Son Sukku, Park Hae-il, Lee Jung-jae, Namkoong Min and Song Joong-ki, This Year's Actors of the Year

Leading actors representing Korea shook women's hearts around the world beyond Asia, using the heyday of 'K-Content'.

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Korean luxury actors, who have been reborn as world-wide top stars with solid acting skills and irresistible stars, led the global entertainment syndrome in 2022. Korea's national treasure-class actors performed in all directions between the screen and dramas in 2022. Sports Chosun listed who was the main character who heated up the world this year.

▶ Son Sukku, adored by everyone

Son Sukku is definitely the face that dominated the first half of 2022. Son Sukku, who played the role of Goo, who flowed into Seoul's white-like village Sanpo in the JTBC drama "My Liberation Notes" (written by Park Hae-yeong, directed by Kim Seok-yoon), and gave liberation to the Yeom family, completed his unique character by perfectly melting into "My Liberation Notes". All female viewers were immersed in Yeom Mi-jeong (Kim Ji-won) as Son Sukku showed the essence of 'adult sexiness' full of decadent beauty. Son Sukku, who became the object of everyone's admiration, showed off his charm with a heinous appearance that was 180 degrees different from his previous work in this year's only ten-million-viewer film, "The Roundup" (directed by Lee Sang-yong).

▶ The audience was destroyed, Park Hae-il makes his heyday

In the spring and summer of 2022, the cinema district was literally the heyday of Park Hae-il. Park Hae-il busily visited the audience by presenting two new films in a row with the suspense melodrama "Decision to Leave" (directed by Park Chan-wook) and the war action film "Hansan: Rising Dragon" (directed by Kim Han-min) released in June. In particular, Park Hae-il, who played a polite and clean detective Hae-joon in "Decision to Leave", was invited to the competition section of the 75th Cannes International Film Festival and has renewed his new life character by mass-producing numerous fans who adored him from the film. "Hansan: Rising Dragon" also showed off its presence as the second-generation Yi Sun-sin after Choi Min-sik, who was loved by the people as Yi Sun-sin in the previous movie "The Admiral: Roaring Currents" (2014, director Kim Han-min).

▶ Multiplayer Lee Jung-jae

He is on a roll with the energy of the whole universe to the point where everyone thinks it's his third peak of his career. Lee Jung-jae, who premiered a global hit with Netflix's original series "Squid Game" (written and directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk), was even recognized for his hidden directing skills with his debut spy film "Hunt", for the first time in his 29-year career. Lee Jung-jae is so talented in acting, directing, and star performing that he is called a 'fraud character', performed as a multiplayer. At the 43rd Blue Dragon Film Awards, he was named the first actor-turned-new director award winner in Blue Dragon history, adding a new record. In addition, he proved his popularity worldwide by winning the first Korean actor's best actor award in the TV drama category at the 74th US Prime Time Emmy Awards. Currently, he has been cast for the first time as a Korean actor in the Disney+ "Star Wars" series, "The Acolyte", making the world excited once again.

▶ Trusted actor Namkoong Min

Namkoong Min, whose name value is not a waste with guaranteed ratings is also a star actor representing K-drama this year. Namkoong Min, who showed off his perfect match with SBS, came back with "One Dollar Lawyer" (written by Choi Soo-jin, Choi Chang-hwan, directed by Kim Jae-hyun-IV, and Shin Joong-hoon) two years after the "Stove League" (written by Lee Shin-hwa, directed by Jeong Dong-yoon), which ended in 2020. Namkoong Min transformed into the most cost-effective legal hero that can be met with a 1,000-won bill, making viewers laugh and cry. Above all, Namkoong Min completed his unique visuals with colorful suits and sunglasses fashion that he never took off even at night, and created an unprecedented character called 'King of Lawyers' with his hateful words and mysterious expressions.

▶ Song Joong-ki saves JTBC's face

The main character who properly captivated the drama scene in 2020 is Song Joong-ki, who made a comeback as the third generation of the Soonyang family chaebol. Song Joong-ki, who saved the face of JTBC's drama, which was on the verge of dying due to a crushing defeat in ratings, grabbed JTBC's ratings by the collar through the Friday-Saturday-Sunday drama "Reborn Rich" (wrtitten by Kim Tae-heui and Jang Eun-jae, directed by Jeong Dae-yoon and Kim Sang-ho-III). In "Reborn Rich", he performed enthusiastically as Jin Do-joon, who returned to the youngest grandson of Chairman Jin Yang-cheol and Yoon Hyeon-woo, who is loyal to the owner's family as a problem solver. "Reborn Rich" which broke the highest ratings in each episode, is adding to the favorable reviews with Song Joong-ki's passionate acting without holes, his close-fitting characters, and Lee Sung-min's fantastic chemistry. Song Joong-ki, one of the actors with an outstanding vision, reigned as a major shareholder in each work, showing his presence as an unrivaled 'entertainment king' in his home turf.