The K-drama super star will play a pitching coach who utilizes supernatural capabilities to reverse a having a hard time high school baseball group.
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Kim Woo-bin. Picture: thanks to Netflix.
Kim Woo-bin is going back to tv with a brand-new drama entitled Present (likewise called Talenteda live-action adjustment of the popular Kakao webtoon of the very same name.
Present is dipped in pure dream, mixing a sports setting with a supernatural twist. The main story follows an elite expert coach whose life takes an abrupt, rather unthinkable detour after an extreme mishap alters the male’s life permanently. The event sets off a strange, remarkable capability that enables him to check out and determine baseball skill at a look. Equipped with this newly found wonderful insight, he suddenly end up as the head coach of a high school’s amateur baseball group, a having a hard time team stuck at the outright bottom of the rankings.
Kim Woo-bin will star as Jung Min-yong, an experienced professional pitching coach captured up in this weird twist of fate. Min-yong is a warm and kind coach, focusing on the authentic development of his gamers method above scoreboards, statistics, or winning video games. He’s a timeless softie who had actually buy food for his juniors throughout breaks or his extra time, yet he stays an extremely devoted coach and careful trainer on the field who declines to let his gamers slack off. His heartfelt and somewhat exasperating character will assist his mangy high school group through an enthusiastic, extreme, and psychological coming-of-age story of individual development and self-discovery.
Present marks the Hallyu star’s next dream series, following Genie, Make a Wish (2025 ), in which he represented an unforeseeable and excessively psychological spirit called Iblis who’s launched from a light after a thousand years by Bae Suzy’s character, Ki Ka-young, a completely emotionless lady. The program likewise reunites him with director Kim Kyu-tae, who directed the well-known omnibus melodrama Our Blues (2022 ), where Kim Woo-bin played Park Jeong-joon, a kindhearted ship captain and bus chauffeur on Jeju Island. According to The Chosun Daily Present will be launched throughout the 2nd half of 2026.