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Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1981-11-21

Place of Birth

Suwon, Gyeonggi, South Korea

Park Hae-soo

Biography

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. 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).

Known for

Squid Game

Squid Game

Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits — with deadly high stakes.

You Quiz on the Block

You Quiz on the Block

Yoo Jae-suk and Jo Se-ho who enter ordinary people's everyday lives, chat with them, and give them surprise quizzes! The talk and quiz show program will spotlight these people's lives and aims to gift them a refreshing, different kind of day. Recently they're also inviting celebrities & professionals to the show.

The Game Caterers

The Game Caterers

A webseries where Na Young Seok, a variety show producer, caters people his iconic games from 'New Journey to the West'.

SNL Korea

SNL Korea

"SNL Korea"! NBC's flagship program SNL, which won the Emmy Award, has returned for the first time in four years through Coupang Play.

Whenever Possible

Whenever Possible

We're looking for someone who has free time to hang out with us. Whenever Possible.

Six Flying Dragons

Six Flying Dragons

The ambitious success stories of 6 people surrounding Prince Lee Bang Won, and the ideological and political conflict between Prince Lee Bang Won and Jung Do Jeon, the man instrumental in helping King Taejo establish the fledgling Joseon nation.

Butterfly

Butterfly

David Jung, a mysterious former US intelligence operative living in hiding in South Korea, has his life blown to pieces when the consequences of an impossible decision from his past come back to haunt him, and he finds himself hunted by Rebecca, a deadly young assassin, and Caddis, the sinister spy organization she works for.

Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area

Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area

Disguised under the shadows of a mask, a crew of desperados band together under the leadership of a criminal mastermind known only as “The Professor” to pull off the biggest heist Korea has ever seen.

The Legend of the Blue Sea

The Legend of the Blue Sea

A mermaid from the Joseon period ends up in present-day Seoul, where she crosses paths with a swindler who may have ties to someone from her past.

Prison Playbook

Prison Playbook

With his major league baseball debut right around the corner, a star pitcher lands in prison and must learn to navigate his new world.

Karma

Karma

A fateful accident intertwines six lives in a thrilling tale of karma and crime, where each must face their own dark truths and connections.

God of War

God of War

Kim Jun is the son of an escaped palace slave, who was raised by monks. Years later, after being torn from his home during wartime, Kim Jun must renounce his pacifist ways to partake in a deadly game that could be his ticket to freedom from his masters, Choe Chung-heon's clan. During the Mongol invasions of Korea, Kim Jun rises in the ranks to become the top military official and eventually rules the Goryeo empire for 60 years in place of its king.

Narco-Saints

Narco-Saints

An ordinary entrepreneur joins a secret government mission to capture a Korean drug lord operating in South America.

Racket Boys

Racket Boys

A city kid is brought to the countryside by his father's new coaching gig: reviving a ragtag middle school badminton team on the brink of extinction.

The Scarecrow

The Scarecrow

A fiercely competitive police officer and an idealistic prosecutor, former high school classmates, reunite while investigating a nationwide serial murder case, pulling them into both a dangerous pursuit and an unresolved personal past.