Look up Kang or kang in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Kang may refer to:

Places[link]

• Kang, Afghanistan
• Kang, Botswana
• Kang County, Gansu, China

People[link]

Royalty[link]

• King Kang of Zhou (reigned 1020-996 BC or 1005-978 BC), third sovereign of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty
• Tai Kang (reigned 2117–2088 BC), third sovereign of the Xia Dynasty

Surname[link]

• Kang (Chinese name), a Chinese surname 康. original surname "Kang" from Wei (state) of Zhou Dynasty
• Kang (Korean name), a common Korean surname
  • 姜, Jiang or Chiang in Mandarin, Geung or Jeung in Cantonese-Minnan
  • 江, Jiang in Mandarin, Gong in Cantonese, Gang in Korean-middle Chinese
  • 强, Jiang in Mandarin, Geung in Cantonese
  • 剛, Kang or Gang in Mandarin-Korean, Gong in Cantonese
  • 康, Kang or Gang in Mandarin-Korean, Hong in Cantonese
  • 彊, Qiang or Jiang in Mandarin, Geung in Cantonese
  • 岡, Kang or Gang in Korean-Mandarin, Gong in Cantonese
• Kang clan, a surname from the Jat community.
• Kang Chol-Hwan (born 1968), defector from North Korea
• Kang Kek Iew (born 1942), former leader of the Cambodian Khmer Rouge, convicted of crimes against humanity
• Kang Chul (born 1971), South Korean coach and former footballer
• Kang Min-Soo (born 1986), South Korean footballer
• Kang Sheng (1898–1975), high ranking official in the People's Republic of China
• Kang Soo-yeon (born 1966), South Korean actress
• Kang Tongbi (1887–1969), social activist from the early Republic of China period, Kang Youwei's daughter
• Kang Youwei (1858–1927), reformist political figure from the late Qing dynasty
• Darshan Kang, Canadian politician
• Eugene Kang (born 1984), Special Projects Coordinator and Confidential Assistant to U.S. President Barack Obama
• Sung Kang (born 1972), American actor
• Tim Kang (born 1973), American actor
• Younghill Kang (1903–1972), Asian American writer

Given name[link]

• Feng Kang (1920–1993), Chinese mathematician and scientist
• Gongsun Kang (died 221), general of the Kingdom of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of China
• Lu Kang (226–274), advisor and general for Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms era

Characters[link]

• Kang and Kodos, green one-eyed aliens in The Simpsons
• Kang the Conqueror, a Marvel Comics supervillain
• Kang (Star Trek), a Klingon warrior in Star Trek television series
• Liu Kang, a character in the Mortal Kombat series
• Meng Kang, a character in the Water Margin
• Kang the Mad, a character in Jade Empire 2005 video game
• Kang Tongbi or Widow Kang, a character in The Years of Rice and Salt 2002 counterfactual novel
• Suzie Kang, an object-tracker in The Lost Room mini-series
• The Kangs, two warring gangs in the "Paradise Towers" 1987 Doctor Who episode

Other[link]

• Kang bed-stove
• KANG-CA, a low-power television station licensed to San Angelo, Texas, United States
• Käng - A name given to a particular style of hardcore punk, especially from Sweden
• Kang - A term used for stealing others intellectual property and claiming it as your own. (i.e. When a developer uses another developer's work, and then publishes the end product as their own.)
• Kang (game) - Game played by the indigenous people of the state of Manipur, India

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Sung Kang
Sung Kang at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival
Born	(1972-04-08) April 8, 1972 (age 40) Gainesville, Georgia, US
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2001 – present
Korean name
Hangul	강성호
Hanja	姜成鎬
Revised Romanization	Gang Seongho
McCune–Reischauer	Kang Sŏngho

Sung Kang (Korean: Kang Sung-Ho; Hangul: 강성호; born April 8, 1972) is an American actor, known for his role as Han Seoul-Oh in the films Better Luck Tomorrow, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious, and Fast Five.

