Kim Chang-wan

Kim Chang-wan

Born: February 22, 1954
in Seoul, South Korea
Kim Chang Wan is a South Korean rock singer, composer, musician, actor, TV host, radio DJ, writer, and poet. Kim, along with his younger brothers Kim Chang Hoon and Kim Chang Ik, began composing music during their mid-teens and formed the band "Mui" when they were college students.

After Kim graduated in 1975 from Seoul National University, they went professional and changed their band's name to Sanulrim (meaning "Mountain Echo"). The band's psychedelic rock/hard rock sound (reminiscent of the Sex Pistols) was music Koreans hadn't heard before, and Sanulrim revitalized the Korean music scene, which was currently devastated after several major musicians were arrested for marijuana possession in the 1970s.

They held a 30th-anniversary concert in 2007 and made plans to release the 14th album. But drummer Kim Chang Ik was killed in a traffic accident in Vancouver, Canada on January 29th, 2008, and Sanulrim disbanded after his death.

Having worked as a music director and film score composer in the early 1990s, Kim also began acting onscreen. He did not only starred in movies such as Blades of Blood, Antique Bakery, Shinsukki Blues, Windstruck, and My Love Ssagajy but also in roughly 30 television shows.

The versatile Kim has also starred in a stage play (A Nap in 2010), hosted variety shows and radio programs, and written several books (some containing poetry).

Movies for Kim Chang-wan...

