From new trailers, casting offers to K-drama reveals, here's the biggest news in the Korean entertainment scene this week
As we close in the month of September, the Korean entertainment industry is buzzing with a lot of casting offers, K-drama reveals and new teaser trailers.
It’s relatively quiet in the K-pop scene but the most exciting is BTS’ first in-person concert in two years. Over at the K-drama side, there has been a lot of casting offers as networks prepare for upcoming dramas in 2022 as well as tease the ones coming out towards the end of the year.
Find out all about that and more in our weekly Korean entertainment roundup. In case you missed last week's, be sure to check it out here.
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1. Lee Do-hyun and Im Soo-jung’s new drama releases posters
Baeksang Arts Award Best Actor winner, Lee Do-hyun will be teaming up with Blue Dragon Awards Best Actress, Im Soo-jung for a new K-drama, Melancholia.
The K-drama will tell the story of a corrupt private school giving preferential treatment to students. Im Soo-jung will be playing Ji Yoon-soo, a high school math teacher while Lee Do-hyun is taking on the role of Baek Seung-yoo who used to be a math prodigy as a child but ranked last in his high school.
Melancholia is scheduled to premiere towards the end of this year.