Life and career[link]

Kang was born in Gainesville, Georgia, to immigrants from South Korea.^[1] His first major role was that of Han Seoul-Oh from Better Luck Tomorrow, in which he played an aloof gang member. He reprised his role as Han in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious, and Fast Five. He was one of the stars in The Motel, in which he played Sam Kim. He also had a role in Jet Li's film War playing an FBI agent, and was featured as a son of Genghis Khan, Doran, in the movie Forbidden Warrior. On MADtv, Sung has played the recurring role of the narcissistic President Gin Kew Yun Chun Yew Nee in the Korean drama parody, "Tae Do (Attitudes and Feelings, Both Desirable and Sometimes Secretive)." Kang also had a small role in the action movie Live Free or Die Hard.

Kang is featured in the music video "Lie" for the Korean band g.o.d..

He owns a restaurant called Saketini in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California.^[2]

Kang says that before he was cast as Han in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift he was unaware of the drifting subculture that exists in Japan. It wasn't until he began researching for the part that he learned what a popular sport drifting is all over the world.^[3]

As an American actor, Kang says one of his biggest dislikes about Hollywood are the stereotypes that East Asian actors face when being cast in a role.^[3]

Filmography[link]

Sung Kang (2004)

• Pearl Harbor (2001)
• Better Luck Tomorrow (2002) (Also Associate Producer)
• Spin City (2002)
• Antwone Fisher (2002)
• The Shield (2003)
• Forbidden Warrior (2004)
• Threat Matrix (2004)
• Cold Case (2004)
• The Motel (2005)
• Monk (2005)
• The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
• Undoing (2006)
• Standoff (2006)
• CSI: Miami (2006)
• War (2007)
• Live Free or Die Hard (2007) (FBI Central)
• Undoing (2007) (Producer)
• Samurai Girl (2008)
• Knight Rider (2008)
• CSI (2008)
• Fast & Furious (2009)
• Ninja Assassin (2009)
• Helium (2009)
• Clap Clap (Film 2010)
• Fast Five (2011)
• Knots (2011)
• Bullet to the Head (2012)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Sung Kang

• Sung Kang's Website
• Sung Kang at the Internet Movie Database
• UCLA Asia Pacific Arts Interview
• Back Stage Interview

Vin Diesel
Diesel at a premiere for Fast & Furious in March 2009
Born	Mark Sinclair Vincent (1967-07-18) July 18, 1967 (age 44) New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, director, producer, screenwriter
Years active	1990–present
Partner	Paloma Jimenez
Website
VinDiesel.com

Vin Diesel (born Mark Sinclair Vincent; July 18, 1967) is an American actor, writer, director and producer. He became known in the early 2000s, appearing in several successful Hollywood films, including The Fast and the Furious and xXx. He founded the production companies One Race Films, Tigon Studios and Racetrack Records.

Early life[link]

Vin Diesel was born in New York City, the son of Delora, a psychiatrist and astrologer.^[1][2] Diesel has white and black ancestry.^[3][4] He has described himself as "definitely a person of color"^[5] and stated that he is "of ambiguous ethnicity – Italian and a lot of other stuff."^[6] Diesel has never met his biological father, and was raised by his African-American stepfather, Irving, an acting instructor and theatre manager.^[1][5] He made his stage debut at age seven when he appeared in the children's play Dinosaur Door, written by Barbara Garson. The play was produced at Theater for the New City in New York's Greenwich Village. His involvement in the play came about when he, his brother, and some friends had broken into Theater for the New City's space on Jane Street with the intent to vandalize it. They were confronted by the theater's artistic director, Crystal Field, who, instead of calling the police, handed them scripts and offered them parts in the upcoming show.^[7] He remained involved with the theatre throughout adolescence, going on to attend the city's Hunter College, where his creative writing studies led him to begin screenwriting. Diesel became an active film-maker in the early 1990s, first earning notice for the short film Multi-Facial, which was selected for screening at the 1995 Cannes Festival. Diesel has identified himself as a "multi-faceted" actor^[8] as a result of early difficulties finding roles due to his mixed heritage.^[8][9]

In an interview on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, he said that he changed his name to "Vin Diesel" while working as a bouncer at the New York City nightclub Tunnel, because in that business one's real name is not usually given out. The name "Vin" is simply a shortened version of "Vincent". He received the nickname "Diesel" from his friends who said he ran off diesel fuel, referring to his non-stop energy.

