Born in 1986, WOO Ji-hyeon had no idea what he would do next when he was in high school. A movie fan, every day he would visit the video rental store and pick a film at random, watch it as soon as he reached home and return it the next day. It was therefore only natural that, one day, WOO considered working in a field related to films. Although he was dreaming of being an actor, he all but kept it to himself as he felt this was an unreasonable idea for someone like him who gr...More

Born in 1986, WOO Ji-hyeon had no idea what he would do next when he was in high school. A movie fan, every day he would visit the video rental store and pick a film at random, watch it as soon as he reached home and return it the next day. It was therefore only natural that, one day, WOO considered working in a field related to films. Although he was dreaming of being an actor, he all but kept it to himself as he felt this was an unreasonable idea for someone like him who grew up far from the capital city and only graduated from an all-boys high school. And yet, he managed to be admitted to the dramatics and film school of Hanyang University, in Seoul, on the sole basis of his academical results, and although he was the only student with no practical experience, with time he was eventually accepted to an acting program. After he debuted on screens with a lead role in <A Fresh Start> (2014), the first feature of director JANG Woo-jin, WOO became in 2015 one of the first students of the Myung Film Lab school. He worked again with JANG on <Autumn, Autumn> (2016) and appeared briefly in the comedies <I Can Speak> (2017) and <Room No. 7> (2017). After participating in several projects from two other Myung Film Lab alumni, <In Between Seasons> (2018) and <Mothers> by LEE Dong-eun, and <Park Hwa-young> (2018) by LEE Hwan, WOO landed a role in the comedy <Inseparable Bros> (2018), his most popular film to date, before reuniting with JANG on <Winter’s Night> (2018).Less