Versatile performer PARK Won-sang has been active for a long time as a chameleonic supporting player in Korean cinema but has only recently become a leading man. After studying German at Soongsil Univeristy, PARK soon became active in theatre and film, and later also television. His film debut came with 1996’s <Three Friends> but he wouldn’t appear again until 2000, but from then on he began to a appear in a series of works, often difficult to recognize as a result ...
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Versatile performer PARK Won-sang has been active for a long time as a chameleonic supporting player in Korean cinema but has only recently become a leading man. After studying German at Soongsil Univeristy, PARK soon became active in theatre and film, and later also television. His film debut came with 1996’s <Three Friends> but he wouldn’t appear again until 2000, but from then on he began to a appear in a series of works, often difficult to recognize as a result of his ever-changing on-screen personalities. His credits include <Waikiki Brothers> (2001), <Marriage Is a Crazy Thing> (2002), <Spider Forest> (2004), <May 18> (2007), <Secret> (2009) and <Villain & Widow> (2010). Following his many years as a consistent and reliable performer, he suddenly found himself as the second lead, alongside AHN Sung-ki, in CHUNG Ji-young’s blistering courtroom drama <Unbowed>, which premiered at the Busan International Film Festival in 2011. One year later, he re-teamed with CHUNG as the lead in <National Security>, the torture drama that was one of the most difficult films of 2012. His performance as a torture victim was harrowing and unforgettable. Subsequently, the offers began to stream in and PARK found himself taking a number of roles in mid-level commercial fare. Among those was the 2013 surprise smash hit <Miracle in Cell No.7> and IM Soon-rye’s <South Bound>. PARK also appeared in a bigger role in the indie films <The Stone> and <My Dear Girl, Jin-young>, before going back to the commercial realm with the 2014 thriller <Tabloid Truth>. He next appeared in the indie drama thriller <The Stone>, and YIM Soon-rye’s stem cell research fraud thriller <The Whistleblower>. In 2015, he performed in LEE Joon-ik’s large-scale period drama <The Throne>, opposite SONG Kang-ho.
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