Lee Jong-suk, Yoona play husband and wife; Takashi Miike, Japanese filmmaker, to make his K-drama debut directing D.P.’s Jung Hae-in
- A lawyer framed for murder and his wife who vies to clear his name – these are the characters Lee Jong-suk and Girl’s Generation’s Im Yoon-ah play in Big Mouse
- D.P’s Jung Hae-in is a victim of illegal organ harvesting in Connect, while Lee Dong-wook (Live) plays an ambitious cop with dubious ethics in Bad and Crazy
Many in South Korea will be taking a breather next week for the mid-autumn Chuseok holiday – traditionally a harvest festival – but the K-drama industry knows no rest, and some enticing new series have been announced, many of which will go into production very soon.
Global streaming companies continue to focus on the market for Korean dramas. In addition to new Netflix and Disney+ shows, two series will air worldwide on the Chinese video streaming platform iQiyi as iQiyi Originals.
Big Mouse
Two of Korea’s most recognisable faces will share the screen in a tvN drama screening in 2022. Pinocchio star Lee Jong-suk and Im Yoon-ah of K-pop group Girl’s Generation (also known as Yoona) have been cast in the drama series Big Mouse.
Lee will appear as Park Chang-ho, a middling lawyer known in the legal field as ‘Big Mouth’, who is one day framed as a murder suspect when he’s mistaken for the notorious conman ‘Big Mouse’. Im, currently on screens in the Chuseok family drama Miracle: Letters to the President, will play his wife, Go Mi-ho, a nurse who tries to clear his name.
The drama will see Lee re-team with his While You Were Sleeping director Oh Choong-hwan, who is also known for Hotel Del Luna.
Bad and Crazy
Lee Dong-wook, Wi Ha-joon and Han Ji-eun are set to lead tvN drama Bad and Crazy. Live actor Lee will play Soo-yeol, an ambitious cop with questionable ethics. Soo-yeol’s steady upward trajectory in the department is thrown into doubt when the “crazy” K, played by Wi (Squid Game) appears before him.
