Descendants of the Sun’s Song Hye-kyo, Kim Soo-hyun from It’s Okay to Not Be Okay cast in new K-dramas, and there’s a Korean Inside Out in the works
- Song Hye-kyo has been cast in revenge drama The Glory, while Kim Soo-hyun plays a student in That Night, an adaptation of 2008 hit BBC series Criminal Justice
- Yumi’s Cells, based on a popular webtoon, has been likened to Pixar hit Inside Out, and tells the story of a girl and the 200 brain cells that control her
As 2021 gets under way, the K-drama production pipelines are steadily filling up.
Several major projects have been announced in the past few weeks, including reunions for the stars of Sweet Home and the star and writer of Descendants of the Sun, a Pixar-esque webtoon adaptation and a starry remake of a hit British legal drama.
Black Sun
Hot Stove League star Min Namkoong has signed on to appear in this new MBC drama. Min will play Han Ji-hyuk, a top agent of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) who is admired by all until he throws the organisation into a crisis. A year later, he returns to the NIS to track down the traitor who set him up.
Black Sun, which will comprise 12 episodes, will be directed by Kim Sung-yong, who previously made The Flower in Prison, and is expected to air in the second half of this year.
Disqualification from Being Human
Apink star Son Na-eun has joined the previously announced cast of Ryu Jun-yeol (Reply 1988) and Jeon Do-yeon (The Good Wife) in this highly anticipated new series.