Actor Park Jin-young will be tearing up the webtoon world again with ‘The Witch’, following ‘Yumi‘s Cells’. He perfectly portrayed Yoo Bobby in ‘Yumi’s Cells 2’, and even had his real name stolen and was called ‘Yoo Bobby’. This time, he will breathe life into 2D with his high synchronization with the character Lee Dong-jin in ‘The Witch’.

Channel A‘s new Saturday-Sunday drama ‘The Witch’ is a mystery romance about Lee Dong-jin (played by Park Jin-young), a man who wants to break the bad luck surrounding women called witches, and Park Mi-jung (played by Noh Jeong-eui), a woman who has isolated herself from the world after becoming the seed of tragedy, and who end up saving each other at the end of a journey they never give up on. ‘Moving’, ‘Lighting Store’, ‘Idiot’, is a dramatization of the webtoon of the same name, ‘The Witch’, by Kang Full, the popular webtoon writer behind works such as ‘The Witch,’, and ‘The Idiot’. It is also the drama directorial debut of ‘Dark Figure of Crime’, Kim Tae-gyun.

In ‘The Witch’, Park Jin-young plays the role of Dong-jin, a data miner who receives the highest treatment in the industry, in his first comeback work since his military service. He is the character who begins a journey to find the law of misfortune based solely on big data of the truth for Mi-jeong (played by Noh Jeong-eui), who was called a ‘witch’ in high school and left school, to whom he was unable to confess his feelings.

Regarding this, Park Jin-young said, “We filmed before enlistment. Of course, I felt burdened as an actor. After being discharged (and before the release), I was more nervous than burdened. It was my first drama since I was discharged two years ago. However, I was just happy. I’m happy that I was discharged, but I‘m discharged and I’m even in a drama! I‘m so happy,“ he said, expressing his endless happiness.

In the released highlight video, Park Jin-young showed off his wide spectrum of acting, from his appearance in a school uniform looking at his first love Mi-jung with a gaze full of emotion to his intelligent side as a science genius and data miner.

Park Jin-young said, ”I created Lee Dong-jin in two major ways,“ mentioning Lee Dong-jin’s voice and relationship, ”Lee Dong-jin is a very smart person. Even if there‘s no big incident, I wanted to make his intelligence visible just through his voice. In addition, Lee Dong-jin is a character who gets along with his friends normally and is good to his mother. He explained, “I thought hard with the director about how to bring out different tensions in each relationship.”

He also paid attention to the external aspects. He shared an anecdote, saying, “Since it’s based on a webtoon, I couldn‘t help but refer to the external image. I discussed it a lot with the costume team and tried out this kind of glasses, that kind of glasses, this kind of texture, that kind of texture. It’s a piece that we created through a lot of conversation.”

He then concluded by saying, “It wasn‘t easy to act as Lee Dong-jin, a friend who’s too smart, but I believe the production team did a good job.” He raised expectations for the complete character.

Regarding joining the world of popular writer Kang Full, he said, “As a webtoon fan, I know how much power Kang Full‘s stories have, so it’s an honor just to be able to participate in that world. I tried to synchronize well when I took on the role of Lee Dong-jin. ”I hope many viewers will love it,“ he said to potential viewers.

‘The Witch’, which announced the addition of Park Jin-young‘s life character, will be aired for the first time on Saturday, February 15th at 9:10 PM as the follow-up to ‘Check In Hanyang’.

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

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