Park Hae-soo

Acting

Park Hae-soo

Born 1981-11-21 · Suwon, Gyeonggi, South Korea

Park Hae-soo (born November 21, 1981) is a South Korean actor. He is best known worldwide for portraying Cho Sang-woo in the first season of the Netflix hit series Squid Game (2021), which earned him a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Park started his career in theater and has played a large number of leading and supporting roles in plays and musicals. He subsequently expanded his career into film and television and achieved his breakthrough with Prison Playbook (2017–2018), one of the highest-rated Korean dramas on cable television. He is also known for his frequent collaborations with Netflix, including Narco-Saints (2022), Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area (2022), Karma (2025), The Price of Confession (2025), and The Great Flood (2025).

Acting credits

The Great Flood poster
6.0

When a raging flood traps a researcher and her young son, a call to a crucial mission puts their escape — and the future of humanity — on the line.

The Great Flood

2025

Good News poster
6.9

When hijackers seize a Japanese flight and demand to fly to Pyongyang, a mysterious mastermind hatches a zany scheme to reroute the plane to Seoul.

Good News

2025

Yaksha: Ruthless Operations poster
6.6

Nicknamed after a human-devouring spirit, the ruthless leader of an overseas black ops team takes up a dangerous mission in a city riddled with spies.

Yaksha: Ruthless Operations

2022

The Pirates poster
7.0

At the cusp of the founding of Joseon Dynasty, an envoy from China is delivering Emperor’s Ming’s Royal Seal. But nature in the form of a giant whale intervenes and swallows the royal seal. When a generous reward is offered to whomever can retrieve the royal seal from the belly of the whale, the race is on. A group of mountain bandits led by Jang Sa Jung and a group of pirates led by Yeo Wol go after the lost treasure, but who will get to to it first?

The Pirates

2014

Time to Hunt poster
7.1

Four young men want to leave their dystopian world behind and go to a distant paradise to execute a money robbery, a daring act that will have unexpected consequences.

Time to Hunt

2020

Master poster
6.9

Korea’s biggest network marketing scam reveals a far greater network of corruption and conspiracy lurking underneath.

Master

2016

Phantom poster
6.9

In 1933, when Korea was under Japanese occupation, five people in Gyeongseong are suspected to be "Phantom" spies of the anti-Japanese organization.

Phantom

2023

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gulf of Aden

The Unfair poster
7.2

Residents, who are evicted from their homes in a designated urban renewal, demonstrate against their removal. The police arrive and attempt to end the demonstration. Death happen that lead to the bigger problem.

The Unfair

2015

By Quantum Physics: A Nightlife Venture poster
6.0

An advocate of the concept ‘thoughts create reality’, Chan-woo endeavors to realize his dream of running a high-end nightclub when he finds himself caught in the center of a power game in the criminal underworld.

By Quantum Physics: A Nightlife Venture

2019

Lobby poster
5.8

A CEO of a small tech company, Chang-wook, must win billions worth bid for National EV charger project against Gwang-woo, an ex-business partner who has thrived with lobbying after stealing Chang-wook's original technology. Discovering Gwang-woo's secret connection with the decision-maker Minister Cho, he plans his first-ever golf outing to win over the deal. Finally, the golf round day has come, but everything is not the way he planned. Scandal, betrayal and chase in this 18-hole round.

Lobby

2025

No artwork available
NR

A feature film loosely inspired by a 2011 essay by the late Italian novelist and scholar Umberto Eco, titled "How Old People Survive."

K.O. Club

Whales and I poster
NR

Explore the mesmerizing world of whales, the ocean’s majestic rulers, through vivid footage from 20 nations. On this journey, whales show their incredible ability to traverse halfway around the earth and to dive to great depth in a single breath. Yet, amidst their splendor lies a shocking truth about our planet. What is their final call to protect our future?

Whales and I

2024

Tristes Tropiques poster
6.5

A group of young assassins, trained by the rainforest's absolute ruler known as 'Master' and affiliated with the organization 'Tristes Tropiques,' struggle with mutual distrust as they vow to exact bloody revenge.

Tristes Tropiques

2025

The Cherry Orchard poster
NR

Acclaimed director Simon Stone and his stellar Korean cast bring striking originality to Chekhov’s classic, relocating The Cherry Orchard of old Russia to modern-day Korea. Doyoung Song, a chaebol heiress, returns from abroad to a free and defiant Seoul. Above all, her family business is in peril, threatening the future of her mansion. As the Songs grapple with their status and heritage in a rapidly changing world, quiet tensions unfold within their glass-walled home, and the family collapses into a poignant, beautiful mess.

The Cherry Orchard

2025