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Hong Kyung-in

Hong Kyung-in

Acting

Biography

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.

Known For

Three Guys and Three Girls
7.0

The series is Korea’s first youth sitcom, revolving around three men and three women sharing a university lodging house. The group navigates comedic and romantic adventures, with a focus on friendships and budding relationships. Key highlights: Lee Ui-jung (one of the female leads) stands out with her quirky hairstyle and serves as the show’s central figure, particularly through her dynamic with Song Seung-heon’s character The sitcom blends lighthearted humour with relatable themes of young adulthood, making it a pioneer in Korean TV history

Three Guys and Three Girls

1996
Ya Shim Man Man
N/A

Yashimmanman is a South Korean talk show. Citizens were surveyed about various questions, and celebrity guests had to guess the public's top answers to the questions, sparking much discussion.

Ya Shim Man Man

2003
Toxic Desire: Addiction
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
Robber
5.5

Romance blossoms between a single mom and a womanizing bad boy.

Robber

2008
Secretly, Greatly
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
The King of Tears, Lee Bang Won
6.0

A work that sheds new light on the figure of Lee Bang-won, a leader who took the lead in the founding of the nation.

The King of Tears, Lee Bang Won

2021
Legend of the Patriots
7.0

Legend of the Patriots is a remake of the 1975 South Korean drama Comrades. Its production was spawned to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Korean War. The story centers around the lives of eleven Korean soldiers fighting in the Korean War. Director Kim Sang-hwi remarked that the series is not about the ideologies of South and North Korea, but rather focuses on the struggles of ordinary people who lived through the war.

Legend of the Patriots

2010
Sandglass
8.7

Sandglass is a South Korean television series considered one of the most significant and highest-rated Korean dramas in history. Written by Song Ji-na and directed by Kim Jong-hak, it aired on SBS in 1995 in 24 episodes. A depiction of the tragic relationship among three friends affected by the political and civilian oppression of 1970s and 1980s Korea, the series mixed politics, melodrama, action, and great acting. It recorded a peak rating of 64.5%, the third highest of all time, and launched its leading trio of Choi Min-soo, Go Hyun-jung, and Park Sang-won into stardom. Its reenactment of the Gwangju Massacre remains one of the most realistic, devastatingly powerful, and unforgettable moments in Korean TV history.

Sandglass

1995
Express Delivery: Mongolia Edition
8.0

Celebrity best friends known as Dragon Club and a younger actor embark on an exciting adventure in Mongolia as they deliver parcels to residents living in secluded area.

Express Delivery: Mongolia Edition

2023
Overgrown Bromance
8.0

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Overgrown Bromance

2017
A Sunny Place of the Young
8.0

In the late 80's, with the theme of ambition and betrayal of young people who wanted to succeed in the background of the mining village of Sabuk and Seoul.

A Sunny Place of the Young

1995
컬러
N/A

No description available.

컬러

1996
Bad Friends
N/A

This drama is about 4 guys who are considered troublemakers. They form a rock band in high school and become best friends for life.

Bad Friends

2000
The Eternal Empire
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
Revenge
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
A Single Spark
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
Hi, Dharma!
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
Our Twisted Hero
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
Apostle
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
Life and Death of the Hollywood Kid
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