Saudi Alyoom

The death of the famous South Korean actress Kang Soo-yeon

Mix
70

Famous South Korean film actress Kang Soo-yun died two days after suffering a heart attack at the age of 55.

The actress’s family said Kang died of a cerebral hemorrhage at 3 p.m. in a hospital in southern Seoul, where she was receiving treatment after she passed out at her home on Thursday.

A mourning pavilion will be held at the Samsung Medical Center in Seoul, and a funeral service for her death is scheduled for Wednesday next week.

Kim Dong-ho, former chair of the Busan International Film Festival Board of Directors, will chair the funeral committee made up of major figures in the film industry.

Born in Seoul in 1966, Kang made her acting debut on local TV channel TBC at the age of four. She also starred in a number of soap operas and films, and became one of the country’s pre-eminent child actresses.

At the age of twenty-one, she won the Best Actress Award at the Venice International Film Festival for her role in “The Surrogate Womb” directed by “Im Kwon-Tek” in 1987, thus becoming the first Korean actress to win acting awards at one of the three most important international film festivals in the world. They are Cannes, Venice and Berlin.

She also won the Best Actress award at the Moscow International Film Festival two years later.

Thanks to the international awards she won, Kang earned the title of “International Star” and became one of the most popular actresses in the country.

The late star subsequently starred in several successful films, including “The Road To Race Track” (1991), “Blue in You” (1992), and “Go Alone Like Musso’s Horn” (1995). , and “Girl’s Night Out” (1998).

Kang’s television work was less than her cinematic work, but she participated in many of the most successful drama series, as she participated in the successful drama series “Diary of High School Student” (1983-1986), which was broadcast on “KBS” channel, and played the title role. In the political historical drama “Ladies of the Palace” (2001), which was broadcast on “SBS” and was the highest rated TV series that year.

She then served as the co-executive director of the Busan International Film Festival Board from 2015 to 2017.

She was due to resume her career by participating in the Netflix movie “Jung-E” directed by Yoon Sang-ho, about 10 years after her participation in the independent short “Jury” in 2013, but she passed away. .

admin
You might also like More from author

Comments are closed.