Kang Soo-yeon (Korean: 강수연; August 18, 1966 – May 7, 2022) was a South Korean actress. An internationally acclaimed star from the mid-1980s to the end of the 1990s, she is often honorifically nicknamed as Korea's "first world star". After collapsing from cerebral hemorrhage at her home in southern Seoul on May 5, she was transported to hospital and stayed in the ICU for recovery. She never awoke from the coma and died on May 7, 2022.