“AH! Hot popularity!”

News source: Sports Seoul/baidu bigbang
Translation: ming^ming@soompi (chi to eng)

Big Bang’s TOP as a singer and also an actor, his part in drama program has increased due to the great popularity.

TOP has his return to the screen due to the participation in the KBS2 drama series ‘IRIS’. TOP’s appearance in the drama has increased due to his hot popularity in local and also abroad.

Representative of the drama stated “TOP is the most popular after the hallyu star, Lee Byung Hyun, since there is high anticipation of TOP, thus there is possibility that his part will be added more than the before.

In the drama, TOP acts as a killer of a secret organization Iris. His character is a cold-blooded killer that keeps tracking Lee Byung Hyun and just wants to assassinate him.

There is rumour about the producer was going to fold up his part, but during the location shooting in Akita Prefecture, he truly felt the great popularity of TOP and made modification to his original part. It’s because TOP is the ‘black horse’ of ‘IRIS’.

Another representative said “Everybody is anticipating for TOP to appear with the look beyond idol star in ‘IRIS’ right, the way how TOP fully focusing on his supporting acting during beginning of the filming has received compliment from the producer.

The drama ‘IRIS’ is a large production with 20 billion won investment that talks about the story of the detection, betrayal and love between the spies from Korea, Japan and Hungary. It will be aired in September.