Song Kang – Biography, Age, Korean Dramas & Movies

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Song Kang

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Acting Skill84

Charisma88

Versatility90

Popularity92

Career Balance

Supporting (4)(9) Lead

Age32 years 4 months 9 days

NationalitySouth Korean

AgencyNamoo Actors

Debut2017

🏆Award
Winning

13Dramas

2Films

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🕴️ Who Is Song Kang?

Song Kang spent much of 2026’s late summer bracing for something he hadn’t done in over two years: stepping in front of a camera as himself, not a soldier. His comeback arrived with Four Hands, Two Sonatas, a tvN musical drama in which he plays Kang Bi-o, a piano prodigy locked in a quiet rivalry with a childhood friend — a role that leans, fittingly, on real piano training the actor picked up as a kid from his mother, a piano teacher. It’s the kind of casting that reads almost too neatly, and Song has leaned into it rather than downplaying it.

Before the eighteen months of mandatory service that took him off screens, Song had built a run of leading roles so dense with Netflix hits that Korean entertainment press started calling him the “Son of Netflix” — a nod to Sweet Home, Love Alarm, and Nevertheless all landing in the platform’s global top ten in the same year. Four Hands, Two Sonatas isn’t just a return to acting; it’s a test of whether that streak survives a genre he’s never tried, playing a character defined by obsession with a craft rather than romance.

🪪 Quick Profile

🚀 Career Timeline

Biography

👶 Early Life

Song Kang was born on April 23, 1994, in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, and later moved with his family to Seongnam as a child. He is the elder of two sons — his younger brother was born in 1998 — in a household with an unusually specific artistic pedigree: his mother worked as a piano teacher and his father had been a competitive artistic gymnast, though neither pushed him toward performing.

Acting wasn’t the plan. Song has said he first became curious about the profession after watching Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic, but the interest didn’t turn into action until 2014, when he retook South Korea’s college entrance exam and enrolled in the Department of Film Arts at Konkuk University. It was during his sophomore year there that he auditioned for the talent agency Namoo Actors, passing five rounds before signing — the same agency that still represents him today.

🎬 Career Beginnings

Song’s first credited role came in 2015 as the lead in the little-seen web series Hello, Spring, but his industry debut proper is usually dated to 2017’s The Liar and His Lover, where he played a supporting part opposite the show’s central romance. Small roles followed in the family drama Man Who Sets the Table and a cameo in Touch Your Heart, alongside variety-show appearances that kept him visible without yet giving him a signature part.

That changed in 2019, when Song won the male lead in Netflix’s Love Alarm, reportedly beating out several hundred other actors who auditioned for the role of Hwang Sun-oh. The series — built around an app that reveals who has a crush on you nearby — became one of Netflix’s most-watched Korean originals that year and was renewed for a second season, giving Song his first real footing as a leading man rather than a supporting face.

✨ Acting Style

Song has described the throughline in his roles as more personal than technical: “I think my characteristics are reflected in all of the roles I played,” he’s said, pointing to Sweet Home’s introverted Cha Hyun-su as close to his own reserved, homebody instincts, and Love Alarm’s awkwardly sincere Hwang Sun-oh as a version of himself trying to be more expressive than he naturally is. It’s a modest way to describe a range that has, in practice, taken him from teenage survivor to ballet student to nine-hundred-year-old demon.

That range was tested most visibly in Navillera, where Song spent six months learning ballet from scratch to play Lee Chae-rok — by his own account an intimidating, “burdened” process for someone who’d never danced — and again in Sweet Home, the zombie-apocalypse survival series he’s credited with saying “made me who I am now.” Critics and fans alike have pointed to his willingness to physically commit to a role, whether that’s stunt-heavy survival horror or the fingering drills required to look convincing at a piano, as the connective tissue across an otherwise genre-scattered career.

✨ Legacy

Sweet Home is the project most responsible for Song’s reach outside Korea. The 2020 series pulled in more than 22 million Netflix household views within its first month, and by 2021 it was sitting alongside Love Alarm and Nevertheless in the platform’s global top ten for Korean titles — three of Song’s own shows, all in the same year, a spread that’s central to how the “Son of Netflix” nickname stuck.

My Demon added a different kind of validation closer to home: a Top Excellence Award and a Best Couple prize (with co-star Kim Yoo-jung) at the 2023 SBS Drama Awards, on top of an earlier Baeksang nomination for Sweet Home. Combined with a fanbase that followed him through eighteen months of military service and back, it’s left Song in a rare position for an actor still in his early thirties — enough of a track record to be trusted with box-office-style anticipation, and still young enough that Four Hands, Two Sonatas is being watched as evidence of what comes next, not a victory lap.

🎥 Notable Works & Iconic Roles

Love Alarm (2019)

Sweet Home (2020)

Navillera (2021)

Nevertheless (2021)

Forecasting Love and Weather (2022)

My Demon (2023)

Four Hands, Two Sonatas (2026)

Love Alarm (2019)

Sweet Home (2020)

Navillera (2021)

Nevertheless (2021)

Forecasting Love and Weather (2022)

My Demon (2023)

Four Hands, Two Sonatas (2026)

🎞️ Filmography

🎖️ Awards & Honors

🆕 Recent & Upcoming Projects

Song Kang completed his mandatory military service on October 1, 2025, after eighteen months, and confirmed his comeback role within months of returning to civilian life: Kang Bi-o, a piano prodigy at the center of a friends-turned-rivals conservatory drama, in tvN and Netflix’s Four Hands, Two Sonatas, premiering August 29, 2026 alongside Lee Jun-young and Jang Gyu-ri.

He’s reportedly lined up a second project immediately after — Namoo Actors confirmed in early 2026 that Song had received an offer for White Scandal, a contractual-relationship romance reuniting him with his Love Alarm co-star Kim So-hyun for the first time in five years, with filming expected to begin once Four Hands wraps. Neither actor’s casting had been formally finalized as of this writing, but the pairing alone was enough to make it one of the most-discussed K-drama announcements of the year.

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💖 Personal Life

Song completed South Korea’s mandatory military service as an active-duty soldier, enlisting on April 2, 2024 and being discharged on October 1, 2025.

He comes from an artistic household — his mother is a piano teacher and his father is a former competitive artistic gymnast — and has a younger brother born in 1998.

🎈 Fun Facts

• He won the lead role in Love Alarm after auditioning against several hundred other candidates for the part of Hwang Sun-oh.
• He trained in ballet for six months to play a ballet student in Navillera (2021), despite having never danced before.
• His mother worked as a piano teacher, giving him a real background at the keyboard well before he was cast as a piano prodigy in Four Hands, Two Sonatas (2026).
• Korean entertainment press nicknamed him the “Son of Netflix” after Sweet Home, Love Alarm, and Nevertheless all ranked among the platform’s most-watched Korean titles in 2021.
• He first became interested in acting after watching Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic, which led him to retake the college entrance exam in 2014 to study film.
• He received the Seoul Tourism Foundation CEO Award at the 2024 Newsis K-Expo Cultural Awards.

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