Korean movie star Kang Soo-youn dies at 55 after suffering cardiac arrest


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A portrait of Korean movie star Kang Soo-youn at a funeral parlor at Samsung Medical Center in Seoul. Photo: BIFF

Kang Soo-youn, the Korean movie star who brought home the nation’s first acting award from the Venice film festival, died on Saturday (May 7) at the age of 55.

Kang died of a cerebral hemorrhage at 3PM at a hospital in southern Seoul, her family said.

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