Now that the pretty, pretty boys have been cast for Flower Boy Ramyun Shop — that would be 49 Days’ Jung Il-woo and A Star’s Lover’s Lee Ki-woo — we have the ladies who will join them.

Cast in the romantic lead opposite Jung Il-woo is Lee Chung-ah, which I think I’m pretty happy about. Her most recent dramas have been dailies (Pumpkin Flower Soon-jung and Everybody Cha Cha Cha) so that means that while she’s fairly well-known back at home, her profile is a bit lower for those of us abroad who gravitate more toward prime-time dramas and films. But I do recall her being cute and funny in Accidental Couple (she played Hwang Jung-min’s sister), and she was even cuter and funnier as the Korean-Japanese student who bickers with, then falls for, Park Ki-woong in My Tutor Friend 2. She was also in the recent Gong Yoo—Im Soo-jung romantic comedy Finding Kim Jong-wook.

In Flower Boy Ramyun Shop, Lee Chung-ah plays Eun-bi, a 25-year-old university student who’s preparing for the civil service exam, who manages the ramyun shop populated by a staff of pretty boys. Sort of like Coffee Prince, except the heroine’s the boss and one of her romantic interests (Lee Ki-woo) is employed as her genius chef.

Interestingly, Jung Il-woo’s prince-like chaebol character is a high school student, and heir to a food product company. I’d expected that Jung would one again be part of a noona romance (he’s 24, she’s 26), but I didn’t think he’d be that young. I suppose high school students in Korea can be as old as 20, so it may not be such a big issue, and hey — it could be as cute and appealing as the Gong Yoo—Gong Hyo-jin couple in Biscuit Teacher Star Candy.

Then there’s new face Kim Ye-won (who was a Vietnamese housekeeper in Romance Town) playing a high school teacher. She’s a confident modern woman whom the men see as prime “bride material” (ugh, that phrase); I’m gonna bet her male students think so too.

Flower Boy Ramyun Shop is scheduled for 16 episodes to follow Birdie Buddy on cable channel tvN, premiering in late October.

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http://www.dramabeans.com/2011/09/the-ladies-of-flower-boy-ramyun-shop/