Is it wrong to describe a 13-year old boy as sexy? But that’s exactly how I would describe the eyes of child actor Yeo Jin Goo playing the role of young Lee Gangmo in the SBS drama series Giant earlier this year.

When I first saw him in A Frozen Flower and Iljimae, despite thinking him to be quite talented, he failed to stand out to me among all the other child actors out there. (I mean, honestly, most child actors are very good, and sadly, at times even better than their adult counterparts.) But it was in his performance as Lee Gangmo that Yeo Jin Goo truly captured my attention. I wondered to myself how someone could possess and express such sadness in his eyes at such a young age?