Master director IM Kwon-taek discovered CHO Seung-woo, who grew up to be the most prominent actors in the Korean film industry, in <Chunhyang>, a new interpretation of the classic Korean love story. CHO’s acting was mature beyond his age from the beginning. He got a voice and he could sing. His talent was not wasted as he was starred in the blockbuster musicals such as <The Last Empress> and <Jekyll and Hyde>. His on-screen acting resume has continued to ...More

Master director IM Kwon-taek discovered CHO Seung-woo, who grew up to be the most prominent actors in the Korean film industry, in <Chunhyang>, a new interpretation of the classic Korean love story. CHO’s acting was mature beyond his age from the beginning. He got a voice and he could sing. His talent was not wasted as he was starred in the blockbuster musicals such as <The Last Empress> and <Jekyll and Hyde>. His on-screen acting resume has continued to expand as well. He appeared mainly in the sensitive on-screen melodrama movies such as <Wanee and Junah>, <Who Are You?> and <The Classic> during the early days of his acting career. It was huge success of <The Classic> that earned him fame all over Asia. His masculine charisma burst out of the screen when he played a tough gangster in <Low Life> directed by IM Kwon-taek. CHO proved his acting talent appearing in <MARATHON> and <Tazza: The High Rollers>. In <MARATHON>, CHO successfully portrayed Cho-won, the autistic boy functioning at a five-year old’s intellectual level but was a gifted marathoner. He had another breakthrough in <Tazza> on his realistic portrayal of Go-ni, an addicted gambler living a life in despair. In <The Sword with No Name>, a historical film based on a true story, he played a solider secretly adoring Korea’s Last Empress Myeongseong, murdered by Japanese assassins. In 2011, he appeared alongside YANG Dong-keun as a legendary baseball pitcher in <Perfect Game>. He was next seen in KU Hye-sun’s indie fantasy drama <The Peachtree> (2012). CHO then starred in his first TV shows before returning to the big screen in the WOO Min-ho political thriller <Inside Men>, opposite LEE Byung-hun, in 2015.Less