 It became the fourth highest grossing Korean film of that year, with more than 4 million tickets sold.Afterwards, he played a looks-oriented architect whose eye problem magically causes him to see the homely heroine (played by Lee Ji-ah) as beautiful in "The Relation of Face, Mind and Love", a "telecinema" which received a brief theatrical release and a TV run.In 2010, Kang starred in romantic comedy series "Coffee House", in which he played an eccentric novelist who is caught in a love triangle with his publisher (played by Park Si-yeon) and his assistant (played by Ham Eun-jung).