According to a report from Yonhap News Agency on December 31, renowned Korean actor Ahn Sung-ki choked while having a meal on the 30th and was urgently hospitalized for emergency treatment. He is currently receiving intensive care in the ICU, and his condition is reported to be critical.

Public records show that Ahn Sung-ki was born on January 1, 1952, in Daegu, South Korea, and is a graduate of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. He is considered a national-level film actor in South Korea. Throughout his approximately 60-year acting career, he has appeared in around 140 works.

He first entered the film industry as a child actor in 1957 with the movie "Twilight Train." Subsequently, through works such as "Iron Men," "Village in the Mist," "Deep Blue Night," "The Age of Success," "Two Cops," "Stairway to Heaven," "The Eternal Empire," "Revivre," "Unbowed," and "The Divine Move," he has won the Best Actor award multiple times at the Baeksang Arts Awards, the Grand Bell Awards, and the Blue Dragon Film Awards.

In 2003, his film "Silmido" set a record with 11.08 million viewers, becoming the first Korean film to surpass the ten million admissions mark. In 2007, he starred in "May 18," a film based on the Gwangju Democratization Movement, which accumulated a total of 7,307,993 viewers. Former South Korean presidents Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun reportedly attended screenings of the film.