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Sung Kang
Sung Kang at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival
Born	April 8, 1972 (1972-04-08) (age 37) Gainesville, Georgia, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2001 – present

Sung Kang (Korean: Kang Sung-Ho; Hangul: 강성호, born April 8, 1972) is an American actor, known for his role in the films Fast & Furious, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and Better Luck Tomorrow.

Life and career

Kang was born in Gainesville, Georgia. His first major role was that of Han Lue from Better Luck Tomorrow in which he played an aloof gang member. He played the same character in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and Fast & Furious. He was one of the stars in The Motel, in which he played Sam Kim. He also had a role in Jet Li's film War playing an FBI agent, was seen in the movie Transformers as an executive officer tracking the Transformers' activities, and was featured as a son of Genghis Khan, Doran, in the movie Forbidden Warrior. He also played for a South Korean football team, the Suwon Blue Wings, as their international style goalkeeper performing numerous penalty saves within the last 5 minute of matches.

On MADtv, Sung has been playing the recurring role of the narcissistic President Gin Kew Yun Chun Yew Nee in the Korean drama parody, "Tae Do" or "Attitudes and Feelings, Both Desirable and Sometimes Secretive." Kang also had a small role in the action movie Live Free or Die Hard.

Kang is featured in a music video for popular Korean Band, g.o.d..

He owns a restaurant called Saketini in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California.^[1] It offers a wide range of Pacific Rim foods and has Eun San Yi as head chef.

Kang says that before he was cast as Han in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift he was unaware of the drifting subculture that exists in Japan. It wasn't until he began researching for the part that he learned what a popular sport drifting actually is all over the world.^[2]

As an American actor, Kang has said that one of the things he dislikes most about Hollywood is the stereotypes that East Asian actors are faced when being cast in a role.^[2]

Filmography

• Pearl Harbor (2001)
• Better Luck Tomorrow (2002) (Associate Producer)
• Spin City (2002)
• The Shield (2003)
• Forbidden Warrior (film) (2004)
• Threat Matrix (2004)
• Cold Case (2004)
• The Motel (2005)
• Monk (2005)
• The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
• Undoing (2006)
• Standoff (2006)
• CSI: Miami (2006)
• War (2007)
• Live Free or Die Hard (2007) (FBI Central)
• Undoing (2007) (Producer)
• Finishing the Game (2007)
• Samurai Girl (mini-series) (2008)
• Knight Rider (2008)
• CSI (2008)
• Fast & Furious (2009)
• Ninja Assassin (2009)
• Helium (2009)

References

External links

• Sung Kang's Website
• SUNG KANG - Official MySpace Site
• Sung Kang at the Internet Movie Database
• Sung Kang Interview on JumpBoxTV
• UCLA Asia Pacific Arts Interview
• Back Stage Interview
• Sung Kang's Restaurant