Park Jinyoung, are you sure you're the same person? Hot and unknown Seoul X Cold and High Five transformed to an extreme twist

By Jeeyoung, Jo

Jun 05, 2025

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Park Jinyoung, are you sure you're the same person? Hot and unknown Seoul X Cold and High Five transformed to an extreme twist
The movie 'High Five" was held at Yongsan CGV on the 26th. Park Jinyoung is having a photo time. Reporter Heo Sang-wook wook@sportschosun.com /2025.05.26/



Actor Park Jin-young captivated viewers and audiences with his dramatic and unexpected charm between hot and cold baths.

Through tvN's Saturday-Sunday drama 'Unknown Seoul' (written by Lee Kang, directed by Park Shin-woo) and the film 'High Five' (directed by Kang Hyung-chul, produced by Annapurna Film), Park Jin-young proved the true value of 'immersive acting' across genres by convincingly digesting two completely conflicting characters.

Park Jinyoung, are you sure you're the same person? Hot and unknown Seoul X Cold and High Five transformed to an extreme twist
In tvN 'Unknown Seoul', Park Jin-young plays Lee Ho-ho, a lawyer with a complicated inner side behind his calm and rational side. In the broadcast on this day, he felt that the future (Park Bo-young) was the land of the past and captured the flow of emotions between confusion and obsession. He then expressed the psychology of a character who was engulfed in lethargy and anxiety after resignation in a realistic way by using his understated gaze, subtle facial expression changes, and breathing sounds. His performance, which vividly depicts the cracks of the character without revealing his emotions, raised the immersion of the play.




Park Jinyoung, are you sure you're the same person? Hot and unknown Seoul X Cold and High Five transformed to an extreme twist
On the other hand, in the movie 'High Five', he showed an intense transformation into a cold and crazy villain. Park Jin-young played Young-chun, a young pseudo-relative, as a two-person role with Shingu. Densely depicted a person who gains superpowers after a pancreatic transplant and takes away the abilities of other transplants for eternity. Despite being his first villain challenge, he built up the reality of the narrative by convincingly unraveling the character's desires and madness with a restrained tone and sharp gaze.

As soon as Park Jin-young appeared, he dominated the atmosphere of the work and raised tension. In the confrontation scene with the five characters with superpowers, he acted as the worst villain with a humorous and threatening aura. In addition, Park Jin-young even performed live action in this work. Park Jin-young's action, which leads the second-half climax, went beyond simple movements and exploded the character's obsession and desire into action play. In addition, Park Jin-young, who met the great actor Shin-gu as a two-person role, strongly decorated the peak of the play by acting completely without any sense of difference in appearance as well as the flow of emotions.

As such, Park Jin-young is expanding his spectrum as an actor by digesting conflicting characters, from realistic idealists to harsh villains. His performance, which carefully analyzes the characters in each work and adds delicate variations to the emotional line, simultaneously raises the level of immersion and narrative completion, adding to expectations for his next move.




Meanwhile, 'Unknown Seoul' starring Park Jin-young will air every Saturday and Sunday at 9:20 p.m. on tvN, and the movie 'High Five' is currently being screened in theaters with high praise.



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