In 1978, the year he turned 21, he made his debut in the film Yeosu and played the lead. In 1985, he won Best New Actor at the Korea Theater, Film and TV Arts Awards, the forerunner of the Baeksang Arts Awards, for The Stranger.
The breakthrough yearThe year he turned 29, he played Min-woo, a medical student, in the film Winter Wanderer. MHN Sports says the film made his name known to the public.
In 1990, he married. In 2000, he played Jang Jin-gu in the MBC drama Ajumma. In 2003, he appeared in the drama Sharp. In 2004, he was in The Age of Heroes. In 2009, he appeared in Smile, You.
In 2011, as co-host of Women’s Era, he won the Top Excellence Award in radio at the MBC Entertainment Awards. In 2015, he appeared on Take Care of My Dad, and after leaving Women’s Era, which he had hosted for 8 years and 5 months, he became the DJ of CBS Music FM’s Areumdaun Dangsinege.
In 2017, he appeared in KBS2’s My Father Is Strange. In 2019, he was in the KBS1 daily drama Home for Summer. In 2020, he appeared on Baekban Gihaeng.
The year he turned 67, he played Father Baek in the Netflix series Goodbye Earth. In 2025, he was cast in MBC’s In Your Radiant Season. In 2026, he appeared with Lee Mi-sook in In Your Radiant Season, 40 years after Winter Wanderer, and in October he became a chair professor at his alma mater, Dongguk University’s College of the Arts.
Kang Seok-woo (born 1957) debuted in 1978, the year he turned 21, in the film Yeosu, and became known for playing Min-woo in the film Winter Wanderer in 1986, the year he turned 29.
Ages are by calendar year (the year minus the birth year), birthdays aside.