Title: Tiny Desk Korea
Character: Self
Released: August 25, 2023
Type: TV
The Korean version of Tiny Desk Concert! A small live concert with various band sessions will come
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Title: The Real Has Come!
Character: Jang Ho
Released: March 25, 2023
Type: TV
A successful lecturer facing single motherhood devises a fake romance with a marriage-averse doctor — but keeping up the act proves harder than it seems.
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Title: The Seasons
Character: Self
Released: February 5, 2023
Type: TV
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Title: Bad Prosecutor
Character: Seo Hyun-gyu
Released: October 5, 2022
Type: TV
The delinquent prosecutor destroys everything corrupted with wealth and power. His face-off with evil begins.
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Title: One the Woman
Character: No Hak-tae
Released: September 17, 2021
Type: TV
A corruption inspector suddenly inherits a great fortune. In this mystery, she tries to regain her memory.
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Title: SNL Korea
Character: Self - Musical Guest
Released: September 4, 2021
Type: TV
Korea's version of the late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory cast members.
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Title: Awaken
Character: Gong Il-do
Released: November 30, 2020
Type: TV
While unraveling an enigmatic murder mystery, a special force leader realizes this case is related to the incident that took 28 years ago in a small town.
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Title: It's Okay to Not Be Okay
Character: Oh Ji-wang
Released: June 20, 2020
Type: TV
Desperate to escape from his emotional baggage and the heavy responsibility he’s had all his life, a psychiatric ward worker begins to heal with help from the unexpected – a woman who writes fairy tales but doesn’t believe in them.
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Title: One Spring Night
Character: Kwon Young-kook
Released: May 22, 2019
Type: TV
When Lee Jeong-in and Yu Ji-ho meet, something unexpected happens. Or it just may be that spring is in the air -- and anything is possible.
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Title: My Healing Love
Character: Park Boo-han
Released: October 14, 2018
Type: TV
Im Chi-Woo never wanted to become a good daughter, a good daughter-in-law or a good wife, but she sacrifices herself to take care of her family. She is married to immature Park Wan-Seung and she works several part-time jobs to support her family. Under her difficult situation, she keeps smiling and maintaining her positive attitude. Choi Jin-Yoo is a divorcee and he has a daughter. He works hard and tries live positively for his daughter. He encounters a nightmare like scenario.
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Title: Jugglers
Character: Do Tae-Geun
Released: December 4, 2017
Type: TV
Jwa Yoon-Yi has lived her life with a passive attitude. She has a spirit of devotion and obedience. Nam Chi-Won is the director of HB Company, but he refuses interests of other people and developing relationships. The woman and man meet as secretary and boss.
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Title: 20th Century Boy and Girl
Character: Sa Chang-wan
Released: October 9, 2017
Type: TV
The heartwarming romantic comedy is about the friendship and love lives of three single virgins born in 1983. Their romantic lives begin when the boy they liked in their youth shows up one day. They live in Oksu-dong in rundown apartments, and the warm human drama will be about neighborly affection, and the meaning of home, family, and friendship.
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Title: Whisper
Character: Lee Ho-Beom
Released: March 27, 2017
Type: TV
Shin Young-Joo is a female detective with charisma and Lee Dong-Joon is a righteous judge. They uncover corruption at the nation's biggest law firm Taebaek.
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Title: Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth
Character: Park Young-Sil
Released: December 19, 2016
Type: TV
An elite group of young warriors trained in morals and martial arts finds love and friendship in Silla during Korea’s ancient Three Kingdoms period.
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Title: Hwajung
Character: Yi Won-ik
Released: April 13, 2015
Type: TV
Fair Princess Jungmyung lives a life of the highest privilege, until her half-brother Prince Gwanghae executes the rightful crown prince and usurps the throne. Exiled from court, Jungmyung goes under disguise as a man and learns to adapt to life as a commoner — never forgetting Gwanghae's wrongdoing. But amidst rampant corruption throughout the kingdom, can Jyungmyung exact her vengeance, restore order and take back her rightful place in the palace?
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Title: Secret Love Affair
Character: Dean Min Yong-Ki
Released: March 17, 2014
Type: TV
Despite being married and having a fulfilling career as a sophisticated arts foundation director, something is missing in Oh Hye Won's life. When she meets twenty-something Lee Seon Jae, Hye Won's appetite for passion is awakened, and she soon falls for the impoverished piano prodigy. Though they risk everything, Hye Won and Seon Jae can't help but embark on an affair that threatens to destroy both their lives. Based on the 2005 Japanese film Tokyo Tower, this romance aches with the desperate struggle between love and reality.
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Title: My Love From Another Star
Character: Jang Young-mok
Released: December 18, 2013
Type: TV
An alien who came to Earth 400 years ago is almost able to return to his own planet, but when he meets a famous actress, he doesn't want to go home.
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Title: Who Are You?
Character: Choi Moon-shik
Released: July 29, 2013
Type: TV
Detective Yang Shi-ohn wakes up from a six-year coma. She gets reassigned to the lost and found department, where she discovers that she's gained the supernatural ability to see ghosts connected to the objects left behind there. Along with her new partner, rookie cop Cha Gun-woo who's a hotheaded skeptic, Shi-ohn uses the information to solve cold cases. Gun-woo only believes in tangible things he can see, hear and touch, but he gradually comes to trust Shi-ohn, and together, the bickering partners help the spirits fulfill their dying wishes and unfinished business before passing on to the afterlife.
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Title: The End of the World
Released: March 16, 2013
Type: TV
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Doctor
Title: Doctor
Character: Choi In-beom
Released: October 13, 2012
Type: Movie
