Park Hyung-shik, Seo Kang-joon, Nam Ji-hyun Called for What’s With This Family

Casting is underway for KBS’s newest weekend drama due out this summer, called What’s With This Family. Idol Park Hyung-shik (Heirs, Nine) of Ze:A has been offered the lead, and up-and-comer Seo Kang-joon (Sly and Single Again) and former child star Nam Ji-hyun (Angel Eyes, Hwa-yi) are in talks to join the cast as well. The series will be about a family going about their boisterous lives, and will focus on the family’s bond.

Seo Kang-joon’s character is a bit confusing — he’s either the lead’s bestie, rival, or both, and it appears he may get caught up in a love triangle with Park Hyung-shik and Nam Ji-hyun from a little plot we know. A source at KBS was quick to caution that there is still a lot of time left before production begins, and the cast is subject to change.

What’s With This Family' writer will be Kang Eun-kyung (Gu Family Book, Baker King Kim Tak-gu) and will follow Wonderful Season.

Premiers in August

Source: TV Report via dramabeans

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Jung Il Woo Confirms Gold Rainbow

A good news is when Jung Il Woo headlining a new drama. But to find out it will be a long weekend drama is pretty frustrated. At least for me. I've never been a fan for a 50 or more long episodes kind of drama. The last thing I had is Ojakkyo Brothers.

Another good thing is we got Uee as a heroine, and she did great in Ojakkyo. Pairing with Il Woo could be promising. This series tilled by May Queen Pictures and we're certainly hope this one will not as boooored as May Queen.

Uee stars as one of the seven orphans who band together as a family with Kim Sam Joong as their surrogate father. While Jung Il Woo plays as the son of  Jo Min Ki, who get tossed aside once his father remarried and start a new family. Despite grow up as an avengeful man, he become a nice prosecutor. A little arrogant but not in front of our heroine, Uee, he'll turn out a sweet man.

Not a brand new lineup, but I'm expecting more from this drama. When Uee is notably fine in her previous weekend series (Ojakkyo Brothers). It's not fixed about the amount of the episode though. But mostly they'll do 50 in such a long weekend show. Premiers in next November 2nd, the drama starts with Lee Chae Mi and Kim Yoo Jung as the young main characters.

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Sohn Ye Jin Confirms For Sharks

Finally some confirmations for Shark, the melodrama for upcoming KBS series. While the production has been floating several big names in the press, Sohn Ye-jin (Personal Taste, Tower) is the first to officially sign on. Kim Nam-gil (Bad Guy) rumored to make this his comeback series after 3 years, but we’ll have to wait.


Sohn’s character is the only daughter to the owner of a large hotel, possessing of a strong and independent nature. She rejects the chaebol path of inheriting the family business and instead becomes a prosecutor, a job into which she pours all of her energies.
The leading man, on the other hand, backstabs the woman he loves in the pursuit of revenge and also changes his face. haha. After her family is the cause of his father’s death, he disguises himself with a new face and identity and reapproaches his enemies, only to fall in love with the daughter. A melodrama.

Aside from potential big-name stars, one point of interest of this drama is that it’s the work of a writer-director pair who brought two notable dramas in this genre: Resurrection in 2005 and Devil in 2007. Both were dark, intense, and dramatic.I will be really love if it is. 

I’m starting to see more stories about possible castings in the headlines, so I’d expect more confirmations to follow soon. Kim Nam-gil has been heavily touted as the likely lead, while idol star Gu Hara (City Hunter) has been floated as his character’s younger sister. But if it some-great guy else, I wouldn't be mind.

Shark will follow God of the Workplace and is set to premiere in May.

Source: W Star News via dramabeans

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Joo Won And Kim Ah Jung To Stars In New RomCom Film

Joo-won and Kim Ah Joong is reportedly to headline new romantic comedy film called Only You, about a cop and a house burglar who fall in love. It just the title I don;t understand.

