Actor Kim Ji-hoon recalled the time he had stopped his activities for about three years.
On the 6th, a video titled "Younger man actor Kim Ji-hoon visits Kim Jung-nan's house" was uploaded on Kim Jung-nan's YouTube channel.
That day, Kim Ji-hoon visited Kim Jung-nan's house to share a meal and have a conversation. Kim Jung-nan reminisced about the time of 'Why did you come to my house' and asked, "At that time, Ji-hoon was really a flower boy. Why did he suddenly become a beastly man? Did it happen after he went to the army?" Kim Ji-hoon replied, "I just matured while experiencing the bitter taste of the world as I got older."
Kim Jung-nan asked, "What bitter taste did you experience? The bitter taste that you haven't told me about," and Kim Ji-hoon recalled, "Because my weekend drama image is so strong. I want to do movies or dramas, and I think I could do well, but no one thinks that way. So I took about three years off. That's the only kind of work that came in."
He said, "The company kept saying they would look for options because I kept talking. They mentioned maybe doing this drama and having discussions, but I kept waiting, and the frustration just kept repeating. In the end, there was a moment when I exploded, thinking this was a drama with a really high potential to happen. I said, let's just wait a bit. One day, I woke up and saw on Naver News that someone had been cast in that drama. I lost it at that point and couldn't bear it anymore."
He continued, "That three years felt a bit too long for me. All the money I had saved was gone, and the biggest issue was that I had no hope of when or how things would change. I felt a lot during that time—the body was also continuously in pain. For the first time in my life, I experienced a headache that was so painful that even a slight touch would hurt. I wondered if I had developed cancer in my head. I definitely realized that the biggest enemy to health is stress."
Kim Jung-nan agreed, saying, "It's true that the mind governs the body," and comforted him, saying, "So you didn't waste time and studied hard, didn't you?"
In response, Kim Ji-hoon said, "I made a resolution. Since no projects would come in anyway, I decided to travel, exercise, read books, and watch more movies to spend my time constructively. But after about 6 to 7 months, when the projects kept getting canceled, I found that even when I read books, nothing was memorized. Even while watching movies, I couldn't grasp the content. I went through a period where I felt I couldn't do anything. During that time, I played games," he confessed candidly, eliciting laughter.
He remarked, "It wasn't deliberate, but it's a highly addictive game, so during that time, I was able to forget the world and focus. I cleared everything to the end for almost a year. It acted like my antidepressant." Kim Jung-nan asked, "Don't you think it's hard to date during such tough times?" Kim Ji-hoon replied, "Well, I did." This led to laughter.
Kim Jung-nan said, "You've done everything you could," and added, "Looking back after some time, I think you have followed a very normal course." Kim Ji-hoon nodded in agreement, saying, "In hindsight, I think so too," and Kim Jung-nan noted, "Such time is necessary for an actor. That's why your acting has improved."
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