Song Kang-ho Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Song Kang-ho (Korean: 송강호; born January 17, 1967, in Gimhae) is a leading South Korean film actor. Song Kang-ho never professionally trained as an actor, beginning his career in social theater groups after graduating from Kimhae High School. After getting a degree from Busan Kyungsang College, he later joined Kee Kuk-seo's influential theatre company with its emphasis on instinctive acting and improvisation which proved Song's training ground. He made his stage premiere in 1991, in the play Dongseung. Although regularly approached to act in films, he always turned down the... MORE

Song Kang-ho (Korean: 송강호; born January 17, 1967, in Gimhae) is a leading South Korean film actor. Song Kang-ho never professionally trained as an actor, beginning his career in social theater groups after graduating from Kimhae High School. After getting a degree from Busan Kyungsang College, he later joined Kee Kuk-seo's influential theatre company with its emphasis on instinctive acting and improvisation which proved Song's training ground. He made his stage premiere in 1991, in the play Dongseung. Although regularly approached to act in films, he always turned down the opportunity until taking a role as an extra in Hong Sang-soo's The Day a Pig Fell into the Well (1996). In the following year, after portraying one of the homeless in Jang Sun-woo's docu-style Bad Movie, he gained cult notoriety for his show-stealing performance in Song Neung-han's No. 3 as a gangster training a group of young recruits, winning his first Best Actor award at the Blue Dragon Film Awards. Since that time he's been cast in several supporting roles before his high-profile appearance as Han Suk-kyu's secret agent partner in Kang Je-gyu's blockbuster thriller Shiri. In early 2000, Song became a star LESS