Song Junggi, born in 1985, had been training to become a short track athlete since his youngest age, but an ankle injury forced him to quit several years later. Although he wanted to major in acting, his parents convinced him to study economics, and it was only a few years later that he took a class at an acting school. He made his debut in the film <A Frozen Flower> where he acted as a member of the King’s guard legion during the Goryeo Dynasty. Song leaped into gre...More

Song Junggi, born in 1985, had been training to become a short track athlete since his youngest age, but an ankle injury forced him to quit several years later. Although he wanted to major in acting, his parents convinced him to study economics, and it was only a few years later that he took a class at an acting school. He made his debut in the film <A Frozen Flower> where he acted as a member of the King’s guard legion during the Goryeo Dynasty. Song leaped into greater stardom with his role in youth drama series <Sungkyunkwan Scandal> (2010), along with his appearances in the popular variety show <Running Men> around the same. Song left another unforgettable impression as he returned as young King Sejong in 2011’s most watched and talked about drama <Deep Rooted Tree>. Song has a clean and dandy appearance that even led him to publish a book about skin care, and this image has helped create a strong fan base. His next film was a fantasy melodrama <A Werewolf Boy> (2012), where he played the titular role of a lonely lycanthrope secluded from society who falls in love with a young woman. Just a few months after completing his 2 years of military service in 2015, Song was cast as the male lead in the military-set romance drama <Descendants of the Sun> (2016), a smash hit in Korea that proved a hit across East Asia as well, which gave Song international recognition as well as a bevy of awards. He was then chosen by Ryoo Seungwan to star as a Korean independence fighter in the historical drama film <The Battleship Island> (2017). The year 2021 marked another important step for the actor as the SF action film <SPACE SWEEPERS> (2021), which he headlined, was picked up by Netflix and quickly became on the most popular shows on the platform around the platform around that period. He is set to come back in the Colombia-set drama film <Bogota: City of the Lost> (2020).Less