Choi Min Soo is an award-winning, veteran South Korean actor who comes from a family of celebrated actors. He was born on March 27, 1962, to Choi Moo Ryong, a popular actor, and Kang Hyo Shil, an actress. His maternal grandparents are Jeon Ok, a celebrated actress, and Kang Hong Sik, an actor, film director and singer during the Japanese occupation. His grandparents were the first married couple in Korean entertainment history. Kang Hong Sik and his daughter, Kang Hyo Son, moved to North Korea, where Kang Hyo Son also became a famous actress. Choi Min Soo made his acting debut in the 1985 short film “Eye.” He won Best New Actor at the 11th Golden Cinematography Awards in 1987 for his work in “Long Journey & Tunnel,” the first of many acting awards of his prolific career. Some of his award-winning roles include the television dramas “Sandglass” (1995) and “Pride and Prejudice” (2014) and the films “Terrorist” (1995) and “Libera Me” (2000). He also has appeared in the recent popular dramas “The Man Who Dies to Live” (2017) and “Lawless Lawyer” (2018). Choi Min Soo met June Elizabeth Kang in 1993 at the international Miss Korea Beauty Pageant, where Kang competed as Miss Canada. Choi Min Soo proposed to her within three hours of meeting her, and they were married in 1994.

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Ho Woo is the first high school graduate to immediately become an accountant at the nation\u2019s top accounting firm. He has outstanding memory, observation, adaptation, and justice that distinguish him from other accountants. Yeon A is his senior colleague who mentors him in his work and helps him reveal the secrets behind the numbers. Je Kyun is the vice president of the firm who has a reputation for being generous, but he will not hesitate to get what he wants. Can Ho Woo uphold justice in this corrupt firm?

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According to the ancient Dangun myth, when a bear eats twenty cloves of garlic and a bundle of mugwort, it will transform into a human being. While it may have worked for Ungnyeo, the ancient bear of lore, it’s hard to believe such a thing could ever happen in real life. But when a pair of Asiatic Bear twins go missing, it suddenly starts to feel like anything is possible.

As property of the Pro-North Korean Institute of Technology, Woong Nam and Woong Buk, a set of Asiatic Bear twins, might have spent their entire lives confined to the institute, had they not decided to snack on a combination of garlic and mugwort which mysteriously transformed them into human babies. Realizing the bears were missing, Na Bok Cheon (Oh Dal Soo), one of the institute’s researchers, went searching for the bears. Finding one of the bear twins in a nearby cave, Bok Cheon takes the baby home and raises him as his own son. Sadly, Bok Cheon was never able to find the other bear cub-turned-baby. While Woong Nam (Park Sung Woong) grew up under the guidance and care of Bok Cheon, his brother, Woong Buk (Park Sung Woong), wasn’t so lucky.&nbsp;

Twenty-five years later, the brothers are reunited but their lives couldn’t have turned out more different. While Woong Nam works as a cop, Woong Buk has become the adoptive son of Lee Jeong Sik (Choi Min Soo), one of the country’s most notorious criminals. Born bears and raised as humans, are these twin brothers destined to be mortal enemies, or will their strange beginnings ultimately become the bond that brings them back together for good?&nbsp;

Based on the Dangun myth, “Bear Man” is a 2023 South Korean fantasy crime comedy film directed by Park Sung Kwang.

Bear Man

Whatever gets the job done. Bong Sang Pil (Lee Joon Gi) grew up living the gangster life, full of tough physical fights and evading the law. When his mother dies a tragic death, he is determined to avenge her death.

Sang Pil becomes a lawyer and begins to go after people with absolute power who think they are beyond the law. With the cunning and skills from his previous life, Sang Pil uses both his fists and legal loopholes to amass an impressive winning record.

Ha Jae Yi (Seo Ye Ji) is a young lawyer who believes the law is sacred and fights for justice. But her license gets suspended when she hits a judge over an unjust ruling during a trial. Jae Yi ends up going to work for Sang Pil so that she can continue to pay off her father’s debts.

When Sang Pil and Jae Yi get involved in a case that involves Cha Moon Sook (Lee Hye Young), a senior judge who wields a great deal of power, and Ahn Oh Joo (Choi Min Soo), a former gangster who is now the CEO of a corporation, can they figure out a way to beat the most powerful people in the city at a very dangerous game?

“Lawless Lawyer” is a 2018 South Korean drama series directed by Kim Jin Min.

Lawless Lawyer

Dae Gil, born with the fate of being the son of King Sukjong but forced to live his life as if he\u2019s dead, overcomes a rough start and becomes a card shark shaking up Joseon. King Yeongjo, born the son of a maid, is endlessly kept in check by his half-brother King Gyeongjong and his power. Born to a family of rebels, the cold-blooded genius Lee In Jwa takes King Gyeongjong under his wing and aims to build his own royal court, consisting of the extraordinary genius politician Lee In Jwa, Lady Choi Sukbin, who holds the king's heart in her hands, her son King Yeongjo, and Joseon's best card shark, Dae Gil. At stake are their lives and the sole throne of Joseon. It\u2019s time to wage war like a single, enormous gambling round.

The Royal Gambler

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The one who would become the hero of the war-torn people. Born penniless with only the clothes on his back, he must fight against the world crying justice, he must loftily defend the powerless people suffering under the violence of those who possess power, and he must grasp the sword not with the righteousness of his hand, but of his heart. Joseon's most chivalrous fighter, a man who lived his life with determination, Dong Soo! Orphan. Beggar. From being an outcast, he upended the entire nation with the sword of the people.Born with nothing but his two fists just like us, achieving the ultimate martial arts from complete nothingness, the life story of Joseon's master swordsman Dong Soo fills us with thrilling, vicarious satisfaction and hope.

Warrior Baek Dong Soo

⚔The New Joseon Warriors ⚔

Han Ki Chul (Lee Beom Soo) is a mid-level gangster in South Korea. One day, his boss tasks him with looking after a powerful gangland figure from Hong Kong. He and his mobster associates are expecting a fearsome male gangster, but their charge actually turns out to be a woman named Lim Aryong (Shu Qi). She has been accused of killing a rival gang leader in Hong Kong and an assassin has been dispatched to hunt her down.

Lim Aryong turns out to be cold and abrasive, and Han Ki Chul isn’t too fond of her. But he must complete the mission nonetheless. So he decides to pretend that she is his girlfriend – and take her to visit his mother. But when the assassins close the net on Lim Ah Ryong, she ends up returning to Hong Kong...with Han Ki Chul in tow. Could love spark amid the chaos for this pair of very different mobsters?

“My Wife Is a Gangster 3: HK Edition” is a 2006 South Korean movie that was directed by Cho Jin Gyu.

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