Actor Park Jae-chan will be rising as a leading actor through ‘Check In Hanyang’.

Park Jae-chan will be appearing as the leading actor Go Soo-ra in Channel A‘s new Saturday-Sunday drama ‘Check In Hanyang’ (written by Park Hyun-jin/directed by Myung Hyun-woo), which will air for the first time on the 21st at 9:10 PM.

‘Check In Hanyang’ is a youth romance historical drama that contains the story of the eventful growth of Joseon’s young men who enter ‘Yongcheonru’, the largest inn in Joseon where anyone can become a king if they pay money. Let‘s take a look at the images that Park Jae-chan will be showing in ‘Check In Hanyang’, which has been receiving a lot of attention even before it airs.

● ‘Step-by-step growth’ to be shown through his first leading role

Park Jae-chan will continue his ‘step-by-step growth’ as an actor by taking on his first leading role through ‘Check In Hanyang’. Park Jae-chan is said to have put his heart and soul into his acting to achieve a high character synchronization rate as he leads the center of the drama as a member of the ‘Haona 4-member group’. Attention is also focused on the harmonious chemistry he will create with actors Bae In-hyeok (Lee Eun, Lee Eun-ho), Kim Ji-eun (Hong Deok-soo), and Jung Gun-joo (Cheon Jun-hwa).


● First historical drama challenge… Unlimited genre digestion

Park Jae-chan has appeared in web dramas ‘Joah Subscribe’, ‘Can Time Be Delivered?’, ‘Semantic Error’, and dramas ‘Us, Home’, ‘Playing Woman’, filling his filmography with various genres. In particular, ‘Check In Hanyang’ is Park Jae-chan’s first historical drama. Since it is very different from modern dramas in terms of the historical background, pronunciation, and costumes, it is expected that Park Jae-chan‘s limitless genre digestion skills will be showcased.

● Conviction-filled ‘Joseon Misaeng’… Unanimous casting

Park Jae-chan’s role as Go Soo-ra is a young man from Joseon who confidently judges right from wrong and acts accordingly. He is a ‘Joseon Misaeng’ character who entered Yongcheonru as an educational officer in order to rebuild his family, which had fallen into ruin long ago, with his own hands, and is the type of person who speaks his mind. Attention is focused on the role of Go Soo-ra, which Park Jae-chan will portray, as he was unanimously cast by the production team in a preliminary audition.

‘Check In Hanyang’, which Park Jae-chan appears in, will first air on Channel A at 9:10 PM on the 21st.

Jeon Hyo-jin, Donga.com reporter jhj@donga.com