Kang Soo-yeon, Veteran Korean Actor, Dies at 55

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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefKang Soo-youn, a Korean actor who was a star of 1980s and 1990s film and TV, died on Saturday.

She was 55.She was admitted to hospital in Seoul on Thursday after reportedly suffering a heart attack and being found unconscious.

She died in hospital after a cerebral hemorrhage.Kang was a child star from the 1970s and appeared in multiple films and TV shows in the pre-modern era.After such a busy start, Kang was ready for a new direction in her career by her twenties.

She received it, age 21, when she earned the best actress prize at the 1987 Venice Film Festival for her role in Im Kwon-taek’s “The Surrogate Womb.” Two years later, she won the best actress award in Moscow for another Im title “Come, Come, Come Upward.” She held a prized place in Korean TV viewers’ affections with roles in coming-of-age drama “Diary of High School Student,” which ran on KBS from 1983 to 1986.While most of her best-known roles occurred before the industrialization of the Korean film industry in the 21st century, Kang took the title role in SBS historical drama series “Ladies of the Palace” in 2001.The Yonhap news agency reports that the show was the highest-rated TV series of that year.