Actor Kim Tae Woo is drawing attention for a striking visual and performance unlike anything seen before.
Kim Tae Woo played the shaman Park Do-cheol in SBS' Friday-Saturday drama No Tail to Tell (written by Park Chan-young · Jo Ah-young, directed by Kim Jung-kwon), which aired on the 23rd–24th. In particular, Kim Tae Woo made his first appearance with half-tied long hair and sunglasses, immediately displaying an unusual presence.
In the drama, Park Do-cheol drew attention with the aspect of a "fox hunter" obsessed with catching gumiho. Park Do-cheol deliberately approached Lee Yoon (played by Choi Seung-yoon), who is in prison, suggested becoming bait for fox hunting by breaking the spell placed on him by the gumiho Eun-ho (played by Kim Hyeyoon). Park Do-cheol's low, muttered voice — "From now on, I'm going to hunt the fox" — was chilling enough to horrify viewers.
After setting a trap at an abandoned construction site, Park Do-cheol performed a grotesque ritual that summoned the vengeful spirit of a stray dog, then showed cruel and frenzied behavior, such as deliberately rubbing Lee Yoon's arm with a butcher's knife to make it smell like a fox. Park Do-cheol's cold gaze and expressions delivered an overwhelming intimidation that instantly turned the show's genre into a mystery thriller.
Also, Park Do-cheol heightened tension by disguising himself as a taxi driver to abduct Kang Si-yeol (played by Lomon) in order to lure Eun-ho. Soon after, Park Do-cheol threatened Eun-ho with a photo-execution sword that could even cut fate, creating a hair-trigger situation. Although he failed to catch the gumiho, Park Do-cheol's meticulous scheme became the decisive cause for Eun-ho's loss of spiritual power and the destruction of the fox bead.
Through No Tail to Tell, Kim Tae Woo demonstrated the depth of his seasoned acting and created a unique shaman character who straddles K-horror and K-fantasy. In particular, while the reasons Park Do-cheol holds a grudge against the gumiho remain shrouded in mystery, Kim Tae Woo filled the character's emotional line through subtle tremors of the mouth corners and eyelids. After Park Do-cheol's threat led to Eun-ho becoming human, attention is increasingly focusing on future developments.
Kim Tae Woo's eye-catching transformation, which stole the scene in every episode, can be seen on SBS' No Tail to Tell, which airs every Friday and Saturday at 9:50 p.m.
[Photo] SBS broadcast screen capture.
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