Actor Choi Won-young won second place in the "2026 Gwanghwamun Space Out Competition." [Star Issue]

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Actor Choi Won-young won second place in the "Gwanghwamun Space Out Competition."

The 2026 Gwanghwamun Space Out Competition "Everyone is Fighting Their Unworthiness" was successfully completed on the 14th with keen interest.

This event was designed to rediscover the "value of worthlessness" in the middle of the city, proposing a "collective pause" away from the compulsion to constantly produce something. The scenery of citizens sitting side by side for 90 minutes in Gwanghwamun Yukjo Madang, a symbolic space representing Korea and the site of fierce life, gave a fresh sense of liberation and created a spectacular view.

Above all, the main characters who will lead JTBC's new Saturday-Sunday drama "Everyone is Fighting Their Unworthiness" (hereinafter referred to as "Mother and Child") added to the heat of the scene by adding their own will in their own way. Choi Won-young and Cho Min-guk participated in the competition in person and made a formal challenge to "spacing out" with citizens for 90 minutes, practicing the "value of worthlessness" that the work intends to convey. They left a deep impression by performing an iconic performance that maintains calmness.

In particular, Choi Won-young was amazing in winning the second place. Choi Won-young showed a rather high heart rate at the beginning of the competition under strict standards to determine the winner by summing up the citizen vote and the heart rate graph, but soon regained her composure and dropped the figure, and remained stable until the end, and proudly took the podium. Choi Won-young, who stood on the podium, said, "In fact, I've been preparing ambitiously since last night with the goal of winning." "I was nervous the whole time because there were so many outstanding players in the field, but I didn't expect to receive an award. It was an honor to receive a good award, and it was a meaningful time to personally convey the value of the drama "Momoussa," he added.

Koo Dae-hwan, Ko Yoon-jung, Kang Mal-geum, Shim Hee-seop, Bae Myung-jin, and Park Ye-ni then visited various drama experience zones at the site and added meaning by informing the narrative of the work in advance. They shared the message of the drama by looking at the "admission zone" that shreds their worthlessness, the "photo zone" that reproduces the main character Hwang Dong's room, and the "valueless exchange" that presents goods. The actors deeply sympathized with the purpose of the competition, which is in contact with the message in the work, and gave prospective viewers a warm moment of healing.

The production team said, "I hope this event, which took place in the middle of Gwanghwamun, will be a time to turn off the red lights of our lives for a while and discover our own green lights," adding, "The drama 'Momoussa', which will premiere on the 18th, will also approach with a friendly humanism that will comfort tired modern people."

"Motherless" is a work that follows the search for peace among people who are suffering from jealousy and time alone among their bossy friends. Writer Park Hae-young, who creates the lowest emotions of life in the most noble sentences, and director Cha Young-hoon, who showed warm humanism by capturing the extraordinary solidarity of ordinary people, are considered the most anticipated works in the first half of 2026. It will premiere on JTBC at 10:40 p.m. on Saturday, April 18.

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