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👤 but setting the character aside, as byeon wooseok, what does byeon wooseok do in front of fear? 🐶 there are moments when i make seemingly bold choices. if the fear is just an everyday fear, i think i'd be afraid, but if it's a fear that requires me to bet something huge, i will just bet it and crash right into that fear.

👤 because you cried so much during your first fanmeeting two years ago. while traveling all over the world too. 🐶 puhahahaha. i won't cry, seriously. because i've grown 2 years older now. 👤 for my last question, i noticed there is a slow mailbox event planned for your fan meeting. fans write postcards and get them sent a year later. what if you dropped a postcard into that mailbox too? 🐶 huh! i didn't think of that? hmm..., i would write this. you're doing well, right? 👤i will send it to you in 1 year. 🐶 thank you. i'm curious. if i'll be doing well a year from now.

👤 then what is the ending of dear my friends that byeon wooseok imagines? aside from the plot, what do you think the conclusion on life's perspective was? 🐶 while watching that project, i didn't imagine the backstory thinking 'because of this, it must have turned out that way', instead, i mostly just thought about treating my precious people better. i should be better to the people i consider precious, and the meaning of 'lets do well' remained with me.

👤 to confess, i couldn't watch dear my friends to the end. i watched up to ep 13. 🐶 hahahahaha. still, you watched almost all of it. 👤 the reason i cannot watch the next ep is... 🐶 because it's too sad? 👤 because it's too sad. were you the same way, wooseok-ssi? 🐶 i think i felt the same way. i don't remember exactly, but it was difficult to face the sad scenes, so i think i avoided them for a bit. 👤 if there is a beginning, development, turn, and conclusion in life, from episode 13 is like a point heading towards the conclusion. if life has joy, anger, sadness, and pleasure, this is like the moment you have to confront sadness. 🐶 right, right. but i think it's okay to watch up to there. i really like watching movies or dramas to the end, but i also think you don't have to watch to the end. you can make the ending with your own imagination. it is each person's choice. it's each person's choice.

byeon wooseok interview for GQ korea august 2026 issue - full translation 👤 when did you cry recently? 🐶 wow... when did i cry? wait a minute. (4 seconds passed.) ah, i cried a little while filming a drama. while acting out a scene. i think that was the last time i cried recently. 👤 the drama you are filming right now? solo leveling 🐶 yes, because the feeling i had to show in that scene was like that.

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👤 especially during the past two years, many numbers surrounding byeon wooseok went up. if there is one thing holding byeon wooseok in the fast river, a heavy weight that stops you from swaying, what would that be? 🐶 the past me. 👤 the past byeon wooseok. 🐶 yes. whenever that happens, i think i look back at the past a little bit. there are moments when it is really tough, you know. at those times, i think of my past self. 👤 what was the past byeon wooseok like? are you thinking of the hot ember you held then? 🐶 hmm... 👤 did i sugarcoat it? 🐶 yes. (laughs) rather than a hot ember, i think of those moments when things wouldn't work out and were also difficult.those times make me think 'i am very happy right now'.

👤 byeon wooseok's turning point is lovely runner. but that is from others' perspectives. what do you consider your own turning point? 🐶 lovely runner is the turning point. but i don't think only that time is my turning point, i just try my best to do well every single moment. in my life after lovely runner, i don't think i really noticed or caught that i had 'changed so much'. should i say it felt sort of unreal? i couldn't realize it. it felt like i was continuously filming the drama. i spent my days thinking, 'wow this feels like a drama, it's fascinating'. i think i just went through it like that. even today, instead of focusing on a specific turning point, i just try to do well every day. 👤 do you feel you have to prove yourself? 🐶 i guess since people seem to watch my projects with a little more interest, i try to prepare even better. in terms of how i express things and how i approach them. in a way, as a person doing this work, approaching well as a character is the best thing in the end. i have the strongest desire to show myself well as a character.

👤 since it's not your first time now, i think there might be questions that arise. to yourself. 🐶 for now, i have the most thoughts regarding this project, the one i am currently filming. it's so fun but it's really hard and difficult. in many ways. both acting-wise and physically, it seems to be one of the higher difficulty projects i've done so far. so my biggest worry is how i can finish it to the end with this good tension i have now.

👤 do you remember these words? the words you heard during the first scene shoot of your first work as an actor. 🐶 i remember it. (laughs) did i mention it in an interview? 👤 "this is your first time acting right?" 🐶 that's right. i was told that. so i remember being surprised inside. 👤 what did you say back then? 🐶 just (scratching head and smiling) "that's right." 👤 you did not feel upset by it? 🐶 since (youn yuhjung) teacher didn't say it with that kind of nuance, i didn't feel upset at all. and it was something she said while really treating me cutely. she even gave me some fruit. it was so warm. but i really didn't know anything then. i think i was scolded a lot because i was clueless. (conducting an interview after the drama moonshine in 2021, byeon wooseok left these stories about the episode at the time of his debut. "i prepared for that one scene very hard, but i was too nervous. only one acting style came out. director hong jongchan advised me that while repeating a scene is fine, i should try expressing it in many ways. the more i think about it, i learned so much from my first project." "teacher youn yuhjung knows everything just by looking. the words the teacher said as soon as she saw me was 'this is your first time acting, right?' i found seniors too big for me like teacher youn yuhjung very difficult at the time. i was much more passive then than now. if i had the chance to work with her again now, i think i could do it differently and much better.")

