Hyeri is cast for a co-lead role in teen mystery-thriller drama series “Friendly Rivalry” (literal title). The drama series is based on webcomic “Sunuiui Gyeongjaeng” by Song Chae-Yoon & Sim Jae-Young. Story for “Friendly Rivalry” will be set at a high school featuring the top 1% students. Hyeri will play Yoo Je-Yi. She is the most powerful student at the school. She makes friends a with a new transfer student named Woo Seul-Ki.
“Friendly Rivalry” will first air sometime next year in South Korea.
Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki: Woo Seul-Ki grew up in an orphanage out in a province. She moves to Seoul and enrolls in Chaehwa High School, which is a school for the top 1% students in South Korea. Woo Seul-Ki doesn’t get along with the other students. A student named Yoo Je-Yi (Hyeri) approaches her and they become friends.
Yoo Je-Yi is the most powerful student in the school. She has a high IQ, comes from a wealthy family background, and is attractive physically. She has lived as the envy of other people since she was born and she is aware of her superiority. She is also cunning enough to know how to take advantage of her position. She shows special interest in transfer student Woo Seul-Ki. They soon develop a dangerous relationship between friendship and obsession.
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