A plastic surgeon performs strange body experiments on his victims. A woman then goes to the plastic surgeon to seek out the perfect body. Through the surgery the women does receive the perfect body but also must now live out two separate lives.
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Title: SNL Korea
Character: Himself
Released: December 3, 2011
Type: TV
Korea's version of the late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory cast members.
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Title: Miss Ripley
Character: Director Choi
Released: May 30, 2011
Type: TV
Based loosely on the story of a discredited Dongguk University professor who falsified her educational background, Miss Ripley is the story of orphan Jang Mi Ri who, like the Talented Mr. Ripley, lives her life from one lie to the next. At a job interview, she starts down her dark path in earnest, when she tells a simple lie about her education. From there, the tale of Miss Ripley weaves into the lives of two very important rivals: Jang Myung Hoon and Yutaka, both of whom are in the hotel industry and fall in love with the deceitful protagonist. To complicate things, Mi Ri's childhood acquaintance, Hee Joo, can see through all the lies.
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Title: Queen of Reversals
Character: General Manager Mok Young-chul
Released: October 18, 2010
Type: TV
Hwang Tae Hee leads a charmed life, and after growing up in a wealthy family, she easily attains a coveted job. Too much of a workaholic to make time for romance, she is taken aback when she falls hard for Bong Joon Soo. She pursues him and they soon get married, but when the honeymoon is over, Tae Hee finds that her rival at work and husband's ex, Baek Yeo Jin, has taken over her job. As she struggles with her job and marriage, she must also cope with the attention of her arrogant, immature boss, Goo Yong Shik, who falls for her as her life falls to pieces. Queen of Reversals is an empowering tale of a woman who manages to regain everything she's lost through sheer willpower and determination.
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Blades of Blood
Title: Blades of Blood
Character: King Seonjo
Released: April 28, 2010
Type: Movie
Lee Mong-hak and a skilled blind swordsman Hwang Jeong-hak, both long to wipe away corruption and heal the world. Lee Mong-hak creates a rebel army to achieve his goal and get rid of the King.
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Title: Harvest Villa
Released: March 5, 2010
Type: TV
When the owner of a shabby, soon-to-be-demolished villa in a run-down part of Seoul mysteriously dies, it sets in motion a chain of events that touches many lives. His son Oh Bok-gyu (Shin Ha-kyun), a struggling actor who was previously completely unaware of his inheritance, arrives to take possession of Apartment Number 201, only to find that rumors are swirling everywhere that his father has left a huge fortune of ₩50 billion in gold bars hidden somewhere in the villa — and that his father was murdered. As Bok-gyu navigates his way through the web of mystery surrounding his father's death, he encounters intrusive neighbors, oddball residents, a hardcore gangster and a beautiful girl — any of whom may have their eyes set on his money. When he meets orphaned, lovely Yoon Seo-rin (Lee Bo-young), he thinks that she's the girl of his dreams, but is unsure whether to trust her
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Heaven's Postman
Title: Heaven's Postman
Character: Lee Moon-gyo
Released: November 11, 2009
Type: Movie
Jae-jun delivers letters to heaven from those who can't get over the loss of their loved ones. One day Ha-na, who writes to her late boyfriend, discovers Jae-jun's secret identity. He offers her a part-time job assisting him, and they set off on a 14-day journey.
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Title: You Hee-yeol's Sketchbook
Character: Self
Released: April 24, 2009
Type: TV
You Hee-yeol's Sketchbook is a Korean pop music program that is both a talk show and live music show. The host of this program is You Hee-yeol, also known as Toy, a one-man project band. This program has aired since April 24, 2009.
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Title: My Wife Is A Super Woman
Character: Kim Hong-shik
Released: March 16, 2009
Type: TV
Queen of Housewives depicts the life of "naejo," housewives who devote their entire lives to their husbands' success, but with a more comedic and aggressive twist.
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Antique
Title: Antique
Character: White Beard
Released: November 13, 2008
Type: Movie
Jin-hyeok opens a cake shop in an old antique shop, hiring Seon-woo, Korea's best pastry chef, who fell in love with him in high school. Also there, are Su-young, crushing on Seon-woo, ex-boxer Ki-beom, and Seon-woo's French ex-boyfriend.
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Title: Worlds Within
Character: Park Hyun-sup
Released: October 27, 2008
Type: TV
Song Hye Gyo plays a PD Joo Joon Young who has bold and unstoppable personality. Hyun Bin also plays a promising drama PD Jung Ji Oh. This drama focuses on TV stations by portraying the love and struggle of these 2 PDs during filming their respective projects as well as unfolding male and female staffs' love stories and marriages.
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Title: Iljimae
Character: King Do Po Hui
Released: May 21, 2008
Type: TV
Set during the Joseon Dynasty, Ryung acts as a useless gangster in the marketplace by day but at night he is a chivalrous robber who robs corrupt government officials to give to the poor. After each robbery he leaves behind a wooden branch from a plum tree at the site of the robbery to take responsibility for the robbery. The poor citizens only know him as Iljimae. Bong Soon is a hilarious girl with good martial art skills and lives as a swindler. She only loves Ryung and sacrifices her whole life for him. Eun Chae is a government official's daughter and is good in nature and usually helps miserable people. She meets Iljimae once by chance, and their sweet love story begins. However, her love puts Iljimae in a dangerous situation because an Imperial Guard also loves her.
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Title: Coffee Prince
Character: CEO Hong
Released: July 2, 2007
Type: TV
Han-gyeol is a smart young man who hates to be tied down to one career in his life. Abhorring the idea of joining the family business, he is ordered by his grandmother to manage a cafe. Unable to disobey his grandmother, he reluctantly takes over the responsibility of running a cafe and begins to immerse himself in the gourmet coffee business. One day, he meets Eun-chan, whom he mistakes as a boy, and learns the meaning of true love...
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Several Questions That Make Us Happy
Title: Several Questions That Make Us Happy
