I'm not familiar with him, but I see one of his early roles was in You're All Surrounded, which I enjoyed.

At the beginning of THE MIDNIGHT STUDIO as we approached half way with the ghost of the week format still in play I thought it would go on my 2024 list of favorites. Unfortunately the second half determined that it will not. (So right now on my 2024 favorites list I have the two flowers: SAND and KNIGHT).
TMS was my first Joo Won drama and I enjoyed his performance. I look forward to his future projects. I have always liked Kwon Nara. They were a nice couple Lol the three male leads ALL had ‘bad’ hair. The production company skimped there.
I contrasted TMS with a drama that became a totally unexpected favorite OCN’s MISSING:THE OTHER SIDE (2020) (Viki US) (one of those dramas that helped me get through that pandemic year). I was hoping to have the same satisfaction but it didn’t happen.
I agree with this who thought Samchon(Park Ki-woong) got short changed.

Thank you Minnie! You take care too.

Emma, feel better soon. I work with kids too and hear you.

So he's absolutely hilariously excellent in Welcome to Waikiki, one of my favorite comedies. Park Sung-woong has a hilarious cameo role in the drama, and he and Lee Yi-kyung reunited in the funny movie Bear Man, which I also recommend!! (Available on Viki US)

Yay for NGM, I rooted for him!

MY DEAREST as a whole for Best Drama tho? I mean, if we only take into account like first 6 episodes of Season1, then sure, but afterwards... hmmm.

I like Honey Lee and totally believe she delivered despite me not watching her drama, but poor AEJ, hope she got at least a few votes for her performance in MD.

REVENANT not getting Best Drama because it 100% was for me Best Directing is baffling - acting aside (there cannot be any reasonable explanation of KTR and OJS not being nominated other than them winning before recently), it was the best thing about the show, NOT the script (you can fit a fully grown sandworm into one of plotholes there!).

Seeing LYK nominated feels surreal, he's finally getting places)))

Overall, this was a year when a lot of deserving actors got overlooked due to "can't fit them all" problem, which is a damn shame.

Kiara, thanks for sharing your insights. It is a pity that younger film actors are not able to have a stable and self-sustaining film career. As venerated as these older male actors are, succession planning is also vital in this area of arts. The hierarchical nature of SK arguably asserts its power through the older actors expecting and receiving high regard. It can be frustrating and confining for the younger talented film actors even if they will never publicly voice it.
Is my impression correct that the influential film actors are overwhelmingly middle age to much older male actors?

I didn’t either. She was holding in her grief so tightly but it was impossible not to witness it in every gesture she made and word that she spoke. I hope that since her friend’s death, she has had therapy, was surrounded with ample love, had distractions and got to have some restorative fun.

I liked this drama best when it was doing episodic ghost-of-the-week stories. Those should inevitably yield eventually to some resolution of the curse for our leads, but I wish they had done at least one more - I think it would have been more balanced that way. It was also kind of strange that in this world of extreme interconnectedness, that the last episodes felt a bit... disconnected from the earlier ones. Or was that because I waited to watch the last three together? Unclear.

Dramaland remains more comfortable than me with "happily for now" endings (rather than "happily ever after") and so I mostly feel sort of sad about Sung-ho and Ji-won's relationship. This whole time it seemed like we were building to the kinds of sad but beautiful goodbyes we got at the end of Hotel del Luna, so I was fully expecting them to fall in love and "date" for a little while, but then for him to realize he needed to leave so she could move on with her life. In my imagination they had some happy weeks, he helped her get rid of the awful boss who killed him, and then they would meet in person for the first and last time at the studio where they would affirm their love and he would tell her to find someone else when he left. I'd be over here, happily crying into my hot chocolate. What we got was cute, but felt incredibly incomplete to me. There is no way she isn't lonely (or will be eventually) and he is not really doing the thing he should be, the thing that all ghosts are supposed to do, which is pass on into the next stage. All he's doing right now is ignoring the fact that he's dead, which doesn't feel sustainable to me. Ah well.

In the end I liked that Ki-joo had to return the camera to save Bom. I'm not sure he would have done it if it had been to save himself, and I think it's right that he be the one to go to resolve his family legacy. And I loved that it was the little boy who came to get him and lead him out (this was a role I was actually hoping would go to our uncle, but I'm happy with this outcome also) - it made me feel the connection to the earlier episodes again, which I appreciated.

I didn’t realise her friend had passed, that’s very sad but her speech makes more sense now, thanks.