 Later that year, he also starred in "Rough Cut", a low-budget film directed by Jang Hoon and written by Kim Ki-duk about a gangster who wants to become an actor and a hot-tempered star who acts like a thug.Kang and costar So Ji-sub were praised for their performances, and both won several Best New Actor awards.Kang then reunited with previous leading lady Kim Ha-neul in "My Girlfriend Is an Agent", a 2009 action-romantic comedy in which their characters are former lovers and spies trying to conceal their professions from each other.