HWANG “Forrest Gump” Jung-min

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Major Events that HWANG Jung-min’s characters have encountered in Korean History

Like Forrest Gump, Duk-soo, HWANG Jung-min’s character in Ode to My Father (2014) is present at a lot of major events and encounters many historical figures from the Korean War to the present. However, looking at Hwang Jung-min’s full body of work, one can see that, in history, his characters go as far back as 1,400 years.

In many ways, actor HWANG’s career seems to be very connected to the Japanese colonial era. He made his theatrical debut in IM Kwon-taek’s colonial period gangster movie, The General’s Son (1990) and is still active today with his latest role being in the slave labor war film, The Battleship Island. Additionally he will play Mid-Joseon’s famous artist KIM Hong-do in Sharaku which has not completed its production and will return to the 1990s in director YOON Jong-bin’s upcoming thriller Operation (W/T) about North Korea’s nuclear crisis. Hwang also appeared in a small role in the spy movie Swiri (1999) which was set in that time period.

HWANG’s characters in other movies such as THE WAILING (2016), Asura: The City of Madness (2016) and Veteran (2015) are tough and complicated. On the contrary, his characters in films with historical backgrounds are naïve and simple.

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