SONG Kang-ho has become a representative symbol of the male actor in the Korean film industry. In the late 1990s, he was part of a male-actor troika along with actors CHOI Min-sik and SUL Kyung-gu. He is a guaranteed box-office hit with great acting skills. His unique comic acting ability, shown in <The Number Three>, <The Quiet Family>, and <The Foul King> and his aura of deep sadness given off in <Joint Security Area (JSA)>, <Memories of Murder>...More

SONG Kang-ho has become a representative symbol of the male actor in the Korean film industry. In the late 1990s, he was part of a male-actor troika along with actors CHOI Min-sik and SUL Kyung-gu. He is a guaranteed box-office hit with great acting skills. His unique comic acting ability, shown in <The Number Three>, <The Quiet Family>, and <The Foul King> and his aura of deep sadness given off in <Joint Security Area (JSA)>, <Memories of Murder>, and <Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance> received rave reviews from the public. By playing a man who became a gangster solely out of material need in <The Show Must Go On> (2007), showing passionate fatherly love in <The Host>(2007), and playing a garage owner so ordinary as to be scary gin <The Secret Sunshine> along with costar JEON Do-yeon, he proved the depth and breadth of his acting ability. Moreover, by working on the films <The Good, the Bad, and the Weird> (2008) and <Thirst> (2009), directed by his long-time acquaintances KIM Jee-woon and PARK Chan-wook, he successfully portrayed new characters in genres wholly different from anything he had done before. The huge success of <Secret Reunion> in 2010 proved again the SONG Kang-ho is a powerful force in the Korean movie industry. Uncharacteristically, SONG failed to draw large crowds for his next two films, the genre pics <Hindsight> in 2011 and 2012’s <Howling>. However, the star came roaring back in 2013, when he recorded the most successful year of any Korean actor, after starring in three back-to-back hits. Those were Bong Joon Ho’s long-awaited sci-fi blockbuster <Snowpiercer>, the Chuseok holiday period drama <The Face Reader> and smash hit courtroom drama <The Attorney>. Viewers for his films soared over 30 million during the year. Following a well-earned break which left him absent from screens in 2014, SONG next teamed up with LEE Joon-ik for the period drama <The Throne>, playing King Yeongjo, who famously had his belligerent son, the Crown Prince Sado (played by YOO Ah-in) suffocated to death in a large wooden chest filled with rice. In 2016, SONG teamed up with KIM Jee-woon for the fourth time on the Colonial Era action-thriller <Secret Agent>, the first local production of Hollywood studio Warner Brothers.Less