1. Kang Ji-hwan was born on Jo Tae-gyu; March 20,1977 and is a South Korean former actor.
20 Facts About Kang Ji-hwan
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From 2003 to 2004, using the stage name Kang Ji-hwan, he began appearing in small roles on television, which included the sitcom Nonstop 4 and the Korean dramas Summer Scent and Save the Last Dance for Me.
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Kang Ji-hwan then made his big screen debut in the role of a Jehovah's Witness who befriends an unemployed professor in the independent film Host and Guest, which traveled the international film festival circuit.
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Kang Ji-hwan continued acting on television but his 2006 dramas Fireworks, about two cosmetics firm employees who plot revenge against their exes, and 90 Days, Time to Love, about a terminally ill married man who's in love with his cousin, received low viewership ratings.
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Kang Ji-hwan was cast as the titular Joseon folk hero in Hong Gil-dong, written by the Hong sisters.
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Kang Ji-hwan said his portrayal was inspired by Stephen Chow, and the fusion-period dramedy became a TV cult hit.
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Kang Ji-hwan then reunited with previous leading lady Kim Ha-neul in My Girlfriend Is an Agent, a 2009 action-romantic comedy in which their characters are former lovers and spies trying to conceal their professions from each other.
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In 2010, Kang Ji-hwan starred in romantic comedy series Coffee House, in which he played an eccentric novelist who is caught in a love triangle with his publisher and his assistant.
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Kang Ji-hwan produced the show's Korean and Japanese runs, and he starred in the latter, becoming the first Korean actor to perform at the Tokyo Globe Theatre.
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In 2013, Kang Ji-hwan starred in Incarnation of Money, in the role of a prosecutor with ties to a loan shark.
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Kang Ji-hwan was next cast in the Korean-Chinese romantic comedy A-lister Fall from the Sky, about a scandal-ridden Hallyu star who goes to China and encounters his biggest fan.
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Kang Ji-hwan reunited with Hong Gil-dong and Runaway Cop co-star Sung Yu-ri in revenge melodrama Monster, which aired in 2016.
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In 2018, Kang Ji-hwan starred in his first cable drama Children of a Lesser God, playing a genius detective.
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In 2010, Kang Ji-hwan was sued for breach of contract by his former talent agency Jambo Entertainment.
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Kang Ji-hwan had signed with S-Plus Entertainment after asking to be released from his contract with Jambo, which the latter claimed was still valid for eight months.
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S-Plus stated that of the six years that Kang Ji-hwan was with Jambo, he was without a contract for three years, and after receiving no response from their overtures regarding Jambo's "unfair terms," they took steps to legally terminate Kang Ji-hwan's contract.
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When Kang Ji-hwan refused and began entrusting his business affairs to his lawyer, S-Plus sued him for breach of contract.
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Kang Ji-hwan stated that he remembered drinking with them but did not remember what happened afterwards.
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On July 15,2019, Kang Ji-hwan admitted to all charges against him and apologized to the victims.
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On December 5,2019, Kang Ji-hwan was found guilty and sentenced to two years and six months imprisonment, suspended for three years of probation, by the Suwon District Court.