Released: May 31, 2007
Type: Movie
Several Questions That Make Us Happy is composed of six different stories in a omnibus way, describing mondern society's loneliness, misunderstanding between couples, trust with others, courtesy between lovers, and self-centered blame for others, etc. It is based on the sincere question why we are so unhappy and how I can make happiness.
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Title: Behind the White Tower
Character: Woo Yong-gil
Released: January 6, 2007
Type: TV
Based on renowned Japanese novelist Yamazaki Toyoko's representative work Shiroi Kyotō, the drama brings viewers deep into the political inner workings of the medical field by taking a satirical look at malpractice and power plays at a university hospital, and contrasting the paths and personalities of two doctors.
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Title: The Vineyard Man
Character: Lee Hyung-man
Released: July 24, 2006
Type: TV
The Vineyard Man is a 2006 South Korean television series that aired on KBS2. It was adapted from Kim Rang's bestselling book of the same name.
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Title: Ireland
Character: Moon Jae-Seok
Released: September 2, 2004
Type: TV
Ireland is a 2004 South Korean television series starring Lee Na-young, Kim Min-joon, Kim Min-jung and Hyun Bin. It aired on MBC from September 1 to October 21, 2004 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes.
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Title: First Love of a Royal Prince
Character: Yu-bin's father
Released: June 23, 2004
Type: TV
First Love of a Royal Prince is a 2004 South Korean television series starring Sung Yu-ri, Cha Tae-hyun, Kim Nam-jin and Jin Jae-young. It aired on MBC from June 23 to August 26, 2004 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 18 episodes.
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Windstruck
Title: Windstruck
Character: Chief of Police Substation
Released: June 3, 2004
Type: Movie
Kyung-jin, a police officer who finds herself chasing down a suspected bag-snatcher on her day off. However, the man she catches turns out to be Myungwoo, a passer-by who was himself trying to apprehend the real criminal.
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100 Days with Mr. Arrogant
Title: 100 Days with Mr. Arrogant
Character: Ha-young's Father
Released: January 16, 2004
Type: Movie
After being dumped by her boyfriend just before their 100-day anniversary, Ha-young meets a college guy named Hyung-joon when she kicks a can that accidentally hits him in the face and causes him to scratch his Lexus. He demands she pay him $3000 on the spot.
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Title: 당신 옆이 좋아
Character: Lee Duk-Soo
Released: July 1, 2002
Type: TV
Different views on marriage and life in the 70s and 80s A drama depicting the story of four sisters who have
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Title: Since We Met
Character: Jo Nam-sik
Released: April 28, 2002
Type: TV
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Title: 선희 진희
Character: Park Du-Man
Released: August 20, 2001
Type: TV
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A Day
Title: A Day
Character: Dr. Jo
Released: January 20, 2001
Type: Movie
Suk-yoon, a successful toy designer, and Jin-won, a respected textile designer, started off as a campus couple in college after falling in love at first sight. They are now happily married and well off, but have no children. Jin-won, raised by her aunt after the early death of her parents, anxiously craves her own motherhood. Her desperation grows despite Suk-yoon's efforts to comfort her. Then one day, the couple receives the miraculous news that they are pregnant. They are overjoyed and their days are filled with anticipation and love until they find out that what they thought would be a lifetime with their child will not last more than a day.
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Title: Nonstop
Released: May 15, 2000
Type: TV
Nonstop is a South Korean slice-of-life sitcom that broadcast its first season in 2000 on MBC. It continued with 5 more seasons. The series was popular for its cast of teen idols, many who debuted through the show..
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Happy Funeral Director
Title: Happy Funeral Director
Character: Cheol-gu
Released: January 8, 2000
Type: Movie
Three teenagers from different backgrounds, each for different reasons, accept positions as undertakers. There's only one problem, no one in their town has died for over a decade! With no chances to get in any practice, it all comes down to the line one day when a widow commits suicide, and the three undertakers are put to the test!
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Title: 달콤한 신부
Released: October 17, 1999
Type: TV
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The Ring Virus
Title: The Ring Virus
Character: Reporter Kim
Released: June 12, 1999
Type: Movie
Sun-ju is a reporter who uncovers a series of inexplicable deaths that occurred simultaneously. Her investigation leads her to a resort, where she finds a videotape filled with mysterious images. After viewing it, a message appears on the screen that she has just been cursed, and that in order to save herself she must - end of tape. Somebody has erased the rest, leaving her horrified and uncertain of her next move.
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Title: KAIST
Released: January 24, 1999
Type: TV
A situation drama on students of Korea Advanced Science and Technology. The story of love, agony and endless research of the top brains in the field of science. It also presents a role model of a free, creative youth and their professors dictating what education should be. K.A.I.S.T stands for Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology.
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Jungle Story
Title: Jungle Story
Character: Jiwoo
Released: May 18, 1996
Type: Movie
This film depicts the passion and frustration of young people who dream of becoming popular rock musicians. Dohyun neglects his studies because he is only interested in one thing - rock music. He comes to Seoul to work and ente rs a band. he meets his future manager, Jeewoo, and makes his debut as a singer. However, the production of his first album is cancelled because it is considered 'not commercial' enough. Dohyun returns to his hometown, depressed. Jeewo, however, finds him and helps him open his first gig after weeks of practice. The gig turns out to be a complete failure. Dohyun and his friends sing in the middle of the street with pedestrians as their spectators. The film ends with Dohyun frustrated over his unsuccessful career as a rock musician.
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Title: 연애의 기초
Character: 정창현
Released: November 6, 1995
Type: TV