Wednesday, April 12, 2017

KOREAN HEARTHROB JI CHANGWOOK CAUGHT BY SURPRISE WITH MALAYSIAN WARM WELCOME AND WISH TO COME BACK FOR A TRIP.


tvN movies, World’s first leading channel of Korean blockbusters movies has finally landed in Malaysia.  In conjunction with its launch, tvN has flown one of the famous South Korean actor, Ji Chang Wook to Malaysia. The actor also is in town to promote his first lead movie, Fabricated City which will be showing in Malaysian cinemas on 20 April 2017.

Fabricated City is an action movie that revolves around Kwon Yoo (Ji ChangWook) an unemployed hard core gamer who was framed to be a rapist and murderer in 3min 16 seconds. In this movie, it shows how Kwon Yoo escape from prison and tried to beat the system to prove his innocence with the help of his mutual gamer friends.




Taking place at The Westin Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, April 8, Ji Chang Wook met with the media to discuss on his movie, his role, his next project and also his enlistment. When was asked about his preparation in acting the movie and also the similarity between his character, Kwon Yoo and himself, Ji said that like in his other projects, he didn’t create a new character but he is trying to put himself in Kwon Yoo’s shoes. What will he do if he is caught up in such situation? And regarding the similarity of Kwon Yoo and himself, he said that they are too different. Kwon Yoo fight for the injustice that happened to him but Ji admits that he will not fight like Kwon Yoo does.


Next he is asked about the challenging and memorable moments when filming the movie and if he sustained any injuries while filming, in which he answered that as far as he can remembers all the scenes are challenging to film from the weather difference (it was hot and cold), to the emotional scenes as he need to get into depth of the character that makes him emotionally tired apart from the action scenes which drained him out physically. Regarding the memorable moments he said if he needs to pick the most memorable moment during filming it will be the prison scenes. The prison is pictured as a very scary place in the movie and doing shooting those scenes he admits that he is tired and scared.  He didn’t sustained any major injuries while filming only minor scratches. To avoid any major accident while performing action scenes, they did a lot of rehearsal before filming.

The good looking actor was asked about his impression about Malaysia before came here and does it change somehow upon his arrival and the heartthrob replied that he is always curious about Malaysia and he is very surprised with the overwhelming welcome he received upon his arrival. And if the impression has change or not he can’t really answer that as he hasn’t got the chance to sightseeing and to know more about Malaysia. He said maybe one day he can come back for travelling purpose.

He was then asked about his next project and what is plan upon his mandatory military enlistment, he said he will start shoot a new drama when he go back to Korea. It’s a mystery romantic comedy drama in which it’s his first time trying out such role. He will be playing a role of a prosecutor turned lawyer and he said it’ll be fun. He needs to complete the drama before his upcoming enlistment and if time permits he wants to go for a vacation before enlisting.

Lastly, he was asked if he prefers to act in action genres or other genres as he is more prominent in the earlier genre from his previous dramas such as Healer, The K2 and Fabricated City. The 30 year old said that he likes doing action but he wants to avoid doing that for a while and to try other things as doing actions is physically challenging though it is good. He also wants to try to adapt to different type of role.

Wrapping up the press conference, Ji Chang Wook once again thanked the organizer for inviting him to the launching event in which he can greet the fans and public personally. He is really happy and he promised to work harder in future to give his fans the best of him as an actor for the love and support he has received. 

After the press conference ends, lucky fans get a chance to take a group photo with the talented heartthrob on stage. His fan service continues as he gave a high touch to each lucky fan after the group photo session.


tvN movies is brought to Malaysia by the official iptv partner HyppTV. tvN movies can be viewed on HyppTV (channel 222) from  April 1, 2017 and available on HyppTV Jumbo Pack, Ruby Pack and also Aneka Pack. tvN Movies also can be access via HyppTV everywhere a mobile app that can be downloaded via App Store and Google PlayStore. 





By: Natasha.

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