Yunho Jeong, ideal and young CEO

Jung Yun-ho became a young CEO through ‘Race’.

On the 19th, Disney Plus released a still of Jung Yun-ho, who played the role of young CEO Seo Dong-hoon in the original series 'Rays'. 'Race' is an office drama in which Park Yoon-jo (played by Lee Yeon-hee), who has no qualifications but joins a large company due to his passion, struggles to survive in a diverse work life after being embroiled in a hiring scandal.

In the play, Jung Yun-ho plays the role of Seo Dong-hoon and will show the type of representative that Korean office workers want. Seo Dong-hoon is a multi-talented person with promotional planning, design, and PT skills to persuade others. He is the CEO of Earthcom, a public relations agency. Although he is young, he leads the company with a non-authoritative and flexible way of thinking, using his own way of communicating with people that he has developed through a long period of living abroad. As he participates in PT for a brand promotion competition for Seyong, a large company, he meets Park Yoon-jo (Lee Yeon-hee), and while working on a project together, he receives positive evaluations and high trust from people around him through wise choices and actions despite various conflicts of interest.

The released character stills of Jung Yun-ho show various ideal aspects of a young CEO. Leading the company by showing off his versatile abilities, such as staring seriously at the monitor screen to handle work as the CEO of Earthcom, talking with someone while making warm eye contact, and entering the office of a large corporation for a business meeting. It shows the appearance of a young representative.

Jung Yun-ho said, "It was a pleasant start from the first meeting. Working with the actors and staff I met on 'Race' was all fun and happy." He added, “In order to show the flexible side of a young CEO, I prepared the Dong-hoon character by observing a lot of people around me.” Writer Kim Ru-ri said, “Jung Yun-ho’s care for the staff both on and off the set was exactly like Dong-hoon leading the company.”

Meanwhile, 'Race' will be released on May 10th.

Kang Min-kyung, Ten Asia reporter kkk39@tenasia.co.kr