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Sung Hoon lands leading role in pre-produced rom-com drama
Nov 04, 2016
Sung Hoon has landed a lead role in an
upcoming pre-produced drama, capitalizing on his recent and growing wave of
popularity (thanks in large part to his crowd-pleasing loveline with Shin
Hye-sun in Five Kids; he was also a cute sidekick in last year’s Oh My Venus).
He’ll be the leading man in a rom-com that appears to be going by the English
title My Secret Romance, although the Korean title means more along the lines
of “frustrating romance” or “you-drive-me-crazy romance.” (I can see why they
opted against a literal translation; the term gets a bit lost in translation.)
The plot sounds cute: In a dating world
fully of busy people who tend to flirt and chase “some” relationships rather
than having meaningful connections that allow them to show their true feelings,
our main couple has a one-night stand. They meet again three years later,
whereupon they kick off a shaky push-pull romance that’ll keep them on their
toes as they fall in love.
Sung Hoon plays Jin-wook, a
second-generation chaebol who only dates casually until he meets the heroine,
and starts to change. He’s the type of guy all the woman are crazy about, but
he doesn’t particularly feel anything for them and enjoys partying and going to
clubs, always finding himself in the spotlight wherever he goes. He and the
heroine, a perpetually single 25-year-old named Yumi, meet at a Jeju resort and
get caught up in a series of misunderstandings and accidents. She’s a bit prim
and doesn’t bother to wear makeup or do her hair, but somehow they get caught
up in the mood of the night; she’s initially charmed by his sly, playful
personality and they spend the night together.
But in the morning, she’s gone: “She
disappears like the wind like Cinderella, leaving behind one shoe, and after
that night, he becomes romantically handicapped, like he’s been caught up in a
spell.” He’s irrationally angry with her for leaving without a word, or even
telling him her last name, though he tells himself it’s because she’s insulted
him.
Three years later, the couple runs into
each other again: He’s completely changed, turning into a prickly workaholic
corporate director who no longer parties or even enjoys his life, focusing
solely on his job. Although thinking of Yumi still angers him, he’s been unable
to throw away the shoe she left behind. One day she suddenly turns up as the
new nutritionist at the company cafeteria, and although they pretend not to
remember each other, as they dance around their physical attraction (and
memories of that one night), they begin to wonder if this could turn into
anything more, or if it’ll just end up hurting them.
My Secret Romance was selected in the 2015
Top Creator Audition held by KOCCA, the Korea Creative Content Agency, and is
being produced by Godin Media, which produced the currently airing remake drama
1% of Anything. Directing will be PD Kang Chul-woo, who is also directing 1% of
Anything, as well as both seasons of Ghost-Seeing Detective Cheo-yong. The
drama will be 100 percent pre-produced, and while there’s no broadcast
information yet, it’s calling itself a “global romance” project that is aiming
for a multinational and multi-platform release, online as well as on
television. That seems rather ambitious in scope to me, but I’d be satisfied if
it turns out to be another cute, sweet romance on a small cable outlet, like 1%
of Anything, which is my favorite currently airing show of the moment.
I’m not sure if it’s just that the
descriptions provided were more thorough than usual, or because they were
well-written to cater to my romance-loving heart, but this kind of story
premise is exactly my kind of catnip, so I’ll be keeping a close watch on
updates. My Secret Romance is aiming for a release sometime in the first half
2017. Source-http://www.dramabeans.com/2016/11/sung-hoon-lands-leading-role-in-pre-produced-rom-com-drama/