SEOUL—There are two South Korean celebrities that go by the screen name of just “Jisoo.” One is the visual from the girl group Blackpink.…
SEOUL—There are two South Korean celebrities that go by the screen name of just “Jisoo.” One is the visual from the girl group Blackpink. And the other is the lead actor of Netflix Original series “My First Love”. Both have verified accounts on Instagram.
But apparently, it’s not just their fans who make the mistake of mixing them up. Kang Tae-oh (@kto940620) who plays Hun in “My First Love” is a victim of such confusion.
“Jisoo and I became friends (while shooting the drama). We started following each other on social media. One day, Jisoo came up to me and said, ‘Hey Tae-oh, I’m so disappointed in you.’ I asked him ‘why,’” Kang Tae-oh said. “‘I followed you, but you did not follow me back.’ So we checked my account and it turned out that I was following Blackpink’s Jisoo! I was so sorry to him.”
The press who interviewed him and Choi Ri (@choicherry_) last week gasped before laughing at his mistake. Needless to say, he has corrected himself since and now follows the correct Jisoo (@actor_jisoo).
He continued with his funny stories by sharing how he chose the pair of briefs he would wear in the first episode.
“I picked the underwear myself. I wanted to have a strong impact and I did not want to go for something plain. I wanted something that will go hand in and in line with my character and his family background. I chose between the 50,000 won note print and this gambling card. I went for the money,” he said.
Kang Tae-oh also shared how he gets confused sometimes on the set because he has the same name as the character of Jisoo. When the director shouted “Tae-oh,” he and Jisoo would both respond.
