Song Kang Explained

Song Kang
Birth Date:23 April 1994
Birth Place:Suwon, South Korea
Alma Mater:Konkuk University (Department of Film Arts)[1]
Occupation:Actor
Years Active:2017โ€“present
Agent:Namoo Actors
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Song Kang (; born April 23, 1994) is a South Korean actor. He is known for starring in the dramas Love Alarm (2019โ€“2021), Sweet Home (2020โ€“2024), Nevertheless (2021), Forecasting Love and Weather (2022), and My Demon (2023โ€“2024). He has been called the "Son of Netflix" because the majority of the series he has starred in were streamed on the platform.[2]

Career

2016โ€“2018: Beginnings

Song first appeared under Namoo Actors in December 2016.[3]

Song made his acting debut with a supporting role in the 2017, romantic comedy television series The Liar and His Lover.[4] The same year, he was cast in the family drama Man in the Kitchen.[5] He also appeared in two music videos: "Sweet Summer Night" by acoustic duo The Ade and "Love Story" by Suran.[6] [7]

Song hosted the SBS music program Inkigayo from February to October 2018 along with Seventeen member Mingyu and DIA member Jung Chae-yeon.[8] He also joined as a fixed cast member on the variety show Village Survival, the Eight.[9] For the two works, he was nominated for the "Rookie Award" at the 2018 SBS Entertainment Awards.[10] In July 2018, Song made his big-screen debut with the fantasy film Beautiful Vampire.[11]

2019โ€“present: Rising popularity, leading roles, and military enlistment

In 2019, Song played the supporting role of Jung Kyung-ho's assistant in tvN fantasy melodrama When the Devil Calls Your Name.[12] He next starred in the Netflix original romantic series Love Alarm, based on the popular webtoon of the same name.[13] Song was cast in his first major role through auditions out of 900 people;[14] he played the role of a handsome high-school student who falls in love with a girl played by Kim So-hyun who was his best friend's secret crush.[15] Love Alarm was ranked as one of Netflix's top releases of the year and was renewed for a second season. His final appearance that year was in the music video of Vibe's "Call Me Back".[16]

Song was propelled to stardom in 2020 when he starred in apocalyptic horror Netflix original Sweet Home, based on the eponymous webtoon.[17] He went to auditions after Love Alarm director recommended him to the director of Sweet Home, Lee Eung-bok. His role was Cha Hyun-su, a suicidal high school boy who, along with a group of fellow apartment residents, tries to survive a "monsterization" apocalypse.[18] Critical responses of the series were mixed,[19] but gathered a wide international audience.[20] A month after the release of the series, Variety revealed that it had been viewed by 22 million member households of Netflix.[21] At the 57th Baeksang Arts Awards Song received a nomination for Best New Actor โ€“ Television.

In 2021, Song reprised his role as Hwang Sun-oh in the second season of Love Alarm which was released on Netflix on March 12. He also appeared in the TVN series Navillera, adapted from the eponymous webtoon.[22] He played a ballet student who struggles due to unresolved issues about his father and tries to support himself by working as a part-timer. Song took ballet lessons for six months in order to portray his character.[23] Later the same year, Song starred in another webtoon adaptation, Nevertheless, JTBC's romance drama, alongside Han So-hee.[24]

In terms of viewership record, 2021 was considered a success for Song as Sweet Home, Love Alarm, and Nevertheless respectively ranked as fifth, sixth, and eighth most watched K-dramas in Netflix worldwide, respectively.[25]

In 2022, Song starred in another JTBC drama, Forecasting Love and Weather, alongside Park Min-young.[26] On March 4, 2022, In 2023, Song took on a role in the Netflix series My Demon, where he played the lead character alongside Kim You-jung.

Personal life

Military service

On February 29, 2024, Namoo Actors announced that Song will enlist to fulfill his mandatory military service as an active duty soldier on April 2, 2024.[27] He was discharged on October 1, 2025.[28]

Endorsements

In 2020, Song was selected as brand ambassador for South Korean cosmetics brand Banila Co..[29] In 2021, Italian luxury fashion house Prada announced that Song was selected as a brand ambassador.[30] [31] [32] In 2022, he was also selected as the brand ambassador for Bobbi Brown Cosmetics in the Asia-Pacific region.[33] [34] The same year, Song was named as Penshoppe's global ambassador.[35]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2018Beautiful VampireLee So-nyeonWeb film
2024EscapeSeon Woo-minCameo[36]

