'Parasite' star Song Kang-ho wins best actor prize in Cannes


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Song Kang-ho wins the Best Actor award for his role in the film 'Broker'. Photo: Reuters

South Korea's Song Kang-ho clinched the best actor prize in Cannes on Saturday (May 28) for his role in Broker about a woman dropping off an unwanted child in a "baby box" for adoption.

Song, who also starred in the Oscar- and Cannes-winning Parasite, plays a good-hearted "broker" trying to sell the infant to a loving family. It is Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda's first Korean-language feature.

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