According to tvN, official English title has been set to “Tale of the Nine Tailed” for their upcoming drama series Lee Dong-Wook & Jo Bo-Ah. The title does a slight wordplay on the Korean title which is “Gumihodyeon” (literally “Tale of The Nine-Tailed Fox”).
Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki: A nine-tailed fox settles down in the city. A female television PD chases after the nine-tailed fox.
“Tale of the Nine Tailed” will first air sometime in the second half of this year in South Korea.
First still images of Jang Seung-Jo and teaser trailer #1 added for JTBC drama series “Model Detective” (literal title) co-starring Son Hyun-Joo. In the drama series, Jang Seung-Jo plays Oh Ji-Hyeok. He is an elite detective and also wealthy, due to an inheritance. Because of his financial position, he is not swayed by money or people in power. Captions in teaser trailer #1 states (0:14) “Thought everything was over,” (0:19) “Hidden truth,” (0:33) “Everyone turned away,” (0:43) “Story begins.”
“Model Detective” will first airs July 6, 2020 in South Korea (takes over JTBC’s Monday & Tuesday 9:30 PM time slot after “Sweet Munchies“).
Here’s 2 main posters for tvN drama series “Flower of Evil‘ starring Lee Joon-Gi and Moon Chae-Won. Captions on both of the posters states “Man who acted like he was in love … Woman who loved even danger.”
Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki: Cha Ji-Won (Moon Chae-Won) is a detective. She is married to Baek Hee-Sung (Lee Joon-Gi) and they a daughter. Baek Hee-Sung seems like a committed husband and father, but he hides his cruel past and lives under another person’s identity. He deceives his wife completely. Cha Ji-Won learns of his deception and chases his past.
“Flower of Evil” first airs July, 2020 in South Koera.
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Lee Seung-Gi is cast for one of the 2 lead roles in tvN drama series “Mouse.” Choi Jin-Hyuk has already received an offer for the other lead role and he is still considering the offer. The drama series is scripted by Choi Ran (“Black“) and asks the question if people are able to determine if a psychopath would be born through fetal gene testing, would someone still give birth to that person?
Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki: Jung Ba-Reum (Lee Seung-Gi) is a rookie police officer, working at a police substation. He is an honest person and tries to attain justice. He faces a psychopath murderer, who places the entire nation in fear. Jung Ba-Reum’s life is totally changed afterwards.
“Mouse” first airs sometime in the first half of next year in South Korea.
Character posters for tvN drama series “It’s Okay to Not Be Okay” starring Kim Soo-Hyun and Seo Ye-Ji. There’s 4 posters in all, with a portrait and landscape poster of the couple together and individual posters of the two lead performers.
Caption on Kim Soo-Hyun’s character poster states in Korean “When life is hard enough to die, running away is the easiest thing to do.” Caption on Seo Ye-Ji’s character poster states “Don’t forget. Don’t forget and overcome. If you do not overcome, your spirit is just like a child’s whose spirit never grows up.” Lastly, the couple posters have the caption of “A little bit weird romantic-comedy about love.”
“It’s Okay to Not Be Okay” first airs June 20, 2020 in South Korea.
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Early teaser poster and ep.1 air date set for MBC drama series “United Effort to Accomplish One Thing” (literal title) starring Kim Hye-Jun, Oh Na-Ra, and Han Soo-Hyun. Caption on the teaser poster states in Korean “All together in this (curse word) house.” The genre of the drama series black-comedy and mystery. A fierce battle takes place over valuable property belonging to a famous painting.
“United Effort to Accomplish One Thing” is set to first air July 15, 2020 in South Korea.
Teaser poster and ep.1 air date set for KBS2 drama series “Men are Men” (working title) starring Hwang Jung-Eum, Yoon Hyun-Min, and Seo Ji-Hoon. The teaser poster does not show any of the actors in the drama series, but does show a broken heart with English captions that states “Marry Me.” The ep.1 premiere date is also shown, which is July 6, 2020. The drama series will take over KBS2’s Monday and Tuesday 10PM time slot after “Born Again.”
Meanwhile, below are the first still images of Hwang Jung-Eum and Yoon Hyun-Min in the drama series. For “Men are Men,” Hwang Jung-Eum plays Seo Hyun-Joo. She works on the planning team of a webcomic and has no interest in marrying. Yoon Hyun-Min plays Hwang Ji-Woo. He is the CEO of a pharmaceutical company and has the qualities of a perfect man. He shows interest in Seo Hyun-Joo.
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Ep.13 of SBS drama series “The King: Eternal Monarch” will air one day later on Saturday, May 30, 2020. That also means this weekend only one 1 episode of the drama series will air. For Friday, SBS will air U.S. movie “Contagion” in the place of “The King: Eternal Monarch.”
Meanwhile, filming for “The King: Eternal Monarch” finished yesterday May 28, 2020 in Nonsan, South Chungcheong Province. The drama series took 6 months to finish filming, as it started on October, 2019 in North Chungcheong Province.
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Teaser trailer #2 added for tvN drama series “It’s Okay to Not Be Okay” starring Kim Soo-Hyun and Seo Ye-Ji. Captions in the teaser trailer state “In a cruel fairy tale.”
Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki: A story about a man employed in a psychiatric ward and a woman, with an antisocial personality disorder, who is a popular writer of children’s books.
Moon Kang-Tae (Kim Soo-Hyun) works in the psychiatric ward. His job is to write down the patients’ conditions and to deal with unexpected situations, like if patients fight or they run away. He only earns about 1.8 million won (~$1,600 USD) a month. The woman (Seo Ye-Ji) is a popular writer of children’s literature, but she is extremely selfish, arrogant and rude.
“It’s Okay to Not Be Okay” first airs June 20, 2020 in South Korea.
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Teaser trailer #1 added for JTBC drama series “Was It Love” starring Song Ji-Hyo, Son Ho-Jun, Song Jong-Ho, Kim Min-Jun, and Koo Ja-Sung. The literal title of the drama series is “We, Were in Love” (“Woori, Saranghaeteulkka”). Teaser trailer #1 has the main cast appearing in a parody of Korean film “The Good, The Bad, The Weird.” Dialogue in the teaser has (0:14) Um Chae-Young stating “Father came,” and then Song Ji-Hyo stating (0:21) “Two” (0:22) “Three” (0:23) “Four” (0:34) “Who is among them?”
“Was It Love” first airs July 8, 2020 in South Korea.
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