Wednesday 19 April 2017

Actor Ji Chang-wook Invited to tvN Movies Launch in Malaysia

Rapidly growing number of the ‘Hallyu Wave’ fans can be observed in Malaysia, especially with the high demand of Korean movies to be screened at local cinemas. Therefore, World’s First & Only Korean Blockbuster movie channel, tvN Movies has recently made its way to meet the ‘Hallyu Wave’ fans through HyppTV (CH 222) with a variety of all-time favourite Korean movies, ready to be screened all day long at your home TV screen! In commemoration of the channel launching, actor Ji Chang-wook was invited to promote the channel and also the recently-released movie that he starred in which is ‘Fabricated City’.

Ji Chang-wook greeted the guest of honours and medias from Malaysia and Singapore at a press conference held at The Westin, Kuala Lumpur. He was delighted to be in country and also to promote his movies to the South East Asian audiences. When was interviewed regarding of movie ‘Fabricated City’, the dashing actor mentioned that he prepared a lot, physically and emotionally, for his role in the movie in spite not having any similarity with his movie character. “It was a scary filming place (the prison) from what I remembered so it was tiring and scary during filming process”, said him. Thanks to intense training prior filming, he sustained very minor injuries during filming.

Furthermore, he was also surprised with the big welcome from fans and expressed his interest to come to Malaysia once again for a vacation as he did not have the chance to explore about the country this time. Upon being asked on what genre of film will he starred in next, Ji Chang-wook said that he is currently working on a romantic-comedy drama and it would be his first time acting in such genre and believed it would be interesting throughout filming process. Being aware of his soon-to-come compulsory army training in Korea for 2 years, the actor mentioned he would love to have good time with filming staff and also go for a vacation before going for army.

Press conference ended with group photo session with lucky fans before proceeding to the gala premiere which was held at GSC Pavilion, witnessing a huge number of fans turning up to catch a glimpse of the well-known South Korean actor. ‘Fabricated City’ is also slated to be released at local cinemas on 20^th April 2017.