Cho Jung Seok rates Park Bo Young’s kissing: 100 out of 10

When we asked Bo Young to award points to Jung Seok’s kissing skills, she adorably misunderstood our instruction and ended up giving herself 7/10. “I was really shy and I think my kissing scenes were not as good as those in other dramas I studied,” she confessed.

Jung Seok, on the other hand, scored a full ten marks from his giggling, gushing co-star. “There are no other words to describe it,” she said.

The actor, however, ended up being the far more generous one. “(I would rate her kissing skills) 100 (out of 10),” he said with confidence and without hesitation when we posed the same question to him in a separate interview.

Continued on next slide: Jung Seok recalls his own real-life ghostly encounter

All this talk of spirits and possession had us wondering out loud if Oh My Ghost’s leads have ever run into any supernatural beings. While Bo Young said she has yet to experience that, Jong Seok had a spine-chilling tale to regale us with.

“In 2005, I was preparing for my musical Grease, but I was tired so I decided to take a nap backstage,” he recalled. “Suddenly, a cleaning lady came and told me it was too cold to sleep there, and that I should sleep in the waiting room. I said I was fine and stayed there, but then I realised that the area I was in was too small for anyone to enter.”

It gets creepier. He continued, “I thought it was weird, so I asked my colleagues if they’ve seen a cleaning lady around, and they said that there were no cleaning ladies – only men. I then learned from someone else that a few years ago, there had been a fire in the theatre and two cleaning ladies died.”

While such an experience would probably leave most of us cowering in fear of cleaning aunties everywhere, brave Jung Seok considered his caring apparition as “a spirit who was trying to look out for me”.

Continued on next slide: Bo Young would like to work with EXO’s D.O.

Since her showbiz start in 2006, Bo Young has had the good fortune of working with almost every Hallyu hunk you can name: Lee Min Ho, Lee Jong Suk, Joo Won, and of course, Song Joong Ki and Cha Tae Hyun. So which one of these charming co-stars is her favourite?

“This is a very difficult question!” she exclaimed after mulling it over (with more giggles, naturally). “It’s like asking if I love my mum or dad more, but I really had to pick, I’d say Cha Tae Hyun.”

Despite the impressive and growing resume, there is still one actor she has yet to indulge in screen time with: former child star – and now dashing 18-year-old – Yeo Jin Goo. “Even though he’s younger than me, he has this deep look in his eyes and his voice is very attractive, but I’ll have to get in line with everyone else that wants to act with him! (laughs)”

Bo Young also expressed her interest in working with Do Kyung Soo (more commonly known as EXO’s D.O.), whom Jung Seok will be starring with in upcoming film Hyung, where they will play brothers.

“I’m definitely looking forward to working with D.O.,” Jung Seok told us. “Although I have not met him yet, I watched his movie Cart and I really liked his performance in there.”

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"In most dramas, the man is the one seeking for love, but in this one, the woman is more aggressive."

"There were a lot of scenes where Bo Young had to seduce me aggressively, but she was so cute that I ended up smiling and laughing instead of resisting her!"

"The actors playing the kitchen crew in the drama are hilarious! They were so funny that I had to ask the director to stop filming at times because we couldn't stop laughing."

... it'd be a "really tough, macho guy", such as Running Man's Kim Jong Kook.

Although she has lent her voice to several soundtracks, including 'Leave' from Oh My Ghost, Bo Young doesn't have the confidence to take on a musical like Jung Seok. "The songs I've sung didn't require elaborate techniques, but you need more skill for a musical, and I think I'm in need for more practice for that!" she said.

Jung Seok believes otherwise: "I know Bo Young is intimidated by musicals because she's never tried them before, but I know she's talented enough and ready for them. She's already a good actress and sings really well so she'd be really good on stage."

After trying our famous chili crab after she landed in town the night before the press conference, Bo Young said she wanted to try kaya toast, which she had heard about before coming here. We hope she got her wish!