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Park Hae-soo

Actor

Park Hae-soo

Born November 21, 1981 in Suwon, Gyeonggi, South Korea14 films

Park Hae-soo (born November 21, 1981) is a South Korean actor. He is best known worldwide for portraying Cho Sang-woo in the first season of the Netflix hit series Squid Game (2021), which earned him a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

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Park started his career in theater and has played a large number of leading and supporting roles in plays and musicals. He subsequently expanded his career into film and television and achieved his breakthrough with Prison Playbook (2017–2018), one of the highest-rated Korean dramas on cable television. He is also known for his frequent collaborations with Netflix, including Narco-Saints (2022), Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area (2022), Karma (2025), The Price of Confession (2025), and The Great Flood (2025).

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Time to Hunt posterFirst watchTime to Hunt20207.1as HanFour young men want to leave their dystopian world behind and go to a distant paradise to execute a money robbery, a daring act that will have unexpected consequences.View film

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The Great Flood poster6.0The Great Flood2025The Pirates poster7.0The Pirates2014Yaksha: Ruthless Operations poster6.6Yaksha: Ruthless Operations2022Master poster6.9Master2016Good News poster7.0Good News2025Phantom poster6.9Phantom2023

Filmography

14 films as actor
  1. TBAGulf of Aden
  2. TBAK.O. Club
  3. 2025Tristes Tropiques
  4. 2025The Cherry Orchard
  5. 2025The Great FloodSon Hee-jo
  6. 2025Good NewsRyeo Dol-chan
  7. 2025LobbyGolf field owner
  8. 2023PhantomKaito Takahara
  9. 2022Yaksha: Ruthless OperationsHan Ji-hoon
  10. 2020Time to HuntHan
  11. 2019By Quantum Physics: A Nightlife VentureLee Chan-woo
  12. 2016MasterPresident Jin's Pawns
  13. 2015The UnfairJo Goo-hwan's assistant
  14. 2014The PiratesHwang Joong-geun