Park Seo-joon’s Best K-Drama Characters All Have 1 Thing In Common

Summary Park Seo-joon's K-drama characters are diverse but share humor.

Comedy is a common thread in his roles, from Dong-man to Tae-sang.

Even in a horror series like Gyeongseong Creature, Park Seo-joon's performance brings humor.

Park Seo-joon’s most successful K-drama characters are very different from each other, yet they all share one important trait. Active since 2011, Park Seo-joon has been in a lot of popular movies and TV shows, all of which contribute to his status as one of the biggest Korean actors working now. The list of Park Seo-joon’s movies and K-dramas includes titles like Fight For My Way, What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim, Itaewon Class, Concrete Utopia, and Gyeongseong Creature, the last of which returns for season 2 later in 2024.

Between coming-of-age stories and romantic comedies, Park Seo-joon has brought to life a lot of compelling, charming characters. A versatile actor, Park has gone from struggling young adults to successful CEOs and everything in between. In Itaewon Class, for example, Park gives a more subtle performance compared to the one in What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim. Although the actor brings something different to each of his characters, his best K-dramas all have one thing in common.

Park Seo-joon’s Best K-Drama Characters Are All Funny (In Different Ways)

Park Seo-joon’s comic timing is always on point

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One thing that can be said about most of Park Seo-joon’s characters, if not all of them, is that they are funny. Although this does not mean that the characters are all similar, Park Seo-joon has managed to bring a level of comedy to his most important roles. It must be noted that the humor in a romantic comedy like What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim is not the same one from a slice-of-life, coming-of-age series like Itaewon Class. Still, Park’s characters in K-dramas are generally funny in their own way.

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In Fight For My Way, for example, Park Seo-joon plays the hilarious Dong-man. Young and naïve, Dong-man delivers the funniest scenes of the show and can lighten up the mood even in the most dramatic situations. What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim also sees Park Seo-joon in a hilarious role, although for different reasons. Young-joon is the epitome of narcissism, to the point he can’t be in a relationship because he believes no one is good enough for someone as perfect as him. His interactions with Park Min-young's Secretary Kim are incredibly funny.

Fight For My Way’s Dong-man Is Still Park Seo-joon’s Funniest Character

Park Seo-joon is hilarious in Fight For My Way

Even though it was released seven years ago, Park Seo-joon’s Fight For My Way remains one of his most popular K-dramas. This is especially true now that the “Crazy Fantastic Four” actors have all gone on to star in other successful shows, such as Kim Ji-won in Queen of Tears. Fight For My Way follows a group of four friends who have known each other since they were kids, and whose lives did not turn out to be what they dreamed of. Once the school’s popular athlete, Dong-man failed to become a professional despite his love for taekwondo.

Park Seo-joon's Most Recent K-Dramas Year Character Gyeongseong Creature 2023-2024 Jang Tae-sang Itaewon Class 2020 Park Sae-royi Record of Youth 2020 Song Min-soo (cameo) What's Wrong with Secretary Kim 2018 Lee Young-joon Fight for My Way 2017 Ko Dong-man

While his career was cut short, Dong-man continued to have a positive attitude toward life. Park Seo-joon’s character in Fight For My Way has a level of innocence to him that makes him both charming and hilarious. It is no surprise that Fight For My Way was one of Park Seo-joon’s breakout roles as a leading man. Dong-man steals the show in Fight For My Way, from the comedic scenes to the romantic ones. Young-joon in What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim is arguably a close second when it comes to Park Seo-joon’s funniest characters.

Even Park Seo-joon’s Horror K-Drama Role Had Funny Moments

Gyeongseong Creature’s Tae-sang is funnily selfish

Park Seo-joon’s most recent K-drama role, Tae-sang from Gyeongseong Creature, was also quite funny even though the series deals with heavy themes. Set in the final days of World War II, Gyeongseong Creature explored the horrors of Unity-731 with a fictional story that also included elements of science fiction. Tae-sang, who discovers the truth about the Ongseong Hospital’s experiments, is initially almost as selfish as What’s Wrong Secretary Kim’s Young-joon. After losing his mother in terrible circumstances, Tae-sang swore that he was going to value his life over anything and anyone.

Tae-sang was one of Gyeongseong’s most famous bachelors, yet he could not get into a relationship because he only thought about himself. Things change once he meets Chae-ok, a character played by Han So-hee, who sees through Tae-sang and causes him to change. Tae-sang’s journey from someone who wants to survive no matter what to a hero who is ready to sacrifice himself for others brings lots of laughter in Netflix’s historical K-drama, especially when he refuses to admit that he is in love with Chae-ok.

Fight For My Way is streaming on Viki; What's Wrong With Secretary Kim is streaming on Hulu; Itaewon Class and Gyeonseong Creature are streaming on Netflix.