She’ll play a cat burglar, while he’s a cop and a profiler. The profiling must figure into the story in some way, though there are no plot details yet for how and why the cop and robber end up falling in love. Maybe I will be on to this one, because  it’s a little more appealing than your average opposites-attract rom-com. Because there are higher stakes and laws to break, and possible jail time separation.

I love the two, but not as a pairing (she's older by 5 years. But it's fine). But I hope they will funny together in this movie.

The movie plans to finish casting and start shooting by the end of April for a release later this year.

Source: SBS E! via dramabeans

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Kim So Hyun To Play Young Song Yuri

Child actress Kim So-hyun (I Miss You) is playing the younger version of Sung Yuri in the weekend drama Birth Secret, a melodrama about a genius heroine with amnesia and a birth secret. Kim So-hyun always does a great job of kicking off a drama and gaining the audience’s sympathy right away. But not like her previous role, in this upcoming drama she gets to play the brighter version of the heroine, long before the amnesia take place

She starts out as an optimistic Candy-type and also a genius character. She also holds the key to the central puzzle/mystery of the story, which of course isn’t explained further in the plot description. Well, it must be a birth secret right? You know.

As an adult (played by Sung Yuri), she’ll have amnesia and not remember her husband (Yoon Joon-sang) and young daughter, who is also a genius just like Mom. The main story will be her piecing together her own life in the wake of her memory loss, and also coming around to the idea that she’d ever marry a man who seems so wrong for her. The drama calls itself a trend. We're not sure, are we? But everything could happen in dramaland.

The 20-episode series will be brought by the writer of Cinderella’s Sister and the director of Spring Days. It follows Incarnation of Money and premieres April 27 on SBS.

Source: SBS E! via dramabeans

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Kim Nam Gil and Sohn Ye Jin To Pairing Up In New Drama?

There still no official statement, but both Kim Nam-gil and Sohn Ye-jin rumored to star in new KBS revenge drama Shark. It’s the latest project from the writer-director team behind Fermentation Family, Mawang (Devil), Resurrection, and ’90s series School. Shark  will be the final installment of the Resurrection/Devil trilogy.

It’s slated to follow Kim Hye-soo’s rom-com God of the Workplace on Mondays/Tuesdays, but the casting on this one still sounds very iffy — both Kim Nam-gil and Sohn Ye-jin’s reps confirm that it’s a drama they’re looking at, but say that it’s just one of many potential projects. There’s very little info on the drama itself, but I like the pairing, and it’d be great to see Kim Nam-gil a revenge thriller like Bad Guy. Both the actor and the actress are years away from dramaland, so it will be an interesting double comeback.

Shark is looking at a late-May or early-June premiere on KBS.

Source Hankook Ilbo via dramabeans

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[BTS] That Winter, The Wind Blows For High Cut

Currently airing on SBS, melodrama that become hit now, That Winter, The Wind Blows done a freeze but quietly warm photoshoot in the latest issue of High Cut magazine.

The photos are the behind-the-scenes shots taken from the characters’ mountaintop “snow date,” broadcast in the recent episode. Despite all the teary and emotionally sad drama, the pair look really nice and with all the smiles, I'm just hoping that this drama wil turn out happily ever after.


The scene was shot at a ski resort in Gangwon-do last Friday, March 1. That Winter, the Wind Blows airs on Wednesdays-Thursdays and is currently leading the ratings without challange. While KBS’s IRIS 2 and MBC’s Level 7 Civil Servant are fighting it out to claim a distant second place.

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More Still From Flower Boy Next Door

It's an overload cuteness from a drama that only a few days to expect . The premier of Flower Boy Next Door is just a few days ahead but if you can't endure the waiting, here's full of cute pictures from upcoming rom-com drama stars Park Shin Hye and Yoon Shi Yoon.

