Ko Kyung-pyo was born in 1990 in Incheon, South Korea. He has an older sister.[3] His name uses the charactersKyeong (庚) andPyo (杓). His parents run a buckwheat noodle (makguksu) restaurant in Incheon. He attended an all-boys middle school and high school. In his second year of middle school, he was scouted by an agent while on the street but did not enter the entertainment industry at the time. Instead, he began attending an acting academy in his second year of high school.[2][4]
While attending the Film Department atKonkuk University, he made films with classmates including the short filmGood Kyung-soo, that won him the Best Actor Award during the university's film festival.[2] He passed an audition arranged byYG Entertainment and trained as an actor for more than a year while at university. However, he left YG when the film he was set to star in,70 Days (Into the Fire), was canceled.[5]
In 2010, Ko initially planned to complete his mandatory military service but postponed it after passing an open audition for a drama. He then portrayed Bong Il-tae in the dramaJungle Fish 2 (2010), marking his debut as an actor while at university.[5][6] He became a cast member of the live sketch comedy showSaturday Night Live Korea for its first three seasons from 2011 to 2012.[7][8][9][10] He then featured in the sitcomStandby (2012).[11]
His role as the clumsy student teacher Ko Byeong-sin in a segment titled "Escape" of the filmHorror Stories 2 (2013) caught the attention of director Kim Byung-wook who gave him a leading role in the sitcomPotato Star 2013QR3 (2013). He gained recognition for his friendly image and resemblance toOlaf, the snowman from theFrozen film franchise.[6] He then featured in dramasMy Cute Guys (2013) andNaeil's Cantabile (2014).[12][13]
Ko gained wider recognition with his roles inReply 1988 (2015) as the dutiful son and friend Sung Sun-woo.[14][15] In January, Ko and the rest of the casts and crews went to vacation in Phuket, Thailand, which was organized by theReply 1988 production crew as a reward for the success of the drama. There, Ko and other three other cast members were "kidnapped" by directorNa Young-seok. He brought them to Namibia in southern Africa for his travel show overYouth Over Flowers[16] where the filmed in Africa for 10 days.[17]
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