
Acting
Kang Hye-jung
Born 1982-01-04 · Incheon, South Korea
Kang Hye-jung (강혜정) is a South Korean actress, best known for her work in Oldboy (2003) and Welcome to Dongmakgol (2005). Both of these were critically and commercially successful films which earned her prestigious acting awards, including the Grand Bell and Blue Dragon awards. She is married to Daniel Armand Lee (a.k.a. Tablo) of the hip hop group Epik High. The couple has one daughter.
Acting credits
8.2With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.
Oldboy
2003
7.5Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.
Lady Vengeance
2005
6.8Features an anthology centred on the experiences of a witch doctor, a film-maker and a disgruntled extra determined to take revenge on him, and a novelist as well as her twin sister.
Three... Extremes
2004
6.4Dae-ho, an investigative journalist, seeks to track down the whereabouts of his son who was abducted three years ago. With the help of a detective and a psychiatrist friend, he will retrace his memory of the incident through the use of lucid dreaming techniques.
Lucid Dream
2017
7.2Ji-so is a young girl who doesn't have a house because of her bankrupted dad. In order to get money to buy a house she plans to steal a wealthy person's dogs to earn reward money when she returns them.
How to Steal a Dog
2014
7.4Based on the long running play by Jang Jin, the story is set in Korea during the Korean War in 1950. Soldiers from both the North and South, as well as an American pilot, find themselves in a secluded and naively idealistic village, its residents unaware of the outside world, including the war.
Welcome to Dongmakgol
2005
6.0Arctic cold and paranoia take their toll as Korean explorers are beset by the same strange occurrences that preceded the disappearance of a British team in 1922.
Antarctic Journal
2005
5.9Choi arrives at a new high school to work as a student-teacher. During her first day at work, the teacher that she is assigned to work with, Lim, hits on her in a very brash way.
Rules of Dating
2005
7.1Sang-eun is a beautiful 20-year-old girl who is mentally challenged. One day she happens to meet a boy and deludes herself to think he's a beast under the vicious spell.
Herb
2007
6.0After being abandoned at the altar, Jason courts the girl of his dreams on the Internet. When she arrives in Los Angeles for their wedding, there's an unexpected surprise.
Wedding Palace
2013
6.4Two misfits form an unlikely relationship after a woman breaks into a man's house only to discover him in the midst of a suicide attempt.
Why Did You Come to My House
2009
5.9After inadvertently killing his girlfriend, a man flees Macau for Thailand in an attempt to cope with his guilt, and avoid possible arrest. But the relocation doesn't prevent his problems from following him, as his new friends could be potential enemies.
Invisible Waves
2006
5.5An odd director leaves for Hollywood to shoot a film via Skype and cellphones. 14 actors and actresses are devastated after being dumped by the director. Now, the 14 actors and actress prepare for the counterattack.
Behind the Camera
2013
3.5A young woman suspects her new boyfriend of infidelity and discovers that he actually has two other girlfriends. She meets the other women and the three of them become best friends.
Girlfriends
2009
6.8On a sunny day, a boy named Jo-kang meets Ari, a girl in a yellow raincoat, and they become friends. Jo-kang falls helplessly in love with the quirky but attractive Ari, but one day, she suddenly disappears.
Love Phobia
2006
6.3In a near future Korea, where an "oblivion virus" which causes memory loss has become the centre of a tourist industry aimed at those who wish to forget the past, Anna Kim, a German woman of Korean descent, seeks the virus in order to erase painful memories and, along the way, develops a close bond with her driver and her teenage guide.
The Butterfly
2001
6.6Old Days is a documentary about Park Chan-wook's original masterpiece, Oldboy. It was created for Plain Archive's Blu-ray release and first screened at the Jeonju International Film Festival.
Old Days
2016
5.0A tense standoff between a wealthy young widow with a collection of world-famous art, a swindler with an eye on her collection, and a strange woman who blackmails him into including her in the con.
Triangle
2009
A girl with large hip-hop pants and an orange backpack walks around Gangnam Station. The girl's clear but unfocused eyes are bruised. Somewhere in Seoul, a girl gives birth to a child sitting on the toilet in a filthy public restroom. Green wings sprout from her back as she pours water with her blood-stained hands.
Flush
2001
6.6A quiet, professional killer, Hyun-jun, arrives at a house to kill a man in his sleep, only to discover a woman alone under the sheets. Jin-young has decided to kill herself after a traumatic break up with her lover of seven years, but she wants to go out with a bang, not with a miserable and lonely dose of commonplace sleeping pills. The most extraordinary love story begins.
Kiss Me, Kill Me
2009
NR3 and a half hour making of documentary on Oldboy, covering nearly every scene
Autobiography of Oldboy
2004
6.5Susie, a Filipino worker working in a sewing factory, is working underpaid. Then one day, Susie acts as the boss's mother and solves all of this.
Dreams Come True
2014