Hwang Jeong-min Voted Actor of the Year

From left,Hwang Jeong-min,Song Kang-ho,Gong YooandHa Jeong-woo

ActorHwang Jeong-minwas voted the actor of the year, according to a recent poll by Gallup Korea.

The poll was conducted on 1,700 people aged 13 or older nationwide for three weeks from Nov. 4 to 25, and asked respondents to choose the two most outstanding actors of the year.

Hwang received 21.2 percent of the votes to top the list.

He appeared in three films this year, and made a lasting impression each time as a prosecutor in the crime comedy "A Violent Prosecutor", as a shaman in the thriller "The Wailing", and as a corrupt politician in"Asura: The City of Madness".

Song Kang-ho, who starred in"The Age of Shadows", ranked second with 18.4 percent, whileGong Yoocame in third with 12.7 percent,Ha Jeong-woofourth with 11.4 percent andYoo Hae-jinfifth with 10.8 percent.