Bae Hyeon-seong Reflects on Acting Experience With Han Suk-kyu in 'Shin's Project’
Oct 29, 2025
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Bae Hyun-sung recently met with Sports Chosun at a cafe in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, and was interviewed at the end of tvN's Monday-Tuesday drama 『New President Project" (written by Ban Ki-ri, directed by Shin Kyung-soo). Bae Hyun-sung said, "Thank you for your great love for our work from the beginning to the present. I try not to care about ratings, but I think it's right to feel happy and good because it seems to be a number. Since Han Suk-kyu is coming out, I'm happy to hear my parents' acquaintances and friends' parents tell me that they're watching so well.
Cho Phillip, played by Bae Hyun-sung, became a judge by taking an elite legal course. Bae Hyun-sung said "Since he was a friend who worked in the legal world, he showed embarrassment when he came to work at a chicken restaurant, but he seemed to want to show his professional appearance when talking about law. I went to court observation classes, met the lawyer and listened to him, and when I talked about the law, I wanted to make it so that I could speak without getting a single mistake even when memorizing lines, he said.
In particular, Bae Hyun-sung worked with senior Han Seok-gyu through the 「New President Project」. He "He is also a senior, and I've seen him in his work since he was young, so I think he was worried." I thought about whether I could follow it well, and thankfully, I had a lot of opportunities to meet and practice the script and talk before filming. It seems that such awkward and shy situations were solved a lot at that time while meeting and talking two or three times a week. He said, "They take good care of me and always treat me warmly."
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Han Seok-gyu's advice also helped. Bae Hyun-sung said, `I think we prepared not to lose in the scene where we bumped into each other because he said it would be nice to act like 'President Shin' instead of thinking 'Han Seok-gyu sunbae' in the scene. So in the beginning, I felt a lot of time to read the script and talk together. As I practiced with my senior, I didn't feel the pressure of being pressed like that in the field. I think I was able to overcome it well while filming because I experienced this in the script reading"'Hyun-seong, you're good at basic skills, so I hope you always work hard without losing your initial commitment.'" 'Don't forget how you started and what kind of environment you (acted) in the beginning, and work hard with your initial intention' he said."
'New President Project' is a dispute-solving hero drama in which a new president with a mysterious secret solves cases and embodies justice by crossing expediency and compliance. It ended with 9.1% (11 episodes, national standards for Nielsen Korea paid households), its highest ratings. Bae Hyun-sung played Cho Philip, who became a paratrooper at a chicken restaurant overnight from an elite new judge in the play. Adding a strange charm in the face of principleism, he boosted the play's vitality with a priestly bromance with President Shin (Han Suk-kyu), and created a delicate and warm romance chemistry with Zion (Lee).
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