Television series

YearTitleRoleNotes
2017The Liar and His LoverBaek Jin-woo
2017โ€“2018Man in the KitchenKim Woo-joo
2019Touch Your HeartDeliverymanCameo (13)[37]
When the Devil Calls Your NameLuka
2019โ€“2021Love AlarmHwang Sun-ohSeason 1โ€“2
2020โ€“2024Sweet HomeCha Hyun-sooSeason 1โ€“3[38]
2021NavilleraLee Chae-rok
NeverthelessPark Jae-eon
2022Forecasting Love and WeatherLee Shi-woo
2023โ€“2024My DemonJeong Gu-won[39]
2026Four HandsKang Bi-o[40]
White ScandalDan Yi-hyuk[41]

Television shows

YearTitleRole(s)Notes
2018InkigayoHostEp. 945โ€“979
2018โ€“2019Village Survival, the EightCast member
2024I-Land 2Storyteller[42]

Music video appearances

YearTitleArtist(s)
2017"Sweet Summer Night" (Korean: ๋‹ฌ์ฝคํ•œ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„๋ฐค)The Ade
"Love Story" (Korean: ๋Ÿฌ๋ธŒ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌ)Suran
2019"Call Me Back" (Korean: ์ด ๋ฒˆํ˜ธ๋กœ ์ „ํ™”ํ•ด์ค˜)Vibe

Accolades

Awards and nominations

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YearCategoryNominee(s)/work(s)Result
Asia Contents Awards2021Newcomer ActorNavillera[44] [45]
ACA Excellence AwardSweet Home[46]
Baeksang Arts Awards2021Best New Actor โ€“ Television[47]
Brand Customer Loyalty Award2021Male actor โ€“ Rising StarSong Kang[48]
Brand of the Year Awards2021Rising Star Actor
SBS Drama Awards2023Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Miniseries Romance/Comedy DramaMy Demon[49]
Best Couple AwardMy Demon
[50]
SBS Entertainment Awards2018Male Rookie AwardVillage Survival, the Eight, Inkigayo
Seoul International Drama Awards2021Outstanding Korean ActorSweet Home[51] [52]
Character of the Year[53]

Honors

Country or Organization! scope="col"
YearHonor or Award
Newsis K-Expo Cultural Awards2024Seoul Tourism Foundation CEO Award[54]

Listicles

Publisher! scope="col"
YearListiclePlacement
Cine21202010 Stars and Rising StarsPlaced[55]
2021New Actors that will lead Korean Video Content Industry in 20225th[56]

