‘Grand Prize’ Park Eun-bin’s emotion, lingering emotion, and resonance

Actress Park Eun-bin received the honor of the grand prize.

Park Eun-bin won the grand prize in the TV category for last year's sensational drama 'Weird Lawyer Woo Young-woo' at the '59th Baeksang Arts Awards' held at Paradise City, Incheon on the 28th.

‘Weird Lawyer Woo Young-woo’ is a drama about the survival of a large law firm by Woo Young-woo (Park Eun-bin), a new lawyer with both a genius brain and autism spectrum disorder. It recorded the highest viewership rating of 17.5% (Nielsen Korea, based on households subscribed to paid platforms nationwide) amid favorable reviews as 'a drama that delivers healing and comfort through a warm story.'

In addition, it ranked first in the drama TV topicality category for 7 consecutive weeks (Good Data Corporation, 5th week of June to 2nd week of August), and ranked first in the most-viewed content in the non-English TV category on Netflix, showing not only work quality but also viewership and topicality. It is a work that captures both gender and gender at the same time.

At the center of this topic was Park Eun-bin. Park Eun-bin maximized viewers' immersion by authentically portraying the pure and lovely side of the main character 'Woo Young-woo'. 'Woo Young-woo', who was completed through his detailed character analysis, delicate expressiveness, and fierce effort, including speech, hand gestures, eyes, and gait, moved forward while courageously confronting the prejudice and absurdity of the world, and the various emotions such as emotion, laughter, and healing conveyed by Young-woo are exhilarating. It left a deep lingering feeling and resonance.

Park Eun-bin shed tears in the joy of receiving the award and said, "Actually, I didn't have a grand dream of playing a part in changing the world, but I hope that through doing this work, I will at least be able to have a kinder heart than before, and that each person's unique characteristics will be different than before." I acted in the hope that people would recognize it as a variety of things rather than as just that. “Thank you from the bottom of my heart for paying attention and following along with each and every step of the way,” he said, expressing his sincerity.

He continued, “I am happy to be able to convey the line ‘My life is strange and eccentric, but valuable and beautiful’ through Youngwoo.” He continued, “I am glad that I can convey the strange and eccentric aspects that I know but others do not, that others know but do not know, and that Youngwoo is valuable. I learned a lot because I felt like it taught me to think beautifully. Even though it was difficult, I want to cherish for a long time the steps that Young-woo took, acknowledging, accepting, and embracing his life with strength.” He expressed his gratitude to those who made the grand prize even more meaningful, including his agency and fan club 'Bingo'.

Ten Asia Reporter Kim Seo-yoon seogugu@tenasia.co.kr