Kang Soo-youn was a South Korean actress who died on May 7, 2022.
She was the first Korean to receive a prize at the Venice International Film Festival.
Kang took almost a decade off from acting after winning the independent short Jury in 2012, however she did serve as co-executive director of the Busan International Film Festival from 2015 to 2017, according to The Korea Times.
She died at the age of 55.
Kang Soo-youn net worth at the time of death
She was worth 1 million dollars when she passed.
Kang experienced a heart attack at her home in Seoul.
The actress was brought to a local hospital and died two days later of a brain hemorrhage at a hospital in southern Seoul, according to The Korea Herald.
Kang, who was born in 1966, began acting at the age of four and went on to star in a string of hit films in the 1980s and 1990s that catapulted her to international stardom. Her performance in The Surrogate Womb in 1987 earned her the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival.
She collaborated with Womb director Im Kwon-taek in 1989.
Jung E, a dystopian South Korean sci-fi thriller helmed by Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-ho, will premiere on Netflix later this year.
Other films in which she has appeared include 3 Stars, Hanji, The Road to Race Track, Blue in You, and Girl’s Night Out.
Her funeral will be placed on Wednesday, and her memorial shrine will be held at the Samsung Medical Center in Seoul.
