Upcoming tvN rom-com Twelve Men in a Year has released its posters and a new teaser,
highlighting a fun and whimsical take on leaving your romantic fate to the stars. Yoon Jin-seo plays Miru, a magazine writer who takes on a new romance column and launches headlong into a project where she dates twelve men, one for each astrological sign of the year. I like that the posters have taken that in the most literal sense, and set her amongst falling stars. So cute.

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Yay, Yoon Jin-seo (Runaway: Plan B, Return of Iljimae) has been cast as the lead in a new rom-com miniseries for cable network tvN called Twelve Men in a Year, set to premiere next month. Yoon is delightfully funny and emotive, so I can’t wait to see her front and center in a romantic comedy tailored just for her. She’ll be playing a 29-year old woman who hits her Oh-frak-I’m-gonna-be-THIRTY-soon crisis, and decides to date twelve men during her last year of being twenty-something. Okay, I kind of love this premise. Will it be a new guy every month, or are there more rules to this game?

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Lee So-yeon transforms into a nice character (for once!) for her new drama, after playing a few notable villains: She was the calculating Jang hee-bin out to undermine Han Hyo-joo in Dong Yi, and the vengeful daughter out to destroy her husband Bae Soo-bin’s family in Angel’s Temptation. Now she’s the lead in the upcoming weekend drama Nice To Meet You — or, as it has just been renamed, My Love By My Side (not to be confused with the Kim Myung-min/Ha Ji-won melodrama film of the same name).

In the SBS drama, Lee So-yeon plays a young single mother (often called “little mom”) who becomes pregnant as a teenager by boyfriend Ohn Joo-wan, who then ditches her to raise the baby alone. And talk about a transformation; I get that she’s playing nicer than her usual femme fatale-y types, but she’s almost unrecognizable from the usual polished, chic image that we’re all used to.

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Dong Yi and Angel’s Temptation villainess Lee So-yeon is taking the lead in a new SBS weekend drama titled Nice To Meet You (a working title), where she plays a teenage single mother. Well, I’m assuming that the character ages at some point, since Lee will soon be 29 — she looks fabulous, but hardly teenage.

Her leading man will be played by Ohn Joo-wan (Chosun Police), who was recently discharged from military duty, where he served in the air force. In his comeback role, he plays a weak-willed guy who gets his girlfriend pregnant, but ditches her to go abroad. Ohh, you bastid! You’ve got a lot of making up to do already, and the drama hasn’t even begun, buddy. This should be good. (I’m kind of a sucker for stories where the dude acts immaturely and has to redeem himself, provided he goes through adequate tribulations in the process.)

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Once actors go off to fulfill their two years of military service, it’s not often that we get to see them in the public eye until their discharge. So it’s nice to see a few of the currently enlisted entertainers together onstage for the 2009 Army Concert, which took place in Seoul on the evening of October 31.

Some of the celebrities who participated were actors Jae Hee (Three Dads One Mom), Jo In-sung (Frozen Flower), Lee Dong-wook (Partner), Kim Jae-won (Hwang Jini), and Ohn Joo-wan (Chosun Police). On the kpop side, there were singer-actors Yang Dong-geun (I Am Sam), Lee Jung (Hometown of Legends), and Kim Jung-hoon (Goong), as well as singers Sung Shi-kyung, Tony An.

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As announced, two actors joined the ranks of their enlisted entertainment brethren in fulfilling their mandatory military obligation on October 27.

Voluntary air force enlister, the 25-year-old Ohn Joo-wan (My Mighty Princess, The Peter Pan Formula), and 29-year-old gentle-faced actor Ryu Soo-young (Bad Couple, Seoul 1945) both said their goodbyes on Monday afternoon before heading off to the training center in Nonsan, North Chungcheong province.

Y’know, looking through the photos of all these guys heading off to enlist, I’ve noticed with how they’re always so self-conscious and embarrassed about their newly cropped hair. You’d think by now that they’d have gotten used to showing all sides of their appearance in their acting projects, but that doesn’t stop them from responding to the loss of their usually fashionably styled locks as though they’ve lost their security blankets.

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And the guys keep dropping off to enlist. This time the enlistee is going off a little earlier than most entertainers (while normal civilians tend to get it over with in their early twenties, a lot of celebrities, loath to interrupt career momentum, push it off as long as possible and we tend to see them go off when they’re 28 or 29).

Actor Ohn Joo-wan (My Mighty Princess, Chosun Police, City of Violence) is only 25 years old, but already he is volunteering for military enlistment in the air force.

His management said, “Ohn Joo-hwan has always talked about wanting to serve in the military, and after deliberating, he decided to do his active duty this year… Joining the air force has always been his dream, so he’s received his physical exam and been deemed fit to serve.”

Ohn had suffered a few on-the-job injuries, including a burst eardrum while filming the swimming-related The Peter Pan Formula and a fall from a horse while shooting Chosun Police. He reportedly worked extra hard to get back into top shape in order to enlist as first-class status. He also spent a lot of time listening to the advice of older entertainers who’d already returned from active duty, such as Yoon Kye-sang.

He said, “I won’t be able to see you for the next two years, but please don’t forget me, and I will return in more projects as a better person, a better man, and a better actor.”

Ohn Joo-hwan will enlist tomorrow, on October 27. His most recent film, My Mighty Princess, co-starred Shin Mina and Yoo Gun and opened in June.

Via OSEN

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Shin Mina looks positively radiant as she promotes her upcoming romantic action comedy film Mulim Girl [무림여대생], also starring Ohn Joo Wan and Yoo Gun. Everyone looks happy and upbeat, if a little vampiric (is that some harsh lighting or what?). Not vampiric in a negative sense, just the sense of looking like they haven’t collectively seen sunlight in years and need the blood of others to survive because they no longer possess any of their own.

Seoul, Apgujung, June 3. The film releases on June 26.

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