Uhm Tae-woong Joins The Best Moment of Our Lives
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Uhm Tae-woong will play opposite the female leads Moon So-ri and Kim Jung-eun in the real-life sports drama "Forever the Moment" (Woori Saengae Chwegoui Soongan). The depiction of the Korean national women handball team's performance at the 2004 Athens Olympics is in the hands of director Yim Soon-rye. Uhm declared through a spokesman that director Yim was a main reason to commit himself to the project.
Uhm is cast as the new manager of the national handball team. He introduces a tough European scientific training method to drill his team which leads to friction between the players and the coach. Uhm's character was a prodigy athlete who became a star player in Europe. His good looks and his tendency to steal the spotlights with his showmanship also contribute to the love-hate relationship between the coach and players. However, the team went on to challenge the world's strongest handball nation Denmark at the Olympics in a heroic game which culminated in two extra times to decide the game.
Uhm and Moon successfully worked together on last year's "The Birth of a Family" (Gajokeu Tansaeng). The critically acclaimed feature by director Kim Tae-yong deconstructs the traditional family in Korean society.
Uhm's double role as twin brothers in the television drama "Revenge" (Boohwal) got him noticed as a potential leading man, even though "Revenge" failed to reach the general audience because the popular teen television drama "Princess Hours" (Goong) aired in the same time slot. "Revenge" did make Uhm a popular star in Japan and his upcoming television drama "Devil" receives great attention from anticipating Japanese media and fans.
Related news story: "Moon So-ri in Sports Film Based on Real Events" (April 11, 2007; news story no 560)
Yi Ch'ang-ho (KOFIC)
Uhm is cast as the new manager of the national handball team. He introduces a tough European scientific training method to drill his team which leads to friction between the players and the coach. Uhm's character was a prodigy athlete who became a star player in Europe. His good looks and his tendency to steal the spotlights with his showmanship also contribute to the love-hate relationship between the coach and players. However, the team went on to challenge the world's strongest handball nation Denmark at the Olympics in a heroic game which culminated in two extra times to decide the game.
Uhm and Moon successfully worked together on last year's "The Birth of a Family" (Gajokeu Tansaeng). The critically acclaimed feature by director Kim Tae-yong deconstructs the traditional family in Korean society.
Uhm's double role as twin brothers in the television drama "Revenge" (Boohwal) got him noticed as a potential leading man, even though "Revenge" failed to reach the general audience because the popular teen television drama "Princess Hours" (Goong) aired in the same time slot. "Revenge" did make Uhm a popular star in Japan and his upcoming television drama "Devil" receives great attention from anticipating Japanese media and fans.
Related news story: "Moon So-ri in Sports Film Based on Real Events" (April 11, 2007; news story no 560)
Yi Ch'ang-ho (KOFIC)
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