A couple of tantalising romantic pair-ups between major Korean stars are among this week’s latest K-drama casting rumours, as well as some intriguing female-led psychological dramas.
Meanwhile, with the expected second season of Netflix’s Juvenile Justice cancelled a few days ago, drama executives have seen fit to revive a different show, five years after it first aired, and will combine new and returning stars.
Here is our latest round-up of these and other Korean drama series casting stories.
Lee Ji-eun (aka IU) and Park Bo-gum will reportedly team up in new drama You Have Done Well. The series will be directed by Kim Won-seok, who previously directed IU in My Mister, with a script by When the Camellia Blooms writer Im Sang-choon.
The story will be set on South Korea’s Jeju Island in the 1950s, and will focus on the lives of Ae-soon and Gwan-sik, played by Lee and Park, respectively.
Also cast in the series are Moon So-ri (On the Verge of Insanity) and Park Hae-joon (The World of the Married), who will play older versions of the same characters.
Ae-soon is a bookworm who can’t attend school because of her poor family but tenaciously hangs onto her dream of becoming a poet, while Gwan-sik is the quiet and diligent young man who supports her.
Lee is coming off her acclaimed turn in Broker by Hirokazu Koreeda, screened at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, while Park was last seen in the hit series Record of Youth.
Source : South China Morning Post