Shin Ha-kyun (born May 30, 1974) is a South Korean actor. His notable
films include Joint Security Area (2000), Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
(2002), Save the Green Planet! (2003), and Welcome to Dongmakgol
(2005).Shin Ha-kyun first trained as a stage actor at the Seoul
Institute of the Arts before going on to act in a large number of
plays by Jang Jin. When in 1998 Jang Jin directed his first movie The
Happenings, Shin was cast and he has since appeared in almost all of
Jang's feature films. Impressed by his acting abilities, director Kim
Jee-woon also cast him in minor roles in The Foul King and his
30-minute internet film Coming Out.Shin first became a superstar with
his role as a young North Korea soldier in Park Chan-wook's smash hit
Joint Security Area in late 2000. At that time he developed a large
fan following which, together that of co-star Won Bin, helped make his
next film Guns & Talks a strong commercial hit.In the next couple
years Shin would take on two strong roles that would come to define
his career. In Park Chan-wook's acclaimed Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance,
he played a deaf man with bright green dyed hair who is driven by
desperation to kidnap a young girl. Then in Jang Joon-hwan's Save the
Green Planet! in 2003, he played a mentally unbalanced man who
believes that aliens are plotting to invade the earth. Together, these
two intense and harrowing performances by Shin were an impressive
display of his acting talent.
films include Joint Security Area (2000), Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
(2002), Save the Green Planet! (2003), and Welcome to Dongmakgol
(2005).Shin Ha-kyun first trained as a stage actor at the Seoul
Institute of the Arts before going on to act in a large number of
plays by Jang Jin. When in 1998 Jang Jin directed his first movie The
Happenings, Shin was cast and he has since appeared in almost all of
Jang's feature films. Impressed by his acting abilities, director Kim
Jee-woon also cast him in minor roles in The Foul King and his
30-minute internet film Coming Out.Shin first became a superstar with
his role as a young North Korea soldier in Park Chan-wook's smash hit
Joint Security Area in late 2000. At that time he developed a large
fan following which, together that of co-star Won Bin, helped make his
next film Guns & Talks a strong commercial hit.In the next couple
years Shin would take on two strong roles that would come to define
his career. In Park Chan-wook's acclaimed Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance,
he played a deaf man with bright green dyed hair who is driven by
desperation to kidnap a young girl. Then in Jang Joon-hwan's Save the
Green Planet! in 2003, he played a mentally unbalanced man who
believes that aliens are plotting to invade the earth. Together, these
two intense and harrowing performances by Shin were an impressive
display of his acting talent.
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