Growing Actor Song Seungheon "I want to be a cool and old actor."

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Who comes to your mind when you think of a 'flower boy actor' who doesn't change even when you're old?

We cannot leave out actor Song Seung-heon, who is still attracting women's hearts with his appearance, even though he has been over 20 years since his debut.

Reporter Park Soon-pyo met Song Seung-heon, who has grown into a representative actor in Korea as he added depth to his acting.

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At the age of 20, I didn't know that modeling, which started insignificantly, would change Song Seung-heon's life.

Some photos of clothing advertisements have even led to popular sitcom appearances.

[Song Seung-heon / Movie star: How did you happen to have a catalog shoot, and a photo of you was casted by the broadcasting station? / It was unimaginable for an actor, and it's like a real child, but I thought people on TV and in movies were designated from a very young age. Someone...]

I worked hard and gained popularity, but honestly, I spent my 20s well without knowing what acting was.

It was a fan who changed Song Seung-heon.

[Song Seung-heon / Movie star] It's a shameful story, but acting was not fun. Is this the right path I want? How long am I supposed to do this? In the meantime, after spending your 20s like that, an overseas fan sent me a letter, and in the last line, there was a phrase, "Live a life while appreciating yourself as an actor and an actor who impresses someone like this." Looking at the letter, I was so embarrassed myself.]

Song Seung-heon, who entered his 30s after serving in the military late, finally begins to wake up to acting.

He became more immersed in his work and became a star actor by hitting the drama East of Eden and My Princess one after another.

[Song Seung-heon / Movie star: It's not easy to have many dramas like that now, but many people like it like the national drama, so the system was very difficult then, unlike now. I have to shoot all night every day, and these days, it's a system and environment that I can't do that, but I think I stayed up three to four days a week at that time.]

The film [Human Addiction] brought the young star Song Seung-heon to one level as a true actor.

[Song Seung-heon / Movie star: When I was young, I was just a righteous man, a decent living man, a man who loved a woman, a typical woman, but in a way, an affair that loves his subordinate's wife is an affair. Can I do that? When I chose a character as an actor with a wider world, it was the work that made me always take human addiction to the next level.]

Now I dream of becoming an actor who makes the work more complete through careful character exploration and more communication with the director.

[Song Seungheon / Movie star: I want to make it richer. I tried to show more ideas in the given script or here, and I talked more with the director, so if something was more passive than before, now I think I changed it to actively make myself more interesting and enriching this work.]

In their late 40s, as they learn the meaning of acting little by little, they learn about their respect for senior actors and their lives together.

[Song Seung-heon / Movie star: Lee Soon-jae, who is still active, and Park Geun-hyung, I know that it's great that these teachers are really acting for 40 years and 50 years. Oh, I want to be an actor who can follow that path as I get older and older like senior teachers, and I think that's my biggest dream and goal as an actor.

Song Seung-heon, who unexpectedly entered the path of acting, but gradually improved without a break, is already strolling toward the best actor in Korea.

I'm Park Soonpyo of YTN.

Reporter: Park Jae-sang, Kwak Young-joo,
Video editing: Park Jae-sang