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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From pretty-boy masked heroes to pretty-boy Schedulers to pretty-boy… ramyun purveyors? The poster boy for the “kkot-minam” (flower boy) generation, Jung Il-woo, has signed on to a new drama called Flower Boy Ramyun Shop, which will air on tvN following Birdie Buddy.
Flower Boy Ramyun Shop (a working title) is the first drama in tvN’s planned “Oh Boy” series, which plays with the trendy drama format and features a star-studded lineup of flower boy leading men. The strategy is to make a direct play for the young market, and create an Oh Boy brand that opens the door for other related products and enterprises.
The Oh Boy series includes a reality/audition program, with the intention of being a long-running brand. Oh Boy Audition plans to premiere in October with seven episodes, scoping out the new generation of pretty boy leading men. The winner of that series wins a role in the second drama in the Oh Boy series, Flower Boy Attack Band.
Then at the end of October, Flower Boy Ramyun Boy will premiere, broadcasting on Mondays and Tuesdays. Jung Il-woo will play Cha Chi-soo, a conceited chado-nam (cold city man) from a wealthy family. He’s confident and chic, but also has a hidden pure side underneath it all. Aw, he’s a teddy bear hiding in asshole’s clothing. He’s the son to the country’s biggest food product conglomerate (think Nongshim, or Lotte).
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