Jang Hyun-sung
Acting
Biography
Jang Hyun-sung is a South Korean actor. He started his acting career as a member of the Hakjeon Theatre Company, before transitioning to film and television. Jang is best known for starring in director Song Il-gon's arthouse films such as Spider Forest and The Magicians, and most notably Feathers in the Wind, for which one review praised him for giving "the performance of his career." He also had major roles in Nabi, Rewind, My Right to Ravage Myself, Love Is a Crazy Thing, and My Friend and His Wife. Aside from acting, Jang was one of the screenwriters for the Moon Seung-wook film Romance. In 2013, Jang and his two sons began appearing in the reality/variety show Superman is Back, in which celebrity fathers babysit their children by themselves for 48 hours after sending their wives on a 2-day vacation.
Born: July 17, 1970
Place of Birth: Geoje, South Gyeongsang, South Korea
Known For
While You Were Sleeping
Nam Hong Ju, endowed with the ability to foresee events, resides with her widowed mother who runs a small restaurant. Despite her gift, she often finds herself powerless to change the outcomes. On the other side of the street, Jung Jae Chan, a rookie prosecutor, and his younger brother Seung Won become their new neighbors. An unusual dream involving Hong Ju, ruthless attorney Lee Yu Beom, and a life-saving intervention leads Jae Chan to realize their destinies are intertwined, as they begin sharing dreams and connecting in mysterious ways.
Live
The police officers at South Korea's busiest patrol division toil day and night as keepers of law and peace — but the reality is far from orderly.
You Quiz on the Block
Yoo Jae-suk and Jo Se-ho who enter ordinary people's everyday lives, chat with them, and give them surprise quizzes! The talk and quiz show program will spotlight these people's lives and aims to gift them a refreshing, different kind of day. Recently they're also inviting celebrities & professionals to the show.
Whenever Possible
We're looking for someone who has free time to hang out with us. Whenever Possible.
Under the Queen's Umbrella
A spirited queen tries to rein in her rowdy sons in order to make one of them the next king of Joseon, while her competitors vie to snatch the throne.
Kim Dae Jung Must Not Die
Kim Dae Jung, who stands next to people in the middle of caotic history! A young businessman Kim Dae Jung recognized the victims of ideology. He decided to be a politician to make his country where people's politic and democracy are rooted. The price of being leave from a guaranteed future and take the first step on a bumby road was kidnapping, death threats, imprisonment, and a death sentence that shook him to the core, but even in his final moments, when he was sentenced to death, Kim never wavered. "Democracy will be recovered. I believe in it." The life of President Kim Dae-jung, a death row inmate who survived from the throes of death, four parliamentary elections, and three unsuccessful presidential campaigns, is etched into the modern history of South Korea.
Hymn of Death
Based on a true story, the drama tells the tragic love story of Kim Woo Jin, a married stage drama writer, and Yun Shim Duk, Korea's first professional soprano, who meet while studying at Tokyo University in the 1920s. Yun Shim Duk's recording of "Death Song" became the first Korean pop song in 1926.
Duty After School
When mysterious alien spheres start invading the world, high school students are called upon to join the world's first war against extraterrestrial forces.
Signal
Detectives from the present and a detective from the past communicate via walkie-talkie to solve a long-time unsolved case.
Doctors
A recalcitrant, delinquent teen girl meets a compassionate teacher, who inspires her to alter her path and become a street-savvy neurosurgeon.
Filmography
as Hwang Hyeon-seung
as 내레이션
as Ha Tae-su
as Hyun-sang (segment "Everyone Is Waiting For The Man")
as Self
as Jin Myeong-Chul
as Narrator / Kim Dae-jung (voice)
as Jin-pyo
as Yongsan High School Coach
as Minister of Defense Park Sang Man
as Bok-soon's Father
as Yoo Jeong-seok
as Min-seok
as Yoon Su-kwang
as Kim Sang-man
as Pyo Gang-Sun
as Sung Min-joon
as Monarch
as Kang In-shik
as Choi Hyung-pil
as Kim Hyun-seok
as Jo Seung Hwan [Yun Seo's secretary]
as Jung Ui-Sik
as Lee Yong-moon
as Baek Man
as Kwon Hee-seung
as Self
as Eun Kyung-mo
as Jeong Se-yeong
as Jung Il Seung
as Shin Soo-Geun
as Department Head Jang
as Kang Min-gi
as Lee Dong-Soo
as Self
as Kim Tae-ho
as Lee Il-woo
as Kim Bum-joo
as Himself
as Moon Ji-hoon
as Sang-hyun
as Park Woo-Jin
as Baek Do-hyun
as Himself
as Seo Hyeong-shik
as Lee Jang-hee (40s)
as Hong Gye-hui
as Kim In-Kyum
as Ham Bong-su
as Himself
as Jin-seong
as Noh Seung-soo
as Kang Hyuk-soo
as Jeon Jae-wook
as Han Sang Jin
as Jang Chul-oh
as Jang Min Suk
as Yun Doo-Soo
as Ye-joon
as Kim Tae-joon
as Detective
as Go Ju-myeong
as Lee Jae-han
as Kim Chi-Gon
as Cho Myung-jun
as Im Tae-Pyong
as Moon Yu-chan
as Jung Man-ho
as Myung-soo
as Min-su
as Kim Woo-taek
as Sang-hyun
as Ahn Ji-hwan
as Park Gi-tae
as Kyung-soo
as Choi Seong-hyeon
as K
as Flower Shop Deliverer
as Special Investigation Team