The past of the actor who played Moon Ji-woong in “Twenty-Five Twenty-One”… Did you all know?

There is belatedly known information about actor Choi Hyun-wook, who made his name and face widely known for playing Moon Ji-woong in tvN’s drama “Twenty-Five Twenty-One”.

It is the fact that Choi Hyun-wook has an unusual history of being a “baseball player”.

Before his acting debut, Choi Hyun-wook devoted himself to baseball from the fourth grade of elementary school to the first grade of high school. He gave up his career as a baseball player due to an elbow injury and surgery, transferred to Hanlim Arts High School and made his debut in the entertainment industry after graduation.

Choi Hyun-wook appeared on MBC FM4U’s “Muzie and Ahn Young-mi’s 2 O’Clock Date” last month and revealed the background of his career as an actor. At the time, Choi Hyun-wook said, “I cried a lot while watching a movie. My friends around me who saw it asked, ‘How about acting?'” He explained how he turned into an actor, “I transferred to Hanlim Arts High School while attending an acting academy.”

Choi Hyun-wook enjoyed his splendid heyday in the baseball teams of Suwonbuk Middle School and Gangneung High School. In 2017, while attending Suwonbuk Middle School, Choi Hyun-wook was a participant of the 46th National Middle School Baseball Tournament. He became famous by winning the base-stealing king. Choi Hyun-wook‘s Gangneung High School baseball team motives include Lotte Giants’ pitcher Kim Jin-uk.

Meanwhile, Choi Hyun-wook was cast in wavve’s original drama “Weak Hero”. People are looking forward to what new image Choi Hyun-wook, who received a lot of love for his clever and three-dimensional performance in “Twenty-Five Twenty-One“, will show through “Weak Hero”.