Dec 6 2023

First teaser posters and release date set for tvN drama series “Captivating The King”

First teaser posters and ep.1 air date set for tvN drama series “Captivating The King” (English title) starring Cho Jung-Seok and Shin Se-Kyung. The teaser poster reveals that episode one will air January 21, 2024 (takes over tvN’s Saturday and Sunday 9:20 PM time slot after “Maestra: Strings of Truth“). Ep.1 and ep.2 will air consecutively on Sunday, January 21, 2024 and then will fall into the regular schedule of one episode on Saturday and one episode on Sunday until its conclusion. Caption on the teaser poster states “The one who has messed up the world,  the one who has messed up the heart.”

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Dec 6 2023

Lim Ji-Yeon & Choo Yeong-Woo cast in JTBC drama “The Story of Lady Ok”

Lim Ji-Yeon and Choo Yeong-Woo are cast in JTBC drama series “The Story of Lady Ok” (literal title). The original screenplay by Park Ji-Sook (“Uncle“) is set during the Joseon period and will be directed by Jin Hyeok (“Sisyphus: The Myth“). In “The Story of Lady Ok,” Lim Ji-Yeon will play Ok Tae-Young, She works as a legal expert, but her identity is actually fake. Choo Yeong-Woo will play handsome storyteller Cheon Seung-Whee. He falls in love with Ok Tae-Young at first sight and helps her.

“The Story of Lady Ok” will air sometime next year in South Korea.

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Dec 5 2023

Main trailer & poster for movie “Noryang: Deadly Sea”

Main trailer and poster added for movie “Noryang: Deadly Sea” starring Kim Yun-Seok. The film follows 2014 movie “Roaring Currents” and 2022 movie “Hansan: Rising Dragon” as the final installment in a trilogy of films revolving around Admiral Yi Sun-Shin’s greatest naval battles. Caption on the main poster states “The last battle to end the war.” Captions in the main trailer sates (0:10) “1 year after the Battle of Myeongnyang” and (0:24) “The last battle to end the war.”

“Noryang: Deadly Sea” will be released December 20, 2023.

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Dec 5 2023

Oji Suzuka and Maika Yamamoto cast in TV Tokyo drama “Yami Baito Kazoku”

Oji Suzuka and Maika Yamamoto are cast for lead roles in TV Tokyo drama series “Yami Baito Kazoku.” Also cast for the drama series are Ken Mitsuishi, Yumi Asou, & Toshiki Ayata. The screenplay will follow 5 five people from different age groups who applied for illegal part-time work. They are then blackmailed to act as a family to commit more crimes.

“Yami Baito Kazoku” will first air  January 5, 2024 in Japan.

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Dec 5 2023

Air date for JTBC drama “Dr. Slump”

Air date set for JTBC drama series “Dr. Slump” starring Park Hyung-Sik & Park Shin-Hye. The drama series is now set to first air  January 27, 2024, taking over JTBC’s Saturday & Sunday 10:30 PM time slot after “Welcome to Samdal-ri.” In addition, photos above and below are from the first script reading, which took place recently. Taking part in the script reading were Park Hyung-Sik, Park Shin-Hye, Yoon Park, Kong Seong-Ha, Jang Hye-Jin, Hyun Bong-Sik, Yoon Sang-Hyeon, Oh Dong-Min, Park Won-Ho, Kang Sang-Joon, and Jung Ji-Soon.

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Dec 5 2023

Lee Se-Young and Kentaro Sakaguchi cast in Coupang Play drama “What Comes After Love”

Lee Se-Young and Kentaro Sakaguchi are cast in Coupang Play drama series “What Comes After Love.” The drama series is based on novel “Sarang Hooae Oneun Geoddeul” by Kong Ji-Young and Hitonari Tsuji. Story for “What Comes After Love,” follows Lee Se-Young as Hong and Kentaro Sakaguchi as Jungo. When Hong studies in Japan as a student, she mwets Jungo and they fall in love. They break up though, but meet 5 years later in South Korea.

“What Comes After Love” will be available to stream sometime in 2024.

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Dec 4 2023

Atsushi Ito, Teppei Koike cast in TV Asahi drama “Rikon Shinai Otoko”

Atsushi Ito, Teppei Koike, Taiki Sato, Miki Mizuno are cast in TV Asahi drama series “Rikon Shinai Otoko.” The drama series is based on webcomic “Rikon Shinai Otoko” by Reiji Ohtake and screenplay adaptation by Osamu Suzuki (“The Queen of Villains“). Screenwriter Osamu Suzuki will be retiring from writing and this will be his last drama series screenplay, which is a black-comedy. Actor Atsushi Ito will play lead character Wataru Okatani. He learns that his wife is having an affair, but he must be careful because he learns that his chances of gaining child custody in divorces are low.

“Rikon Shinai Otoko” will first air January 20, 2024 in Japan (takes over TV Asahi’s Saturday 11:30 PM time slot after “Muddy Dining Table“).

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Dec 4 2023

Teaser trailer for KBS2 drama “Fantasy Sonata”

First teaser trailer added for KBS2 drama series “Fantasy Sonata” (literal title) starring Park Ji-Hoon & Hong Ye-Ji. The period drama series is based on webcomic “Hwansangyeonga” by Ban Ji-Woon. The teaser trailer begins with Park Ji-Hoon stating “I put you in my heart for a moment” and 10 seconds later Hone Ye-Ji states “It was a relationship that we shouldn’t have met.”

“Fantasy Sonata” first airs January, 2024 in South Korea (takes over KBS2’s Monday and Tuesday 9:50 PM time slot after “The Matchmakers“).

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Dec 4 2023

Main cast announced for Netflix drama “Weak Hero Class 2”

Main cast announced for Netflix drama series “Weak Hero Class 2” starring Park Ji-Hoon. The drama series is a sequel to 2022 Wavve drama series “Weak Hero Class 1” and will move over to Netflix as its distribution platform. Joining Park Ji-Hoon in the sequel drama series and playing new characters are Ryeo Un, Choi Min-Young, Yoo Su-Bin, Bae Na-Ra, Lee Min-Jae, & Lee Jun-Young. Setup for part 2 will have Park Ji-Hoon transferring to a new school, where he makes friends and also enemies.

“Weak Hero Class 2” will be available to stream sometime in 2024.

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