Song Kang-ho

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1967 age 0

   Born

2. 2003 age 36

   CreditMemories of Murder

3. 2006 age 39

   CreditThe Host

4. 2013 age 46

   CreditSnowpiercer

5. 2014 age 47

   CreditThe Interview

6. 2019 age 52

   CreditParasite

• BJBong Joon-ho4 titles
• PLPaul Lazar2 titles
• HKHong Kyung-pyo2 titles
• MLMi-gyeong Lee2 titles
• KAKo A-sung2 titles
• PHPark Hae-il2 titles
• BHByun Hee-bong2 titles
• LJLee Jae-eung2 titles
• KBKwon Byeong-gil2 titles
• KHKim Hyung-koo2 titles

• I want to try new creative things and find refreshing stories. That's how I've come to choose the roles that I've done.

  Song Kang-ho, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The main reason for choosing a project is not really the renown of the director that's making the project. I feel like it's the fact of an actor to constantly want to do different things.

  Song Kang-ho, CC BY-SA 4.0

• When I first read the script, I thought it has such a unique structure. That was my first impression. And the character I was going play, it was very important. It’s kind of the centre of the story. That’s the sense I had when I read it.

  Song Kang-ho, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Relatively speaking, there’s no film that I feel like, “Oh, I really wish I had done that.” Because there are a lot of proposals and I was just in a really fortunate situation where I could just choose good screenplays, and there was no work that I kind of wanted but never been proposed. So I’m very lucky.

  Song Kang-ho, CC BY-SA 4.0

• A film like Parasite could be a very kind of positive stimulation to the Korean film industry. And maybe not all the films will achieve the same level of success, you know, it will be very difficult, but I think this will definitely inspire a lot of young filmmakers to make very creative and new works.

  Song Kang-ho, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I’m not very familiar with K-Pop, but with cinema – and Parasite in particular – I think Korean cinema carries this destructive dynamic and sensibility. Korean culture in itself is very dynamic and I think that’s why K-Pop is so popular as well. It’s a dynamic form of music, and that draws people in and makes them go crazy.

  Song Kang-ho, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

South Korea

Languages

Korean

Years active

1991–

Education

Busan Kyungsang College