Cho Hyun: Last News

Matt Minton mminton@variety.com Park Sung-hoon knew there would be pressure placed on him after taking on the role of Cho Hyun-ju, a trans woman in “Squid Game” Season 2 who participates as a player in the games in order to help fund her gender-affirming surgery. “I was quite amazed at the opportunity — I felt like as an actor it was going to be quite the challenge,” Park tells Variety.

It seems Korean star Park Sung-hoon took’s tagline “Let nothing hold you back” to heart when he opted to sign up for the current Season 2. In the hit series, Park plays a prominent character named Cho Hyun-ju, a transgender woman with a military background who enters the games hoping to secure winnings to complete her gender-affirming surgery. 

Squid Game actor Park Sung-hoon has spoken about his trepidation playing a transgender character in season two of the show, given that the actor is a cisgender man.In the hit season, the actor plays the prominent character Cho Hyun-ju, a transgender woman with a military background entering the deadly game to fund her gender-affirming surgery. There was some controversy at the casting, although Park was mindful of the risks from the startIn an interview with Variety, he said: “I was quite amazed at the opportunity — I felt like as an actor it was going to be quite the challenge.

Bae Suzy, all nominations underwent strict screening by a panel of 60 evaluators, industry judges and experts, whose specialties range from TV to theatre.Only one Grand Prize (Daesang) is given out at the Baeksang Arts Awards for film, with this year’s going to director Kim Sung-su for his work on historical action film 12.12: The Day. The same film also bagged the award for Best Film, while Best Director went to director Jung Jae-hyun for his work on psychological thriller him Exhuma. Meanwhile, for television, the only Grand Prize (Daesang) was awarded to Disney+’s popular series Moving. Screenwriter Kang Full also won Best Screenplay for his work on Moving, while Lee Jung-ha’s debut performance on the same show as Kim Bong-seok landed him the award for Best New Actor.The Baeksang Arts Awards also gave out accolades under a third category for theatre, as well as a final special category of awards presented to two winners for Prizm Popularity Awards in both the male and female categories.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent CAA has come on board to advise on the worldwide sales of “Pleasant Outcast,” the post-apocalyptic Korean thriller series from Lotte Cultureworks (“Along With the Gods: The Last 49 Days”) and Climax Studio. “Pleasant Outcast” is set to premiere at Canneseries, which kicks off April 5. The 10-part series is a companion piece to the Korean box office smash hit film “Concrete Utopia,” which was selected as South Korea’s Oscar contender and sold to 185 countries.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “Pleasant Outcast,” a 10-part Korean series that is set to appear at Canneseries next month, is a companion piece to “Concrete Utopia,” the hit film from last year that was selected as South Korea’s Oscar contender. Both the Lotte Cultureworks series and “Concrete Utopia,” a dystopian drama-thriller set in a post-apocalyptic Seoul, are adapted from best-selling webtoon “Cheerful Outcast,” by Kim Soong Nyung. The film was frequently compared to William Golding’s seminal novel from the 1954 “Lord of the Flies” and its 1964 film adaptation. Using the first part of the webtoon, the series follows Dong-hyun, a high school junior, who barely survives his day-to-day bullying at school.

Parasite actress Park So-dam recently opened up about her battle with papillary thyroid cancer in a new interview.Park So-dam recently guest-starred in the most recent episode of Urban Zakapa member Cho Hyun-ah’s YouTube talk show. She appeared alongside actor Seo In-guk, her co-star on upcoming K-drama Death’s Game.When asked about her recovery journey while she was diagnosed with cancer, Park admitted that it was not an easy hurdle to overcome.

Jay Park has opened up about his place as an “older” artist in the K-pop industry.In a new episode of URBAN ZAPAKA singer Cho Hyun-ah’s YouTube show Thursday Night, Korean-American singer Jay Park discussed his new K-pop label MORE VISON and his recent shift to producing and managing artists.“I wouldn’t say that I’m a superstar,” he said when Cho referred to him as one, per SBS Star. “I don’t consider myself a star anymore.

Squid Game. Kim recently appeared on the South Korean radio show Cine Town on SBS POWER FM, alongside actor Cho Hyun-chul, on November 7.

SHINee’s Key has spoken about his experience with burnout, recalling a time when he “started crying my eyes out for no reason”.The singer recently made an appearance on Thursday Night, the YouTube show hosted by Cho Hyun-ah of URBAN ZAPAKA.During the episode, Key got candid about his recent concerns. “I’m kind of scared that I will never be able to go back to having my usual day-to-day life because of how hectic I currently am,” he said before recalling a specific moment this year when he had to stop filming because he was “getting way too emotional all of a sudden”.“This never happened to me before, but I just couldn’t continue with the shoots anymore,” he continued.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief More than 600 buyers from companies in 30 countries are expected to be in Seoul, South Korea from Wednesday for the in-person return of the Broadcast WorldWide convention, better known as BCWW. Although BCWW bills itself as Asia’s largest broadcasting content market, given the strength of the Korean wave, much of the focus will be on Korean content and the business of working with Korean companies. Registered buyers and potential partners include Amazon Prime, Warner Bros. Discovery, NBCUniversal, PCCW the Hong Kong-based owner of Viu, and China’s iQiyi, all of which have already become purveyors of K-programming. “For the past 22 years, BCWW has served as a foundation for K-content to garner the global attention it is getting today,” said Cho Hyun-rae, president of the government-backed Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA). He added that he expects KOCCA and BCWW to “provide continuous support for K-content.”