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Who's the Wickedest of Them All? Kim Sung-oh, Uhm Ki-joon Or Ahn Jae-wook

A villain is an indispensable main character in the drama. This is because it is considered the best character to attract viewers' attention while creating dramatic tension. However, it is not easy to gain viewers' sympathy by securing probability as a villain character without supportive acting skills. Moreover, the recent trend of drama production is to revive the genre characteristics that have become more distinct than in the past, so actors who will play the villain properly have become important. In this regard, Kim Sung-oh of tvN's "L.U.C.A. : The Beginning", Uhm Ki-joon of SBS' "The Penthouse 2" and Ahn Jae-wook of tvN's "Mouse" deserve to be called the "Kings of Evil" who reveal their presence with different levels of viciousness.

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Kim Sung-oh has further cemented his position as a villain in "L.U.C.A. : The Beginning" which ended on Tuesday. With his special superpower in the drama, he drew attention as an operative from a special unit chasing Kim Rae-won. He played the creepy villain again in the previous films "The Man From Nowhere" and "Missing You - 2016".

In a video interview on the 10th, he said, "I was once sad that I was offered only villain roles, but now I am grateful that I am known as the 'villain specialist'", adding, "In the meantime, I have a desire to develop the texture of various villains". "The villain, who used to be just a 'bad person' in the past, has recently grown into a bowl of various emotions and narratives", he said. "Because of this, viewers can also feel the charm of the villain is more colorful".

Uhm Ki-joon is a leading villain in "The Penthouse" series. He continues his misdeeds as the most powerful man in Hera Palace, a residential and commercial complex where only the upper class can enter. Even Kim So-yeon, who bullies Lee Ji-ah and Eugene in the drama and marries him due to an affair, is in danger. Viewers who responded, "Just looking at Uhm Ki-joon's smile makes me angry". "I'm going to be a bad guy", he said. "I'm going to be more vicious in season two.

Ahn Jae-wook played his first villain role in 27 years since his debut. In "Mouse", he appears as a death row convict for bizarre murders. He has a clue to a psychopath serial killer pursued by police Lee Seung-gi and Lee Hee-jun. His cool acting, which he did not show before, also drew favorable reviews that he resembles Hannibal, a murderer in the movie "The Silence of the Lambs".

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