News bites: May 2, 2015

by awcoconuts

Yunho, Kim Ga-eun

• The upcoming web-to-cable drama I’ll Take a Serving of You has cast Yunho of DBSK (Records of a Night Watchman) and Kim Ga-eun (Sincere Min Deul-le, Age of Feeling) as the leads. Based on the same-named web novel, the plot revolves around a romance that develops at a small shop that makes homemade lunchboxes. Yunho will play a chef, while Kim will play an ad agency employee. Cameras start rolling in May, and all 16 episodes will air online first, then air on the cable channel SBS Plus in mid-June. [Star News]
• Jang Hyuk has started work on the Chinese movie Inside or Outside, in which he’ll play the CFO of an IT company and a successful businessman. Recently married, when his wife gives birth to a daughter, he begins to doubt the child is his. He searches to uncover the truth, and he’ll discover more than he bargained for: the identity of a baddie who’s got it out for him. The white-collar crime thriller also stars Simon Yam and Wallace Huo, and the actors reported on set a little over a week ago. [Joongang]


Park Hyo-joo, Park Min-woo

• Park Hyo-joo (Secret Door) has joined the musical film Gorae Gorae Ride the Carriage, which is repeatedly being called a Korean version of Begin Again. She’s the lone female among the cast, and she’ll play a PD who records the story of four young men who are brought together by their passion for music. [Osen]
• The premise of this web drama sounds cute: Park Min-woo (Modern Farmer) is a guy who’s a date-for-hire, while relative newcomer Kim Ji-an is a girl who is paid to handwrite love letters for others. Park’s character is earnest about his work but paradoxically feels lonely — for two people who are in the business of romance, they aren’t very successful at it in their personal lives. The story is about those who hesitate because they’re scared of falling in love, and the title is Romance Blues, a play on the “wedding blues” some people sink into prior to marriage. The drama will be released in the latter half of the year, but the schedule and format are to be determined. [TV Report]


Joo-won

• Joo-won Instagrammed a shot of himself on the set of his latest film, That’s Him. He looks beat up, but still hot! He plays a guy chasing his little sister’s murderer, and is said to have put on some pounds for the role. Filming will ramp up at the end of May and the movie is expected to be released later this year. [Osen]
• The PD of Misaeng, Kim Won-seok, is prepping a new show and said at a recent conference: “[When I was an assistant director] I wondered why people would keep telling the same story. I will make an effort to tell a story that hasn’t been told before. I want to make another drama that viewers can relate to.” [Joongang]


Baekhyun, Joo Da-young

• Exo’s Baekhyun has been offered a supporting role in Iron Club, the film based on an eponymous webtoon (what isn’t these days?) and courting Yeo Jin-gu to star in a dual role as twin brothers. When the elder twin, a model student, is blamed for school violence and becomes a scapegoat, the younger twin, a bit of a troublemaker to begin with, will get revenge by taking down the school gang. Baekhyun would play a guy with kickass fighting skills, but who is trying to distance himself from the school bullies. [Star News]
• Former child actress Joo Da-young (Age of Feeling) has been cast as the younger version of Kim Sun-ah in Masked Prosecutor. The character is the driving force behind Joo Sang-wook becoming an attorney, and although she appears cold and arrogant on the outside, she’s got a reason: secret inner pain (yunno, that common dramaland affliction). About a prosecutor, Joo, who’s fed up with the ineffectiveness of the courts and who decides to take the law into his own hands, the show airs after the conclusion of Unkind Women on Wednesdays and Thursdays on KBS. [TV Report]
• Model/actress Byun Jung-soo Instagrammed photos of Ji Sung and Lee Bo-young’s surprise baby shower, which took place on April 27 — Lee is positively glowing (and the tiniest expectant woman ever) and Ji Sung looks like a proud father already. Congratulations to the happy couple! Guests included actresses Bae Jong-ok, Jang Hee-jin and other close friends. [E Daily]

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