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Friday, June 5, 2020

Actor Ji Chang-Wook


Ji Chang-Wook of South Korea is this month’s featured actor. 

I first became aware of Ji Chang-Wook when I watched him play Kim Je-Ha in the tvN Network series, The K2.  In this series he played the broken but highly skilled soldier of fortune, Kim Je-Ha, on the now closed Drama Fever streaming service, and since then, I have kept up with and watched several of the TV dramas and films that he starred in. 

What makes Ji Chang-Wook an interesting actor is not only his good looks but his superb talent and this almost natural ability to switch character mode from one acting production to another and leave us his fans in wonder of his skills at martial arts in action and intrigue, comedy, and romance productions. However, I believe his greatest strength is in the fact that he can play both the hero and the anti-hero very well.

Before beginning his military service in 2017, Ji Chang-Wook starring roles included the following action productions that are binge worthy today.

Five Ji Chang-Wook Action Roles

A little known film on this side of the Pacific, but a truly entertaining gritty sci-fi.

The Story

In real life, Kwon Yoo (Ji Chang-Wook) is unemployed, but in the virtual game world he is known as the best leader. While sleeping he is targeted and framed for murder. With the help of hacker Yeo-Wool (Shim Eun-Kyung) and the rest of his RESURRECTION teammates, Kwon Yoo tries to uncover the truth behind the murder case. 



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The K2  (2016) - Kim Je-Ha.
Betrayed and on the run after being framed for murder of his beloved. Kim Je-Ha (Ji Chang-Wook) is a former soldier for hire. He is also called K2 because of his superior fighting skills. He unwillingly becomes the bodyguard of Choi Yoo-Jin (Song Yoon-A). Choi Yoo-Jin is the wife of a presidential candidate (Cho Seong-Ha) and the daughter from a chaebol family. Meanwhile, Ko An-Na (Yoona) is the secret daughter of the presidential hopeful. She is also a recluse and soon becomes Kim Je-Ha main focus for protection.

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Healer (2014-2015) – Seo Jung-Hoo

The Story:
A decade-old incident involving a group of five friends who ran an illegal pro-democracy broadcasting station during the Fifth Republic in South Korea brings together three different people—an illegal "night courier" with the codename "Healer" (Ji Chang-Wook) who possesses top-notch fighting skills, a reporter from a second-rate tabloid news website (Park Min-young), and a famous journalist at a major broadcast station (Yoo Ji-tae). In trying to uncover the truth from that 1992 incident, they grow into real, honest reporters, while dealing with the conflict between truth and fate.

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Empress Ki (MBC / 2013-2014) - Ta Hwan / Emperor Huizong of Yuan

The Story: 

This story is about the loves and battles of the historical Empress Ki (Ha Ji-Won), who exercises her influence in the Yuan Dynasty. She is married to the dangerously clinging Crown Prince Ta Hwan (Ji Chang-Wook) who as time passes painfully grows into the hard won courageous Emperor Huizong.


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Warrior Baek Dong Soo (2011) - Baek Dong-Soo
Wanting to save his own son from a charge of treason, Crown Prince Sado betrays and beheads his closest liaison Baek Sa-Geong as a scapegoat. He then orders Baek Sa-Goeng's family killed. However,  Kim Kwang-Taek, on prior request of his close friend Baek Sa-Goeng, helps his dead friend wife and unborn child escape. While on the run Baek Sa-Goeng's wife gives birth to a baby boy and dies after naming the child Dong-Soo. 

To save Dong-Soo, Kim Kwang-Taek loses an arm after pleading for the child’s life. However, the lost of his arm was in vane because the Crown Prince’s soldiers still attempt to kill the child. It is during the struggle with the soldiers that the baby Dong-Soo disappears. 

And with this bloody start the story of the Warrior Baek Dong Soo begins.

 
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Since Ji Chang-Wook discharge from the military in April of last year, he has starred in Melting Me Softly, a romantic comedy about two opposite people frozen for 20 years, and the soon to be released Backstreet Rookie. 

In this story he plays Choi Dae-Hyun, a 33 year old man who runs a small convenience store after quitting his job at a large company, and his budding relationship with his part-time worker Jung Saet-Byeol, a former troublemaker, but is now a university student guided by her strong morals.

Backstreet Rookie release date: June 19, 2020.


 

We, his fans in the USA are glad that Ji Chang-Wook is back in action and we look forward to his future acting roles.

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