"Romance artisan" Chae Jong Hyeop expressed his determination toward In Your Radiant Season.
On the 19th at MBC in Sangam-dong, Seoul, the production presentation for MBC's new Friday-Saturday drama In Your Radiant Season was held.
The event was hosted by Park Kyung-rim, and actors Lee Sung-kyoung, Chae Jong Hyeop, Lee Mi-Sook, Kang Sukwoo, Han Ji-hyun, Oh Yeju, and director Jung Sang-hee attended.
The new MBC Friday-Saturday drama In Your Radiant Season, which is scheduled to premiere at 9:50 p.m. on the 20th (Fri) (planning by Namgoong Seong-woo / screenplay by Jo Seong-hee / directed by Jung Sang-hee and Kim Young-jae / produced by Pan Entertainment), depicts an unpredictable "radiant" romance in which "Chan," a man who lives every day like an exciting summer vacation, and "Ran," a woman who has locked herself in winter, meet as if by fate and awaken frozen time.
On the day, Chae Jong Hyeop explained his reason for joining the project: "The logline immediately caught my eye. 'What season is your life passing through now?' It felt like a question directed at me. The words 'life' and 'season' didn't seem to match at first, but the question itself made me think a lot. Asking this made me curious about 'how Chan will be portrayed in the drama?' and 'from what season will the other characters emerge?' so I chose the project," he said.
In particular, Chae Jong Hyeop said, "To tell you my determination, it's actually been quite a while since I've acted in Korea. So for me it feels like debuting again each time I act. On set I want to capture even the small details every moment, so I'm approaching filming with the mindset of debuting again and doing my best," and added, "Because the previous work (The Judge Returns) did well, I want to say I'm happy. Influenced by that, although this is a different kind of work, I expect it will be a piece that soaks in our own color, scent and sensibility."
Having received great love for romance in the previous drama 'I Love You', Chae Jong Hyeop said, "Honestly, I didn't think of this work as a romance. I thought of it as a coming-of-age story. I also thought the character Sunwoo Chan is someone trapped in winter. I believe that character does not leave winter because he falls in love with someone, but rather, through the help of someone who is in the same wavelength as him, he leaves the place called winter and experiences spring. Because of that, I think he is a person who wants to let Song Ha-ran go through that experience. Those things seem a bit different from my previous work," he added.
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