"Channeugye" Kwon Hyuk said, "Studying tourism and business administration → Actor started late, but it's so much fun." [★FULL Interview]

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Actor Kwon Hyuk expressed his feelings about the end of "In Your Brilliant Season."

Kwon Hyuk recently met with Star News after an interview about the end of MBC's Friday-Saturday drama "In Your Season" (script Cho Sung-hee, director Jung Sang-hee, Kim Young-jae, hereinafter "Channergye").

"In Your Season" depicts an unpredictable "brilliant" romance in which "Chan," a man who lives like an exciting summer vacation every day, and "Ran," a woman who locked herself in winter, meet like fate and wake up the frozen time. Writer Cho Sung-hee, the master of romance, who wrote "Thirty but Seventeen," "She Was Pretty," and "The High School King," and producer Jung Sang-hee, who was recognized for her delicate directing skills through "Send a Fan Letter" and "Wonderful World," joined forces.

Kwon Hyuk played the role of COO Yeon Tae-seok, who oversees the overall management of the high-end fashion brand "Nana Atelier" in "Channergye," emitting a charm that combines seriousness and warmth. In the play, Yeon Tae-seok was a person who looked at three sisters, Song Ha-ran (Lee Sung-kyung), Song Ha-young (Han Ji-hyun), and Song Ha-dam (Oh Ye-ju), with a strong right arm for Kim Na-na (Lee Mi-sook), the head of Nana Atelier.

-How do you feel about the end of "Chan-neu-gye"?

▶It's been less than a month since the filming and airing of the drama, but I still feel like I'm in the work. I guess he had a lot of affection. I'm spending time missing Tae-seok, and I'm enjoying the afterglow with enthusiastic viewers. DM sent me a lot of support from all over the world, including Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.

-What's the most memorable reaction from the viewers of "Chan-neu-gye"?

▶ Surprisingly, the viewers understood Tae-seok's feelings better than me. He said he would understand how he told Ha-young. He also understood the meaning of saying, "I've never thought of you as a woman." I thought I must have conveyed Tae-seok's feelings to them well.

-How did you feel when you first received the script for "Chan-neu-gye".

▶Our drama was very warm and healing. Aren't there a lot of provocative content these days and a lot of content that goes by quickly. Our drama felt like healing with calm breathing. It also comforted me a lot in my life.

-What do you think the viewers particularly loved about "Chan-neu-gye".

▶There was no special villain, and I could understand all the characters. They were likely to be around. I also touched my dream of wanting to try that kind of love. Various couples and various love stories came out Looking at it, I think there was something I could relate to.

-How did you prepare and act Yeon Tae-seok's character.

▶It wasn't easy at first. He was a person who was thorough, set standards, and was so FM-oriented that he was very different from me. I'm a sloppy and shrewd person. At first, there were many parts of the script that I didn't understand, especially when expressing the relationship with Ha-young. I liked Ha-young so much that I had to show her 'I don't see you as a woman', so it wasn't easy to understand.

-Yeon Tae-seok was an unflappable character. What are the similarities and differences between Yeon Tae-seok and Kwon Hyuk's personalities.

▶The biggest difference was that Tae-seok seemed to have everything standardized. I think I live like a cog as scheduled, but I tend to live freely in time zones and so on. I tried to express it well as I imagined and acted interestingly. The part that resembles me is that Tae-seok is a responsible person, so he tries to take care of the person he values until the end.

-Yeon Tae-seok has lived with the word "I'm sorry" all the time, but I wonder if he understood all of Yeon Tae-seok's feelings.

▶At first, there were times when it was not easy to understand, but I think I really understood Tae-seok a lot while filming. I thought this person had no choice but to say, "I'm sorry." This person's guilt and responsibility must have made him a person who has no choice but to say that.

-How did you feel about acting with senior actor Lee Mi-sook.

▶I couldn't believe I was in one space because he was a great actor that I've loved since I was really young and I've seen many works. I had a very interesting and fun experience with my senior, and he usually pranked his juniors a lot and made the atmosphere comfortable. He was a good man who smelled like a human being. While acting, I thought it was amazing while receiving my senior's energy.

-How was your love line acting with actor Han Ji-hyun.

▶I thought Ji-hyun was an actor who was unrivaledly good at acting. I thought there would be no better actor to play Song Ha-young than Han Ji-hyun. Ji-hyun is a really free actor, so I think she played Song Ha-young well. He is a person who is bouncy, cute, and so lovely like Ha Young.

-What is something that actor Kwon Hyuk wants to protect like Yeon Tae-seok?

▶My aunt has been watching me a lot since she was young, but she is 17 years older than my father, so she is now 87 years old. My aunt used to be strong and talkative, but I'm upset because I feel old recently. It was upsetting because you sometimes forget what I said.

-He studied tourism development and business administration at Kyunggi University. How did the acting begin in the beginning. When I was in middle school, it was known that I first dreamed of becoming an actor after watching the movie 'Titanic'.

▶My MBTI was INFP, so I couldn't speak well in public. The actor has to show me in front of someone, and I'm just someone who likes stories and novels, and I thought my personality couldn't be an actor. So it took me a long time to start as an actor. After graduating from college, there was a time when I tried to put my resume in another company for the first year, but I thought that if I got a job, I would only go to a company, so I blindly enrolled in an acting academy. The acting was so much fun.

-Prior to his acting career, he worked at a marketing company and was known to have prepared a flight attendant.

▶I didn't become a flight attendant, I was interviewed. It was one of the places where the marketing company also applied.

-He made his debut in the JTBC drama 'Elegant Friends' in 2020 and became an actor for 7 years this year. What kind of actor do you think you've grown into.

▶The part I want to compliment myself is that I still like this job and I haven't given up. Honestly, I still feel shy to monitor my work, and even in those moments, I keep challenging myself. I want to be a person who continues to challenge myself like that in the future.

-What kind of character or genre do you want to show in the future?

▶I want to do various things given to me. I really value those moments because actors have to be chosen to act. Personally, I want to play a role in a historical drama.

-What are actor Kwon Hyuk's recent interests.

▶ Spend a lot of time with his 4-year-old dog, Deokbae. The name "Deokbae" was made with the hope that he would not be treated with small illness.(laughs) Deokbae is my happy interest.

-Say something to the viewers of "Channeu-gye".

▶Our drama was so healing and it was so good. If you've watched the drama, you'll all agree. It would be nice if you could recommend only 3 people around you and watch it.(Laughs) There are so many attractive characters that I think it would be nice if a lot of people would cherish them. It's such a good drama to watch these days when the weather is good.

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