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Intro Park Hae-soo (Korean: 박해수; born November 21, 1981) is a South Korean actor. He is best known worldwide for portraying Cho Sang-woo in the first season of the Netflix hit series Squid Game (2021), which earned him a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.Park started his career in theater and has played a large number of leading and supporting roles in plays and musicals. He subsequently expanded his career into film and television and achieved his breakthrough with Prison Playbook (2017–2018), one of the highest-rated Korean dramas on cable television. He is also known for his frequent collaborations with Netflix, including Time to Hunt (2020), Yaksha: Ruthless Operations (2022), and Narco-Saints (2022).[3][a]Park was born in Suwon, Gyeonggi, South Korea, on November 21, 1981. He got his first taste of acting when he joined the theater club at Bundang Jungang High School. With a dream of becoming a theater actor, Park enrolled in the Department of Theater and Film at Dankook University.[4] During this time, he also worked part-time jobs at sushi and barbeque restaurants and in concert venues.[5][6] After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts, Park enlisted for mandatory military service. He served in the 50th Infantry Division and worked as a teaching assistant in a recruit training center.[7][8]Park started out primarily as a stage actor and has been active in both plays and musicals since his debut in 2007.[9] In 2012, director Kim Jin-min saw a poster of Park for the musical Samcheon – Flower of Ruin and offered him a role in the television series God of War, which became Park's on-screen debut.[10] Over the next few years, he continued to play minor and supporting roles in film and television. In March 2016, after gaining attention with his supporting role in the historical drama Six Flying Dragons, Park signed with BH Entertainment.[11] In 2017, Park made a breakthrough in his career when he landed the lead ro