Shin Ha-kyun

Shin Hakyun 신하균 is a South Korean actor Born on May 30 1974 he first trained as a stage actor at the Seoul Institute of the Arts before transitioning to film and gaining national fame with his role as a North Korean soldier in Joint Security Area JSA 2000 The film was a major blockbuster with 5 million admissions domestically And it earned him the prestigious Blue Dragon Best Supporting Actor award After the success of JSA Shin has appeared in many critically and popularly acclaimed roles including in Guns Talks 2001 Sympathy for Mr Vengeance 2002 and Save the Green Planet 2003 He then starred in Welcome to Dongmakgol 2005 in the lead role which was another major blockbuster with 8 million admissions domestically Recently he appeared in The Thieves 2012 and Extreme Job 2019 which were the 2nd biggest hits in Korean film history at their respective time of release with 12 million and 16 million admissions respectively