Will Netflix top Crash Landing on You and It’s Okay to Not Be Okay with Start-Up? Why this new K-drama series starring Nam Joo-hyuk and Bae Suzy will take over your life
Directed by Oh Choong-hwan (Hotel del Luna, While You Were Sleeping, Doctors) and written by Park Hye-ryun (Dream High, I Can Hear Your Voice, Pinocchio, While You Were Sleeping), Start-Up is set in Sandbox, a fictional Silicon Valley in Korea, and follows the lives of four protagonists following their dreams and striving to achieve their goals through the ups and downs of life.
Kim Seon-ho’s character, Han Ji-pyeong, is an investment manager in a venture capital company and is called “the Gordon Ramsay of investments”; the story reveals that he starts his company to pay off a debt.
Kang han-na plays Won In-jae, a second generation chaebol CEO with brains, beauty and a good education, who is doing everything she can to carve out her own legacy and be respected for her skills and talent.
Also in the line-up are Stephanie Lee and Kim Do-wan, as Jung Sa-ha and Kim Yong-san, respectively.
Produced by Studio Dragon, Start-Up premieres on October 10 on both Netflix and TVN, and new episodes will screen every Saturday and Sunday.
This article originally appeared on Buro Malaysia.
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Netflix’s new K-drama series Start-Up will release in October 2020 and features a star-studded cast led by Nam Joo-hyuk and Bae Suzy of the former K-pop girl band Miss A – and like Crash Landing on You and It’s Okay to Not Be Okay, it might just be the next series to become wildly popular