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Actor Kang Dong-won talked about the reason for joining YG Entertainment.

On his birthday on January 18, Kang Dong-won announced the new start at the new agency YG Entertainment. The reason for joining YG Entertainment was that the actor and YG's CEO Yang Hyun-suk shared future visiover

ns together through various personal meetings.

They shared the goal of going to the international market particularly in Asian market with fine contents of Korean movies. YG had put together a special team in charge of advancing Kang Dong-won's career to support the actor to go to overseas markets.

In a recent interview to promote his new film "A Violent Prosecutor", he said, "I made almost all decisions by myself over the past 16 years. It was hard to do many things all by myself. There will be many things to do over the next 10 years, and I felt like I would have a headache setting up an office now. I wanted to experience various things so I signed with YG Entainment."

He continued, "I want to learn many things because I don't know much about system of a big company. I think the period from now on is the most important period as an actor. I'm thinking to enter overseas markets as well. Since my debut, I've been thinking that Asian markets are important. I want to challenge now before it's too late. 

Kang Dong-won will come back to big screens with 'A Violent Prosecutor', which premieres on February 3.