1980s, when he also began to appear on the small screen. He focused mostly on TV in the 1990s and then featured in E J-yong’s 2000 Korea-Japan co-production <Asako in Ruby Shoes>. The film role he is most known for came in 2005, when he appeared as a gang boss opposite LEE Byung-hun in KIM Jee-wo...More

Born in Daegu in 1953, KIM Young-cheol started his acting career in the 1970s following physical education studies at the University of Incheon. He became very active in the 1980s, when he also began to appear on the small screen. He focused mostly on TV in the 1990s and then featured in E J-yong’s 2000 Korea-Japan co-production <Asako in Ruby Shoes>. The film role he is most known for came in 2005, when he appeared as a gang boss opposite LEE Byung-hun in KIM Jee-woon’s classic noir <A Bittersweet Life>. In 2007 he was featured in the hit kidnap thriller <Voice of a Murderer> and the drama <My Father>, for which he earned a Best Supporting Actor award at the Chunsa Film Art Awards. He starred in the hit drama <Iris> in 2009, once again alongside LEE Byung-hun, and in 2014 he played the antagonist in the KIM Woo-bin vehicle, caper film <The Con Artists>.Less