Summary

• Park Seo-joon & Kim Ji-won's careers have only evolved since Fight For My Way in 2017.
• Fight For My Way continues to resonate with relatable themes after seven years.
• Both actors' recent successful roles, like in Gyeongseong Creature and Queen of Tears, showcase their growth. The same applies to Ahn Jae-hong and Song Ha-yoon.

Gyeongseong Creature’s Park Seo-joon and Queen of Tears’ Kim Ji-won once starred together in a slice-of-life K-drama that has become even better seven years later. There have been some great K-dramas in 2024, from web series like Gyeongseong Creature and Chicken Nugget to broadcast shows like Marry My Husband and Queen of Tears. Interestingly, some of the K-drama highlights of 2024 featured actors who were in Fight For My Way, a show whose cast has only become more famous since it originally aired. Park Seo-joon and Kim Ji-won are major examples of it.

Shortly after Fight For My Way, Park Seo-joon starred in What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim alongside Park Min-young. Considered one of the best K-dramas of all time, What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim was not Park Seo-joon’s only critically acclaimed hit, as the actor would also star in Itaewon Class. Likewise, Fight For My Way was the beginning of a strong streak of K-drama characters played by Kim Ji-won, whose career has led her to the lead role in the massively successful Queen of Tears.

Fight For My Way Is Now Even Better After Park Seo-joon & Kim Ji-won’s Other K-Drama Hits

Park Seo-joon played Dong-man; Kim Ji-won played Ae-ra

The careers of Park Seo-joon and Kim Ji-won have only evolved since Fight For My Way, a 16-episode slice-of-life K-drama from 2017. Fight For My Way told the story of four friends who had known each other since high school. Despite having a lot of dreams and potential during their high school days, none of the “Crazy Fantastic Four” grew up to become the person they wanted to be. For example, Park Seo-joon’s character wanted to pursue a career in taekwondo. However, despite being one of the prodigies of his generation, Dong-man never became a professional.

Likewise, Ae-ra, Kim Ji-won’s character, dreamed of being a newsroom anchor. She always liked to use a microphone and even pretended to be a TV anchor when watching Dong-man’s fights. Still, several years after high school, Ae-ra was nowhere near becoming a famous journalist. Instead, she was working on a job that did not make her happy and was part of an awful relationship. To make things worse, Ae-ra finds out that her boyfriend, whom she still had hoped would become a lawyer, was cheating on her. Ae-ra and the other "Crazy Fantastic Four" were all struggling.

Fight For My Way is available on Viki and Kocowa+.

How Fight For My Way Compare To Park Seo-joon & Kim Ji-won’s 2024 K-Dramas

Fight For My Way is about friendship, love, and second chances

Fight For My Way may be very different from Park Seo-joon’s Gyeongseong Creature and Kim Ji-won’s Queen of Tears, but there are some interesting similarities between the 2017 K-drama and its stars’ most recent roles. Even though Gyeongseong Creature is a horror show, Park Seo-joon’s Tae-sang has some comedic moments that help lighten the mood during bleak scenes. Park Seo-joon’s talent for comedy was first highlighted in Fight For My Way, whose most hilarious moment usually came from Dong-man. Park continued to play funny, lighthearted characters after Fight For My Way, including Young-joon from What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim.

Kim Ji-won’s character in Queen of Tears is a strong, determined woman who knows what her goals are. This is relatively similar to Hyun-woo’s personality in Queen of Tears, during which Kim Ji-won’s character has to continue facing professional and personal challenges despite having been diagnosed with a terminal disease. Fight For My Way’s Ae-ra is younger and nowhere near as rich and successful as Queen of Tears’ Hyun-woo, but Kim Ji-won gives equally strong performances in both shows. The actress managed to make both of these characters vulnerable despite their tough attitude.

Fight For My Way was well received when it came out, but revisiting the show seven years later makes it even better considering all the other great K-dramas Park Seo-joon and Kim Ji-won have been since then, including in 2024. Park Seo-joon recently starred as Tae-sang in Gyeongseong Creature for Netflix, a role he is set to reprise in the upcoming season 2. Kim Ji-won’s Queen of Tears, arguably the best K-drama of 2024 so far, concluded its 16-episode run with a record-breaking finale and is already considered by many as a modern classic rom-com.

Gyeongseong Creature and Queen of Tears are both available on Netflix.

2024 Has Also Been Big For Ahn Jae-hong & Song Ha-yoon

Ahn Jae-hong played Joo-man, Song Ha-yoon played Baek Seol-hee

Ahn Jae-hong and Song Ha-yoon, who starred in Fight For My Way alongside Park Seo-joon and Kim Ji-won, are also having a successful 2024. Song Ha-yoon played Su-mi in Marry My Husband, a time travel revenge K-drama starring Park Min-young. Su-mi was one of the show’s main villains alongside Min-whan, having become romantically involved with her best friend’s husband. Song Ha-yoon’s character in Fight For My Way is gentle and kind, whereas her Marry My Husband villain is rude and despicable. Su-mi became even worse during Marry My Husband’s ending, a testament to Song Ha-yoon’s acting chops.

Marry My Husband is available on Prime Video; Chicken Nugget is available on Netflix.

Ahn Jae-hong played Kim Joo-man in Fight For My Way, the smartest of the Crazy Fantastic Four. Joo-man was one of the funniest characters in Fight For My Way, which is why it was no surprise to see Ahn Jae-hong starring in one of the most hilarious K-dramas of 2024. Chicken Nugget, a Netflix original about a woman who turns into a chicken nugget after entering a strange machine, saw An Jae-hong as Baek-joong. He and his boss spent most of the Netflix comedy trying to turn the chicken nugget back into a human in a hilarious story.

Fight For My Way Remains One Of The Best Slice-Of-Life K-dramas 7 Years Later

Fight For My Way was funny and emotional

Fight For My Way is among the best slice-of-life K-dramas of all time and can be considered one of the best Korean series of its generation. The fact that all Fight For My Waya actors went on to become established stars and have appeared in multiple successful shows confirmed how great of a cast the show had. In addition to the fun and charming performances given by the actors, Fight For My Way shined because of how well the characters were written. It’s easy for viewers to relate to Fight For My Way’s protagonists, all of whom were facing realistic problems.

From failed relationships to not accomplishing professional goals, Fight For My Way dealt with themes that viewers from all ages and backgrounds could relate to. The 2017 K-drama was essentially about not giving up and told a story about how it is never too late to make something happen. The love story between the characters played by Park Seo-joon and Kim Ji-won is also a highlight of the show, especially for fans of the “friends to lovers” K-drama trope. After Gyeongseong Creature and Queen of Tears, now is the perfect time to revisit Fight For My Way.

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  Gyeongseong Creature

  TV-MA

  Action

  Horror

  Thriller

  Gyeongseong Creature is an action horror-thriller television series that Kang Eun-kyung and Chung Dong-yoon created for Netflix. Set in 1945 during the Japanese occupation of Korea, Jang Tae-Sang, a wealthy informant in the heart of Gyeongseong, and Yoon Chae-ok, a highly skilled investigator, come together to face a literal creature created from the cumulative greed of humanity.

  Cast

  Park Seo-joon , Han So-hee , Soo Hyun Kim

  Release Date

  December 22, 2023

  Seasons

  2

  Streaming Service(s)

  Netflix

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  Queen Of Tears (2024)

  TV-14

  Comedy

  Romance

  Cast

  Kim Soo-hyun , Kim Ji-won , Park Sung-hoon , Kwak Dong-yeon , Lee Joo-bin

  Release Date

  March 9, 2024

  Seasons

  1

  Streaming Service(s)

  Netflix