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name: "Kang Ae-sim"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kang-ae-sim"
fi1m_id: "kang-ae-sim"
imdb_id: "nm9377778"
tmdb_id: 2523069
wikidata_id: "Q16177667"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "28 February 1963"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-23T20:56:10.437537+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."
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# Kang Ae-sim

## Identity

Kang Ae-sim

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kang-ae-sim
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kang-ae-sim
- **IMDb ID:** nm9377778
- **TMDB ID:** 2523069
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16177667
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_Ae-shim, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16177667, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9377778/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2523069

Actor. Born 28 February 1963 in South Korea.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 28 February 1963, South Korea
- **Active:** 2021–present
- **Also known as:** Kang Ae-shim, Gang Ae-sim, کانگ آئه شیم, کانگ اِ شیم
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_Ae-shim, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16177667, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9377778/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2523069

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Squid Game*](https://film.one/tv/squid-game.md) (81)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Kang Ae-sim (also credited as Kang Ae-shim) is a South Korean actress. She was born on 28 February 1963.

She began her career in theatre in 1981 with the play *The Next* and has worked without an agency. Her screen credits include supporting roles in films such as *Kim Ji-young: Born 1982* (2019) and *Concrete Utopia* (2023), and television series including *Extraordinary Attorney Woo* (2022) as Choi Yeong-ran and *Bad and Crazy* (2021) as Seo Seung-sook. She is known for portraying Jang Geum-ja (Player 149) in the second and third seasons of the Netflix series *Squid Game* (2024–2025).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, koreatimes.co.kr.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Squid Game* (2021), Fi1m 81, as Jang Geum-ja / Player 149 — [page](https://film.one/tv/squid-game.md)

## Complete filmography (50)

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

- *The Journey to Gyeong-ju* (2026), as Ok-sil's former neighbor
- *Siren* (2026), Actor
- *Home Sweet Home* (2026), Actor
- *In Your Radiant Season* (2026), series, as Kim Seon
- *Behind the Play* (2025), Actor
- *Floating* (2025), Actor
- *Broken Dawn* (2025), as Young-ok
- *Love, Take Two* (2025), series, as Grandma Mimi
- *Wall to Wall* (2025), as Nam Hae-ju
- *No Place to Return* (2025), Actor
- *22 Minutes: Warning Alarm* (2025), Actor
- *A Virtuous Business* (2024), series, as Lee Bok-soon
- *Just Another Film* (2024), Actor
- *Concerning My Daughter* (2024), as Mrs. Choi
- *Pollock* (2024), as Yeong-hwa
- *Cat Translator* (2024), as General store owner
- *Wonderland* (2024), as Hae-ri's Mother
- *Frankly Speaking* (2024), series, as Na Yoo-jung
- *Wonderful World* (2024), series, as Jang Hyung-ja
- *Queen of Divorce* (2024), series, as Park Jeong-sook
- *The Dream Songs* (2023), as Granny Nurse
- *Open the Door* (2023), as Chi-hoon's mother
- *Our Summer* (2023), as Mi-sook
- *​A Room of Two Women’s Own* (2023), Actor
- *Concrete Utopia* (2023), as Young-tak's Mother
- *One Day Off* (2023), series, as Yool-ah's grandmother
- *Rebound* (2023), as Principal's Wife
- *Divorce Attorney Shin* (2023), series, as Min-jeong's mother
- *Extraordinary Attorney Woo* (2022), series, as Choi Yeong-ran
- *Thirty-Nine* (2022), series, as Orphanage director
- *Bad and Crazy* (2021), series, as Seo Seung-sook
- *Outing* (2021), Actor
- *Squid Game* (2021), series, as Jang Geum-ja / Player 149 — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/squid-game.md)
- *Move to Heaven* (2021), series, as Lee Mi-seon
- *The ABCs of Our Relationships* (2021), Actor
- *Jessie Story* (2020), Actor
- *No, Thank You* (2020), series, as Uhm Young-hee
- *A Bedsore* (2020), as Yoo Soo-ok
- *Hospital Playlist* (2020), series, as Song-hwa's Mother (voice)
- *Kim Ji-young: Born 1982* (2019), as Ji-young's Grandmother
- *Proud Mary* (2019), as Yong-nyeo
- *Be Melodramatic* (2019), series, as Jin-ju's mother
- *Mom, Popo And Me* (2018), as Mi-sook
- *Another Way* (2017), as Jung-won's mother
- *Fourth Place* (2016), as Harvard Mother
- *KBS Drama Special* (2010), series, as Choi Kyung-mi
- *Secret Love* (2010), as Neighborhood
- *A Man Who Was Superman* (2008), as Red Cross Staff
- *Mother* (2007), as Nun
- *Jiangshi*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Kang Ae-sim](https://film.one/media/person/43471/gallery-f13179c3560e.jpg) Kang Ae-sim — 티비텐, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/%EA%B0%95%EC%95%A0%EC%8B%AC_%EB%B0%B0%EC%9A%B0.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Kang Ae-sim](https://film.one/media/person/43471/gallery-61d07965d59b.jpg) Kang Ae-sim — Image via TMDB

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