Posts Categorized: Korean Dramas

Jun 19 2017

Lee Kwang-Soo offered lead male role in drama series “Live”

Lee Kwang-Soo has been offered the lead male role in upcoming drama series “Live.” Actress Jung Yu-Mi has already received an offer to play the lead female role. Both performers are currently “positively considering” their offers. If Lee Kwang-Soo accepts, he will play the main character who works as a police officer. Lee Kwang-Soo previously worked with screenwriter No Hee-Kyung in tvN drama series “Dear My Friends” and SBS drama series “It’s Ok, This is Love.”

Filming for “Live” will begin sometime during the second half of this year.

Jun 15 2017

Seo Hyun-Jin offered lead female role in drama series “Temperature of Love”

Seo Hyun-Jin has been offered the lead female role in new drama series “Temperature of Love” (literal title). Seo Hyun-Jin is currently considering the offer. The drama series is based on 2013 novel “Chakhan Seupeuneun Jeonhwareul Bakji Anneunda” by Ha Myung-Hee and she will also write the screenplay. Ha Myung-Hee’s past drama series screenplays include “Doctors,” “High Society” and “A Word From Warm Heart.”

If Seo Hyun-Jin accepts her offer, she will play Hyun-Soo. Her character hopes to become a drama series screenplay writer and she begins chatting under the username “Jane” with someone with the username “Good Soup.” They later meet in real life.

Although the broadcasting station has yet to be announced, SBS has been in discussions to air “Temperature of Love” potentially after “Falsify” in the autumn time frame.

Jun 15 2017

Han Ji-Min offered lead female role in drama series “Two Cops”

Han Ji-Min has been offered the lead female role in upcoming drama series “Two Cops.” Cho Jung-Seok has already received an offer to play the lead male character. Both performers are now considering their offers. If Han Ji-Min accepts, she will play Song Ji-An. Her character works as a reporter for a broadcasting company and she is full of justice. The lead male character is a detective who becomes possessed with the spirit of a swindler and he falls in love with the reporter.

Exact network to air the drama series has not been yet announced, although MBC is in discussion to air the drama series possibly from November, 2017.

Jun 15 2017

Cha Seung-Won offered lead male role in tvN drama series “Hwayuki”

Cha Seung-Won has been offered the lead male role in new tvN drama series “Hwayuki” (working title). Currently Cha Seung-Won is positively considering the offer. The drama series is based on classic Chinese novel “Journey to the West,” but reinterprets the story into the present day and has a romantic-fantasy twistt. Furthermore, the screenplay for the drama will be written by sisters Hong Jung-Eun and Hong Mi-Ran. The Hong sisters and Cha Seung-Won previously worked together in 2011 MBC drama series “The Greatest Love.”

“Hwayuki” will air December, 2017 in South Korea.

Jun 14 2017

Cho Jung-Seok offered lead male role in drama series “Two Cops”

Cho Jung-Seok has been offered the lead male role in new drama series “Two Cops.” Currently, Cho Jung-Seok is “positively considering” the offer. If Cho Jung-Seok accepts, he will play Detective Cha Dong-Tak. Although the detective is filled with justice, his body gets possessed by the spirit of a swindler. The two spirits within the cop somehow work together to solve cases.

Although the broadcasting station for “Two Cops” has yet to be announced, MBC is currently having discussions to air the drama series November, 2017 in South Korea.

Jun 13 2017

Seo Kang-Joon & Kong Seung-Yeon cast in KBS2 drama series “Are You Human Too?”

Seo Kang-Joon & Kong Seung-Yeon are cast for lead roles in upcoming KBS2 drama series “Are You Human Too?” (literal title). For the drama series, Seo Kang-Joon will play Nam Shin and an android named Nam Shin III. His character Nam Shin falls into a coma and his mother (Kim Sung-Ryoung), who is an expert in artificial intelligence and brain science, creates the android Nam Shin III who looks just like her son. The android impersonates Nam Shin. Kong Seung-Yeon will play Kang So-Bong. She is the bodyguard for Nam Shin III and she has a warm heart.

The air date for KBS2 drama series “Are You Human Too?” has yet to be decided.

Jun 13 2017

Kim Jae-Joong offered lead male role in KBS2 drama series “Manhole”

Kim Jae-Joong (’JYJ’) has been offered the lead male role in upcoming KBS2 drama series “Manhole.” Currently, he is positively considering the offer. If he accepts, he will play Bong Peel. The character of Bong Peel has been preparing for his civil servant exam for the past 3 years. He somehow travels between the past and present to prevent a wedding that will take place in one week.

“Manhole” will first air August 9, 2017 in South Korea (takes over KBS2’s Wednesday and Thursday 10PM time slot after “Queen For Seven Days“).