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Kim Chang-wan

Acting Born Feb 22, 1954 Seoul, South Korea 24 credits

Biography

Kim Chang Wan is a South Korean rock singer, composer, musician, actor, TV host, radio DJ, writer, and poet. Kim, along with his younger brothers Kim Chang Hoon and Kim Chang Ik, began composing music during their mid-teens and formed the band "Mui" when they were college students.

After Kim graduated in 1975 from Seoul National University, they went professional and changed their band's name to Sanulrim (meaning "Mountain Echo"). The band's psychedelic rock/hard rock sound (reminiscent of the Sex Pistols) was music Koreans hadn't heard before, and Sanulrim revitalized the Korean music scene, which was currently devastated after several major musicians were arrested for marijuana possession in the 1970s.

They held a 30th-anniversary concert in 2007 and made plans to release the 14th album. But drummer Kim Chang Ik was killed in a traffic accident in Vancouver, Canada on January 29th, 2008, and Sanulrim disbanded after his death.

Having worked as a music director and film score composer in the early 1990s, Kim also began acting onscreen. He did not only starred in movies such as Blades of Blood, Antique Bakery, Shinsukki Blues, Windstruck, and My Love Ssagajy but also in roughly 30 television shows.

The versatile Kim has also starred in a stage play (A Nap in 2010), hosted variety shows and radio programs, and written several books (some containing poetry).

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Known for

You Hee-yeol's Sketchbook

as Self

The Seasons

as Self

It's Okay to Not Be Okay

as Oh Ji-wang

My Love from the Star

as Jang Yung-mok

Full filmography

  • You Hee-yeol's Sketchbook (2009) as Self
  • Nonstop (2000)
  • SNL Korea (2021) as Self - Musical Guest
  • The Seasons (2023) as Self
  • SNL Korea (2011) as Self
  • Radio Star (2007)
  • It's Okay to Not Be Okay (2020) as Oh Ji-wang
  • My Love from the Star (2013) as Jang Yung-mok
  • Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth (2016) as Park Young-Sil
  • Hwajung (2015) as Yi Won-ik
  • Secret Door (2014) as Kim Taek
  • Coffee Prince (2007) as Hong Gae-shik
  • Something in the Rain (2018) as Jun-hui's father
  • Iljimae (2008) as King Do Po Hui
  • One Spring Night (2019) as Kwon Young-kook
  • 20th Century Boy and Girl (2017) as Sa Chang-wan
  • Good Doctor (2013) as President Jung
  • The Real Has Come! (2023) as Jang Ho
  • Find Me in Your Memory (2020) as Yoo Sung-hyuk
  • Awaken (2020) as Gong Il-do
  • Why Her? (2022) as Baek Jin Ki [Seojung University Law School director]
  • KAIST (1999)
  • KAIST (1999) as Hang Kong Kwa [Professor]
  • Secret Love Affair (2014) as Dean Min Yong-Ki