CHOI Woo-shik, born in Korea in 1990 immigrated with his family to Canada when he was just a child. A decade later, while attending Simon Fraser University, one of the renowned universities in Canada, he decided to come back to Korea to pursue an acting career. That was in 2011, when he turned 21. After his acting debut with the period series <The Duo> (2011), he went into acting full-time with credits ranging from traditional drama series to sitcoms, most notable among...More

CHOI Woo-shik, born in Korea in 1990 immigrated with his family to Canada when he was just a child. A decade later, while attending Simon Fraser University, one of the renowned universities in Canada, he decided to come back to Korea to pursue an acting career. That was in 2011, when he turned 21. After his acting debut with the period series <The Duo> (2011), he went into acting full-time with credits ranging from traditional drama series to sitcoms, most notable among them <Rooftop Prince> (2012) and <Special Affairs Team TEN> (2011-2013). His first film role came in 2013 with the spy action comedy <Secretly Greatly> (2013), before he received top billing in the indie drama <Set Me Free> (2014), with the latter winning him Actor of the Year at the Busan International Film Festival. The work that brought him to international recognition was the hit blockbuster zombie film <TRAIN TO BUSAN> (2016), soon followed by the 2017 Netflix film <Okja> from famed director BONG Joon-ho. CHOI then worked with another director renowned at home and abroad for his genre films, PARK Hoon-jung, on the supernatural action film <The Witch : Part 1. The Subversion> (2018), reinventing himself as a villain character. In 2019, CHOI reunited with BONG to great effect as he starred alongside SONG Kang-ho in Cannes’ Palme d’Or winner <PARASITE>.Less