Park Hae-soo

Birthday: 1981-11-21
Birthplace: Suwon, Gyeonggi, South Korea
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

Park Hae-soo (born November 21, 1981) is a South Korean actor. He is best known worldwide for portraying Cho Sang-woo in the first season of the Netflix hit series Squid Game (2021), which earned him a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

Park started his career in theater and has played a large number of leading and supporting roles in plays and musicals. He subsequently expanded his career into film and television and achieved his breakthrough with Prison Playbook (2017–2018), one of the highest-rated Korean dramas on cable television. He is also known for his frequent collaborations with Netflix, including Narco-Saints (2022), Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area (2022), Karma (2025), The Price of Confession (2025), and The Great Flood (2025).

Credits

Year Title Character
Gulf of Aden
2025-10-16 Tristes Tropiques Jang
2025-09-19 The Cherry Orchard
2025-09-18 The Great Flood Son Hee-jo
2025-09-05 Good News Ryeo Dol-chan
2025-04-02 Lobby Golf field owner
2023-01-18 Phantom Kaito Takahara
2022-04-08 Yaksha: Ruthless Operations Han Ji-hoon
2020-02-22 Time to Hunt Han
2019-09-25 By Quantum Physics: A Nightlife Venture Lee Chan-woo
2016-12-21 Master President Jin's Pawns
2015-06-24 The Unfair Jo Goo-hwan's assistant
2014-08-06 The Pirates Hwang Joong-geun