Seo Ye-ji’s new K-drama character in Island sounds suspiciously similar to her breakout role as It’s Okay to Not Be Okay’s Ko Moon-young – what do we know so far?

Nov 4 , 2020

It’s Okay to Not Be Okay star Seo Ye-ji is working on a new drama, Island, playing a suspiciously similar character. Photo: @seoyeajiluv/Instagram.

Alongside dreamy co-star Kim Soo-hyun, Seo Ye-ji was the summer breakout face of South Korean drama thanks to her biting turn in Netflix’s lockdown smash It’s Okay to Not Be Okay – now she’s back with a new drama playing a new character that sounds equally stuck-up

Seo Ye-ji made a phenomenal splash with her role as Ko Moon-young in summer lockdown Netflix hit, It’s Okay to Not Be Okay. She played the beautiful but just as brazen character to the hilt, leaving fans gagging for her next screen turn. Well, the wait is over – the actress has just accepted an offer to star in upcoming drama Island. She’s been written as – yep, you guessed it – yet another rich girl who you just can’t hate, prompting the question, how does her new role compare to her last?

The set-up

Seo reprises a formula that has been trending in the K-drama sphere for the past two years – an affluent, arrogant beauty who harbours a wound in her heart from her yesteryear. This time, her character is the only heir of the Daehan conglomerate group. After her rude attitude causes a huge kerfuffle, her CEO father banishes her to a lonesome island.

The element of mystery

Similar to her counterpart in It’s Okay to Not Be Okay, Seo will have to win over her mystery man and, in the process, uncover his secrets. Seo’s character in Island will have to depend on a hunter who lives on the island to help her achieve her mission. But who exactly is this hunter and why is he the lone human on the deserted island?

An equal footing?

Much like how Ko Moon-young and Moon Gang-tae helped work out each others’ flaws and wounds, Seo’s character will also hold the missing key to helping the hunter on his life’s mission. As he has lived on the island alone for a long time, some human presence will also soften up his personality.