Song Kang-Ho

Song Kang-ho is a leading South Korean film actor. A graduate of Busan Kyungsang College, he started his career in theatre groups without professional training as an actor. He made his stage premiere in 1991, in the play Dongseung.

In 1996 Song started appearing in film roles and his 1997 part in No. 3, as a gangster training a group of recruits, won him his first acting award, at the Blue Dragon Film Awards. Song's cachet rose with his high-profile supporting role in the 1999 box-office hit Shiri. In 2000, Song received his first leading roles as a wrestler in The Foul King and as a North Korean sergeant in Joint Security Area.

In recent years he has received critical acclaim for his portrayals of a vengeful father in Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002); an incompetent rural detective in Memories of Murder (2003); a barber who dotes on his only son in The President's Barber (2004); and a semi-intelligent but doting father in the The Host (2006). He won Best Actor in the 2007 Asian Film Awards.

As an actor:

• 2010 Ui-hyeong-je
• 2009 Bakjwi
• 2008 Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom
• 2007 Milyang
• 2007 Uahan segye
• 2006 Gwoemul
• 2005 Chinjeolhan geumjassi
• 2005 Namgeuk-ilgi
• 2004 Hyojadong ibalsa
• 2003 Salinui chueok
• 2002 YMCA Yagudan
• 2002 Boksuneun naui geot as Park Dong-jin
• 2000 Gongdong gyeongbi guyeok JSA
• 2000 Banchikwang
• 1999 Swiri
• 1998 Choyonghan kajok
• 1997 Nappun yeonghwa
• 1997 No. 3
• 1997 Chorok mulkogi
• 1996 Daijiga umule pajinnal