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Did You Know? "The Glory" Actor Kim Gun Woo Once Played Bela Padilla's Leading Man

He even speaks Filipino in several scenes!
Did You Know? "The Glory" Actor Kim Gun Woo Once Played Bela Padilla's Leading Man
PHOTO: (LEFT TO RIGHT) Instagram/goodpeoplent, Ultimate Oppa/Prime Video
He even speaks Filipino in several scenes!

With Filipinos’ close ties with all things Hallyu, there are several points where Pinoy and Korean pop culture meet in the middle. Aside from the occasional name drop in series, actors from South Korea have also made their way to our local screens—and sometimes, even paired up with homegrown celebrities. Case in point? The Glory’s Kim Gun Woo starring in Ultimate Oppa as Bela Padilla's leading man.

READ: Kim Gun Woo Played Bela Padilla’s Love Interest in “Ultimate Oppa”

Before his recognizable stint as baddie Son Myeong-oh in the Netflix series led by Song Hye Kyo, the 31-year-old Korean actor starred in 2022’s Prime Video film Ultimate Oppa, a Filipino-Korean production. 

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The rom-com flick follows Bela Padilla’s Yana, a restaurant manager and budding screenplay writer who longs to write a script for her favorite actor Moon Sin-woo (Jasper Cho of Descendants of the Sun). When she chances upon an opportunity to meet him at a fan event, Yana is one step closer to her dream. But like a good old-fashioned K-drama, a plot twist arrives when she starts to fall for Sin-woo’s manager instead. (That’s Jay, played by Gun Woo!)

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Not only does Gun Woo play opposite Bela, but the Korean actor actually also speaks several straight Filipino lines in the film.

While its lines are delivered mostly in Filipino, the 2022 film is helmed by a Korean creative team, based on an original Filipino script Jade Francis Castro and Denise Mae P. Sison. No spoilers here, but for a sneak peek of Bela, Jasper, and Gun Woo in action, check out the trailer below!

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Ultimate Oppa is streaming on Prime Video.

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