Actor Kim Woo-bin has quietly kept a 10-year pledge to personal trainer Yang Chi-seung, who offered him free personal training during his unknown days, a fact that was revealed belatedly.
On the 27th, the 'TteunTteun' channel uploaded a video titled "Autumn breeze is just an excuse."
The video that day featured lead actors Kim Woo-bin and Suzy from the Netflix series Genie, Make A Wish as guests. Yoo Jae-suk, who attends the same gym as Suzy, asked her, "Why haven't you been coming to the gym lately?" and Suzy explained, "I should be exercising but I'm busy and I have projects. I'm currently filming another project. And it has a lot of overseas schedules."
Yang Se-chan asked, "How about going there to work out? Are you the type who trains hard?" and Yoo Jae-suk said, "Suzy quietly and softly works out alone in a corner. She wears her hat pulled down and a mask. At first you don't know who she is. Then she comes over and talks. If you say 'Hello' she says, 'Oh, Suzy!' She quietly comes over to say hello and then goes over there to exercise," he explained.
Suzy said, "She works out very hard," and Yoo Jae-suk said, "I'm the type who moves around widely." Suzy nodded and said, "Right. She does this here and then there; her path keeps changing," and Kim Woo-bin said, "But it seems like a lot of people attend that gym. (Lee) Kwang-soo hyung goes there too."
Yoo Jae-suk asked, "Where do you go, Woo-bin?" and Kim Woo-bin answered, "Just around the neighborhood." Yang Se-chan asked, "Are you the type who trains alone or does someone train you?" and Kim Woo-bin said, "I've been training alone for about 10 years now."
Yang Se-chan said, "So you know where everything goes," but Kim Woo-bin hesitated and said, "No, rather than that, there was a coach who helped me when I was young who said on a broadcast that 'he trained Kim Woo-bin in the past.' If I were to receive help from someone else, it might interfere with that person's work, so I just set a personal promise period of 10 years," revealing it was a promise he made to himself.
Yoo Jae-suk asked, "Was that not a promise made with that trainer?" and Kim Woo-bin said, "Not exactly, it was just me. I thought I should let him work comfortably for about 10 years, and now this year is the 10th year," he explained. Yoo Jae-suk asked, "So does that mean after this year passes I can also receive PT?" and Kim Woo-bin replied, "Maybe I'll finally get it once too."
Hearing this, Yoo Jae-suk exclaimed, "Is there such a heartwarming story?" and Yang Se-chan was also astonished, saying, "It wasn't written in a contract or anything..." Kim Woo-bin confessed, "It's not that, it's just me alone. Back when I had no money and was in those days, that person helped me. So I'm grateful."
Yoo Jae-suk said, "Wow, this is really cool," and added, "I thought he went around bragging that person's name everywhere (so I thought that)," and Yang Se-chan agreed, saying, "I thought it was like 'I'm the one who made Kim Woo-bin's shoulders; I raised him here, he's mine,'" Yoo Jae-suk asked, "But wasn't it that the trainer guided you during difficult times?" and Kim Woo-bin nodded and said, "Yes."
Yoo Jae-suk then faced the camera and jokingly sent a message, "Coach, but this is the last year. Please understand that from next year Woo-bin can also receive PT," drawing laughter. Kim Woo-bin said, "When I go on location shoots in the provinces I really like buying a day pass to work out. But sometimes the trainers there get frustrated. When they think 'If he just did this a bit,' they sometimes ask, 'Shall I help you a little?' and I say, 'No, it's okay.' Since I don't do things precisely, they want to help me," he said, conveying that despite that he steadfastly kept his loyalty for 10 years, which drew admiration.
Meanwhile, Yang Chi-seung is well known as the benefactor who allowed Kim Woo-bin to use his gym and provided free personal training during Kim's unknown days. On the broadcast he said, "Originally his shoulders were so narrow people teased him as 'pencil,' but Woo-bin himself is someone who works out diligently and after watching him for four to five years he began to shine." Kim Woo-bin also revealed publicly that his shoulders, which were originally narrow, widened through exercise and that the trainer who helped him was "Yang Chi-seung."
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