Illustrated portrait of Park So-damFLM.RED

PARK
SO-DAM

พัค โซดัม

From independent films to Parasite

The South Korean actress who played Ki-jung in Parasite.

South Korea

A career built across different roles

Park So-dam is a South Korean actress born on 8 September 1991. She studied at Korea National University of Arts and began her career in independent films.

Her early screen work included Steel Cold Winter. In 2015, performances in The Silenced and The Priests drew critical attention in South Korea.

In Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite (2019), Park plays Ki-jung, the resourceful daughter of the Kim family. Her character assumes the identity of an art therapist called Jessica.

Park shared the Screen Actors Guild award for outstanding cast with the Parasite ensemble. The film also introduced her work to a much wider international audience.

She later appeared in the television drama Record of Youth. The credits linked below are drawn from the FLM.RED catalogue and do not represent her complete filmography.

Selected performances

2013

Steel Cold Winter

Appears in the independent film.

2015

The Priests

Appears in the supernatural thriller.

2019

Parasite

Plays Ki-jung.

2020

Record of Youth

Appears in the television drama.

Performance readings are FLM.RED editorial interpretation.

Films in FLM.RED

Titles in this collection; not a complete filmography.

Sources & image notes

Portrait illustration: FLM.RED.