---
name: "Gang Dong-won"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gang-dong-won"
fi1m_id: "gang-dong-won"
imdb_id: "nm1504868"
tmdb_id: 83014
wikidata_id: "Q488031"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "19 January 1981"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T20:41:29.463087+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Gang Dong-won

## Identity

Gang Dong-won

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gang-dong-won
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** gang-dong-won
- **IMDb ID:** nm1504868
- **TMDB ID:** 83014
- **Wikidata ID:** Q488031
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_Dong-won, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q488031, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1504868/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/83014

Actor. Born 19 January 1981 in Busan, South Korea.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 19 January 1981, Busan, South Korea
- **Also known as:** 강동원, 姜棟元, Gang Dong Won, Kang Dong-won, Dong-won Gang, Dong-won Kang, 姜栋元, Gang Dongwon, กังดงวอน
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_Dong-won, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q488031, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1504868/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/83014

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Broker*](https://film.one/film/broker.md) (76)

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## Fi1m on Gang Dong-won

> Gang Dong-won has built much of his career in action and fantasy, but his quieter acting deserves attention. In *Broker*, we like the way he gives Song Kang-ho room without disappearing beside him.

Song Kang-ho is the more expansive presence in *Broker* (2022); Gang Dong-won gives him someone quieter to play against. As Dong-soo, he lets Song’s Sang-hyun supply much of the humour and warmth without trying to match him. We laughed, then felt uneasy about laughing, because Song makes a baby broker someone we are pleased to spend time with. Gang’s restraint helps that awkward company feel plausible, and it is a good reason to take him seriously beyond the action roles.

His breakthrough in *Temptation of Wolves* (2004) came with a heartthrob image that initially narrowed perceptions of what he could do. Much of the subsequent career has involved physical demands: fantasy in *Jeon Woo-chi: The Taoist Wizard* (2009), and action in *Kundo: Age of the Rampant* (2014) and *Peninsula* (2020). Swordsmanship and martial arts training are recurring requirements, and his preparation has included months of sword practice. That work deserves recognition even when the quieter performances are the ones that interest us more.

The danger with this sort of quiet acting is that it can leave the other performer doing all the work. In Hirokazu Kore-eda’s *Broker*, we do not find that: Gang supplies enough of a presence for Song’s warmth to seem directed at someone, rather than offered to the audience. That does not settle our doubts about a crowded plot which occasionally pleads for sympathy. The two actors help us stay with it, but cannot make every development convincing.

Nor does *Broker* mark a permanent departure from action: in *Uprising* (2024), he plays Cheon-young in a period setting. We would welcome more roles that ask for the economy he brings to Dong-soo alongside those requiring long physical preparation. Start with *Broker* for that quieter side, with the proviso that its people are more convincing than some of the arrangements the plot makes for them.
Fi1m

## Biography

Gang Dong-won is a South Korean actor. Born on 18 January 1981 in Busan, he studied mechanical engineering at Hanyang University before beginning his career as a model.

He transitioned to acting in the early 2000s and has appeared in films including *Woochi: The Demon Slayer* (2009), *Secret Reunion* (2010), *Kundo: Age of the Rampant* (2014), *The Priests* (2015), *1987: When the Day Comes* (2017), *Illang: The Wolf Brigade* (2018), *Peninsula* (2020) and *Broker* (2022), in which he played Dong-soo.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, deadline.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Broker* (2022), Fi1m 76, as Dong-soo — [page](https://film.one/film/broker.md)