Notes and References

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  12. Web site: ko:์†ก๊ฐ•, '์•…๋งˆ๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ์˜ ์ด๋ฆ„์„ ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๋•Œ' ์บ์ŠคํŒ…..์ •๊ฒฝํ˜ธ ์–ด์‹œ์Šคํ„ดํŠธ ๅฝน [๊ณต์‹์ž…์žฅ]. https://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=109&aid=0003952846. Naver. OSEN. ko. Nam. Jae-ryul. February 15, 2019. August 23, 2019. May 21, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210521143149/https://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=109&aid=0003952846. live.
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  23. Web site: Song Kang Talks About His Drama Roles And Dancing In 'Navillera'. Forbes. MacDonald. Joan. March 28, 2021. April 30, 2021. May 17, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230517150925/https://www.forbes.com/sites/joanmacdonald/2021/03/28/song-kang-talks-about-his-drama-roles-and-dancing-in-navillera/. live.
  24. Web site: From 'Hospital Playlist' to 'Penthouse,' hit TV series' new seasons set to air in June. The Korea Times. Lee. Gyu-lee. May 30, 2021. June 19, 2021. May 17, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230517150751/https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/art/2021/05/688_309635.html. live.
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  26. Web site: Park Min-young to star in new series from 'When the Camellia Blooms' director. The Korea Times. Lee. Gyu-lee. June 21, 2021. June 22, 2021. December 18, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211218052057/https://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=310861. live.
  27. Web site: 'Sweet Home' star Song Kang to begin military service in April. The Korea Times. February 29, 2024. February 29, 2024. February 29, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240229102833/http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/art/2024/02/398_369780.html. live.
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  29. Web site: ko:๋ฐ”๋‹๋ผ์ฝ”, ๋ฐฐ์šฐ ์†ก๊ฐ• ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ๋ชจ๋ธ๋กœ ๋ฐœํƒ... ๋ฐ์€ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ยท ์กฐ๊ฐ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฏธ๋ชจ์— ์ฃผ๋ชฉ. https://www.moneys.co.kr/news/mwView.php?no=2020012213408022788. Naver. Money S. ko. January 23, 2020. May 10, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230510140340/https://www.moneys.co.kr/news/mwView.php?no=2020012213408022788. live.
  30. Web site: ko:#์ œ์ž‘๋น„์ง€์› ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ €๋… 9์‹œ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ ์†ก๊ฐ•์ด ์•ฐ๋ฒ„์„œ๋”์ธ ํ”„๋ผ๋‹ค์˜ 2022 ๋ด„/์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ๋Ÿฐ์›จ์ด๊ฐ€ ์—ด๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ดํƒˆ๋ฆฌ์•„ ์‚ฌ๋ฅด๋ฐ๋ƒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์œผ๋กœ ํŽผ์ณ์ง€๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ์‡ผ๋Š” ํ•ด์–‘ ์ƒํƒœ๊ณ„ ๋ณด์กด์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ง€์›์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ ธ ์˜๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ๋” ํฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.. Instagram . Esquire Korea on Instagram. ko. June 20, 2021. May 10, 2023. May 17, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230517150750/https://www.instagram.com/p/CQVZfZSjdx3/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D. live .
  31. Livesteam: Watch the Prada FW'23 Show Attended by Song Kang and Cai Xu Kun. Elle Singapore. February 22, 2023. May 10, 2023. May 17, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230517150753/https://elle.com.sg/2023/02/22/livestream-watch-the-prada-fw23-show-attended-by-song-kang-and-cai-xu-kun/. dead.
  32. Web site: Prada Ambassador Hunter Schafer, Prada Ambassador SongKang and Olivia Cooke attend the #PradaFW23 runway show presented by #MiucciaPrada and #RafSimons.. Instagram. Meta. February 24, 2023. May 10, 2023. May 17, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230517150751/https://www.instagram.com/p/CpChzlGD9bM/. live.
  33. Song Kang Is Bobbi Brown's Newest Brand Ambassador. Harper's Bazaar Singapore. August 31, 2022. May 10, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230510142231/https://www.harpersbazaar.com.sg/beauty/song-kang-is-bobbi-browns-newest-brand-ambassador/. live.
  34. Web site: Bobbi Brown Asia Pacific Signs Actor of the Moment Song Kang. Bobbi Brown Cosmetics Hongkong. May 10, 2023. May 10, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230510142841/https://www.bobbibrown.com.hk/songkang2022. live.
  35. Web site: Exclusive: K-actor Song Kang is Penshoppe's newest ambassador. CNN Philippines. CNN. February 18, 2022. May 10, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230510143606/https://www.cnnphilippines.com/life/style/fashion/2022/2/18/song-kang-penshoppe-exclusive-interview.html. dead.
