Ahn Sung-ki

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This is a Korean name; the family name is Ahn.

Ahn Sung-ki
Korean name
Hangul 안성기 Hanja 安聖基 Revised Romanization An Seonggi McCune-Reischauer An Sŏngki

Ahn Sung-ki (born 1 January 1952) is known to the public as the "National Best Actor of Korea". A Roman Catholic,^[1] he was born in Daegu and grew up as a child actor, appearing in director Kim Ki-young's celebrated film The Housemaid (1960).^[2]. Starting from the 1980s, he appeared in nearly 100 movies. He was a graduate of the Vietnamese department of the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Because of his ability to speak several foreign languages, UNICEF appointed Ahn as a representative, and his image is often seen in advertisements on planes travelling to Korea. He acted twice as the President of Korea in the movies the Romantic President (2002) and The Korean Peninsula (2006).

[edit] Filmography

• Two Cops (투캅스, 1993)
• The Taebaek Mountains (태백산맥, Hanja:太白山脈, 1994)
• Festival (축제, Hanja:祝祭, 1996)
• The Soul Guardians (퇴마록, Hanja:退魔錄, 1998)
• Nowhere to Hide (인정사정 볼 것 없다, Hanja:人情事情 볼 것 없다, 1999)
• Musa (무사, Hanja:武士, 2001)
• Chi-hwa-seon (취화선, Hanja:醉畵仙, 2002)
• The Romantic President (피아노 치는 대통령, 2002)
• Arahan (아라한 장풍 대작전, 2004)
• A Battle of Wits (묵공, Hanja:墨攻, 2006)
• The Korean Peninsula (한반도, Hanja:韓半島, 2006)
• May 18 (화려한 휴가, 2007)

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[edit] External links

• Shim, Yeong-seop (2004-05-01). 미워할 수 없는 남자 안성기 Ahn Sung-ki, The Man You Can't Hate (article & interview) (Korean). Dong-a Ilbo. Retrieved on 2008-01-29.