(Probably.)
Secret Garden has cast Ha Ji-won to star opposite Jang Hyuk in the “fantasy romantic comedy” drama set to air on SBS later this year. Note that the contract is “not finalized yet” — and we know why that’s a tricky deal — but the production company announced the casting on July 20 as though it were a done deal.
Ha will play a beautiful, skilled stuntwoman named Kil La-im (it is a Korean name despite being rather unusual) who “gets entangled with the immature and prickly Joo-won,” a department store president and chaebol played by Jang Hyuk. Also starring is Yoon Sang-hyun (Queen of Housewives) as a washed-up Hallyu star (haha) named Oscar, with whom Ha Ji-won and Jang Hyuk will fall into a love triangle.
Philip Lee (Story of a Man), and Kim Sarang (Tokyo Showers) are also cast, he as a martial arts director and she as a CF director. The drama has also been the source of speculation as to whether ex-2PM star Jaebum will sign on as a rookie singer named Sun.
This will be Ha’s first drama in nearly four years, ever since she played the famed gisaeng Hwang Jini in the drama of the same name. Since then, her film career has taken off with hits like disaster flick Haeundae and melodrama My Love By My Side. She’s slated for another film this year, the action blockbuster Sector 7.
Secret Garden will replace Life Is Beautiful on weekends and is scheduled to premiere in September. The project comes from the team that did On Air and Lovers In Paris, PD Shin Woo-chul and Kim Eun-sook.
Via Star News
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Seriously, is there anything better than this news?
I mean, holy cow. This is major epic!
My fave actor Jang Hyuk and the best actress ever Ha Ji Won will play on one screen? This what I called Daebak!
And Jay too! I LOVE JAY <3
but the story is about swapping bodies !!!!
What a beautiful, elegant-looking woman!
OMO OMO ….now this one gets me totally Excited……..hoping for the confirmation !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow……..I’ve never seen Ha Ji Won still hadn’t been there in television for a long time!
……..I just wonder that if she’d got a break time or something else whatever she do.
Ah, it’s a good thing for her to might join in this drama — IF not, I am sure that she still have big future for her.
whoah!!! Really! am a great fan of HJW. Can’t wait!….
i like all of them & need i say more
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just can’t wait though!
Oh, fantastic! Now this is what you call a leading lady, worthy of a leading man like Jang Hyuk! Ohmygoodness!
This sounds like a high profile series with so many A-List stars. Shouldn’t this series be a Mon-Tues or Wed-Thur series? I thought weekend dramas were all these family-theme series like Life is Beautiful.
“Shouldn’t this series be a Mon-Tues or Wed-Thur series?”
SBS has a monopoly on the weekend slot, it’s an especially good one for their A-list star melodramas, which are pitched to the housewife audience. Kim Eun Sook’s Lovers in Paris and Lovers in Prague were both run in that slot.
This also tips off what kind of Kim Eun Sook show this will probably be.
what an awesome pairing!
Totally made my day. Love the pairing. their going to melt the screen.
I share your TOTAL excitement!! I am currently watching Damo and Ha Ji Won has become my favourite korean actress. And Jang Hyuk, of course is already up there. They are both awesome actors, can’t wait… great, great news, this!!!
According to Hancinema who got its report via 10asia, it’s a done deal, she is the female lead. http://www.hancinema.net/ha-ji-won-cast-as-female-lead-in-new-sbs-drama–24351.html
Jaebum too, apparently is a done deal.
I think it’s likely to be finalized, but as of right now (I just did a search) all the latest headlines still read that she’s still in talks and is a “likely candidate.” 10 Asia is one site saying it’s confirmed while there are about a dozen others that say it’s still being worked out.
@JB
Oh noes, and here was me thinking hancinema as about as concise as it can get when it comes to Hallyu news. Back to fingercrossing again.
WE LOVE HA JI WON. LOVE LOVE LOVE HER