Lee Kwang-soo

Lee Kwang-soo (이광수, born July 14, 1985, Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi Province) is a South Korean actor and model whose career arcs from fashion runway to variety television to lead-serious drama in a way that defies easy categorization. At 192cm, he started in the fashion industry before transitioning to acting in 2008 with the sitcom Here He Comes. But it was Running Man, which he joined at the show launch in 2010, that built his audience. Over eleven years as the self-deprecating underdog, he became one of the most recognizable variety personalities in Korea and earned the nickname Prince of Asia across Southeast Asian markets. He departed the show in May 2021 to shift his focus back to drama.

The post-Running Man chapter has been driven by deliberate genre pivots. Live (2018), a gritty police procedural, and It Okay That Is Love (2014) had already demonstrated his range, but it was Inseparable Bros (2019) -- a film about two adult men with disabilities navigating the system -- that earned him the most significant critical recognition outside variety. In 2024, he appeared in the U+ Mobile TV thriller No Way Out: The Roulette. In November 2025, Lee headlined the Disney+ action series The Manipulated as Baek Do-kyung, one of the most-watched Korean streaming releases on the platform that quarter. He also starred in Netflix crime thriller Karma (2025) as Han Sang-hun and appeared in the tvN series The Divorce Insurance (2025). Gold Land (Disney+, 2026), a Park Bo-young-led crime thriller, adds a further layer to a filmography that has been moving steadily toward prestige drama.

Lee Kwang-soo is managed by King Kong by Starship.