He has a twin brother, Paul, a younger brother, Tim, and a sister, Samantha.^{[citation needed]}

Career[link]

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Diesel in Munich, April 2005

Diesel's first film role was a brief uncredited appearance in the 1990 film Awakenings. He then produced, directed, and starred in the 1994 short film Multi-Facial, a short semi-autobiographical film which follows a struggling actor stuck in the audition process, because he is regarded as either "too black" or "too white", or not black or white enough. He made his first feature-length film, 1997's Strays, an urban drama in which he was self-cast as a gang boss whose love for a woman inspires him to try to change his ways. Written, directed and produced by Diesel, the film was selected for competition at the 1997 Sundance Festival, leading to an MTV deal to turn it into a series.

He was then cast in Steven Spielberg's 1998 Oscar-winning film Saving Private Ryan on the poignancy of his performance in Multi-Facial. In 1999 he earned critical acclaim for his voice work as the title character in the animation film The Iron Giant. He followed it up with a major role in the business drama Boiler Room (2000) and then got his breakthrough role as the anti-hero Riddick in the science-fiction film Pitch Black (2000). He attained action hero super stardom with the box office hits, the street racing action film The Fast and the Furious (2001), starring opposite Paul Walker, and the action thriller xXx (2002).

In 2004, he reprised his role as Pitch Black's Riddick in The Chronicles of Riddick which was a box office failure considering the large budget. In 2005 he played a lighthearted role in the comedy film The Pacifier, which became a box office success. In 2006 he chose a dramatic role playing real-life mobster Jack DiNorscio in Find Me Guilty. Although he received critical acclaim for his performance, the film did poorly at the box office. Later that year he made a cameo appearance in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, reprising his role from The Fast and The Furious. Diesel was originally offered the lead in 2 Fast 2 Furious but turned it down. He was also offered the chance to reprise his role from xXx in xXx: State of the Union but turned it down as well.

In 2007, he was set to produce and star as Agent 47 in the film adaptation of the video game Hitman, but eventually pulled back and served as executive producer on the film instead. In 2008 he starred in the science-fiction action thriller Babylon A.D..

He returned to the The Fast and The Furious series, alongside all the actors from the original 2001 film, in Fast & Furious, which released in April 2009. In 2011, he once again returned, for the fifth film in the series, titled Fast Five. He is is currently filming the third installment in the Riddick series titled The Chronicles of Riddick: Dead Man Stalking which is in post-production as of April 2012 and set for release in 2013.

Personal life[link]

Diesel is noted for his recognizable deep voice; he has said that his voice broke at around age 15, giving him a mature sounding voice on the telephone.^[10]

Around 2001, Diesel dated his The Fast and the Furious co-star, Michelle Rodriguez.^[11]

Diesel has expressed his love for the Dominican Republic, and how he relates to its multicultural facets.^[12] He is also acquainted with President Leonel Fernandez, and has since appeared in one of his earlier campaign ads. Los Bandoleros, a short film directed by Diesel, was also filmed in the Dominican Republic.^[13]

Diesel claims that he prefers dating in Europe, where he is less likely to be recognized and where celebrities are not romantically linked to each other. He prefers to maintain his privacy regarding his personal life:^[14]

Diesel has played Dungeons & Dragons for over twenty years^[15] and wrote the foreword for the commemorative book 30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of Dungeons & Dragons. In the 30th Anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons issue of Dragon Magazine, they examine the fact that Diesel played Dungeons & Dragons, and reveal that he had a fake tattoo of his character's name, "Melkor," on his stomach while filming xXx.

