Here are the facts you may not know about Choi Woo Sik.
Over the years, Choi Woo Sik has participated in various successful projects that broke box office records or achieved high viewership ratings. But Choi Woo Sik’s enviable achievements are not obtained by luck, but by his unremitting efforts over the past 10 years.
Recently, he made a comeback to the small screen in the romantic comedy drama Our Beloved Summer. Let’s join us to find out important things you need to know about this handsome and talented actor!
Originally a shy kid
Choi Woo Sik was born in 1990 in Seoul, Korea, but later immigrated with his family to the suburbs of Vancouver in Canada. At that time, the boy Woo Sik was still quite shy, did not have good communication and was not fluent in English, so he was always made fun of by his friends. However, Choi Woo Sik once revealed that changing to fit into Canadian culture has contributed to making it easier for him to adapt on the path to becoming an actor.
Unlike many other actors, Choi Woo Sik got into acting quite late. He originally passed the Computer Engineering exam in Canada, but in 2010, Woo Sik secretly returned to his home country without telling his parents to participate in an audition for a movie when he was only a 20-year-old freshman in college.
The audition did not end well, but because he received good reviews from the judges, he decided to stay in Korea to pursue his dream, despite his family’s objections. He took another college entrance exam and majored in Cultural Studies while diligently participating in auditions. Choi Woo Sik‘s perseverance finally paid off when in 2011, he got his first roles in Living in Style and The Duo.
Journey to become a movie star
With his talent and relentless efforts, Choi Woo Sik has made a name for himself throughout Asia. Since 2012, he has received supporting roles in series and movies such as Rooftop Prince, Secretly, Greatly, Who Are You?, Fated To Love You… In 2014, he earned his first leading role in the coming-of-age film Set Me Free. This movie took his career to the next level. With his performance in Set Me Free, Choi Woo Sik won 7 awards at major arts awards in Korea, including Best New Actor at the prestigious Blue Dragon Film Awards in 2015.
In 2016, he starred in the box office hit Train To Busan and left a strong impression on the audience despite getting a small role. In 2019, he was offered a part in the Oscars-winning film Parasite, which is considered the biggest and most memorable role in his career to this day.
Stir up the box office with Parasite
Parasite is the first blockbuster in Korean film history to win the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. In the movie, he transforms into Ki Woo – the first son of a poor family in Seoul, and it all started when he accepted to work as a tutor for the daughter of an upper-class family. The film depicts the contrast between the lives of the rich and the poor, the opposition so great that it creates tragedy at the end of the film.
Choi Woo Sik‘s acting in the film is highly appreciated by Korean experts, as he has successfully shown the character’s personality just through his eyes. In particular, when the whole Parasite crew went on stage to receive the “Best Picture” award at the Oscars, Choi Woo Sik looked at them and cried.
Dating rumor with Park Seo Joon
Choi Woo Sik has a very close friendship with Park Seo Joon, the male lead of Itaewon Class. The two first met on the KBS2 sitcom Family Trouble in 2013. After that, the two were suspected of having a relationship beyond friendship while filming the kiss scene and were repeatedly spotted hanging out together.
The two are so close that they often appear as cameos in each other’s movies, as evidenced by Seo Joon also appearing at the beginning of Parasite, or Woo Sik also appearing in a scene of Fight For My Way.
Park Seo Joon even joked that if he and Woo Sik are still unmarried by the age of 40, they will get married. The handsome actor’s joke made fans extremely excited and wished them to become a real couple.
5 Best Dramas & Films starring Choi Woo Sik:
- You’re All Surrounded (2014)
- Ho-Goo’s Love (2015)
- Fight for My Way (2017)
- Train to Busan (2016)
- The Witch (2018)
Co-starring Kim Da Mi in Our Beloved Summer
Our Beloved Summer was officially broadcast at the end of 2021. In the drama, Choi Woo Sik takes on the role of Choi Woong, a free-spirited and romantic painting-loving male student. Meanwhile, Kim Da Mi plays the role of Gook Yeon Soo, an outstandingly intelligent female student who is always the top student in her class and has a clear view of life.
Our Beloved Summer is a drama about a couple who met and fell in love ten years ago and then broke up. The two had problems and misunderstandings at that time, to the point where they declared they would never meet again. But 10 years later, fate made the couple accidentally reunite, old memories rushed back, causing both of them to decide to fall in love again.
