Ha Jung-woo

Ha Jung-woo is one of those rare actors who makes every genre look easy — thrillers, horror, dark comedies, prestige dramas — and yet never seems like he's coasting. His real name is Kim Sung-hoon, but he built the Ha Jung-woo brand through sheer range and a quiet intensity that sneaks up on you. The Yellow Sea and The Chaser back-to-back basically announced him as a force to take seriously, and he just kept delivering. His films have sold over 100 million tickets in South Korea, a milestone only a handful of actors have ever reached, and he got there faster than any of them. He won the Asian Film Award for Best Actor, which feels both well-deserved and a bit overdue given how long he'd been carrying films by then. I genuinely look forward to whatever he picks next.

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Name (English)

Ha Jung-woo

Name (Japanese)

ハ・ジョンウ

Reading

は・じょんう

Born

March 11, 1978 (age 48)

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Occupation

actor / film actor / stage actor / director / film director

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Horse

University

Chung-Ang University

Awards & achievements

• Asian Film Award for Best Actor

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/__hajungwoo/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha%20Jung-woo
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%82%A6
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q490410

Tags

• actor
• film actor
• stage actor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.