[NEWS] Lee Hong-ki headlines new cable fantasy drama Cable network TV Chosun is getting back in the drama game in the coming year with a new fantasy drama called Hundred Year Bride, and has cast FT Island’s Lee Hong-ki (You’re Beautiful) and newbie model-turned-actress Yang Jin-sung (she played Ji Sung’s first love in Secret) as the leading couple. You’re Beautiful was actually the last thing I saw Lee Hong-ki in, so it seems like forever since he was last in dramaland (he’s since done a movie). The 16-episode drama is called a fantasy melo, and is about a plain-looking girl from a small town on a tiny island who one day comes across a bracelet that makes the wearer beautiful. Pfffffft. O…kay. I mean, you could’ve gone with gumihos, vampires, time-travelers, or body-swappers, but prettifying bracelet it is. It’s also a drama with doppelgangers, or possibly twins (though I’m thinking the magical bracelet puts the kibosh on the twin thing) because Yang Jin-sung plays both the sweet, homely island girl and a chic urban rich girl. The evil one uses the sweet one for her own ambition, so it’s looking like a princess and pauper switcheroo. Lee Hong-ki plays a second-generation chaebol with triple-threat looks, schooling, and money. He’s your typical prickly-on-the-outside hero with some pain from his past hiding on the inside, and is self-indulgent and bad at sincere relationships, but goodhearted underneath it all. Of course he is. Dramaland knows no other way. The show is described as a story about youthful love and friendship, and will focus on self-discovery and the search for sincere, earnest love. Hundred Year Bride is due to premiere in February 2014. CR:dramabeans ~seunghwan rosa~
Posted on: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 15:46:51 +0000
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