👤 what kind of changes happened to you over the past ten years? 🐶 for sure, 10 years ago, i think i just liked that time. of course, there were many hard times, but i think i just looked forward and ran hard. now, i think i work and live while thinking much more than back then. i think i've changed a bit in that way. and i've come to love my work a little more. no, i've come to love it a lot. 👤 while preparing for this meeting, i watched a lot of your old videos. 🐶 there are way too many, right? even i noticed there is so much. (laughs) it might even be a video that i cannot remember. 👤 you once said in passing "i think i lived without much thought in the past", but the byeon wooseok back then felt like a runaway locomotive. 🐶 really? was i like that? 👤 you were incredibly passionate and wanting to do well. 🐶 right, that's right. i wanted to do everything well. 👤 compared to then, what do you think more about now? 🐶 my passion is still the same now. but if in the past i tried to unconditionally do what was given to me, now i came to think about what i should focus on more. i think i try to see a bit more clearly what i should focus on more and what is needed right now.

👤 it turns out that drama is already from ten years ago. 🐶 ha, exactly. time goes by really too fast. 👤 but i was glad that i watched it now. it feels like i can understand it a little better now since so much time has passed. 🐶 oh, that happens. even if you watched it in the past, it felt like that then, but when you watch it later, it comes to you with a completely different feeling. it really is like that.

👤 because of you, i only just now watched this drama. dear my friends. 🐶 ah! did you watch that? wow. 👤 i read an interview where you said that although it's your debut project, it's such a great drama and asked people to please watch it, so i thought i should definitely watch it and i did. but do you know that you actually appear for less than 20 minutes out of the 16 eps? 🐶 hahahaha. yeah, that's true. i really appear just that much. 👤 since you appear so little, why did you recommend it that much? 🐶 because i think it's a project that deeply shows the relationship between people. writer noh heekyung's writing was so good. i really liked it while reading it. so i wanted to recommend it. also since it's my first ever project, i feel more attached to it. and the senior actors including teacher youn yuhjung treated me so well so my memories of that time was also very good. so i always thought i hope people would watch it. because it is filled with stories about how people live, which is our own lives.

👤 you said you joined the camp to heal, right? you said it. was it a time you needed healing? 🐶 i guess i did, and it feels like i was searching for something different. because my daily life was pretty much the same for a while, i needed a new change of air. since they called it a camp, i wondered 'will it bring me healing?' which is probably why i brought up the word healing. 👤 did you get some change of air? 🐶 it was really hard, but i really got a change of air. i got healing. the 2 nights and 3 days feel very short in a way. compared to our whole lives. but it was such a healing time. surprisingly so.

👤 exactly. i don't know if you remember this moment too. when you were washing dishes with the first guest aeyoung. 🐶 i remember. 👤 back then, it seemed like you teared up when aeyoung mentioned it was like a dream and she felt happy. your eyes seemed to get red too. 🐶 right, i did. that's right. 👤 right? why? she said she was happy, so why did your feelings shake? 🐶 that feeling of being happy didn't just sound like "i am happy", but it sounded very complex. for example, when we live our lives, we get overwhelmed by work and overwhelmed by people. there are so many factors that overwhelm us. but it felt like all of that disappeared and she was just saying this moment, right now, was so happy. i felt like i could sense her hard times. it sounded to me like 'i've been having a bit of a hard time lately, but being in this place right now makes me truly happy'. so i felt very grateful. i was deeply thankful that she could find such happiness in the space she shared with me, and in that moment, i teared up a bit.

👤 as a viewer, the recent time i saw byeon wooseok's tears, can you guess? in yjs camp. the moment you ran off crying while parting ways at the end. it is already famous. 🐶 heuhahahahaha. during yoo camp. that's right. the 2 nights and 3 days went by so fast that i think i missed a lot of things on set, that's why while watching the broadcast, i also had many moments thinking 'this happened then'. but the moments i spent talking with the guests remain in my memory the most. we ate, just sat at the table and talked about our lives, asking and chatting about humanly things. some of that came out on the broadcast and some didn't, but that time is the most memorable. because we shared each other's lives.

👤 was it a shake because it scratched your frustration or an itchy spot? 🐶 the director talked in detail about how we are making the project well. like what points were good, and how certain parts connect. so it felt good and gave me strength. though it is a bit hard for me to tell you exactly what the director said. 👤 so it was a feel-good kind of tearing up. 🐶 right, it was that kind of tearing up.

👤 besides because of projects, how about in everyday life? have your tears or emotions dried up a bit in your everyday life? 🐶 i don't think there was any moment that would make me cry in my everyday life. because i work, go home, wash up, sleep, and go out again, so um... not exactly 'tearing up', but my emotions did shake a bit once. the director i am filming with sent me a separate text after the shoot, and when i read it, it really moved me. it was not sadness, but a different type of touching feeling. i think my emotions shifted like that lately.

👤 today, we are going to talk about byeon wooseok's tears. 🐶 heuhahahaha 👤 why are you closing your eyes tight? 🐶 i'm not. tears..., yeshehe. 👤 eight years ago from now, byeon wooseok introduced himself as someone who cries a lot. 🐶 i said something like that? that i cry a lot? 👤 that you cry watching movies, cry watching dramas, and also usually cry when you feel sad. 🐶 that's true. (laughs) 👤 what about byeon wooseok right now? do you still cry a lot? 🐶 oh... ha.... i haven't been able to watch many dramas or movies lately. as i got more work, it became a bit hard to have my own time. if you watch a drama or movie, you fall deeply into it, and you end up using that much emotion and energy. so i haven't watched much recently. i originally really like watching them.