![]() ![]() In 2016 he starred in the tremendously popular drama W – Two Worlds, winning the Daesang (grand prize) at the year end MBC Drama Awards for his wonderful performance as a James Bond-like cartoon character who pops in and out of the real world. There is a statue of him in Madame Tussaud’s museum in Hong Kong, which he got to unveil himself at the ceremony. Doctor Strangerand Pinocchiomade him a huge star in China, which resulted in him starring in the Chinese film Jade Lovers. In 2014 he became the youngest actor to win the Best Actor award at the 27th Grimae Awards. He next received the male Excellence Award, and eight more (out of the 11 he was nominated for) for his performance in I Can Hear Your Voice. Although he appeared in other TV and film projects (among them the amazing romantic fantasy Secret Garden) it wasn’t until 2012 that he received his first acting award, Best New Actor, for his role in the drama School 2013. Five years later he made his acting debut in the drama Prosecutor Princess and the motion picture Ghost. Lee Jong-Suk, whose role is Jung Jae-Chan, began his career in the entertainment industry as a runway model and in 2005, at the young age of 15, he became the youngest male model to ever participate in the Seoul Collection program at Seoul Fashion Week. Once a case is put to rest, the enormous guilt he feels for being an unscrupulous lawyer is swept away after he literally, washes his hands of the whole thing. Although his heart hates defending the bad guy, his head is always able to justify it. Cover up, set up, and shut up – he’ll stop at nothing to win a case. Once a highly respected prosecutor, he moved on to become an expensive and highly sought after attorney at a big-wig law firm. He desires power, prestige, and money and will do whatever it takes to get them. Talking people into doing things they wouldn’t normally do is no problem for him. Lee Yoo-Beom has always looked out for himself and blamed others for his own mistakes. But Woo-Tak is hiding something, a secret, that if discovered, will end his beloved career as a cop. He sees his new-found ability as a way to catch the bad guys and help his savior. When he is rescued from what would have been a fatal car accident, he begins to have disturbing dreams about the stranger who saved him. He lives alone, with his dog Robin, and wants to be just like his hero, Batman, saving others from the evil people in society. Han Woo-Tak is a junior police officer who absolutely loves his job and is good at what he does. Although he’s the “newbee” of the prosecution team, he is determined to be the upright prosecutor his deceased father wanted him to be and attacks his new career with energy and enthusiasm. When his police chief father told him he hoped he’d become a prosecutor someday, Jae-Chan decided to make his dad’s dream come true. However, when he saw how upset and hurt his father was over his lies, he vowed to never disappoint him again. When Jung Jae-Chan was a teenager he allowed his tutor to talk him into cheating on his schoolwork to avoid pressure from his father about his grades. ![]() She has even seen her own demise which lead her to quit the career she dearly loved in order to try and prevent it from happening. ![]() She foresaw her father’s death and has always blamed herself for not being able to prevent it. Although she has tried to change things, the outcome has always remained the same as what happened in her dream. They are usually warnings of impending doom, details of total strangers in perilous situations. Nam Hong-Joo has been having dreams about the future since she was a young teenager. How and why are their dreams connected, and can they really alter predestined fate? When an ex-TV news reporter, a “newbee” prosecutor, and an impassioned police officer begin to have dreams about one another’s future, they decide to team up in order to change the unfavorable, and sometimes deadly, future that awaits them. He takes Park Hye-Ryun’s superb script and embellishes it with his own brand of creativity and the outcome is an evenly paced, fantastically entertaining work of art! If you wanted to get a degree in film making you would be considered a student of the arts and thanks to director Oh Choong-Hwan that’s exactly what we get with the drama While You Were Sleeping – art. ![]()
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