Jin Ki-joo is being re-evaluated as she reveals her ‘true value’.

She is energizing the home theater through MBC‘s Friday-Saturday drama ‘Undercover High School’, in which she co-stars with Seo Kang-joon. She succeeded in creating a new version of her masterpiece by adding her bubbly charm and excellent acting.

The drama is a comic action drama that depicts the adventures of National Intelligence Service agent Jung Hae-sung (Seo Kang-joon), who hides his identity and goes undercover as a high school student in order to find Emperor Gojong’s missing gold bars. In the drama, Jin Ki-joo appears as teacher Oh Soo-ah, a temporary teacher at Byeongmun High School and Seo Kang-joon‘s homeroom teacher.

Recently, as dramas have gradually become a topic of conversation as so-called ‘crazy’ dramas with B-movie sensibility, the focus is on Jin Ki-joo.

Although she is busy keeping an eye on the school and foundation to become a full-time teacher, she is doing her job as a ‘passionate teacher’ who will do anything for her students. While showing the charisma of a teacher who tries not to be intimidated in front of her students, she also reveals the sad reality of a ‘K office worker’ trying to catch the eye of her boss.

In a recent broadcast, she actively helped Seo Kang-joon after finding out his true identity, and she also increased the immersion with her romantic comedy with Seo Kang-joon. In the process, she even showed off her comedic acting, earning praise for “Jin Ki-joo’s reevaluation”. Thanks to this, Jin Ki-joo garnered attention, rising to 6th place in the TV·OTT topicality index among actors.

Her agency FL ENT said, “Jin Ki-joo is usually a very quiet and calm person, but we put a lot of effort into showing various sides of her in the drama, from comic acting to romance,” and “You will gradually discover more of Jin Ki-joo‘s charm.”

Meanwhile, after finishing this drama, Jin Ki-joo will star in Netflix’s ‘True Education’. In the drama, which tells the story of the collapse of teachers‘ authority after the introduction of the corporal punishment ban, the establishment of the Teachers’ Authority Protection Bureau under the Ministry of Education, and the dispatch of supervisors to problem schools, Jin Ki-joo plays the role of Lim Han-rim, a supervisor of the Teachers‘ Authority Protection Bureau, and works with Kim Moo-yeol.


Reporter Lee Jeong-yeon annjoy@donga.com

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