As “Gaksital” has been leading the rating among other dramas in the same time slot, people also start to take more attention to Joo Won’s acting. He’s been improved a lot and I think we really have to appreciate it. His character as the wounded Lee Kang To is difficult, that’s true. He had to change his expressions many times, from the easy going person who has a big ambition and obsession to the very serious one that presents him as a person with a huge burden on his shoulders. He also had to be very explosively  emotional in many scenes and of course it required lots of energy, but most importantly skill. So how he got his acting skill improved significantly?

Joo Won said that “Special Investigation Unit” was a very new chapter in his acting experience. There he had a great opportunity to work with high-caliber seniors such as Uhm Tae Woong, Jaeon Jin Yeong, Kim Jeong Tae, and Seong Dong Il. He learned many different styles of acting, as each of the seniors has his own specialty. He watched them work and learned so many things from them. He also said for Gaksital he dig into the character very carefully before the production started filming, so he could put the most proper acting for each of the scene.

So this young man really did work hard for his acting skill. He used to be known more as an actor who sings well, but now…he’s good in both Hmm…he’ll be competing with Uhm Tae Woong for the Daesang Award this year, for sure. 

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The two sexy men have developed a good relationship since the filming of the movie and Joo Won just couldn’t hold his admiration to his senior. Well of course in a brotherhood context. Joo Won kept praising Uhm Tae Woong as a very kind person that he really really like him. He got along with the calm Tae Woong very quickly. And he wouldn’t hesitate to ask, “Have you eaten, Hyeong?” and he knew that his over-care to Tae Woong sometimes made him embarrassed. But if you watch “2 Days 1 Night”, you’ll know that Tae Woong is basically a shy person, but he’s a very cool guy who gets along with his juniors very well.

[by Rizz]

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Actually i just wanna share the photo above, Joo Won as Ho Ryong on “Special Investigation Unit”.  This picture is too cool to keep all by myself. And turn out with his appearance in his first movie, Joo Won becomes the hot topic, especially his hair style. For this movie, Joo Won changed his usual hairstyle in such a different way that made him look like of one of Dragon Ball’s figures. But i think with that hair style, he looked more manly and sexier.

In this movie, Joo Won has to portray a character of a genius but stylist police man,oh yeah a genius doesn’t have to look like a nerd, right? Especially if he’s as handsome as Joo Won. . Actually this movie reminds me about Will Smith and Martine Laurance’s movie, “Bad Boy”. Ho Ryong, who is aware about his appearance, looks like Will Smith’s character on that movie.

So far, this movie where he acted alongside Uhm Tae Woong getting much attention from public. Besides his good looking, his acting skill also gained  compliments. Congratulation, Joo Won-ssi! I think, It’s  a good start for your career in the movie industry.

[by Blossom]

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After a week being released “Special Investigation Unit” (특수본) become box office in South Korea.  Since officially  released on November 24th, this movie managed to gain over 50.000 viewers. Uhm Tae Woong and Joo Won’s duet are the selling point of this action movie. They successfully attract the audience to come to the cinema. So, maybe because of that, on December 1st, the official released special poster, quite different from the posters released before, this time the poster  just shows the two leading characters: Seong Beom (Uhm Tae Woong) and Ho Ryong (Joo Won).

With this poster it seems the official of the movie wants to tell the public that it is a real action movie, and hope it will be get more viewers. In this poster,  Uhm Tae Woong and Joo Won aim the gun with serious expression and sweat.  They both look so cool and hot at the same time… oh maybe i got the fever. 

[by Blossom]

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Joo Won’s name has been recently a talk in town and among netizen because his face has been around again through his currently airing drama “Ojakgyo Brothers” and very recent movie with Uhm Tae Woong, “Special Investigation Unit“.

In an interview with Newsen just very recently, they asked him about the reason of his cry around a year ago when Yoon Shi Yoon received an award for his role as Kim Tak Gu in “Baker King Kim Tak Gu“, Joo Won just said “That’s the fact (the cry)” with smile and laughter. He said there’s no words could explain that moment. He said that during the filming of his debut drama, “Baker King Kim Tak Gu” he was there together with Yoon Shi Yoon trying their best with hard work. He also knew very well how hard it was for Yoon Shi Yoon to bear a responsibility as the leading character and seemed to become one with the character itself, Kim Tak Gu. So crying is the ultimate expression of his whole emotion that couldn’t be replaced by any words.

So even though he said he never really cry (before), Joo Won is a 25 years old man with a tender heart. Even though he has gained a fame, he’s still just a young man who loves being himself like singing along with music he listens to and other things.

Well, some say he sings better than acts. Joo Won does have a good voice anyway

Furthermore, Joo Won said that he learned so much about life from his grandfather. His grandfather was a very generous man who could give scholarships to students he didn’t know or to give money to the needy. His grandfather said that he should have that kind of live, too, being generous. His grandfather thought him how to give without expecting any rewards in life and how to be able to care more to other people.

Bottom line is, this sexy guy has a good and honest heart. Good thing he had a good grandfather. How can we not fall for him?   

[by Rizz]

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Since his debut on 2010 Joo Won has gained public’s attention through his role on”Baker King, Kim Tak Gu”, even just as a second lead man on that drama, his acting was really appreciated. I like his pseudo-antagonist role, as Goo Ma Jun, with his cold expression he managed to show a heartless figure, but i still can’t hate Ma Jun, I saw that role  just a young guy who was pursuing his happiness. He wasn’t that evil.

After Goo Ma Jun, on 2011 his comeback with second small screen project “Ojakgyo Brothers”, his role as a cool detective, an investigation detective, Hwang Tae Hee, still got the cold personality from Ma Jun, but Tae Hee looks lighter and fresh, even sometimes he looks so adorably naive facing his special feelings for Baek Ja Eun (Uee’s character). but he really suits his role.

And also this  year he’s trusted to work on movie project titled “Special Investigation Unit” (특수본) with seonbae-deul like Uhm Tae Woong, Jung Jin  Yeong, and Song Dong Il. It’s pretty heavy task for him in the first movie that he must act alongside with Uhm Tae Woong. Thank goodness, Uhm Tae Woong is really kindhearted senior, he is willing to share knowledge about acting to Joo Won, and Joo Won is very helpful to him as well.

On this movie Joo Won and Tae Woong will pair as colleagues, both act as policemen. Tae Woong act as Kim Seong Beom, the investigation detective and Joo Won plays as Kim Ho Ryong, a crime analyst. Joo Won the brain and Tae Woong the hand.

Actually the filming process quite heavy for Joo Won as physical, while filming he had fainted and had to be taken to the hospital. Even he works behind the desk and always (almost) wearing the monkey suit. In this action movie Joo Won is also  involved in some fighting scenes. Soon his work hard will be paid, the movie will be released on November 24th.

On this movie Seong Beom has to unveil a brutal mysterious murder case, even he has a sharp instinct on his job,  he still  need help from FBI’s protege, Kim Ho Ryong, a crime analyst. Maybe the atmosphere of  this movie will not be different from my favorite crime series like “CSI”, “NCIS” and “Criminal Mind”, full of criminal psychology. From this role, Joo Won learn about criminal behaviour, he realized that his role, a genius crime analyst, is really important in resolving the case.  Every movement of criminal has meaning which can reveal the personalities of criminals, so that will help the police to investigate the criminal case.

Joo Won feels lucky and very grateful since from his first movie, he got a lot of valuable experience.

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