Emerging from Dongguk University's Theater and Film department, where he also sang in an amateur folk-rock band and briefly worked as a KBS voice actor, he entered the screen with the 1990 MBC drama Our Paradise and gained fame as the street-wise Hong-shik in The Moon of Seoul (1994). The 1990s cemented his status through a string of acclaimed films such as Green Fish, No. 3, The Contact, Christma…
