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Actor Park Gun-il told the story of "Judge Lee Han-young."
Park Gun-il recently met with Star News and told the story of MBC's Friday-Saturday drama "Judge Lee Han-young" (played by Kim Kwang-min, director Lee Jae-jin, and Park Mi-yeon).
"Judge Lee Han-young" is a return-to-justice drama in which Lee Han-young, a deep-rooted judge who lived as a slave at a huge law firm and returned to 10 years ago, punishes major evil with a new choice. It is based on a work of the same name with 10.75 million views of the original web novel, 10.191 million views of the webtoon, and a total of 110 million views. Director Park Mi-yeon and writer Kim Kwang-min, as well as director Lee Jae-jin of "The Banker," "The Spy Who Loved Me," and "Motel California," joined forces.
Judge Lee Han-young, which opened MBC's Friday-Saturday drama in 2026, broke its own highest ratings in each episode and recorded a maximum viewership of 13.5% in the ninth episode on January 30. "Judge Lee Han-young" ended 14 times on the 14th amid enthusiastic responses from viewers, as it was evaluated as a "luxury genre" beyond a simple "court" as well as maintaining the No. 1 spot in the Friday-Saturday drama.
In the play, Ji Sung played the role of Lee Han-young, a "red-down judge" who claims to be a "humming judge" of a Haenal law firm because of his humble background and makes rulings that suit the taste of the law firm while pursuing the darkness of power. Park Hee-soon plays Kang Shin-jin, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, who shakes a Haenal law firm in his hand, and Won Jin-ah plays Kim Jin-ah, the prosecutor of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, who is sharpening his sword for revenge against the man who drove his father to death.
Park Gun-il played a mysterious character as Kwak Soon-won, who killed Lee Han-young in his previous life as Kang Shin-jin's servant. Kang Shin-jin's plan to lower the sentence of Jang Tae-sik (played by Kim Beop-rae) of S Group by manipulating a Haenal law firm failed due to Lee Han-young's rebellion. Lee Han-young, who was falsely accused of killing the head of S Group in 2035, is stabbed in the neck by Kwak Soon-won after a desperate escape hiding in an underground tunnel.
Park Kun-il, a graduate of Dongguk University's theater imaging studies, debuted as a boy group Super Nova (formerly known as Supernova) in 2007 and moved between Korea and Japan, before working mainly as an actor. Park Kun-il made his acting debut as a child in his third year of middle school, and from SBS drama "Live Up Straight" in 2002, domestic dramas such as "Sangduya Let's Go to School," "Hon," "Geuncho High School King," "Sign," "Haeundae Lovers," and "Here We Go!" Jang Bo-ri, Engine ON from today, Romance 1 and 2 for 7 days, Love is annoying, but I don't like being lonely!', He appeared in "Kin Dae: The Generation," "Red Shoes," "Judge Lee Han-young," and "The First Man."
Park Kun-il has also appeared in domestic and international films such as "Mr. Housewives Quiz King," "Sunday Seoul," "Love Song to You (君にラヴソングを), "Our After School (僕たちのアフタースクール)," "Late Night Cafe: Missing Honey," and "It's a Fairy Tale but Blue Bull." He also appeared in the musical 'RUN TO YOU - Our Street Life', 'I Want to Write a Happy Ending', and the play 'Meet Me at 7' and was active in various fields.
-How did Kwak Soon-won prepare and act.
▶ 80% of my acting was action, so I kept going to action school. While attending an action school with a martial arts director, I learned a lot about motorcycle, knife catching, and bare-body action. The action, which has a reason to take away documents rather than just action, is not as easy as I thought, but I prepared a lot and acted. The coach asked me if I could gain 7-8kg, so I increased it to 86kg in anticipation of a fight with Seok Jung-ho (Tae Won-seok). I like the unfamiliar side of me on the monitor. When I increased, I increased my exercise and always went to the gym. Ji Sung said he wanted it to look like a Marvel movie, a fight between David and Goliath, and a pleasant look like Jackie Chan action.
-The Sunwon character had to maintain the mystery while giving dopamine and impact. There must have been some difficulties in acting.
▶The director said, 'We will shoot it in a Marvel style, so please act as if Gun-il is a noir.' I had to do the most serious action.
-What kind of actor was Jisung when he acted together.
▶Jisung is an actor who I thought was really cool. Ji Sung was exceptionally good at acting, but he was so human. Ji Sung is my ideal person. I wanted to learn how to be good in both areas when I got married and had children and was good at acting, and I want to support him in the future. There are two actors, including Ji Sung, who I actually met and thought were cool, and the other is Joo Won. I want to experience what kind of acting Joo Won, who is the same age, will perform later.
-What kind of work will "Judge Lee Han-young" leave behind for actor Park Gun-il.
▶It's been a long time since I showed my face on a public television, but it will be meaningful because the audience rating came out well with an impactful role. When the viewer rating came out at 13.5%, a lot of posts were posted in our actor group chat room. I think that the appearance of 'The First Man' which is currently on air is a reward. And the entertainment show I want to go out on MBC the most is 'Omniscient Interfere' (hereinafter 'Omniscient Interfere') so I really want to go out there. The manager who has been with me for a year has a similar name to me, but I hope he will go on "Omniscient View" this year, taking two MBC works, including "Judge Lee Han-young" and "The First Man." I want to clean up the sins of the murderer shown in Judge Lee Han-young through 'Omniscient Interfere'.
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