Actors Park Bo-young and Park Jin-young will star in the new tvN drama ‘Unknown Seoul’.

The new tvN drama ‘Unknown Seoul’ (written by Lee Kang/directed by Park Shin-woo), which is scheduled to premiere in the first half of 2025, is a romantic growth drama about twin sisters who are different in everything except their faces and find true love and life through a lie that switches their lives.

Director Park Shin-woo, who has built a solid fan base with the dramas ‘It‘s Okay to Not Be Okay’ and ‘Jealousy Incarnate’, and writer Lee Kang, who displayed his delicate writing skills with the drama ‘Youth of May’, have joined forces to garner attention. Here, actors Park Bo-young and Park Jin-young, who have a wide acting spectrum from emotional melodrama to intense thriller, have met and are heralding a unique synergy.

First, Park Bo-young will take on the role of twin sisters Yu Mi-ji and Yu Mi-rae, who are different in everything except their faces, taking on her first dual role since her debut. Yu Mi-ji, the younger of the twins, is currently living a free-spirited life after her brief heyday as a promising track and field athlete. On the other hand, Yu Mi-rae, the older of the twins, has been an elite since her school days and is currently a perfectionist working at a public corporation.

The sisters Yu Mi-ji and Yu Mi-rae, who look exactly like goldfish-shaped bread, begin a bold lie to swap lives for a certain reason. Accordingly, curiosity is rising about Park Bo-young’s versatile acting that will portray the polar opposite daily lives of twin sisters who swapped lives.

Park Jin-young, who has been busy since his military service, plays Lee Ho-soo, a lawyer at a large law firm with a tall appearance and a seemingly carefree attitude. Lee Ho-soo may seem like a noble swan with no flaws on the outside, but he actually works harder than others to live an ordinary life. This is because his daily life has become different from before after something happened in the past.

As a result, he lives a calm life without showing his true feelings, but one day, he has an unexpected encounter that will send ripples through Lee Ho-soo‘s heart. What kind of fate shook the always polite and calm Lee Ho-soo? Expectations are rising for Park Jin-young’s performance in expressing the rich inner side of Lee Ho-soo‘s character.

Like this, ‘Unknown Seoul’ will present empathy, healing, and excitement through the process in which twin sisters Yu Mi-ji, Yu Mi-rae, and Lee Ho-soo, who each lived completely opposite lives for their own reasons, meet each other and find their true selves. Indeed, how will the sisters Yu Mi-ji, Yu Mi-rae, and Lee Ho-soo seep into each other’s lives? Their romance is also anticipated.

The warm, healing chemistry created by trustworthy actors Park Bo-young and Park Jin-young will shine in the new tvN drama ‘Unknown Seoul’, which will first air in the first half of 2025.

Jeon Hyo-jin, Donga.com reporter jhj@donga.com