From star-studded tasks to fresh releases, here’s what’s making waves in the Korean show business
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The Korean show business is abuzz with interesting brand-new tasks and updates. From cast statements to verifications, remakes to brand-new rom-coms, and thriller dramas to big-screen bests, there’s a fair bit to eagerly anticipate. Here’s a roundup of the most essential K-Culture updates that you should not miss out on:
Han So-hee & & Choi Min-sik in The Intern‘s Korean Remake
Han So-hee and Choi Min-sik will heading the Korean adjustment of the American comedy-drama motion picture The Intern ( 2015 ). In the initial, Benjamin Whittaker, a 70-year-old male played by Robert De Niro handles a senior internship at a style start-up looking for a brand-new function. He quickly forms a close, not likely relationship with the business’s requiring and enthusiastic CEO, Jules Ostin, represented by Anne Hathaway. In the Korean remake, Choi Min-sik will repeat the function of Robert De Niro, while Han So-hee will embody Anne Hathaway’s character. According to Soompithe motion picture will enter into production next month.
Director Yeon Sang-ho Brings The Ugly to TIFF 2025
Director Yeon Sang-ho’s most current offering, The Uglywill premiere internationally with a screening in the Special Presentations area at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival(September 4-14 ). A gripping secret thriller, The Ugly is a motion picture performance of Yeon’s own graphic book of the very same name, including Park Jeong-min and Kwon Hae-hyo, with Park playing a double function as a dad and child involved in a decades-long secret. The story tracks the boy’s mission for fact as he discovers long-buried tricks surrounding his mom’s mystical death.
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 adjusted into a live-action drama, with Mun Ka-young and Choi Woo-shik in talks for the lead functions. In the webtoon, Su-a, a handmaiden, ends up being involved in the life of Kang Ui-hyun, an injured self-reliance fighter she saves from the edge of death throughout the 1926 Japanese profession of Korea. As she nurses him back to health, Su-a loses her voice in a harsh attack. In the live-action variation, Ui-hyun (Choi Woo-sik), a pro-Japanese married man, gets radicalized into the self-reliance motion, while Su-a( Mu Ka-young) works as a house maid for a pro-Japanese proprietor. The 2 start to grow closer after she loses her voice in the eventful occasion. The drama will check out the intricacies of their relationship amidst the chaos of Japanese colonial guideline in Gyeongseong (now Seoul). Both Mun and Choi are presently evaluating deals, according to Chosun Biz
Jinyoung & & Kim Yoo-jung Consider Starring Roles in Spy Drama
Jinyoung has actually been approached to star in the approaching duration drama 100 Days of Lies together with Kim Yoo-jung. The GOT7 member and star is presently evaluating the deal, as verified by his firm, BH Entertainment, shares SoompiThe drama follows a resourceful burglar in Gyeongseong who infiltrates the Japanese colonial administration in Korea as a spy. Kim Yoo-jung’s firm, Awesome ENT, had actually formerly verified that she was being thought about for the function in 2015, however it’s still uncertain if she’s formally on board.
In other news, Kim Yoo-jung will appear in the mello-thriller Dear Xco-starring Kim Young-dae. The story focuses on the decrease of popular starlet Baek Ah-jin (Kim Yoo-jung) and the tricks she keeps concealed behind her public image. Dear X is slated for release this year, although the precise date stays under covers. This marks Kim Yoo-jung’s go back to K-drama after her looks in My Demon and Chicken Nugget in 2015.
Kim Young-kwang & & Chae Soo-bin’s New Rom-Com
Netflix has actually greenlit the dream rom-com drama Organize My Heartcombining Kim Young-kwang and Chae Soo-bin in a special romance. Kim Young-kwang plays Baek Ho-rang, a rich successor with a covert trick– a synthetic heart. Chae Soo-bin stars as Na Bo-bae, a film writer with a trick of her own: she’s been amazed by a lightning strike, making her a human live wire. In an unexpected twist, when the 2 satisfy, Ho-rang is unsusceptible to Bo-bae’s electrical touch. The expose causes Ho-rang using her a task, and they begin collaborating, browsing power battles, imaginative due dates, and the possibility of love.
This series marks another significant function for Kim Young-kwang, following his newest dystopian police procedural Trigger with Kim Nam-gil, his operate in the approaching criminal offense thriller series Strolling on Thin Ice with Lee Young-ae (launching September 20), and the extremely expected motion picture The First Ride with Kang Ha-neul and Cha Eun-woo (launching October 2025). For Chae Soo-bin, Organize My Heart follows her current look in the action dream movie Omniscient Reader: The Prophecytogether with Lee Min-ho, Ahn Hyo-seop, and others.