Sol Kyung-gu

Sol Kyung-gu is best known for his roles in the film series Public Enemy, Peppermint Candy, Oasis, Silmido, Hope, and The Merciless. Sol began taking on minor roles in feature films in the mid-1990s, but it wasn't until 1999 that he made his breakthrough, with major roles in The Bird That Stops in the Air, Rainbow Trout, and Peppermint Candy, in which he played a suicidal man devastated by his country's two-decades of historical change. The film was well-received, and Sol received his first Best Actor award at the Blue Dragon Film Awards in 2000.

He won Best Actor at the Grand Bell and Blue Dragon Film Awards for his role as a violent and unscrupulous police detective in Public Enemy. He also appeared in Lee Chang-critically dong's acclaimed third film, Oasis, for which he received the Silver Lion for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival. Sol won Best Actor for his portrayal of a mildly mentally disabled outcast with sociopathic tendencies at the Chunsa Film Art Awards, Korean Association of Film Critics Awards, Korean Film Awards, Director's Cut Awards, the 29th Seattle International Film Festival, and many other awards after that.