The practical guide to love" (tentatively translated: Love Handbook) is Han Ji Min's latest project after the movies "My Perfect Letter", "Better Than Heaven" in 2025. The work tells about Lee Ui Young (Han Ji Min) - a woman who decides to pursue love and venture into the world of hidden dating.
When meeting two men, Song Tae Seob (Park Sung Hoon) and Shin Ji Soo (Lee Ki Taek) with different attractiveness, she faces difficult choices. This is also the beginning of Ui Young's journey to discover the meaning of true love.
Han Ji Min's role this time is a girl with a successful career but facing difficulties in love. This image was once caught by audiences in the actress with the role of Kang Ji Yoon - a talented CEO in work but clumsy in everyday life in the movie "My Perfect Secretary".
However, in the previous work, in addition to love affairs, the film also explored the topic of the human resources industry, along with age-old stories: having to work overtime, deadline pressure, being oppressed by superiors, losing jobs, being played dirty by colleagues...
In this project, the film's story mainly revolves around the love story of the female lead. And instead of choosing to be single, Ui Young proactively seeks "effective" love. Although the film's motif is not new, the expected factor comes from Han Ji Min's acting.
At the age of 44, the actress still possesses youthfulness, natural acting style, can "weight" many different genres, and the ability to improvise well with co-stars. In the movie "The Practical Guide to Love", Han Ji Min will co-star with Park Sung Hoon and Lee Ki Taek. However, the ability to "carry" the film will be concentrated on female stars.
The reason is that Lee Ki Taek, despite possessing masculine, mature beauty and diverse expressions, an ideal figure, has not made much of an impression in film projects. Meanwhile, Park Sung Hoon was once involved in controversy for posting sensitive photos during the Korean national mourning. The actor even had to give up the main role in the movie "The Bull Demon" due to the noise.
Along with the upcoming movie "The Practical Guide to Love", Han Ji Min is actively considering playing the main role in the movie "Koreans" with Lee Byung Hun. Both actors were invited to play husband and wife roles. Previously, Han Ji Min's role was negotiated by Jun Ji Hyun but was ultimately rejected due to schedule conflicts.
If she accepts, this will be the 3rd project Han Ji Min will star in with Lee Byung Hun. The two have appeared in the TV series "One for All" (2003), "Blues on the Green Islands" (2022), but there is no direct co-shoot because their character plot has no connection.
