Ko Hyun-jung and Ryu Seung-ryong Travel Back Decades With Advanced De-Aging Effects
Nov 06, 2025
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Recently, as the technology of 'De-Aging' has become more common in the drama scene, leading actors are easily returning to their youth to further maximize the sense of immersion in the drama.
Daging technology is a cutting-edge imaging technology that naturally returns an actor's face or appearance to his youth by utilizing artificial intelligence and visual effects. In the past, complex CG work or child actor bands were needed, but now decades of aging can be expressed in a single stroke.
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Director Cho Hyun-tak, who directed the movie, said, `The main character Kim Nak-soo's past contains symbolic moments throughout the work. Blind date meeting with his current wife for the first time, job interview, and scene where he was in sales with Baek Sang-moo when he was a new employee are very important to understand the current Kim Nak-su. "To express it as realistically as possible, I actively considered aging in the sense of revisiting the days of the person, not just CG or 3D."," he said. The makeup and costume team then went through several preparations and began de-aging work by checking the changes in characters on a frame-by-frame basis. I think the moments of the characters' past are interesting and well reproduced," he said.
Director Cho then commented, "'If this experience gives you the necessary settings in the work, I intend to actively utilize aging in the future.'"Daging technology is a good example that can make the work even deeper and richer.'
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Director Byun Young-joo, who was in charge of directing, said in an interview conducted at the time that `I couldn't think of a character that was Jung Shin unless it was Ko Hyun-jung. In the past, actor Ko Hyun-jung also acted (acting), but it was important that the aging technique was set to the desired level" he once said. In fact, director Byun confirmed the technical possibilities after the year-end awards teaser was released and expressed satisfaction with the results. With the help of aging technology, Ko Hyun-jung provided a deep sense of immersion by utilizing the continuity of the character.
Field experts explain "Basically, if a person's features are clear, the age difference of up to 50 years can be naturally realized as well." In the future, aging technology is expected to play a major role in raising the level of completion and emotion of works in various fields such as dramas as well as movies and advertisements.
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