Teaser poster for upcoming OCN drama series “Dark Hole” starring Kim Ok-Vin & Lee Joon-Hyuk. Caption on the teaser poster states “Variant human surival.” The teaser poster also reveals that “Dark Hole” will first air April, 2021 in South Korea (takes over OCN’s Saturday & Sunday 10:30 PM time slot after “Times“).
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Cube Entertainment has revealed that Na In-Woo has been offered the lead male role in currently airing KBS2 drama series “River Where The Moon Rises” co-starring Kim So-Hyun. Na In-Woo would replace actor Ji Soo and play lead male character On Dal. Currently, Na In-Woo is “positively considering” the offer.
Broadcast station KBS has not officially announced that actor Ji Soo has dropped out of the drama series, but, with Cube Entertainment’s announcement, his departure seems all but certain. The drama series itself has already filmed 95% of its scenes and 6 episodes has already aired, yet KBS is working hard behind the scenes to prepare for the lead actor’s replacement. Ji Soo’s departure is caused by bullying accusations first made against him on March 2, 2021 via online community website Nate Pann. The accuser wrote Ji Soo was a member of a bully group in middle school that bullied him with physical and verbal violence. More people responded with similar accusations against Ji Soo for his past bullying behavior. On March 4, 2021, Ji Soo posted a handwritten apology in which he apologized to the people that suffered from his actions and admitted his past behavior was inexcusable.
Kim Nam-Gil is cast for the lead role in OCN drama series “Island.” He is the first confirmed cast member announced for the drama series. Actress Seo Yea-Ji has received an offer to play the lead female role and she is still considering that offer. Actor Cha Eun-Woo has also received an offer to play a major supporting character role and he is still considering that offer. For “Island,” Kim Nam-Gil plays Ban. He protects the world from ghosts. He is himself half human and half ghost. He has two different sides, one is a warm person and the other is a cool headed person.
“Island” will first air second half, 2021 in South Korea.
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Park Ha-Sun is cast for the lead female role in MBC drama series “Black Sun,” co-starring Namkoong Min. Actress Kim Ji-Eun is also cast to play supporting character. The drama series revolves around a crime information center team. Park Ha-Sun will play Seo Soo-Yeon, who is the leader of the crime information center team. Her relationship with former NIS agent Han Ji-Hyuk (Namkoong Min) is not clear.
“Black Sun” will air sometime during summer, 2021 in South Korea.
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Teaser trailer added for JTBC drama special “Missing Child” starring Park Hyuk-Kwon & Jang So-Yeon. The teaser trailer begins with Park Hyuk-Kwon stating “I am his father. There’s no way I can’t recognize my son’s face. I have been looking for him over 10 years. Please” and (0:26) “It’s you Sung-Min right? I’m your father.”
“Missing Child” consists of 2 episodes and will air March 22 & 23, 2021 in South Korea.
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Teaser trailer #3 added for tvN drama series “Navillera” starring Park In-Hwan & Song Kang. Captions in teaser trailer #3 state (0:10) “Seventy, began challenge” and (0:17) “23, Wandering began.” Narration has Park In-Hwan stating at the beginning of the teaser “I’ve never done what I wanted to do,” followed by Song Kang’s voice (0:09) “I don’t know if what you said is cursed, but I don’t live well. I dont know how to live my life. I don’t know whether I have a tomorrow or not,” (0:18) Park In-Hwan “Chae-Rok, there’s only one life. So this time is precious to me,”
(0:26) Song Kang “Grandfather, why do you want to do ballet?” Meanwhile, above and below are two special posters for the drama series. Original webcomic writers Jun and Ji-Min drew the second poster.
“Navillera” first airs March 22, 2021 in South Korea.
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Trailer added for Netflix drama series “Love Alarm Season 2” starring Kim So-Hyun, Jung Ga-Ram, & Song Kang. The second of season “Love Alarm” will revolve around the Love Alarm app that has been updated to version 2.0. Above and below are character posters for the drama series.
“Love Alarm Season 2” will be available to stream from March 12, 2021 on Netflix.
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Seo Kang-Joon has been offered the lead male role in new drama series “Zero (0).” Currently, Seo Kang-Joon is considering the offer. The drama series is scripted as a sci-fi chase thriller. Khan Lee (“The Divine Move 2: The Wrathful“) will direct the drama series and the screenplay will be written by Lee Soo-Yeon (“Stranger“/”Stranger 2“). Other details like plot details, broadcasting station, other castings has not yet been decided.
As soon as casting is finished, filming is expected to start for “Zero (0).”
Lee Jae-In is cast for the lead female role in SBS drama series “Racket Boys” (literal title) co-starring Oh Na-Ra. Lee Jae-In plays student Han Se-Yoon. She dreams of becoming the youngest member of the national badminton team. Her school’s badminton coach is Ra Young-Ja (Oh Na-Ra).
“Racket Boys” will first air May, 2021 in South Korea and will also be available to stream on Netflix.
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Airing of KBS2 drama series “Dear M,” starring Park Hye-Soo, Roh Jeong-Eui, & Woo Da-Vi, has been postponed due to numerous bullying complaints against actress Park Hye-Soo from when she attended middle school, high school, and college. Park Hye-Soo’s management company Studio Santa Claus has denied the accusations and stated taht they intend sue, but the accusers have insisted they were victims of Park Hye-Soo’s violent bullying. Prior to the bullying scandal, “Dear M” was scheduled to first air February 26, 2021 in South Korea.
The new air date of “Dear M” will be announced at a later date. Filming for the drama series began October, 2020 and about 80% of the filming has been completed.
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