Hong Kyung-in

Acting

Hong Kyung-in

Born 1976-10-27 · Seoul, South Korea

The fresh-faced HONG Kyung-in, who graduated from the Dongguk University’s School of Acting, debuted on screen at the tender age of 16 in the early 1990s Korean classic Our Twisted Hero (1992). While still a teenager he went on to appear in some of the most important films of the mid-1990s, such as The Eternal Empire (1995) and A Single Spark (1995). It was around this time that he began to appear in TV dramas as well. He has remained consistent on screen, taking co-starring roles in films for 20 years, such as 2001’s hit gangster comedy Hi! Dharma. After a few years absent from cinemas, HONG returned to the big screen in 2013 with a part in the hit spy drama Secretly Greatly and then starred alongside KIM In-gwon in the issue-raising North Korea-set drama Apostle in 2014.

Acting credits

Secretly, Greatly poster
7.0

Three elite North Korean sleeper agents live under cover for so long that they believe their cover stories are their real identities. They are shocked when they are ordered to kill one another or face death at the hands of an elite hit team.

Secretly, Greatly

2013

Toxic Desire: Addiction poster
5.2

Psychiatrist Joon-sang is a well-known doctor. He is level-headed with his patients, but he's got a painful past. He'd witnessed his wife kill herself because she was raped. He'd suffered insomnia along with guilt and sadness until a beautiful girl Ji-soo comes along. She tells him every man who's loved her died and that someone was watching her. She seduces Joon-sang. A detective suspects Ji-soo to be involved with a recent murder case and asks Joon-sang for her medical records... Falling in love with something dangerous and the end of which is unknown!

Toxic Desire: Addiction

2014

A Single Spark poster
7.1

Activist and law school graduate Kim is being persecuted by the mid-’70s Park regime for trying to write a book about Jeon Tae-il, a union activist who immolated himself at age 22 to protest government hypocrisy.

A Single Spark

1995

Revenge poster
2.0

When the six people are kidnapped and open their eyes, they are tied up in circular chains and cannot move. They are trapped in a structure where they cannot see each other, and try to escape, but they distrust each other because they cannot see who they are.

Revenge

2024

Chabak - Night of Murder and Romance poster
4.1

On their first wedding anniversary, a couple ventures into the mountains for a romantic Chabak (car-camping) trip, but their idyllic getaway turns into a living nightmare when they unknowingly cross paths with a bloodthirsty psychopath. The couple must confront the truth before it’s too late.

Chabak - Night of Murder and Romance

2023

Birth of a Man poster
7.5

Let's go to PR and go to university! The one and only project of the Angry Three Musketeers! This is the beginning of the mission on the island 'Maidou', which is not on the map...

Birth of a Man

2002

Life and Death of the Hollywood Kid poster
7.3

While the government watches everything and everyone, Myonggil and Pyongsok organize a movie club called The Magnificent Seven. Later in life, after Myonggil is released from military service, he goes to visit his childhood friend and finds out that their lives have taken very different paths.

Life and Death of the Hollywood Kid

1994

Borderliners poster
NR

The life and music of composer and activist Jeong Yul-Seong.

Borderliners

2021

Our Twisted Hero poster
6.9

Han Byung-tae, who teaches at a private after-school academy in Seoul, receives word that his old teacher has passed away and sets off to the rural village where he attended elementary school. In the train, he reminisces about the tough fights he used to get into back in the day.

Our Twisted Hero

1992

30 Minutes poster
5.0

A middle-aged man is trapped in a time loop, reliving the Christmas Eve of his murder repeatedly.

30 Minutes

2025

Hi, Dharma! poster
6.4

Laughs and thrills go hand-in-fist in this Korean action comedy, as a band of criminals fleeing a violent gang war hides out in a monastery. The monks in residence quickly tire of the goons’ distressing behavior and manufacture a series of activities to get even.

Hi, Dharma!

2001

The Eternal Empire poster
6.5

This film depicts the struggles of the Royal Party and the Old Party to obtain political power. In 1800, The Royal Party insisted that the political power should be centralized to the King, but the other party (The Old Party) insisted that the political power should be centralized to the majority of the ministers. One day, official Jang was ordered by the King to arrange and edit the record of the former King Yeongjo. All of a sudden, Jang dies. Soon it was disclosed that Jang was killed by the Old Party because of their connection with the book. For this incident , the King tried to get rid of key members of the Old Party, but the Old Party resists the King's will. What was in the book? Who was involved? Why? The political intrigue will keep you on the edge of your seat.

The Eternal Empire

1995

The Best poster
8.8

The arrival of new music teacher makes a big difference for a group of troubled high school students.

The Best

1998

Your Noir poster
4.5

Hyeong-Ju is a gang member. He begins to follow a woman. The woman is the wife of a prosecutor investigating his gang. The woman was also Hyeong-Ju's teacher when he was younger and he liked her at the time. Hyeong-Ju still has feelings for her.

Your Noir

2013

Happy_Ero_Christmas poster
4.6

Byung-ki is a clumsy village policeman who helps out with trivial tasks like distributing promotional papers, though he dreams of fighting evil. One day, he runs into Min-kyong, an employee at the neighborhood bowling alley, and falls for her at first sight. However, his attempts to woo her go unnoticed. Meanwhile, Sang-doo, the boss of the local gang—with whom Byung-ki harbors a boyhood grudge—also swoons over Min-kyong and vows to take her virginity on Christmas Eve.

Happy_Ero_Christmas

2003

The Mother's Island poster
6.5

Returning to the island where their mother lives alone, four siblings discover that the elderly woman suffers from dementia.

The Mother's Island

2013

Apostle poster
4.0

In a small North Korean village near the border of China, there are believers who get together in an underground church, away from the eyes of the persecuting government. When the missionary from China, their only support route, is cut off, things begin to get very tense. Chulho, who had been arrested along with his wife, returns. After losing his wife in the interrogations, Chulho had been released and unseen for 2 years before coming back to his home, claiming that he had been commanded by God to lead the believers across the border and into South Korea. The brothers wonder if Chulho is trustworthy, and whether it is the right thing to do to leave their homeland.

Apostle

2014

Channel 69 poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Channel 69

1996

Piano Man poster
6.3

A serial killer plays a cat and mouse game with a female detective.

Piano Man

1996

Vincent poster
NR

Ban Man-ho became suddenly rich. He is a country gent with a sense of inferiority and who is greedy for monday. However, one day someone calls him an ignorant fool who knows nothing but money, so he buys a Van Gogh worth millions under the condition that he has to reveal the work to the world every six months. However, the Van Gogh in the picture has only one eye. Ban Man-ho has to do whatever he can to draw the other eye to make sure he isn't called an ignorant fool again.

Vincent

2017

Re:fresh poster
3.0

No synopsis available yet.

Re:fresh

2022

Twisted Daddy poster
5.0

A man laboring at a swanky restaurant works himself to the bone to ensure his son can afford to study law and become a prosecutor. He feels it gives his own life value, even if it comes at the cost of hurting his son.

Twisted Daddy

2016