Choi Jin-chul is just the kind of mustache twirling villain I don’t need in dramas or my life. It’s difficult for me to pinpoint specific reasons as to why Choi is so terrible, aside from being a smarmy, manipulative, and greedy SOB. He was my least favorite part of “Nine: Nine Times Travel” (tvN / 2013), but I loved that drama and I try not to let it color my opinion too much. I took some notes on certain episodes, and I remember writing this for episode 15: “It goes without saying that Choi Jin-chul is a cockroach!!!!”
Jung Dong-hwan has the market cornered when it comes to playing stubborn, scrupulous old men in positions of power, and I have to hand it to him for being so damn good at it.
Honorable Mention: Koyurugi Souta (“Shitsuren Chocolatier” – Fuji TV / 2014), anyone Inagaki Goro plays but especially Makihara Shuichi in “Nagareboshi” (Fuji TV / 2010), EVERYONE (Mitsu no Aji – Fuji TV / 2011), Kang Tae-yoon (“I Need Romance 3” – tvN / 2014).