Find out how Red Velvet’s bodyguard starred a highest-grossing movie with Irene

It is surprising the changes that life brings, among them there was in particular that it has shocked the Korean industry, where a security guard from the K-Pop group Red Velvet became the co-star of a successful movie with one of its members.

This is Shin Seung Ho, a man who once stood guard as a security team for the girl group Red Velvet during a fansign event, and now, a few years later, has managed to star in a production with Irene.

Before becoming an actor, Seung Ho was an acclaimed professional soccer player, who after 11 years in the sport decided to have a normal life, so he accepted a part-time job as a security guard at a department store at that time of 2016.

At that time, the musical group would promote their mega hit ‘Russian Roulette‘, among these activities they would make a fansign in the same department store, so they would have a fleeting work encounter.

Over the years, Seung Ho began a successful acting career, debuting in this medium in 2018 with the drama ‘A-Teen‘. However, then the unexpected happened, in 2021 he was chosen to star alongside Irene from the girl group in the movie ‘Double Patty‘.

Although this was the debut of both actors on the big screen, both achieved a good reception, even ranking among the top five at the box office on the same day of its premier and accumulating more than 10,000 views in just its first week, achieving a great success.

This incredible story was shared by Seung Ho in one of his promotional activities for ‘Double Patty’, in addition to sharing the idol’s surprising reaction when he told her this anecdote about their first meeting in 2016.