Park Chul-min (born January 18, 1967) is a South Korean actor.Park
Chul-min began acting in his high school drama club at Chosun
University High School, and though he majored in Business
Administration at Chung-Ang University, he spent majority of his
college years in theater circles. After graduating in 1988, Park
joined the professional theater troupe Hyunjang (현장), and for 5 to
6 years he appeared in plays on Daehakro such as A Story of Old
Thieves (ëŠ˜ê·¼ë „ë'' ì ´ì•¼ê¸°) and Kim Cheol-sik of the Republic of
Korea (ëŒ€í•œë¯¼êµ ê¹€ì² ì‹ ).After several years of doing bit parts
onscreen, Park gained attention in 2004 for his roles in the film
Mokpo, Gangster's Paradise and the period drama Immortal Admiral Yi
Sun-sin. Since then, he has become one of the most prolific supporting
actors in Korean cinema, most often cast in physical, comic
performances in films such as Gwangju massacre drama May 18 (2007),
romantic comedy Cyrano Agency (2010), monster movie Sector 7 (2011),
and comedy satire Almost Che (2012).In 2014, Park starred in his first
major leading role in Another Promise (formerly titled Another
Family), the first 100%-crowdfunded Korean film based on the real-life
story of Hwang Sang-ki, a Gangwon Province-based cab driver and his
legal battle to win compensation for his daughter Yu-mi's death from
leukemia in 2007 at age 23, which he believes was contracted when she
worked for four years at a Samsung semiconductor factory. Despite
little media attention on the case, the Seoul High Court ruled in
Hwang's favor in 2011; the ruling was the first case in which an
individual won a suit against a Korean conglomerate.
Chul-min began acting in his high school drama club at Chosun
University High School, and though he majored in Business
Administration at Chung-Ang University, he spent majority of his
college years in theater circles. After graduating in 1988, Park
joined the professional theater troupe Hyunjang (현장), and for 5 to
6 years he appeared in plays on Daehakro such as A Story of Old
Thieves (ëŠ˜ê·¼ë „ë'' ì ´ì•¼ê¸°) and Kim Cheol-sik of the Republic of
Korea (ëŒ€í•œë¯¼êµ ê¹€ì² ì‹ ).After several years of doing bit parts
onscreen, Park gained attention in 2004 for his roles in the film
Mokpo, Gangster's Paradise and the period drama Immortal Admiral Yi
Sun-sin. Since then, he has become one of the most prolific supporting
actors in Korean cinema, most often cast in physical, comic
performances in films such as Gwangju massacre drama May 18 (2007),
romantic comedy Cyrano Agency (2010), monster movie Sector 7 (2011),
and comedy satire Almost Che (2012).In 2014, Park starred in his first
major leading role in Another Promise (formerly titled Another
Family), the first 100%-crowdfunded Korean film based on the real-life
story of Hwang Sang-ki, a Gangwon Province-based cab driver and his
legal battle to win compensation for his daughter Yu-mi's death from
leukemia in 2007 at age 23, which he believes was contracted when she
worked for four years at a Samsung semiconductor factory. Despite
little media attention on the case, the Seoul High Court ruled in
Hwang's favor in 2011; the ruling was the first case in which an
individual won a suit against a Korean conglomerate.
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