Seo Hyun-woo

Seo Hyun-woo (서현우) built his reputation the long way, through theater, independent films, and years of grinding before the camera started finding him at the right scale. That route shaped the work. He plays unstable intelligence unusually well, turning anxious, funny, or dangerous in the same beat without flattening the character into a stock villain or a quirky side piece.

Mainstream recognition followed once projects like Flower of Evil, Park Chan-wook's Decision to Leave, and A Shop for Killers pushed him into wider circulation. Since then, he has become one of the Korean industry’s most reliable tension-raisers, the actor you cast when a scene needs friction and credibility instead of empty noise. That trajectory continues into 2026 with Honor on ENA and Lotto 1st Place Goes to Work Too on TVING.

Seo is represented by Just Entertainment, whose official profile also maps the depth of his film work from A Taxi Driver through 84 Square Meters. On HITKULTR, the key to his page is range: prestige cinema, darker streaming thrillers, and a craft level strong enough to keep making second-line roles feel like they belong at the center.