TRUE MUSE

Model, actress, and Louis Vuitton ambassador Hoyeon takes on a new beauty role.

- By Zing Tsjeng

Dress, ring, LOUIS VUITTON.

HOYEON IS MAKEUP-FREE AS SHE CHECKS IN to our video call from her apartment in Seoul, wearing a loose khaki T-shirt from the Japanese brand Kapital, her naturally wavy hair scraped back in a messy ponytail. This isn't the first time we've met—I interviewed the 31-year-old actress and model a few months before her 2022 win at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, when she was living through the whirlwind of Squid Game success.

Jacket, earrings, LOUIS VUITTON.

Back then, Hoyeon seemed thrilled for the show's success but, well, also a little shell-shocked. “Everything was just so chaotic and hectic,” she recalls now. “I felt like I had to learn on the fly and improvise every moment. But now I have a lot more room to think, to reflect on myself and learn about myself. I've become more used to the life of an actor.”

Hoyeon's busy acting life includes two projects expected next year: the Korean sci-fi film Hope