Kang Soo-youn (also known as Kang Soo-yeon, born August ) is a South
Korean actress. She was born in Seoul, South Korea and was one of the
best known and internationally acclaimed stars from South Korea from
the mid-s to the end of the s.Kang made her acting debut as a child
actor in the s. She acted in a number of low profile movies before
making a breakthrough performance in the Im Kwon-taek directed movie,
The Surrogate Woman for which she was honored with the Volpi Cup Best
Actress award at the Venice International Film Festival and Best
Actress Award at the Nantes International Film Festival. This was the
first time a Korean actor has been given the award at the major film
festival and at the time people did not even know that South Korea has
a film industry. Two years later, she again took the limelight by
winning the Best Actress award at the th Moscow International Film
Festival for her role in the Im Kwon-taek directed Buddhist theme
movie, Come, Come, Come Upward. In the film, Kang played the role of
Sun Nyog, a young student who sought refuge in the monastery to escape
from her troubled home and study to become a nun, and later fell in
love with the person who tried to take away her modesty. Kang actually
got her head shaved on-screen in the scene when Sun Nyog became a nun.
In the same year, she was invited to serve as a juror in the Tokyo
International Film Festival. In she was a member of the jury at the
th Moscow International Film Festival.In the s, Kang appeared in a
number of movies, the best known of which are Jang Sun-woo's acclaimed
Road to the Racetrack which won her the Chunsa Film Art Awards and
Blue Dragon Film Awards for Best Actress, the box office hit movie
titled That Woman, That Man by Kim Ui-seok, Lee Myung-se's film about
adultery titled Their Last Love Affair and Im Sang-soo's debut film
Girls Night Out. By the end of the s, she had acted in movies and
after her movie Rainbow Trout was released in winning her the
Baeksang Arts Awards for Best Actress, she cut down her work in movies
and took to acting in TV drama. Kang was invited to be a juror in the
th Pusan International Film Festival in the year .In , Kang starred in
the popular episodes TV Drama aired on SBS TV titled Ladies of the
Palace (Yeo-in Cheon-ha). The TV drama managed to garner her new
visibility among mainstream audiences. Her performance in the TV Drama
as Jung Nan-jung enabled her to win the Performance Award awarded by
SBS TV. After a brief hiatus from the movie scene, she make her
comeback in the movie The Circle playing the role of an attorney. Kang
has since then appeared in another movie titled Hanbando in . In , she
make another foray into mainstream TV after a gap of six years by
acting in the MBC TV Drama by the name of Moonhee. In the TV Drama,
she played the role of a woman who is forced to leave her child she
had when she was only eighteen and thus the TV Drama seeks to portray
the travails of the woman's life. and become chairman of Busan Film
festival
Korean actress. She was born in Seoul, South Korea and was one of the
best known and internationally acclaimed stars from South Korea from
the mid-s to the end of the s.Kang made her acting debut as a child
actor in the s. She acted in a number of low profile movies before
making a breakthrough performance in the Im Kwon-taek directed movie,
The Surrogate Woman for which she was honored with the Volpi Cup Best
Actress award at the Venice International Film Festival and Best
Actress Award at the Nantes International Film Festival. This was the
first time a Korean actor has been given the award at the major film
festival and at the time people did not even know that South Korea has
a film industry. Two years later, she again took the limelight by
winning the Best Actress award at the th Moscow International Film
Festival for her role in the Im Kwon-taek directed Buddhist theme
movie, Come, Come, Come Upward. In the film, Kang played the role of
Sun Nyog, a young student who sought refuge in the monastery to escape
from her troubled home and study to become a nun, and later fell in
love with the person who tried to take away her modesty. Kang actually
got her head shaved on-screen in the scene when Sun Nyog became a nun.
In the same year, she was invited to serve as a juror in the Tokyo
International Film Festival. In she was a member of the jury at the
th Moscow International Film Festival.In the s, Kang appeared in a
number of movies, the best known of which are Jang Sun-woo's acclaimed
Road to the Racetrack which won her the Chunsa Film Art Awards and
Blue Dragon Film Awards for Best Actress, the box office hit movie
titled That Woman, That Man by Kim Ui-seok, Lee Myung-se's film about
adultery titled Their Last Love Affair and Im Sang-soo's debut film
Girls Night Out. By the end of the s, she had acted in movies and
after her movie Rainbow Trout was released in winning her the
Baeksang Arts Awards for Best Actress, she cut down her work in movies
and took to acting in TV drama. Kang was invited to be a juror in the
th Pusan International Film Festival in the year .In , Kang starred in
the popular episodes TV Drama aired on SBS TV titled Ladies of the
Palace (Yeo-in Cheon-ha). The TV drama managed to garner her new
visibility among mainstream audiences. Her performance in the TV Drama
as Jung Nan-jung enabled her to win the Performance Award awarded by
SBS TV. After a brief hiatus from the movie scene, she make her
comeback in the movie The Circle playing the role of an attorney. Kang
has since then appeared in another movie titled Hanbando in . In , she
make another foray into mainstream TV after a gap of six years by
acting in the MBC TV Drama by the name of Moonhee. In the TV Drama,
she played the role of a woman who is forced to leave her child she
had when she was only eighteen and thus the TV Drama seeks to portray
the travails of the woman's life. and become chairman of Busan Film
festival
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