Kang So-yi

Acting

Kang So-yi

Acting credits

The Day She Returns poster
5.9

​Having stepped back from acting after marriage and a subsequent divorce, actress Bae Jeongsu returns to the profession with a role in an independent film. As the film’s release approaches, she takes part in a series of press interviews, only to discover later, when asked to revisit those moments in her acting class, that she cannot clearly recall what was said.

The Day She Returns

2026

A Traveler's Needs poster
6.5

Iris, a woman abroad in Seoul, teaches French and English in an idiosyncratic fashion that allows her to pursue her own philosophical and personal interests. Through four encounters over a single day, Iris probes students and strangers for information about poetry, their own histories, and their relationship to their egos.

A Traveler's Needs

2024

Way Back Home poster
7.6

Jeong-yoon and Jong-bae own a car body repair shop together that gets in financial trouble. To help cover the losses and take care of her family, Jeong-yoon decides to smuggle thirty kilograms of cocaine.

Way Back Home

2013

By the Stream poster
7.2

After a scandal breaks out among several students involved in the production of a skit, a lecturer at a South Korean women's college brings in her uncle, a famous actor, to bring the work to fruition.

By the Stream

2024

What Does That Nature Say to You poster
7.2

A young poet drops his girlfriend off at her parents' house and is amazed by its size. He bumps into her father, meets her mother and sister, and they all end up spending a long day together; fueled by conversation, food and libations.

What Does That Nature Say to You

2025

The Princess and the Matchmaker poster
7.2

Refusing to allow fate to decide whom she must marry, Princess Songhwa decides to find her own husband. She seeks the help of a man to interpret her marital harmony with four men she wishes to marry.

The Princess and the Matchmaker

2018

Seoul Cinema poster
NR

Seoul Cinema will be closing down soon. The last screened film, The Widow, shows scenes that depict what Seoul looked like long ago. After watching it, I walk along the same streets shown in the film. The famous statue of General Yi Sun-shin, which was said to have been moved, is still in the same location. I feel like I’ve already walked this road with someone else before. While a lot of things change, something of the past always remains. I decide to fall in love with these remnants.

Seoul Cinema

2022

Nothing Has Happened Yet poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Nothing Has Happened Yet

Before the Call poster
NR

Jinwoo, a Korean American, returns to Seoul amid an escalating global crisis. Despite being exempt from service, he’s determined to enlist in the military and join the Korean soldiers being sent overseas. Awaiting his deployment day, he spends his time wandering the city’s winding streets, reconnecting with old friends and trying to win the approval of his stern, reserved father. A quiet tension builds as the big day approaches, and Jinwoo begins to question his decision.

Before the Call

2025

No artwork available
NR

A young bi-racial woman attending Jeonju Film Festival with her first feature develops all manners of romantic and artistic friendships while becoming entangled in a complicated affair between a young local and a prominent filmmaker.

No Feeling Is Forever

A Dance That Speaks poster
NR

So-yi, a dance instructor, works with her beginner class students to prepare for a performance. Her choreography is based on the personal stories of the participants - people who dance, each for their own unique reason.

A Dance That Speaks

2025