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The Korean leisure trade is abuzz with thrilling new tasks and updates. From solid bulletins to confirmations, remakes to new rom-coms, and thriller dramas to big-screen premieres, there’s fairly a bit to stay up for. Right here’s a roundup of crucial Okay-Tradition updates that you simply shouldn’t miss:
Han So-hee & Choi Min-sik in The Intern’s Korean Remake
Han So-hee and Choi Min-sik will headline the Korean adaptation of the American comedy-drama film The Intern (2015). Within the authentic, Benjamin Whittaker, a 70-year-old man performed by Robert De Niro takes on a senior internship at a trend startup in the hunt for a brand new goal. He quickly kinds a detailed, unlikely friendship with the corporate’s demanding and impressive CEO, Jules Ostin, portrayed by Anne Hathaway. Within the Korean remake, Choi Min-sik will reprise the position of Robert De Niro, whereas Han So-hee will embody Anne Hathaway’s character. According to Soompi, the film will go into manufacturing subsequent month.
Director Yeon Sang-ho Brings The Ugly to TIFF 2025
Director Yeon Sang-ho’s business adviser providing, The Ugly, will premiere globally with a screening within the Particular Shows part on the 2025 Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition (September 4-14). A gripping thriller thriller, The Ugly is a film rendition of Yeon’s personal graphic novel of the identical title, that includes Park Jeong-min and Kwon Hae-hyo, with Park taking part in a double position as a father and son embroiled in a decades-long thriller. The story trails the son’s quest for fact as he uncovers long-buried secrets and techniques surrounding his mom’s mysterious dying.
Mun Ka-young & Choi Woo-shik Eye Lead Roles in New Drama
The webtoon Whale Star: The Gyeongseong Mermaid by Na Yoon-hee is being tailored right into a live-action drama, with Mun Ka-young and Choi Woo-shik in talks for the lead roles. Within the webtoon, Su-a, a handmaiden, turns into embroiled within the lifetime of Kang Ui-hyun, a wounded independence fighter she rescues from the brink of dying throughout the 1926 Japanese occupation of Korea. As she nurses him again to well being, Su-a loses her voice in a brutal assault. Within the live-action model, Ui-hyun (Choi Woo-sik), a pro-Japanese household man, will get radicalized into the independence motion, whereas Su-a (Mu Ka-young) works as a maid for a pro-Japanese landlord. The 2 start to develop nearer after she loses her voice within the fateful occasion. The drama will discover the complexities of their relationship amid the turmoil of Japanese colonial rule in Gyeongseong (now Seoul). Each Mun and Choi are at present reviewing gives, in line with Chosun Biz.
Jinyoung & Kim Yoo-jung Think about Starring Roles in Spy Drama
Jinyoung has been approached to star within the upcoming interval drama 100 Days of Lies alongside Kim Yoo-jung. The GOT7 member and actor is at present reviewing the supply, as confirmed by his company, BH Leisure, shares Soompi. The drama follows a resourceful thief in Gyeongseong who infiltrates the Japanese colonial administration in Korea as a spy. Kim Yoo-jung’s company, Superior ENT, had beforehand confirmed that she was being thought-about for the position final yr, but it surely’s nonetheless unclear if she’s formally on board.
In different information, Kim Yoo-jung will seem within the mello-thriller Expensive X, co-starring Kim Younger-dae. The story revolves across the decline of celebrated actress Baek Ah-jin (Kim Yoo-jung) and the secrets and techniques she retains hidden behind her public picture. Expensive X is slated for launch this yr, though the precise date stays underneath wraps. This marks Kim Yoo-jung’s return to Okay-drama after her appearances in My Demon and Rooster Nugget final yr.
Kim Younger-kwang & Chae Soo-bin’s New Rom-Com
Netflix has greenlit the fantasy rom-com drama Take Cost of My Coronary heart, bringing collectively Kim Younger-kwang and Chae Soo-bin in a singular love story. Kim Younger-kwang performs Baek Ho-rang, a rich inheritor with a hidden secret—a synthetic coronary heart. Chae Soo-bin stars as Na Bo-bae, a screenwriter with a secret of her personal: she’s been electrified by a lightning strike, making her a human stay wire. In a stunning twist, when the 2 meet, Ho-rang is resistant to Bo-bae’s electrical contact. The reveal results in Ho-rang providing her a job, and so they begin working collectively, navigating energy struggles, inventive deadlines, and the opportunity of romance.
This sequence marks one other notable position for Kim Younger-kwang, following his most up-to-date dystopian crime drama Set off with Kim Nam-gil, his work within the upcoming crime thriller sequence Strolling on Skinny Ice with Lee Younger-ae (releasing September 20), and the extremely anticipated film The First Trip with Kang Ha-neul and Cha Eun-woo (releasing October 2025). For Chae Soo-bin, Take Cost of My Coronary heart follows her current look within the motion fantasy movie Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy, alongside Lee Min-ho, Ahn Hyo-seop, and others.