Diesel has a daughter, Hania Riley, born April 2, 2008, with his girlfriend, model Paloma Jimenez.^[16][17] Speaking to An tEolas, an Irish newspaper, Diesel stated he has been seen as a hard man, but is in touch with his soft side as a father.^[18]

Filmography[link]

Actor[link]

Producer[link]

Director and writer[link]

Games[link]

1. The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (2004)
2. The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (2009)
3. Wheelman (2009)

Video game roles[link]

• Need for Speed: Most Wanted (Black Edition) - Rog

References[link]

External links[link]

• Vin Diesel at the Internet Movie Database
• Vin Diesel at the Open Directory Project

Kang Min
Kang Min in the MSL
Korean name
Hangul	강민
Hanja	姜旼
Revised Romanization	Gang Min
McCune–Reischauer	Kang Min

Kang Min (강민) a.k.a. Nal_rA (born March 15, 1982) is a former professional South Korean StarCraft player (Protoss, KTF MagicNs).

Kang Min had relatively long career in starcraft, spanning victories in both major leagues and seeing his team to a 23 game winning streak. On 11 September 2008, Kang Min declared that he would retire from progaming. He felt that he was not able to meet the expectations of his fans regarding his performance in professional StarCraft games and that he intends to be a professional StarCraft commentator in the future. He has since announced his intention to cease commenting on MBCGame and take up a career in teaching pro-gaming related courses at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. [1]

Kang Min sometimes uses the aliases ArChonCap, 119clan, Ha. T, km0315, O_Oi, Great05, canoppy, KissofFire, 5dronegg, Shootingstorm and mO.Oy.

He is one of the few pro-gamers who still uses a ball mouse, and is often seen cleaning it before televised matches; his keyboard is the Samsung DT-35 Black.

During a live match, he suddenly asked the game observers to pause the game. The problem with Kang Min was that he had to blow his nose and asked for a tissue. Not surprisingly, the commentators laughed out loud because of this incident. Ever since that incident, he has been affectionately known as 'Snot Toss'.

Kang Min was disqualified during a match in SKY Proleague 05-06. He accidentally paused the game in an attempt to change the volume. The referees deemed this as a disqualification.

Achievements[link]

Kang Min's first appearance in a major tournament was the PGR21 tournament where he met very strong opponents and made his way to the final, but lost to Seo Ji Hun (Xellos[yG]. However then Kang Min participated in the same tournament once again and beat Seo Ji Hun. Another success followed at the end of 2002, where Kang Min qualified for Olympus Challenge League. He showed great skill and reached the finals, but lost again to his great rival, Kingdom. After that he showed some magnificent performance in the MBC StarLeague, winning it and beating Lee Yun-Yeol ([Red]Nada) in the finals. Later he showed master class again, reaching the finals, where he met Jeon Tae Kyu (Zeus). Kang Min reached 2nd place in Korea Pro Game Association rating in April 2004. In February 2006, Kang Min became the winner of the Blizzard Entertainment World Wide Invitational ("WWI") tournament. In July 2006, He became a winner of the 2nd prize in the MBC StarLeague.

One of his most memorable matches ever seen on TV was the 'Arbiter Reloaded' play where he was playing against the Terran player GoodFriend and used Arbiter Hallucinations in order to successfully use it's recall ability . The match was ranked number 1 in MBCGame's top 100 matches.

See also[link]

• Contemporary culture of South Korea
• List of Korea-related topics

External links[link]

• TeamLiquid profile
• Nal_rA's match history from the GosuBet
• Nal_rA's match replays (duel and teamplay)
• Fan site
• An interview with Nal_rA as the champion of WWI
• Interview with Kang Min
• Disqualification due to accidental pause