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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1970-06-11

Place of Birth

Jinju, South Gyeongsang, South Korea

Kang Ho-dong

Biography

Kang Ho-dong (강호동) is a South Korean comedian, television host, and former professional in Korean traditional wrestling (씨름, ssireum). 

Known for

Men on a Mission

Men on a Mission

Male celebs play make-believe as high schoolers, welcoming star transfer students every week and engaging in battles of witty humor and slapstick.

2 Days and 1 Night

2 Days and 1 Night

2 Days & 1 Night is a South Korean reality-variety show with the motto "real wild road variety." Its main concept is to recommend various places of interest that viewers can visit in South Korea.

X-Man

X-Man

Celebrity guests are split into two teams to compete in various contests. One guest, known only to himself, is designated the "X-Man", and does his best to cause his team to lose the contests. At the end, all guests try to determine the X-Man's identity.

Let's Eat Dinner Together

Let's Eat Dinner Together

As more and more people are getting used to eating dinner alone, Kang Ho-dong and Lee Kyung-kyu visit ordinary Korean families at dinner time and share their lives as they eat dinner together.

Real Romance Love Letter

Real Romance Love Letter

Male and female contestants compete for "each other" in romance games. For example guests have to dance in order to impress the person they are after. Contestants are artists, actors, models, comedians, and MCs of the South Korean entertainment industry.

Ya Shim Man Man

Ya Shim Man Man

Yashimmanman is a South Korean talk show. Citizens were surveyed about various questions, and celebrity guests had to guess the public's top answers to the questions, sparking much discussion.

New Journey to the West

New Journey to the West

Each member takes one of the characters from the classic Chinese novel “Journey to the West” as they go to different destination every season

The Great Escape

The Great Escape

The variety show is a large-scale game show, where the members will try and escape a secret room.

황금어장: 무릎팍도사

황금어장: 무릎팍도사

Strong Heart

Strong Heart

Strong Heart is a South Korean talk show or talk battle broadcast by Seoul Broadcasting System. It airs on Tuesdays from 11:50 to Wednesdays 00:30. It is hosted by Lee Dong-wook and Shin Dong-yeop with Boom, Super Junior's Leeteuk and Eunhyuk as hosts of a special segment and regular guests along with Kim Hyo-jin, Jung Ju-ri and Yang Se-hyung, who are known as six-fixed guests. The program relaunched as a second season with Shin Dong-yeop and new hosts, actress, Kim Hee-sun, and singer, Yoon Jong-shin, in February 2013.

Cool Kiz on the Block

Cool Kiz on the Block

Cool Kiz on the Block or Our Neighborhood arts and Physical education is a Korean variety program on KBS2 television network, it was first aired on April 9, 2013, it is a program where members face amateur teams of a chosen sport, receiving training by a professionally trained instructor.

Golf Battle: Birdie Buddies

Golf Battle: Birdie Buddies

MBC Entertainment Awards

MBC Entertainment Awards

A yearly Korean awards ceremony sponsored by MBC with awards given to the best entertainers in the television broadcast industry.

Barefooted Friends

Barefooted Friends

Barefooted Friends is a South Korean reality-variety show; a part of SBS's Good Sunday lineup, along with Running Man. It was first aired on April 21, 2013. The show is an "real outdoor hardship variety"; a spin on typical outdoor variety shows. The members experience "real happiness" with others through challenges. The words, Barefooted is supposed to mean essence, sincerity, and real hardships, where as Friends not only represents the cast, but the people that are met as well. It has garnered attention as being the come-back program for Kang Ho-dong, the main MC of the program, after leaving Good Sunday's X-man in April 2007.

Blue Dragon Series Awards

Blue Dragon Series Awards

The Blue Dragon Series Awards (BSA) is a new annual awards ceremony for original streaming content in South Korea.