Singer and actor Koo Jun-hoe shared the reactions of the members of his group iKON to his new drama.

At the online production conference for Channel A‘s new Saturday-Sunday drama ‘Marry You’ held on the 15th, Koo Jun-hoe introduced his role as Choi Ki-joon, a 5th-grade civil servant, as “the team leader of the marriage promotion team that matches marriages. On the outside, he seems like a perfect person who could be a standard for many, but on the inside, he’s a lonely and deficient person.”.

He continued, “‘Marry You’ doesn‘t have any villains, and it deals with the messages of marriage and non-marriage in a light way. It’s also comical, and the character relationships are interesting. I thought I‘d be able to show a lot through the character of Choi Ki-joon.” He explained the reason for his appearance.

He said, “It was my first time playing the role of a team leader, so I had a hard time, but Director Hwang Kyung-sung explained it in detail. I received a lot of help. He said, “He gave me advice since the script reading, and it was really helpful.” “The actors and I had good chemistry, so I instinctively thought that our chemistry would work well from the group script reading scene.” He expressed his gratitude to director Hwang Kyung-sung and his colleagues.

He especially emphasized, “My first dream was to be an action actor,” as the reason he continues to act. Koo Jun-hoe explained, “I wanted to become an action actor like Jackie Chan or Bruce Lee. Even while I was an idol, I always dreamed of becoming an actor. It was a good opportunity to start acting, but it was really fun. I thought that I had to keep doing this, so I worked hard.”

He also said, “The members of iKON told me that it was cool and wonderful that I was able to do the kind of acting that I always wanted to do,” but added, “They found it funny that I played the perfect team leader role in the drama. They teased me, saying, “What kind of team leader are you?” I thought the same thing at first. But I worked hard to prove that the members’ opinions were wrong. I‘m curious about the members’ evaluations. On the other hand, I‘m also anxious,“ he said with a laugh.

Meanwhile, ‘Marry YOU’ is a comic family drama about a couple matching between single and married couples, in which single-minded civil servant Jeong Ha-na (Jo Soo-min) struggles to get island bachelor Bong Cheol-hee (Lee Yi-kyung) to marry in order to escape the marriage fraud promotion team. First broadcast on the 16th at 7:50 PM.



Reporter Yoo Ji-hye yjh0304@donga.com