Jung Ryeo-won, Lee Dong-wook cast in new tvN drama


We’ve got another dramaland reunion in the works: Lee Dong-wook (Iron Man, Mandate of Heaven) and Jung Ryeo-won (Medical Top Team, King of Dramas) are being courted to headline the new tvN drama Bubblegum, slated for a winter broadcast either late this year or early next year. The two actors were co-stars on the 2003 sitcom Do the Right Thing, where they shared a loveline for ten episodes before Lee Dong-wook left the show. Twelve years later, they might be starring in their first cable drama opposite each other.


I like both actors and think they’ll make a good pairing, though I’m actually more excited about the fact that the drama is the newest project from PD Kim Byung-soo, of Nine, Queen Inhyun’s Man, and Three Musketeers. His shows are sleek and stylish, and always well-produced. Writing is a drama newbie, radio show Music City writer and book author Lee Mina, and producing is the company behind Secret Garden and A Gentleman’s Dignity.

The drama is described as an “adult fairytale,” which to me sounds like any drama ever. Perhaps we’ll learn of a more specific reason for the fairytale mention later, but the premise is just about people with deficiencies, becoming a little happier just by being with one another. Vague, I know. It’ll have four main characters and take place in a broadcast station and a hospital.

Lee Dong-wook has been cast as a doctor of Eastern medicine who runs his own practice. He’s someone who thinks of his mother and the heroine before himself. Maybe the bigger question is who comes first, Mom or the love interest? Jung Ryeo-won is up for the role of a radio PD — she’s impatient and clumsy, and also carries some inner pain.

It’s hard to say based on the one-line premise what the show will look like, but it sounds like a thoughtful contemporary romance. The title throws me a little since it’s so light and fluffy-sounding, not that I’d ever complain about these two doing lighter comedic fare. I liked Jung best in History of a Salaryman, and Lee Dong-wook is far more charismatic when he’s going for the laugh.

Bubblegum is slated to follow Cheese in the Trap (which comes after Hidden Identity and Rude Miss Young-ae) on Mondays and Tuesdays either in December or January 2016

While as of yet unconfirmed, rumors have started flying around about the possibility of Jung Ryeo Won and Lee Dong Wook returning in an upcoming tvN drama entitled "Bubble Gum", set to air in December following Cheese in the Trap.When last we saw these two together, they were MCing the 2012 SBS Drama Awards. (photos as credited)

What do you think about this possible pairing?I for one am all for it. Mostly because of my HUGE girl crush on Jung Ryeo Won. Lee Dong Wook is good too. He's no Jung Ryeo Won mind you, but then again, who is? I think these two would play well off of each other. Both are talented actors and I'd like to see what they could do together.No official word yet on the plot synopsis of Bubble Gum, but we hear it is described as an adult fairy tale that follows the "healing" trend. She's a radio PD and he's an acupuncturist.



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Sper sa accepte oferta, imi plac amandoi, iar Jung Ryeo Won n-a mai aparut intr-un serial de ceva vreme.