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Yang Dong-geun

South Korean actor and hip-hop artist

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Mantis

2025 · as Gwang-cheon / Bi-cheon

Squid Game: Making Season 2

2025 · as Self

The Manipulated

2025 · as Yeo Deok-su

Connect

2022 · as Z

Yaksha: Ruthless Operations

2022 · as Hong

Squid Game

2021 · as Park Yong-sik / Player 007

Fighter in the Wind

2004 · as Choi Bae-dal

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Yang Dong-geun, also known as YDG, is a South Korean actor and rapper. He started his career as a child actor, drawing attention for his roles in the television shows Seoul Ttukbaegi (1990) and Hyung (1991). He began releasing music as a rapper in 2001, establishing himself as a star of Korean hip-hop. Yang continued acting, gaining popularity for his roles in the television shows New Nonstop (2002) and Ruler of Your Own World (2002). He is best known outside of South Korea for playing Park Yong-sik in the second season of Squid Game (2024).

Occupation: actor, rapper, singer, songwriter
Citizenship: South Korea
Born: June 1, 1979

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Yang Dong-geun (; born June 1, 1979) or YDG is a South Korean actor, rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, and breakdancer. Yang majored in Theatrical Performance at Yong-In University. Biography Yang enlisted for mandatory military service in May 2008 for 21 months of active duty. During which time he starred in military musical, Mine with Kangta. It is about the true life story of Lieutenant Lee Jong-myung, who lost his legs in a land mine explosion near the demilitarized zone, in June 2000, when he saved fellow soldier, Sul Dong-seob from the minefield. Yang and his wife Park Ga-ram have two sons and a daughter. Their daughter Joy has appeared on The Return of Superman along with the daughters of actors In Gyo-jin and Oh Ji-ho. Career His comeback project after being discharged from the military was in film Grand Prix with Kim Tae-hee. He was cast as male lead Lee Woo-suk after Lee Joon-gi had to pull out when the Military Manpower Administration declined his application to postpone enlistment for military service. He joined as a member of KBS variety show The Return of Superman with his daughter Yang Joy in 2016.

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