They also made viewers surprised by their acting and transformation for the characters
Actress Park Min-young became a hot topic recently for losing 37kg for her role as Kang Ji-won in tvN’s new Monday-Tuesday drama “Marry My Husband,” which is scheduled to premiere on January 1 next year. “Marry My Husband” is a drama based on a popular web novel of the same name. It is about a woman who was killed after witnessing her best friend and her husband’s affairs. She returns to 10 years ago and experiences her life for the second time.
Kang Ji-won, played by Park Min-young, is an ordinary Korean woman who spends her days being a wife of an incompetent husband, being ignored by her in-laws and working hard. She gets cancer at a flowery age. Park Min-young reportedly severely lost weight to 37kg to express her character, who struggled with her husband’s affair and cancer.
There are other stars who have endured severe weight loss for their works and characters. Actors Park Seo-joon and Park Sung-hoon are two of them.
Park Seo-joon lost 7kg for the movie “Concrete Utopia.” “Concrete Utopia” is a disaster drama about Seoul in the middle of winter after being devastated by a major earthquake. Park Seo-joon played Min-sung, a resident of room no. 602 of Imperial Apartment, the only remaining building.
For his role in the drama ‘The Kidnapping Day,’ Park Sung-hoon lost 10kg. The actor played Park Sang-yoon, a violent detective. While tracking a kidnap case with quick judgment and cool-headed analysis, he expressed emotional changeswhile facing new truths and unexpected secrets.
Kim Seung Oh lost 16 pounds in just 4 weeks for his role in Missing You
In addition, Ro-woon and Ahn Bo-hyun also reportedly lost weight for their roles.