Actress Jeon Hye-jin is comforting ‘working moms’.

She plays the role of a mother who devotes all her energy to her seven-year-old daughter‘s education in the new ENA drama ‘Riding Life’, which begins airing on March 3rd.

‘Riding Life’ is a family drama that depicts what happens when the main character, a ‘working mom’, asks her ‘single mom’ mother to ‘ride’ her daughter to her academy.

She plays Lee Jung-eun, a beauty industry marketer who tries not to fall behind in her young daughter’s education.

Jeon Hye-jin said at the drama production conference held online on the 25th, “It‘s been a long time since I’ve seen you,” and “She‘s a character who struggles because she wants to do well in both childcare and work. My very close friend and the CEO of my agency have the same name, so I was like, ’What is this?‘ I wanted to appear in the drama even more because our names are the same.”

As the drama depicts the reality of private education, Jeon Hye-jin has been studying related topics in her spare time. As a mother of two, she said, “I’m actually very interested in education,” and “I learned a lot on the Internet, such as YouTube and ‘Mom Cafes,’ to research my character.”

She added, “When I signed up for the ‘Mom Cafe,’ I found out that they have their own league. There were some parts that were concerning, but I also understood. I wondered how far they would go, but there‘s a part where they go to medical school, the ’final destination.‘ It’s a real thing, and I looked it up a lot.”

He, who still frequently takes his children on ‘rides’, said, “If the kids say they‘re in a hurry, I go out” and “I’m a mom who says, ‘I don‘t have time, but I’ll take you there’ to show off to the kids.”



Reporter Lee Jeong-yeon annjoy@donga.com

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