Namkoong Min

Namkoong Min
Namkoong in 2020
Born (1978-03-12) March 12, 1978 (age 46)
Seoul, South Korea
EducationChung-Ang University (BSE in Mechanical Engineering)[1]
Occupations
  • Actor
  • director
  • screenwriter
Years active1999–present
Agent935 Entertainment
Height177 cm (5 ft 10 in)[2]
Spouse
Jin Ah-reum
(m. 2022)
AwardsFull list
Korean name
Hangul
남궁민
Hanja
Revised RomanizationNamgung Min
McCune–ReischauerNamkung Min
Website935ent.com

Namkoong Min (Korean남궁민, born March 12, 1978) is a South Korean actor, director and screenwriter. He first gained recognition with neo-noir film A Dirty Carnival (2006), and has since given notable performances in Remember (2015–2016), Beautiful Gong Shim (2016), Good Manager (2017), Hot Stove League (2019–2020), and My Dearest (2023).

He won the Grand Prize (Daesang) at the 2020 SBS Drama Awards for Hot Stove League; the drama also gained Namkoong his third Best Actor nomination at the Baeksang Arts Awards.[3] The next year, he received the Grand Prize at the 2021 MBC Drama Awards for The Veil.[4] In 2023, he again received the Grand Prize at the 2023 MBC Drama Awards for My Dearest.[5][unreliable source?]

  1. ^ "'컬투쇼' 남궁민 "원래는 기계공학 전공..잘 안 맞았다"" (in Korean). Osen. February 24, 2016. Archived from the original on November 7, 2021. Retrieved June 7, 2016.
  2. ^ "935엔터테인먼트 - 935Entertainment". Archived from the original on April 18, 2021. Retrieved April 2, 2021.
  3. ^ 이, 정현 (January 1, 2021). "남궁민, '스토브리그'로 SBS 연기대상". Yonhap News Agency (in Korean). Archived from the original on April 29, 2021. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference 2021MDA was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Winners Of The 2023 MBC Drama Awards". July 20, 2017. Archived from the original on December 30, 2023. Retrieved December 30, 2023.