Ryu Kyung-soo (Ryu Kyung-soo) is a South Korean actor born on October 12, 1992, in Cheongsong, North Gyeongsang Province. A graduate of the theater department at Chung-Ang University, he began his career in the early 2010s and has gradually built a filmography that combines independent films, commercial productions, and television series.
After several small roles, he began to gain more attention in 2019 in the series Confession, in which he plays Han Jong-goo, and then especially in 2020 thanks to Itaewon Class. In it, he plays Choi Seung-kwon, a former gangster who now works at the DanBam restaurant and is close friends with Park Sae-ro-yi. That same year, he played one of the leading roles in Lovestruck in the City in the role of Kang Geon.
He went on to star in several Netflix productions, including Hellbound (2021), in which he plays an influential religious figure, and then Glitch (2022). In 2023, he landed one of his most memorable roles in Tale of the Nine-Tailed 1938, in which he plays Cheon Mu-yeong, a former mountain god connected to Lee Yeon’s past.
On the big screen, Ryu Kyung-soo appears in A Resistance (2019), The Divine Fury (2019), The Call (2020), Hostage: Missing Celebrity (2021) and Broker (2022). He also plays a leading role in the Netflix science fiction film Jung_E (2023). In 2025, he starred in, among other films, Yadang: The Snitch, Noise and Homeward Bound.
On television, he continues his rise to fame with The Bequeathed in 2024, and then Our Unwritten Seoul in 2025, in which he plays Han Se-jin alongside Park Bo-young and Park Jin-young. In 2026, he appears in the second season of Bloodhounds as Detective Choi Gyeong-won. His announced projects also include The Dealer, in which he is set to play the lead role of Choi Woo-seung, as well as The Congressman Extends My Condolences.