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  37. Web site: ko:'์ง„์‹ฌ์ด ๋‹ฟ๋‹ค' ์†ก๊ฐ•, ํ€ต์„œ๋น„์Šค ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ๋กœ ํŠน๋ณ„์ถœ์—ฐ...์—ฌ์‹ฌ ์Šคํ‹ธ๋Ÿฌ ๋“ฑ๊ทน. https://www.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2019/03/21/2019032101714.html. The Chosun Ilbo. ko. Kim. Na-hee. March 21, 2019. August 23, 2019. September 22, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210922012323/https://www.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2019/03/21/2019032101714.html. live.
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  40. Web site: ko:'์ „์—ญ' ์†ก๊ฐ• ๋‹ค์‹œ ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™์ƒโ€ฆ'ํฌํ•ธ์ฆˆโ€™ ์ด์ค€์˜-์žฅ๊ทœ๋ฆฌ ์Œ์•… ์ฒœ์žฌ ๋œ๋‹ค [๊ณต์‹]. Official: Song Kang returns to high school after military dischargeโ€ฆ Lee Jun-young and Jang Gyu-ri from Four Hands become musical geniuses. https://sports.donga.com/ent/article/all/20260126/133228962/1. Sports Donga. ko. Jeong. Hee-yeon. January 26, 2026. January 26, 2026.
  41. Web site: 2026-02-24 . [๋‹จ๋…] ๋“œ๋””์–ด ์ „์—ญ ํ›„ ์ฒซ ๋กœ๋งจ์Šค..์†ก๊ฐ•, 'ํ•˜์–€ ์Šค์บ”๋“ค' ์ฃผ์ธ๊ณต ]. 2026-03-01 . ์Šคํฌ์ธ ์กฐ์„  . ko.
  42. Web site: ko:"์ž…๋Œ€ ์ „ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ํ™œ๋™" ์†ก๊ฐ•, '์•„์ด๋žœ๋“œ2' ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌํ…”๋Ÿฌ ๋งก์•„. "Last activity before enlistment" Song Kang takes on the role of storyteller for 'Island 2'. https://www.chosun.com/entertainments/celebrity/2024/03/11/IL7I5PTJPBLUR64S72F2INU5HU/. Sports Chosun. ko. Jo. Min-jung. March 11, 2024. August 31, 2024.
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  44. Web site: ko:๋ฐฐ๋‘๋‚˜ยท์ด์‹œ์˜ยท์ด์ œํ›ˆยท์†ก์ค‘๊ธฐ, ์ œ3ํšŒ ์•„์‹œ์•„์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ์–ด์›Œ์ฆˆ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ์ƒ ํ›„๋ณด(๊ณต์‹). Bae Doo-na, Lee Si-young, Lee Je-hoon, Song Joong-ki, 3rd Asia Contents Awards Actor Award nominees (official). https://entertain.naver.com/now/read?oid=112&aid=0003479674. Naver. Herald Pop. Herald Corporation. ko. Lee. Mi-ji. September 24, 2021. September 24, 2021. April 12, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220412004419/https://entertain.naver.com/now/read?oid=112&aid=0003479674. live.
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  46. Web site: ko:์•„์‹œ์•„์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ์–ด์›Œ์ฆˆ, '๋ฌด๋ธŒ ํˆฌ ํ—ค๋ธ'ยท'์Šค์œ„ํŠธํ™ˆ' 3๊ด€์™•โ†’์ด์ œํ›ˆ ์˜ฌํ•ด์˜ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ์ƒ '์˜์˜ˆ'[์ข…ํ•ฉ]. Asia Contents Awards, 'Move to Heaven' and 'Sweet Home' 3 crowns โ†’ Lee Je-hoon Actor of the Year Award 'Honor' [General]. https://entertain.naver.com/now/read?oid=477&aid=0000322620. Naver. SpoTV News. SpoTV. ko. Kang. Hyo-jin. October 7, 2021. October 7, 2021. October 7, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211007124109/https://entertain.naver.com/now/read?oid=477&aid=0000322620. live.
  47. Web site: Baeksang Arts Awards Announce Nominations For Best Films And Dramas. Forbes. MacDonald. Joan. April 12, 2021. April 30, 2021. April 12, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210412055425/https://www.forbes.com/sites/joanmacdonald/2021/04/12/baeksang-arts-awards-announces-nominations-for-best-films-and-dramas/. live.
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  49. Web site: ko:'๋ชจ๋ฒ”ํƒ์‹œ2' ์ด์ œํ›ˆ-'์•…๊ท€' ๊น€ํƒœ๋ฆฌ, ๊ณต๋™ ๋Œ€์ƒ "์šฐ์—ด ๋ชป ๊ฐ€๋ ค"[์ข…ํ•ฉ](SBS ์—ฐ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์ƒ). Model Taxi 2's" Lee Ji-hoon and "Demon" Kim Tae-ri shared the Grand Prize for "Unequal" [Overall] (SBS Acting Awards). https://entertain.naver.com/now/read?oid=477&aid=0000466443. Naver. SpoTV News. SpoTV. ko. Jang. Jin-ri. December 30, 2023. December 30, 2023. December 30, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231230021153/https://entertain.naver.com/now/read?oid=477&aid=0000466443. live.
  50. Web site: ko:'๋งˆ์ด ๋ฐ๋ชฌ' ๊น€์œ ์ •โ™ฅ์†ก๊ฐ•, ๋ฒ ์ŠคํŠธ ์ปคํ”Œ์ƒ ์ˆ˜์ƒ...๊น€์œ ์ • ๋‚˜ํ™€๋กœ ์ˆ˜์ƒ "ํŒฌ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ด" [2023 SBS ์—ฐ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์ƒ]. 'My Demon' Kim You-jungโ™ฅSong Kang won Best Couple... Kim You-jung won alone "Thank you to the fans" [2023 SBS Acting Awards] (SBS Acting Awards). https://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=109&aid=0004990498. Naver. OSEN. ko. Kim. Ye-seol. December 29, 2023. December 30, 2023. December 30, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231230093925/https://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=109&aid=0004990498. live.
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  53. Web site: ko:๊น€์„ ํ˜ธ, ์‚ฌ์ƒํ™œ ๋…ผ๋ž€ ์† '์Šคํƒ€ํŠธ์—…' ์ธ์ •...'์„œ์šธ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ์–ด์›Œ์ฆˆ' ์˜ฌํ•ด์˜ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ ์„ ์ •. Kim Seon-ho recognized as 'startup' amid controversy over personal life... Selected as character of the year at 'Seoul Drama Awards'. https://entertain.naver.com/now/read?oid=109&aid=0004495740. OSEN. Naver. ko. Yeon. Hee-sun. October 21, 2021. October 21, 2021. October 23, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211023202007/https://entertain.naver.com/now/read?oid=109&aid=0004495740. live.
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