Summary
- Park Seo-joon's K-drama characters are diverse but share humor.
- Comedy is a common thread in his roles, from Dong-man to Tae-sang.
- Even in a horror series like Gyeongseong Creature, Park Seo-joon's performance brings humor.
Park Seo-joon’s most successful Park Seo-joon’s movies and K-dramas includes titles like Fight For My Way, What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim, Itaewon Class, Concrete Utopia, and Gyeongseong Creature, the last of which returns for season 2 later in 2024.
Between coming-of-age stories and romantic comedies, Park Seo-joon has brought to life a lot of compelling, charming characters. A versatile actor, Park has gone from struggling young adults to successful CEOs and everything in between. In Itaewon Class, for example, Park gives a more subtle performance compared to the one in What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim. Although the actor brings something different to each of his characters, his best K-dramas all have one thing in common.
Park Seo-joon’s Best K-Drama Characters Are All Funny (In Different Ways)
Park Seo-joon’s comic timing is always on point
One thing that can be said about most of Park Seo-joon’s characters, if not all of them, is that they are funny. Although this does not mean that the characters are all similar, Park Seo-joon has managed to bring a level of comedy to his most important roles. It must be noted that the humor in a romantic comedy like What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim is not the same one from a slice-of-life, coming-of-age series like Itaewon Class. Still, Park’s characters in K-dramas are generally funny in their own way.
In Fight For My Way, for example, Park Seo-joon plays the hilarious Dong-man. Young and naïve, Dong-man delivers the funniest scenes of the show and can lighten up the mood even in the most dramatic situations. What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim also sees Park Seo-joon in a hilarious role, although for different reasons. Young-joon is the epitome of narcissism, to the point he can’t be in a relationship because he believes no one is good enough for someone as perfect as him. His interactions with Park Min-young's Secretary Kim are incredibly funny.
Fight For My Way’s Dong-man Is Still Park Seo-joon’s Funniest Character
Park Seo-joon is hilarious in Fight For My Way
Even though it was released seven years ago, Kim Ji-won in Queen of Tears. Fight For My Way follows a group of four friends who have known each other since they were kids, and whose lives did not turn out to be what they dreamed of. Once the school’s popular athlete, Dong-man failed to become a professional despite his love for taekwondo.
Park Seo-joon's Most Recent K-Dramas |
Year |
Character |
|---|---|---|
Gyeongseong Creature |
2023-2024 |
Jang Tae-sang |
Itaewon Class |
2020 |
Park Sae-royi |
Record of Youth |
2020 |
Song Min-soo (cameo) |
What's Wrong with Secretary Kim |
2018 |
Lee Young-joon |
Fight for My Way |
2017 |
Ko Dong-man |
While his career was cut short, Dong-man continued to have a positive attitude toward life. Park Seo-joon’s character in Fight For My Way has a level of innocence to him that makes him both charming and hilarious. It is no surprise that Fight For My Way was one of Park Seo-joon’s breakout roles as a leading man. Dong-man steals the show in Fight For My Way, from the comedic scenes to the romantic ones. Young-joon in What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim is arguably a close second when it comes to Park Seo-joon’s funniest characters.
Even Park Seo-joon’s Horror K-Drama Role Had Funny Moments
Gyeongseong Creature’s Tae-sang is funnily selfish
Park Seo-joon’s most recent K-drama role, Tae-sang from Gyeongseong Creature, was also quite funny even though the series deals with heavy themes. Set in the final days of World War II, Gyeongseong Creature explored the horrors of Unity-731 with a fictional story that also included elements of science fiction. Tae-sang, who discovers the truth about the Ongseong Hospital’s experiments, is initially almost as selfish as What’s Wrong Secretary Kim’s Young-joon. After losing his mother in terrible circumstances, Tae-sang swore that he was going to value his life over anything and anyone.
This Gyeongseong Creature Season 2 Theory Would Make Park Seo-joon & Han So-hee’s Reunion Really Awkward
The most popular Gyeongseong Creature season 2 theory would make the reunion between Park Seo-joon and Han So-hee’s characters very awkward.
Tae-sang was one of Gyeongseong’s most famous bachelors, yet he could not get into a relationship because he only thought about himself. Things change once he meets Chae-ok, a character played by Han So-hee, who sees through Tae-sang and causes him to change. Tae-sang’s journey from someone who wants to survive no matter what to a hero who is ready to sacrifice himself for others brings lots of laughter in Netflix’s historical K-drama, especially when he refuses to it that he is in love with Chae-ok.
Fight For My Way is streaming on Viki; What's Wrong With Secretary Kim is streaming on Hulu; Itaewon Class and Gyeonseong Creature are streaming on Netflix.
Gyeongseong Creature
- Release Date
- December 22, 2023
- Directors
- Chung Dong-yoon, Roh Young-sub
- Writers
- Kang Eun-kyung
Cast
Park Seo-joon
Han So-hee
WHERE TO WATCH
Gyeongseong Creature is an action horror-thriller television series that Kang Eun-kyung and Chung Dong-yoon created for Netflix. Set in 1945 during the Japanese occupation of Korea, Jang Tae-Sang, a wealthy informant in the heart of Gyeongseong, and Yoon Chae-ok, a highly skilled investigator, come together to face a literal creature created from the cumulative greed of humanity.
- Seasons
- 2
- Streaming Service(s)
- Netflix
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