
Acting
February 21, 1954 (71 years old)
Seoul, South Korea
Also Known As
Chang-wan Kim
김창완
Kim Chang Wan
Kim Chang Wan is a South Korean rock singer, composer, musician, actor, TV host, radio DJ, writer, and poet. Kim, along with his younger brothers Kim Chang Hoon and Kim Chang Ik, began composing music during their mid-teens and formed the band "Mui" when they were college students.
After Kim graduated in 1975 from Seoul National University, they went professional and changed their band's name to Sanulrim (meaning "Mountain Echo"). The band's psychedelic rock/hard rock sound (reminiscent of the Sex Pistols) was music Koreans hadn't heard before, and Sanulrim revitalized the Korean music scene, which was currently devastated after several major musicians were arrested for marijuana possession in the 1970s.
They held a 30th-anniversary concert in 2007 and made plans to release the 14th album. But drummer Kim Chang Ik was killed in a traffic accident in Vancouver, Canada on January 29th, 2008, and Sanulrim disbanded after his death.
Having worked as a music director and film score composer in the early 1990s, Kim also began acting onscreen. He did not only starred in movies such as Blades of Blood, Antique Bakery, Shinsukki Blues, Windstruck, and My Love Ssagajy but also in roughly 30 television shows.
The versatile Kim has also starred in a stage play (A Nap in 2010), hosted variety shows and radio programs, and written several books (some containing poetry).

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2024

Tiny Desk Korea
2023
as Self

The Real Has Come!
2023
as Jang Ho

The Seasons
2023
as Self

Bad Prosecutor
2022
as Seo Hyun-gyu

Why Her?
2022
as Baek Jin Ki [Seojung University Law School director]

One the Woman
2021
as No Hak-tae

SNL Korea
2021
as Self - Musical Guest

Genesis
2021
as Woo Ki Suk [Doctor]

Oh! Master
2021
as Kim Chang Gyu

Awaken
2020
as Gong Il-do

It's Okay to Not Be Okay
2020
as Oh Ji-wang

Find Me in Your Memory
2020
as Yoo Sung Hyuk

Money Game
2020
as Kim Man Young [Managing Partner of Young & Soo]

One Spring Night
2019
as Kwon Young-kook

My Healing Love
2018
as Park Boo-han

Something in the Rain
2018
as Jun-hui's father

Jugglers
2017
as Do Tae-Geun

20th Century Boy and Girl
2017
as Sa Chang-wan

Whisper
2017
as Lee Ho-Beom