Actor Lee Min-ho and new actor Kim Min-ha met with former World viewers through AppleTV Plus's OLizynal series Pachinko, which took off its veil on the 25th.
Based on the New York Times bestseller book of the same name by Lee Min-jin, a Korean-American writer, Pachinko is an eight-part drama that solves the hopes and dreams of Korean immigrant families with four chronology. The story that started with forbidden love is a tremendous epic about war and peace, love and separation, victory and judgment, going between Korea, Japan, and United States of America.
Kogonada and Justin Theroux co-directed and co-directed the film and also worked as director and screenwriter for several vacation productions. The second Korean drama 'Pachinko' produced by Apple TV Plus showed one or three episodes first on the 25th.
Lee Min-ho played the role of Hansu, the first lover and broker of the good, and Kim Min-ha played a young good man between the ages of 16 and 22.
Recently, he conducted an online interview with Lee Min-ho and Kim Min-ha, who promoted 'Pachinko' in United States of America Los Angeles. Lee Min-ho, the top star of Asia, gave a sincere answer to the reason why he was fascinated by 'Pachinko' until he participated in the Audition 13 years after KBS 2TV drama 'Boys Over Flowers' and the special experience through this work. Kim Min-ha, who meets viewers for the first time through 'Pachinko', revealed his feelings of the good man who lived with dignity while experiencing a barren life in Japan and Japan.
"I saw Audition 13 years after 'Boys Over Flowers.' I was late on the Pachinko Edition. At the time of the start of the Audition, the drama 'The King' was being filmed, so after the 'The King' was over, I was offered an Audition through the Korea Productions and thought I should participate after watching the script. The Audition process was a good experience for me, and it reminded me of me 13 years ago and I felt like I was being born again because I was in a position to be enthusiastically chosen. I've been watching Audition for three to four months. I've been interviewing, as well as Acting Audition, and I've been receiving Chemistry Audition with other Actors. " (Lee Min-ho)
"I was impressed because there were more conversations than the Audition showing Acting. The crew tried to find something in common with the good and me, and the conversation that seemed to see how much I melted into my daily life was fun. Chemistry Audition was also a meeting place with other Actors who were challenging each other for the role, something that was not experienced in Korea." (Kim Min-ha)
Hansu, who is Acted by Lee Min-ho, is a marine product broker who wears a hat in a pure white suit. At first sight, he falls in love with a good man, but he is already married to Osaka University with a wife and children. The young man, who Kim Min-ha has acted as, is a vital woman born between a father with disabilities and a mother who is making a tough living. I have a child with love with Hansu, but I know that he is married and I choose to go to Osaka University with the evangelist Isaac. How did Lee Min-ho and Kim Min-ha set up and act on two men and women who chose their own path to lead each other like Korea under Japan rule fate?
"It's part of our job to express realism, and this work was especially important to reality, not to express something, but to understand people's emotions in that era. I had a lot of conversations with the writers, Justin Theroux, and the directors of Kogonada. It was a new experience as an actor. 'Pachinko' is a story about emotions that can not be felt in the present age. In it, Hansu is a character who keeps himself in the dark shape of inner with evil. Such a sadness and the darkness of his innerness may be regarded as a bad man when viewers see it, but it came to me heartbreak. One of the things I wanted to express in a central way was to break the refined image of the existing one, but I tried to feel and express the Korean water as it was in the work. " (Lee Min-ho)
"I had to express it deeply as a woman, mother, and lover of an age, but I was more responsible than burdened. I was trying to show myself something, but I was trying to melt in at that moment and keep reminding myself to be real, and above all, I tried to understand the mind of the good man. I lived as if I were a good man, focused on the situation of 'what if I was a good man', and focused on the feelings and thoughts of the good man. The biggest directing you gave me was "Being in the scenes and breathing": it was a common, continuing directing that was the most helpful than any other delicate, detailed directing." (Kim Min-ha)
As Hansu and Seonja in the play fall in love with forbidden love, Lee Min-ho and Kim Min-ha had to show the beginning and end of the love of the two main characters until the process of separation including intense melodrama. Lee Min-ho and Kim Min-ha have spoken about the process of breathing as a hansu and a eunuch, respectively.
"In a way, I always had a lot of romantic characters in a good frame. In this work, the scene where Hansu meets the first Zen was not just about love at first sight. Humans and humans should have expressed a strong attraction, and Hansu should have looked back at the inner and past through the Zen. We had to express explicit love without any filters in places like the sea and mountains, instead of kissing gods or scenes like these expressing in the romantic atmosphere. I shouldn't have expressed it as love that would be in reality. As soon as I was cast for Kim Min-ha and breathing, I tried to know a lot about Minha. In addition to my work, I tried to share the stories she lived and the stories I was living and to feel each other. It's the most important part of the story to meet each other comfortably on set." (Lee Min-ho)
"I've had a lot of conversations on the spot, and I've talked a lot about each other, from the scenes and the characters, to the way they thought about each other and knew them too well on the spot. So I could play it comfortably. Lee Min-ho was so comfortable. Thanks for the whole shoot. When I first heard that Lee Min-ho was cast, I was convinced and I was able to make it easier to immerse myself, I was willing to do a lot of things." (Kim Min-ha)
Lee Min-ho was very encouraging about the favorable reviews of the media in various countries who interviewed during the publicity activities of 'Pachinko' in United States of America. "There was no single negative reaction, it was amazing to have only good evaluations that were suspicious," he said. His analysis of the secret of the popularity of K-contents triggered by Bong Joon-ho's "parasite" and Netflix "squid game" was also worth listening to.
"If I was mainly active in Asia Boundary, I would have come to see various countries through this global press conference. Today, I see Spanish drama yesterday and today I live in a global era where I can watch United States of America drama. Even if you do not want to be interested in it, I think you are living in an era where you can sympathize with and enjoy the culture and life of other countries. As the Korean content is widely known, the Worlds seem to be interested in the parts that the Koreans have worked with passion. "