Kim Dong-won

Kim Dong-won (김동원, born 17 October 1998) is a South Korean actor with seven credits across four years, among them the Boys’ Love series A Shoulder to Cry On in 2023 and Check In to You in 2026.

He first appears in A Shoulder to Cry On (소년을 위로해줘) in March 2023, the seven-episode adaptation of the manhwa of the same name, which ran across wavve, TVING and watcha. He plays Kwon Min-jung. Later that year he joined the teen drama Snap and Spark (손가락만 까딱하면), an eight-episode series set at an arts high school, produced by Whynot Media and released from December 2023 into January 2024.

He then worked in drama and film. He also appeared in Love Psychedelic (러브 사이키델릭). In March 2025 he took two film roles: Hojo (호조), a 118-minute musical set during the Japanese occupation and built around a real historical figure, released on 12 March, and Human Electricity Generation (인간발전), released on 28 March. For me the two films, released sixteen days apart, are the tightest stretch of his list.

In 2026 he appeared from 8 May as himself, as a contestant, on The Scout (더 스카웃: 다시 태어나는 별), an ENA music talent search. On 21 May Check In to You (너에게 체크인) premiered, and he plays Yoon Ji-oh in all six episodes. It is a body-swap romantic comedy set in a seaside guesthouse, where a cold executive and a romantic manager are thrown into each other’s lives by an accident, directed and written by Kim Taewook and produced by Matchbox, BEARS MEDIA, Generation Blue Films and STRONGBERRY.