2024 is an unforgettable year in Byun Woo Seok's career. His name became famous worldwide thanks to his idol Ryu Sun Jae in the movie Running on Your back.
Thanks to her warm and convincing role in a fantasy and romantic comedy, the Korean star topped the vote for best actor of Joy News 24 magazine with 56 votes.
In addition, Byun Woo Seok also became the first actor to top the two categories of TV series and non-dramatic in Korea. According to Good Data, this is an unprecedented record in 10 years of this unit conducting a survey on the level of popularity.
Recently, in a conversation with Korea's Elle magazine, Byun Woo Seok was proud to look back on his successful year as a trendy actress.
I am grateful that everything has come to me and plan to give my all as I move forward. I believe that making every effort in every moment of life is the only way I can be truly proud of myself. I want to maintain this mindset and continue to maintain it, he said.
Talking about continuously appearing in many works about the journey of maturity of youth, such as "Youth Diary", "Girl of the 20th Century", "Running with You", the actor said that it was the way he accepted the challenge, even though at that moment, he was living with his own youth.
Revealing about the upcoming film Wife of a 21st Century Prince, Byun Woo Seok said: As soon as I read the script, I wanted to participate in this project. I hope the audience will look forward to seeing a new side of Byun Woo Seok that I have never shown before.
He added that he had a short chance to collaborate with IU in the movie Moonlight Lover and that experience left many good impressions, so he really look forward to this reunion.
Wife of a 21st Century Prince is set in a modern-day monarchy, telling the romantic love story between Sung Hee Joo - a rich heiress who is not satisfied with her regular status and Lee Ahn - the unreal Prince.
The film is expected to air in the second half of this year on MBC (Korea).
