Kang Soo-Yeon's funeral will be held on Wednesday
RegionalAsian News InternationalUpdated: May 09, 2022
9:24 am IST
throwback photo of Kang Soo-Yeon. (courtesy: wonsuk)
Seoul:
Veteran Korean actor Kang Soo-yeon is
no more. She was 55. As per The Hollywood Reporter, Kang breathed her last on
Saturday, following a cerebral hemorrhage, two days after she was taken to a
hospital in Southern Seoul for a cardiac arrest.
Kang, who was born
in Seoul in 1966, began her career as a child actor in the 1970s. At the age
21, when she earned the best actress prize at the 1987 Venice Film Festival for
her role in Im Kwon-taek's The Surrogate Womb. Two years later in
1989, she won best actress for Come, Come, Come Upward - another film from the
same director - at the Moscow International Film Festival.
Reportedly, Kang had recently shot
scenes for Netflix original sci-fi movie Jung-E, which will debut
on the streamer later this year.
Kang's funeral is set for Wednesday,
with its committee led by Busan International Film Festival co-founder and
current Gangneung International Film Festival chairman Kim Dong-ho.
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