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All All. Sign In. Song Kang-ho never professionally trained as an actor, beginning his career in social theater groups after graduating from Kimhae High School. Later, he joined Kee Kuk-seo's influential theater company with its emphasis on instinctive acting and improvisation, which proved to be Song's training ground. 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 In the following year, after portraying one of the homeless in Jang Sun-woo 's docu-drama Bad Movie , he gained cult notoriety for his scene-stealing performance in Neung-han Song No.

Since that time he was cast in several supporting roles before his high-profile role as Han Suk-kyu 's secret-agent partner in Kang Je-kyu 's blockbuster thriller Shiri In early , Song became a star with his first leading role in the box office smash The Foul King , for which he reputedly did most of his own stunts. But it was with his award-winning role as a North Korean sergeant in Joint Security Area that Song has come to the forefront as one of Korea's leading actors.

Song also starred in Park Chan-wook 's Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance , which centers around a father's pursuit of his daughter's kidnappers. He came to international attention with the film The Host , which reunited him with director Bong Joon Ho.