Park Shin-hye plays Go Dok-mi, a solitary girl who locks herself up in her apartment and lives a rather unusual life. No one knows what trauma in her past caused her to lock herself away, but Dok-mi doesn’t engage with the outside world, and chooses to stay in her apartment. She has a rare hobby, peeping on her across-the-hall neighbor, whom she fantasizes about as being the perfect man.

Yoon Shi-yoon is Enrique Geum, a golden boy, who has spent most of his life in Spain. His nickname is Kkae-geum. That cracks me up. Enrique returns to Korea and moves into, of all places, Mr. Perfect’s apartment. Dok-mi doesn’t realize it, and he catches her peeping at him expecting someone else entirely.

Kim Ji-hoon plays Oh Jin-rak, our heroine’s next-door neighbor. He’s a webtoon artist who never bothers to comb his hair or wear anything other than a tracksuit, and keeps backwards nighttime hours because of his job. He’s the only person in the building who’s ever even noticed Dok-mi, but he knows all about her strange life and looks out for her in little ways. But when the cocky Enrique arrives, he starts to worm his way into Dok-mi’s world too, and Jin-rak suddenly finds himself having to fight for Miss Lonelyhearts.

 


Flower Boy Next Door premieres January 7 on tvN.

Source: tvN via dramabeans

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Rich Man Poor Woman To Return With Special Episode

One of my favorite dorama, Rich Man Poor Woman has announced on Dec 25th the popular Fuji TV  drama ‘Rich Man, Poor Woman‘ – starring Oguri Shun and Ishihara Satomi – is going to return with a special episode this coming spring.

So, Taru's unsocial behavior and Makoto's cheerful and cute aura once again entertain us, and I'm waiting for this really.

In the special episode, Makoto will be returning to Japan for one week to live at Toru’s place for the short stay (at the finale episode, she's gone to Brazil for work). However, the lively and homely Makoto doesn’t seem to feel at home at his apartment, since he rather wants to live with as little furniture as possible. So I'm curious what will it be. Throughout this one week, the two of them keep on colliding with their sense of values and their lifestyle, but it also makes them bond more like a family. Moreover, the special episode will explain how ‘Asahina Kosuke’ (Iura Arata) managed to return to Toru and his joint venture “Next Innovation”, which was left unanswered in the final episode.

And I hope something more about his mother though. Because the thing doesn't got me any more clearer too.

Source: Manatan Web via Tokyo Hive

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Stils And Behind The Scene of School 2013

KBS’s new series School 2013 is coming through, with Oohlala Spouses as Monday-Tuesday slot are ending. 

The drama focuses on a class of second-years in high school (so, the equivalent of junior year) and is underscoring its sense of “fierce realism.” Definitely lots of emotion and moments of growth there. It also has the potential to sensitive today student's issues like bullying, violence, suicide, and so forth. According to the PD, they’re fighting for the absolute realism with the real-life high school experience, and have populated their cast with a varied mix of students.

It’s got two writers and two directors on its team. The writers mostly have Drama Specials on their resumés, as well as MBC’s 2011 Late Night Hospital; between them the two PDs have Dream High, Hometown of Legends, Hello Miss, Reputable Family, Delightful Girl Chun-hyang, Sangdoo Let’s Go to School, and the original 1999 School on their collective record.

It's Lee Jong-seok, an ordinary guy with no ambitions whose aspires for a peaceful life get hampered with unexpected events. There’s Kim Woo-bin as the troubled transfer student, and Park Se-young as the model student who doesn’t really have her own goals. Lee Jong-seok said, “My character could be similar to Jang Hyuk sunbae-nim’s character, but our images are different and I’m trying to express the role a little differently.”

A key point in the series will be the relationships between the students and the adults, and  Jang Nara and Daniel Choi played a teacher role. These teachers struggle to keep their classes in line, portraying a reality of modern schools where the teachers have lost a lot of their former authority. Should make for some interesting conflict between the kids and the adults. I cant wait to watch the pilot.

School 2013 premieres this Monday on KBS.

Source: Herald,  My Daily, Oh My News, TV Report via dramabeans

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