After almost two years, the Korean superstar is back with a new mind-boggling weekend series, 'Reborn Rich'. Get to know more about this actor through his shows and movies through the years
Having played a diverse spectrum of roles onscreen, South Korean actor Song Joong-ki has been delighting viewers since 2010 when he rose to fame as Gu Yong-ha in the historical coming-of-age drama Sungkyunkwan Scandal in 2010 and as one of the original cast members of the variety show Running Man in the same year until 2011. But his biggest break came in 2016 when he starred as the male lead in the 52nd Baeksang Arts Awards Grand Prize for TV winner, Descendants of the Sun. In 2021, this 35-year-old actor returned with the tvN and Netflix television drama, Vincenzo—the 15th highest-rated drama in Korean cable television history to date. Almost two years later, Song Joong-ki is back with another promising revenge drama titled, Reborn Rich. With double-digit ratings on its first week alone, fans are eager to know how the 16-episode story will pan out.
Last year, the actor has also finished filming Bogota, a movie set in the Nineties about immigrants in this Colombian city--another film to watch out for.
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But more than the glitz and glamour of acting, Song has become popular for having a big heart. He's been helping children with cancer through the Korea Childhood Leukemia Foundation (KCLF) since 2011 and has anonymously helped more than 10 children receive treatments in the past years. He has also reportedly donated his pay generated from narrating the documentary Tears of the Antarctic for this worthy cause. Song has since made donations to KCLF annually.
While in military service in 2015, the actor donated 100 million won to the Unicef Korea Committee to help the victims of the April 2015 Nepal earthquake. The Korean heartthrob also donated to the House of Sharing in Gwangju, Gyeonggi, a shelter for elderly women who were forced into being comfort women by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War. In a report, it says "the actor was likely influenced while filming his movie The Battleship Island, a period action film about Korean workers under Japanese rule". Last year, Song reportedly donated 100 million won for Covid-19 prevention.
These philanthropies alone make this South Korean actor worth swooning over. Here, we list some of his drama shows and movies you can stream anytime.
1. Reborn Rich
The series with literal romanised title, The Youngest Son of a Chaebol Family, revolves around the revenge of a long-time employee named Yoon Hyun-woo (Song Joong-ki) who has spent his entire life serving the Sunyang Group. Despite his loyalty, he was betrayed and murdered by the eldest grandson of the conglomerate and later reincarnated, not in the future but in the past, specifically in the year 1987 as Jin Do-joon, the youngest grandson of Sunyang Group. Jin Do-joon has mysteriously disappeared in an "accident" in the present era. Realising how his fate turned 360-degree, Jin Do-joon uses these circumstances to his advantage, ingeniously plotting his revenge and takeover Sunyang Group.
In the Philippines, Reborn Rich streams on Viu.
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