Kang Dong-won
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Gang Dong-won (born January 18, 1981) is a South Korean actor.
Early life
Gang Dong-won was born January 18, 1981, in Busan, and grew up in Changwon of Gyeongsangnam-do. His father, Gang Cheol-woo, was an engineer and later vice president of SPP Heavy Industries. Gang's family suffered economic hardship at times and Gang had to work part-time in college to pay for his tuition. Academically gifted with an IQ of 137, Gang graduated from Hanyang University at Ansan with a degree in mechanical engineering.
Career
Gang was first year university undergraduate and was discovered on the streets by a modeling agent in 2000. He began modeling, and appeared on the catwalk for prêt-à-porter collections in Paris, including DKNY, Gucci, and Hugo Boss, as well as the local Seoul Fashion Artists Association (SFAA).
Gang began taking acting lessons after being cast in Jo Sung-mo's "I Swear" music video, resulting in a change in career. In 2003, he made his acting debut on television, as a doctor with a regional dialect in Country Princess (also known as Funny Wild Girl), and in Something About 1%, a chaebol's son. In 2004, he shot his first film, Too Beautiful to Lie, which was moderately popular.
In Temptation of Wolves, the film version of Guiyeoni's teenage internet book, Gang's first real breakthrough came from the film. Gang's fame has since grown in other Asian nations, especially Japan. In Magic, he briefly returned to television as an antihero, but it received poor ratings.
The gang's next appearances were as an inmate on the death row in Maundy on Thursday and as the antagonist in Voice of a Murderer. Gang's two collaborations with auteur Lee Myung-se in Duelist and M strengthened the group's reputation as one of the best young actors in Korean cinema, earning him critical praise for his stylish touch and wide variety of roles.
Gang said he decided to play the mischievous titular character in Jeon Woo-chi: The Taoist Wizard because he was physically drained while working on several serious films previously. Despite opening in theaters only a week after the introduction of Avatar in Korea, the Choi Dong-hoon film became a holiday blockbuster during the winter season, grossing over 6 million tickets over the winter season. In Jang Hoon's spy film Secret Reunion, he was cast opposite veteran actor Song Kang-ho. With over 5 million tickets sold, it became one of the biggest Korean box office hits of 2010. He appeared in Jang Joon-hwan's short film Love For Sale, which was centered on Busan-centered omnibus Camellia. The psychological thriller Haunters was the last project of the Gang before enlistment.
On November 18, 2010, the band was called to compulsory military service in South Chungcheong Province. The non-active position at the Seoul City Research Institute of Public Health and Environment was followed by the non-active service as a public service employee. On November 12, 2012, he was discharged. "Gang Dong-won in a Day" was his agency's three-minute YouTube video of him in a number of locations around the city on the day of his release.
Gang appeared in The X, a 30-minute spy drama directed by Kim Jee-woon, in 2013.
Gang returned to the big screen in Yoon Jong-bin's period action film Kundo: Age of the Rampant, portraying an illegitimate nobleman's uncle who tries to depose a group of Robin Hood-like outlaws in 19th-century Joseon Dynasty. He appeared in My Brilliant Life, E J-yong's film adaptation of Kim Aeran's bestseller My Palpitating Life, about a couple who must watch their son suffering from progeria grow prematurely old.
Gang reunited in 2015 with Jeon Woo-chi co-star Kim Yoon-seok in Jang Jae-hyun's mystery thriller The Priests.
Gang appeared in the crime film A Violent Prosecutor, directed by Lee Il-hyung, which became the second highest grossing Korean film of 2016. Along with Lee Byung-hun and Kim Woo-bin, he appeared in Um Tae-hwa's fantasy film Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned and Cho Ui-Seok's financial thriller film Master. Gang signed with YG Entertainment in January 2016, shortly after putting an end to his United Artist Agency.
In 2017, Gang made a special appearance in Jang Joon-hwan's historical film 1987: When the Day Comes.
Gang was framed as the assassination of a politician in Noh Dong-seok's enthralling Golden Slumber, based on Isaka Kotaro's book of the same name. Kim Jee-woon's science fiction action thriller Illang: The Wolf Brigade, a film adaptation based on Jin-Roh: A Japanese animated thriller, was his next project.
Gang starred in Yeon Sang-ho's horror-action-thriller Peninsula in 2020, a standalone sequel to 2016's Train to Busan. He appeared in the Hirokazu Kore-eda's Film Broker, where he played Dong-soo, a man who was abandoned by parents, now sells abandoned babies with his friend, Song Kang-ho. At the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, the film was competing for Palme d'Or.