## Complete filmography (36)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Wild Sing* (2026), as Hwang Hyun-woo
- *Tempest* (2025), series, as Paik Sanho · Executive Producer
- *Dark Nuns* (2025), as Choi Joon-ho
- *Uprising* (2024), as Cheon-young
- *The Plot* (2024), as Young-il
- *Dr. Cheon and the Lost Talisman* (2023), as Dr. Cheon
- *Broker* (2022), as Dong-soo — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/broker.md)
- *Peninsula* (2020), as Han Jung-seok
- *Illang: The Wolf Brigade* (2018), as Lim Joong-kyung
- *Golden Slumber* (2018), as Kim Gun-woo
- *1987: When the Day Comes* (2017), as Lee Han-yeol
- *Master* (2016), as Kim Jae-myung
- *Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned* (2016), as Sung-min
- *A Violent Prosecutor* (2016), as Han Chi-won
- *The Priests* (2015), as Deacon Choi
- *My Brilliant Life* (2014), as Dae-soo
- *Kundo: Age of the Rampant* (2014), as Jo-yoon
- *The X* (2013), as X
- *Haunters* (2010), as Cho-in
- *Camellia* (2010), as Jay (segment "Love for Sale")
- *Secret Reunion* (2010), as Song Ji-won
- *Woochi: The Demon Slayer* (2009), as Jeon Woo-chi
- *M* (2007), as Min-woo
- *Voice of a Murderer* (2007), as Kidnapper
- *Maundy Thursday* (2006), as Jung Yun-soo
- *The Duelist* (2005), as Sad Eyes
- *Chosun Noir: Lee Myung-se Makes the DUELIST* (2005), Actor
- *Magic* (2004), series, as Cha Kang-jae
- *Romance of Their Own* (2004), as Jung Tae-sung
- *Too Beautiful to Lie* (2004), as Choi Hee-cheol
- *1% of Anything* (2003), series, as Lee Jae-In
- *Country Princess* (2003), series, as Min Ji-hoon
- *토벌*, Actor
- *Soul*, series, Actor
- *토벌*, series, Actor
- *Tsunami LA*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Gang Dong-won](https://film.one/media/person/21695/gallery-c8e0b33dce13.jpg) Gang Dong-won — SBS Star Daily, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/2026-05-07_Gang_Dong-won_at_Wild_Sing_event_01_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![140802 군도 부산 무대인사 강동원 (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/21695/gallery-17d79c1b58f8.jpg) 140802 군도 부산 무대인사 강동원 (2014) — Moritania (안주), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/140802_%EA%B5%B0%EB%8F%84_%EB%B6%80%EC%82%B0_%EB%AC%B4%EB%8C%80%EC%9D%B8%EC%82%AC_%EA%B0%95%EB%8F%99%EC%9B%90.jpg/1280px-140802_%EA%B5%B0%EB%8F%84_%EB%B6%80%EC%82%B0_%EB%AC%B4%EB%8C%80%EC%9D%B8%EC%82%AC_%EA%B0%95%EB%8F%99%EC%9B%90.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Cast and director of Broker at VIP Premiere on June 2, 2022](https://film.one/media/person/21695/gallery-eb5c02bc1bbf.jpg) Cast and director of Broker at VIP Premiere on June 2, 2022 — K-POPIT 케이팝잇, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/20220602_Broker_%EB%B8%8C%EB%A1%9C%EC%BB%A4_VIP_Premiere_%281%29.jpg/1280px-20220602_Broker_%EB%B8%8C%EB%A1%9C%EC%BB%A4_VIP_Premiere_%281%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Cast and director of Broker at VIP Premiere on June 2, 2022](https://film.one/media/person/21695/gallery-944a79a96e0d.jpg) Cast and director of Broker at VIP Premiere on June 2, 2022 — K-POPIT 케이팝잇, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/20220602_Broker_%EB%B8%8C%EB%A1%9C%EC%BB%A4_VIP_Premiere_%282%29.jpg/1280px-20220602_Broker_%EB%B8%8C%EB%A1%9C%EC%BB%A4_VIP_Premiere_%282%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Gang Dong-won](https://film.one/media/person/21695/gallery-97f113ca2220.jpg) Gang Dong-won — Image via TMDB
- ![​姜棟元與全智賢在《暴風圈》製作發布會上 (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/21695/gallery-f89cb245b4f9.png) ​姜棟元與全智賢在《暴風圈》製作發布會上 (2025) — 티비텐 TV10, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/20250902%E3%80%8ATempest%E3%80%8Bproduction_presentation.png/1280px-20250902%E3%80%8ATempest%E3%80%8Bproduction_presentation.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Gang Dong-won at an event for Wild Sing at Lotte Cinema Konkuk University in May 2026](https://film.one/media/person/21695/gallery-7bfb5e2bbcfb.jpg) Gang Dong-won at an event for Wild Sing at Lotte Cinema Konkuk University in May 2026 — SBS Star Daily, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/2026-05-07_Gang_Dong-won_at_Wild_Sing_event_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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