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| yna@yna.co.kr 2023-02-15 10:26:29
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Yonhap) - "I constantly asked myself how Park Mi-kyung can love a man who had never given her side to her this much. I found the answer in Mi-kyung's line, ‘If you give me 1% of your heart, I'll fill the rest.’”
Actress Keum Sae-rok, who we met at a cafe in Gangnam-gu, Seoul on Tuesday to commemorate the end of the JTBC drama "The Interest of Love," looked back, saying, "It took time for me to understand the love Park Mi-kyung has toward Ha Sang-soo."
Park Mi-kyung, played by Keum Sae-rok, is a daughter of a rich family who grew up confidently without lack.
Park Mi-kyung, who is honest with her feelings without being self-conscious, is convinced that Ha Sang-soo (played by Yoo Yeon-seok) is a "good man" after seeing the sweet side of Ha Sang-soo, who fills her glass without her knowing it when it is empty.
Park Mi-kyung, who went straight expressing her feelings of love without hesitation, becomes Ha Sang-soo's girlfriend, but Ha Sang-soo, whose heart is directed at someone else, makes Park Mi-kyung lonely and miserable several times.
Nevertheless, to Park Mi-kyung, who beg Ha Sang-soo, saying, "Can you just love me?" Keum Sae-rok said, "I wanted to say that it was great to face your feeling sincerely."
"Park Mi-kyung is a friend who has confident to fill the gaps with her love regardless of what the other person gave her. It was more important for Mi-kyung to show her feelings than to see what others feel toward her. I want to be a person like Park Mi-kyung and meet a man like Park Mi-kyung. (laughing)
Park Mi-kyung, who had anything she wanted under wealthy parents has some kind of lack, analyzed Keum Sae-rok.
"Park Mi-kyung has a desire for life that she achieves on her own," she said. "She is not a 'father's daughter' but a character who wants to shine just by being herself and has confident for that."
"You may think it's a full sound of 'the daughter of a rich family,' but I was able to understand Park Mi-kyung's lack," she explained.
"Park Mi-kyung is hurt by her father who thinks giving materialistically is love, and she hates seeing him like that. But eventually, she realizes that she is doing the same thing to Ha Sang-soo. After seeing herself like that, she thinks, 'I may not be as good a person as I think.'”
Park Mi-kyung buys Ha Sang-soo a suit worth millions of won and gives him an expensive new car as a "surprise gift," but she doesn't understand her boyfriend's feelings of refusing because the gift is burdensome.
"Park Mi-kyung's behavior may seem rude, but she was not a bad friend," said Keum Sae-rok, who said, "I wanted her to look like a natural in the environment she grew up in."
"The Interest of Love" was well received for realistically portraying a story in which four main characters working at a bank branch hesitate and have cross feelings in front of love, weighing profits and losses.
Park Mi-kyung, a "silver spoon," Ha Sang-soo, who joined the bank for ‘university graduates’ public recruitment, Ahn Soo-young, a “high school graduate service worker", and Jung Jong-hyun, a bank security guard outside the bank, sympathize with each other and go against each other depending on their home environment or economic situation.
Jung Jong-hyun, who is in the most economically poor situation among the four main characters, is a police officer test-prepared student who works during the day and sleeps less because he wants to get better than his current life somehow.
Actor Jung Ga-ram, who played Jung Jong-hyun, said with a smile, "It was a character that deserves to be criticized, but I sympathized with him."
"I also came to Seoul from Miryang in my early 20s for my dream, and I was very frustrated," he said. "I repeatedly failed in auditions and felt that what I had to take responsibility for in the future would not be easier than I thought."
Ahn Soo-young (Mun Ga-young), who works at the same bank, gives everything to Jung Jong-hyun, who feels shabby because he has nothing, but Jung Jong-hyun gradually loses his self-esteem due to the love he receives, feeling sorry more than gratitude.
Jung Ga-ram said, "As we go into the second half of the play, he shows a lot of ‘loser’ side in their relationship with girlfriend Ahn Soo-young, and he also shows inferiority complex, which was also realistic."
"Jong-hyun feels that Ahn Soo-young has no heart for him, but he does not actively try to restore the relationship. I thought this was realistic, too," he added.
"A broken cup doesn't just stick because you it back on, but I think Jong-hyun just pretended to put it on." He was really bad."
He said calmly, "I can't say it in a straightforward manner, but if it was me, I wouldn't have received the money Sooyoung gave me, and I think I would have settled the relationship when I felt my partner’s heart was gone."
Jung Ga-ram, who made his debut in the MBC sitcom "High Kick! Revenge of the Short-Legged" in 2011, has expanded his acting range by going back and forth between minor roles and supporting roles. "The Interest of Love" is a return film after being discharged from the military and is also his first time having TV drama leading role.
Jung Ga-ram said he has not yet experienced the same deep love as Jung Jong-hyun, but his way of looking at love has changed while acting.
"Each person has a different definition of love, and I learned that the love I think may be different from the love the other person thinks. I used to think that love was just good, but now I'm a little scared of it. (laughing)”
(This article is translated from Korean to English by Yunhee Cho.)
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