Dong-gun Jang

Jang Dong Gun is a South Korean actor who debuted in the 1993 MBC drama Our Heaven. Born and raised in Seoul, he became one of the first Korean stars to attract a large following across Asia by the late 1990s. He earned critical acclaim for his role in Friend (2001), playing a high school student drawn into organized crime, and the film became the highest-grossing Korean movie at the time. He then starred in Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War (2004), a Korean War drama that broke box office records. Other notable credits include the Golden Globe-nominated The Promise (2005), directed by Chen Kaige, and Typhoon, in which he played a pirate betrayed by both North and South Korea. He also appeared in Nowhere to Hide (1999), The Anarchists (2000), 2009 Lost Memories (2002), and The Coast Guard (2002).