In his second post, the 42-year-old showed off his back view in a basketball jersey with “Gong” on it.

His agency said it was managing the account @_gongyoo_official_ on the actor’s behalf and stressed that he has no other social media accounts.

The star of hit fantasy K-drama Goblin (2016 to 2017) and zombie thriller Train To Busan (2016) had previously explained why he was not on Instagram.

“I don’t like taking selfies. When I go somewhere, I’d rather be looking at the sights with my eyes rather than take pictures,” he had said at a press conference in April 2017.

“Part of the reason why I don’t use social media is that because it’s to show people, some parts of it will not be genuine. It makes me uncomfortable to show things in a packaged way like that.”

On Monday (29 November), it took home the trophy for Breakthrough Series – Long Format in New York.

Its creator and director Hwang Dong-hyuk said in his acceptance speech: “When I wrote this script, it was 2009, 12 years ago. I did my best, but nobody liked it. People said it’s unrealistic, it’s too violent, it’s absurd, it’s weird.

“It took 12 years to make this show and show it to the people. And it took less than 12 days to become the No. 1 show on the planet.”

Text: Suzanne Sng/The Straits Times

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