Song Kang-ho Biography

Song Kang-ho is an eminent South Korean actor. He started his acting career in theatre groups after completing his graduation. Later, he learnt instinctive acting and improvisation from Kuk-seo's influential theatre company which proved to be his training ground. His appearance in the theatrical play ‘Dongseung’ was much appreciated. During his early days as a stage actor, he got regular offers for films but he always turned them down until he was approached to play an extra in the film ‘The Day a Pig Fell into the Well’. Since then, Song Kang-ho has done many lead roles as well as supporting roles in numerous movies. Talking about the actor’s other movie projects, he acted in ‘No. 3’ and this performance made him earn his first award at the Blue Dragon Film Awards. Besides this, Song Kang-ho has appeared in several hit movies such as ‘Shiri’, ‘Bad Movie’, The Foul King’, ‘Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance’, ‘Memories of Murder’, ‘Antarctic Journal’, ‘The President's Barber’, ‘The Host’, ‘The Show Must Go On’, ‘Secret Sunshine’, ‘Thirst’, ‘Hindsight’, ‘The Face Reader’, ‘The Age of Shadows’ and ‘A Taxi Driver’. He has earned numerous awards for his performances till date and is known as one of the most critically acclaimed actors in South Korea.