Cha Eun-woo’s Top K-Dramas, Ranked

Before his enlistment, the K-pop idol made numerous sincere gestures for his fans– he included in IU’s video, “A Beautiful Person,” and after that dealt with fans to an immersive experience with his VR performance, Cha Eun-woo VR Concert: Memorieswhich was evaluated in 21 cities internationally, consisting of Seoul, Los Angeles, and Tokyo. Consequently, he struck the phase with the fan meet-and-greet, The Royalat Kyung Hee University in Seoul and even jammed with Arden Cho for a cover of the tune “Free” from Netflix’s hit animated movie KPop Demon Hunters

Cha Eun-woo’s next huge jobs consist of the extremely prepared for superhero action-comedy drama The Wonderfools along with noteworthy Korean stars like Park Eun-bin, and his launching movie function in Trip with Kang Ha-neul. Before we look forward to these brand-new functions, we’re striking rewind with an appearance back at the K-dramas that have actually specified his acting profession to date. Here are Cha Eun-woo’s leading 5 functions, ranked.

5. Island(2022-2023)

Unfolding on Jeju Island, this webtoon-based dream, action, and scary series stars Kim Nam-gil as Van, a half-human, half-monster; Lee Da-hee as Won Mi-ho, a chaebol heiress banished to the island; and Cha Eun-woo as Yohan, a priest who signs up with forces to remove wicked forces threatening to ruin the world.

Yohan is charming, knowledgeable in exorcism, amusing, and totally committed to redeeming humankind. Cha Eun-woo’s efficiency catches all these elements with subtlety, including layers to the character’s intricacy. He goes to Jeju Island mostly for Mi-ho, who ends up being involved in the secret and scary afflicting the island. Their chemistry includes psychological depth to the story’s otherwise prevalent darkness and worry, humanizing Yohan’s supernatural abilities and grounding him in mankind.

4. Novice Historian Goo Hae-ryung(2019)

3. Real Beauty(2020-2021)

Real Beauty checks out the concept that looks can be tricking, highlighting the message that appeal is just skin-deep. Lim Ju-kyung (Mun Ka-young), the heroine, finds out makeup techniques to camouflage her viewed unattractiveness, and her transformation quickly crowns her the school goddess. “anxious lies the head that uses the crown,”as she fears her real face being exposed. Her growing apprehensions magnify when Lee Su-ho (Cha Eun-woo), the cold and curt school sweetheart, enters her life and ends up being drawn to her.

Cha completely represents Su-ho– peaceful, withdrawn, and major– his cold outside rooted in a distressed past and damaged household. Ju-kyung assists him cope with his long-held sorrow, simply as he assists her conquered her ingrained inability complex.

2. My ID Is Gangnam Beauty (2018)

This hit webtoon-turned-drama follows Im Soo-hyang’s Kang Mi-rae, an university student who goes through cosmetic surgery after years of bullying, just to recognize that the ridicule does not stop– it simply handles a various kind. On the other side, Cha Eun-woo’s Doh Kyung-seok is the program’s good-looking male lead, a strange genius concealing psychological scars. He’s not simply thinking about appearances and succumbs to Mi-rae’s uncomfortable beauty. As they grow better, they recover each other, finding out to look previous looks and value inner charm.

Cha Eun-woo brings a great deal of depth to a perfect-looking, reserved Kyung-seok, flawlessly stabilizing his aloofness with a delicate side that Mi-rae effectively extracts of him. The drama is an insight into love, self-acceptance, and the subtleties of human relationships. At the exact same time, it’s a mockery of social requirements and the significance we put on our check out “Gangnam appeal,” an insulting term for Koreans who have actually had cosmetic surgery to look a particular method.

1. Fantastic World(2024)

Among his most extreme efficiencies to date, the character Kwon Seon-yul, showcases Cha Eun-woo’s growing variety as a star. Fantastic Worldamong our 10 finest K-dramas of 2024, follows well-known psychology teacher Eun Soo-hyeon (Kim Nam-joo), who loses her kid and swears revenge after being rejected justice. She comes in person with an evasive Seon-yul, a moody, safeguarded figure whose life is knotted in a web of criminal offense, deceit, suffering, misconceptions, and above all else, vengeance.

Terrific World meanders through a labyrinth of weaves, eventually coming to styles of repentance and reconciliation in the wake of hard-won confessions. Cha Eun-woo brings his A-game as Seon-yul, carrying a discomfort that’s as extreme as his thirst for justice– all of which he masterfully covers in dreamy appearances that magnify the character’s on-screen existence and effect.