First trailer added for Coupang Play drama series “Newtopia” starring Park Jeong-Min and Kim Ji-Soo (Blackpink). “Newtopia” has Park Jeong-Min playing a soldier and Kim Ji-Soo playing his girlfriend. They try to find each other during a zombie apocalypse. The trailer begins with Kim Ji-Soo stating “How about we take some time apart?”
“Newtopia” will be available to stream from February 7, 2025 on Coupang Play in South Korea and Amazon Prime in international markets.
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Teaser trailer and teaser poster added for Netflix drama series “The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call” starring Ju Ji-Hoon. The drama series is based on web novel “Joongjeunguesangcenter: Golden Hour” by Hansanyiga and directed by Lee Do-Yoon. Director Lee Do-Yoon and actor Ju Ji-Hoon previously worked together for 2014 movie “Confession.” For “The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call,” Ju Ji-Hoon plays always confident trauma specialist Baek Gang-Hyeok.
“The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call” will be available to stream from January 24, 2025.
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Main trailer and poster added for Disney+ drama series “Unmasked” starring Kim Hye-Soo, Jung Sung-Il, & Joo Jong-Hyuk. “Unmasked” revolves around an investigative TV program that covers unsolved criminal cases. The main trailer begins with Jung Sung-Il as PD Han Do stating “I almost died before I even got to work today.” Captions in the teaser trailer states (0:17) “Team leader who lives only for today,” (0:24) “Mean new employee with experience,” (0:32) “Full of passion, low level in reality,” (1:19) “Knock down bad people,” (1:22) “The people who broadcast,” (1:25) “Fact attack begins.”
“Unmasked” will be available to stream from January 15, 2025.
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Teaser trailer and teaser poster added for TVING drama series “Study Group” starring Minhyun and Han Ji-Eun. Drama series is based on webcomic “Study Group” written by Shin Hyeong-Wook & Yoo Seung-Yeon. The teaser trailer begins with Minhyun as Yoon Ga-Min asking “Shall I study hard today too?” Captions in the teaser trailer states (0:03) “Healthy physical strength,” (0:05) “Perfect effort,” (0:07) “Strong will,” (0:13) “Study nerd whose only interest is his studies,” (0:20) “Enters the most extreme delinquent school in the world,” (0:25) “Only for studying,” (0:29) “I fight today too.”
“Study Group” will be available to stream from January 23, 2025.
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Actor Park Seo-Jun is cast for the lead male role in JTBC drama series “Waiting for Gyeong-Do” (literal title). The romantic-comedy drama series is scripted by Yoo Young-A (“Thirty Nine“) and directed by Im Hyun-Wook (“King the Land“). Actress Won Ji-An has received an offer to play the lead female role and she is currently considering the offer. For Park Seo-Jun, he will play Lee Gyeong-Do. He works as an entertainment reporter for a newspaper. He broke up with his first love two times and meets her again, while covering a scandal involving her husband.
“Waiting for Gyeong-Do” will first air sometime this year.
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See list of nominees and winners at the 2024 MBC Drama Awards that was broadcast today January 5, 2025 in South Korea. The award ceremony was actually held on December 30, 2024, but was not broadcast at that time due to a one week national mourning period for the Jeju Air plane crash that took place on December 29, 2024. Big winners for the award show include “Doubt” and its lead star Han Suk-Kyu who won the Grand Prize and Chae Won-Bin won Best New Actress award. “Chief Detective 1958” also received two awards which were for Best Drama Series and Best Actor (Lee Je-Hoon). “When The Phone Rings” won 4 four awards including Best Actor (Yoo Yeon-Seok) and Excellent Actress (Chae Soo-Bin).
Main trailer added for movie “Secret: Untold Melody” starring Do Kyung-Soo, Won Jin-A, & Shin Ye-Eun. The film is a remake of 2007 Taiwanese romance film “Secret.” Dialogue in the main trailer goes (0:21) Shin Ye-Eun “This is the music department building, but this is going to be demolished and it is going to be rebuilt after the semester ends,” (0:29) Do Kyung-Soo “What are you doing?,” (0:33) Won Jin-A “When we met,” (0:37) Won Jin-A “is a miracle,” (0:53) Do Kyung-Soo “There’s this feeling that I only feel when I play music,” (0:56) Do Kyung-Soo “I have the same feeling when I meet you,” (0:58) Shin Ye-Eun “Do you have someone you like?,” (1:00) Do Kyung-Soo “What song did you play earlier?,” (1:02)
Won Jin-A “It’s a secret,” (1:07) Do Kyung-Soo “Why do you keep disappearing?,” (1:13) Won Jin-A “I have to go now,” (1:15) Do Kyung-Soo “Jeong-A!,” (1:19) Won Jin-A “I miss you so much,” (1:20) Won Jin-A “I always want to be with you,” (1:22) Do Kyung-Soo “I don’t care what your secret is,” (1:24) Do Kyung-Soo “Don’t disappear again,” (1:30) Do Kyung-Soo “Now I,” (1:31) Do Kyung-Soo “Am going to you whom I can’t meet.”
“Secret: Untold Melody” will first air January 28, 2025 in South Korea.
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Akira Terao and Tori Matsuzaka are cast in movie “Chichi to Boku no Owaranai Uta.” The first teaser trailer for the movie has also been added on AsianWiki. The film is inspired by the true story of 79 year father Ted McDermott and his son Simon McDermott. The son uploaded videos of his himself and his father, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s three years earlier, singing songs together while driving in a car in 2016. In the movie version, Akira Terao will play Tetta Mamiya. He is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Tori Matsuzaka will play his son Yuta Mamiya.
“Chichi to Boku no Owaranai Uta” will be released May 23, 2025 in Japan.
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Teaser trailer 4 added for SBS drama series “Love Scout” starring Han Ji-Min and Lee Joon-Hyuk. The office romance drama series features Han Ji-Min play CEO Kang Ji-Yoon and Lee Joon-Hyuk as Yoo Eun-Ho. He works as Kang Ji-Yoon’s secretary. Dialogue in the teaser trailer goes (0:03) Han Ji-Min “When will the new secretary be able to start work?,” (0:05) Lee Sang-Hee “Nobody applies for her secretary position,” (0:11) Lee Joon-Hyuk “Is this how headhunters usually work?,” (0:12) Lee Joon-Hyuk “Just transfer them to any workplace and make money right?,” (0:16) Han Ji-Min “Stop talking like that,” (0:17) Han Ji-Min “Let’s not meet again,” (0:19) Lee Joon-Hyuk “That’s good. I agree with you,” (0:22) Lee Sang-Hee “This is the new secretary of CEO Kang,” (0:24) Han Ji-Min “Secretary?”
“Love Scout” first airs January 3, 2025 in South Korea.
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Teaser trailer and posters added for movie “Nocturnal” starring Ha Jung-Woo and Kim Nam-Gil. Movie is written and directed by Kim Jin-Hwang (“The Boys Who Cried Wolf“). Captions on the teaser poster states (0:04) “My younger brother found dead,” (0:11) “My younger brother’s death was already written in the novel,” (0:22) “The secret of that night,” and (0:25) “I must reveal.”
“Nocturnal” will be released February 5, 2025 in South Korea.
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