Cho Hangyul was a baseball player before his debut "Stop it after knee surgery. I thought a lot about what I'm going to do now, but.." [Interview 3]

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• Interview with actor Cho Han-kyul, who plays Albot Oh in tvN's Saturday drama "Undercover Miss Hong."

Actor Cho Han-kyul said he was a baseball player before his debut.

Cho Han-kyul, who met at the Star News headquarters in Jongno-gu, Seoul on the 13th, talked about tvN's Saturday-Sunday drama "Undercover Miss Hong" (script Moon Hyun-kyung, director Na Seon-ho), which ended on the 8th.

"Undercover Mitsuhong" is a left-handed retro-office comedy that takes place in the late 1990s when Hong Geum-bo (Park Shin-hye), an elite securities supervisor in his 30s, disguised as a 20-year-old employee at a securities company where the flow of funds was captured. In the play, Cho Han-gyeol played the role of Abbott Oh, the grandchild of Chairman Han Min-gwon and the head of the crisis management headquarters of Han Min-gwon.

Cho had a time of perseverance he spent as an athlete before his debut. Cho Han-kyul revealed his reversal history of playing as a promising baseball player in the past. He said, "I played baseball from the fifth or sixth grade of elementary school to the second grade of high school. Then, I had knee surgery several times due to my injury, so I quit as a baseball player," he confessed.

The emptiness that came after quitting exercise became the driving force to explore a new career path. Cho Han-kyul said, "I had a lot of thoughts (after quitting baseball player) about 'what should I do now?' Since I've been playing baseball for a long time, the only thing I know how to do is baseball. So I thought I should find a career path faster," he said, explaining how he walked the actor's path.

Recalling the process of turning into an actor, he said, "If it's smooth according to the point of view, it's smooth, and if it's difficult, it's difficult. There were a lot of auditions, and there were a lot of things that fell in the final round. I was under a lot of stress at the time, but I'm so happy now," he said.

After his debut, Cho Han-gyul also made headlines by appearing on the web entertainment show "Hong Seok-cheon's Jewel Box," which says only handsome people are eligible to appear. Cho Han-kyul said, "I felt so good when I was offered to appear on 'Treasure Box' at first. Hong Seok-cheon, it's a place where you can only go out if you get recognition from smart people, and isn't it a place where only handsome people go out. I felt good to be recognized as handsome," he said with a smile.

After successfully completing his first major film, Undercover Miss Hong, Cho now dreams of a higher flight. Holding a script instead of a baseball, he said, "I want to hear from the public that you are good at acting." He also said, "Thank you for your interest. I will continue to come back with good performances and good works," he said.

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