MC: Take your seats when you’re ready.

Can you tell us about your intentions for this drama?

What kind of role do you play?

Kim Hyun-joong: Hello. I’m Kim Hyun-joong, and I play Shin Jung-tae in Inspiring Generation. Hello.

It’s been a while since I’ve been in a drama, so I’ll work very hard with my teachers and seniors to create a great work. Please look forward to it, thank you.

MC: Kim Hyun-joong, I will start by asking you a few questions.

I’m sure everyone is curious about this.

What sort of character do you feel Jung-tae to be? What’s his attraction?

Kim Hyun-joong: Shin Jung-tae is very… What can I say? He’s got a lot of hurt. From his relationship with his father when he was young, and he’s still… He’s, a bit lonely, but he’s a character with a big heart.

In this drama I can portray a more manly character, so I’m looking forward to it.

Also, I practiced a lot for the action scenes to try to give the audience something to enjoy watching.

There’s a lot to see. Please look forward to the action, the background, lots of things in Inspiring Generation.

MC: Yes, thank you, Kim Hyun-joong.

If you have a question you need to ask, please raise your hand and we will receive your question.

Your mic… Isn’t really very visible, so if the filming team could hand a mic over, then we will take questions from two people.

It’s a blockbuster drama, and there are no scandals surrounding these 6 people, so I suppose there aren’t many questions.

Reporter1: Hello, I’m reporter Lee Tae-soo for Yeonhap News. I would like to ask Kim Hyun-joong. I’m over here…

Firstly, the background is 1930s Shanghai in China. That’s a very unique point, and I wonder whether you felt that image of 1930s Shanghai, and what the city’s attraction was.

Also, this background might remind a lot of people of Age of Wanderer, from 10 years ago. I’d like to ask that differentiated attraction you will show from Ahn Jae-mo, the star of that show.

Kim Hyun-joong: I don’t think the 1930s were that different from now.

In a place with people, there is this type of person and there is that kind of person, so while filming we’ve tried to show various people’s characters and aspects of those characters, the rage, the love, and various emotions. So I think the 1930s aren’t so different from today.

And 1930s Shanghai was about 50 years ahead of Korea at the time. Yesterday we filmed until morning, and I saw that there were M&Ms. I asked if they imported them into China in the ‘30s, and they told me that they were in general circulation back then.

While filming I also felt that 1930s Shanghai had an ambience I didn’t realize before. I think it helped me to act much more naturally.