Kim Soo-hyun, Seol In-ah, and other Gold Medalist actors are set to fill up TV screens in the first half of this year.

According to Gold Medalist on the 5th, Kim Soo-hyun and Seol In-ah, along with Choi Hyun-wook, Lee Chae-min, Kim Si-eun, Jung Han-seol, and Lee Jong-hyun, will appear together in dramas of various genres and platforms that will be released in the first half of the year.

First, rookie actor Lee Jong-hyun made his start with the TVING original ‘Study Group’. ‘Study Group’ is a comical high school action drama about Yoon Ga-min (Hwang Min-hyun), who wants to be good at studying but is only good at fighting, forming a ‘Study Group’ while taking on the bloody college entrance exams at the worst school in the world. It has been gaining word of mouth by rising to ‘Today‘s TVING TOP1’ just one day after its release on the 23rd of last month.

Lee Jong-hyun plays the role of Kim Se-hyun, the second-best student in the school who is first chosen by Yoon Ga-min and forms a study group with him. Despite this being his debut work, he is loved for his stable acting skills and his chemistry with Hwang Min-hyun.

In February, rookie actor Jung Han-seol, who made a splash as a passionate detective in the drama ‘Ilta Scandal’, will appear in KBS 2TV’s new Wednesday-Thursday drama ‘Kik Kik Kik’, which first airs on the 5th at 9:50 PM. ‘Kik Kik Kik’ is an office comedy drama about popular actor Ji Jin-hee (Ji Jin-hee) and one-time star PD Jo Young-sik (Lee Kyu-hyung) who establish a content production company and run towards 3 million subscribers. Jung Han-seol, who is challenging his first sitcom, will show off his hidden comedic acting as the troublemaker but lovable Noh In-seong of the Kikki Kikki Company.

Choi Hyun-wook and Lee Chae-min, who have risen to stardom, will visit the small screen with a sweet romance. Choi Hyun-wook, who has shown impressive acting in every work he has appeared in, including ‘Sparkling Watermelon’, ‘D.P. Season 2’, ‘Weak Hero Class 1’, ‘Twenty Five Twenty One’, has taken on the role of Ban Joo-yeon, a third-generation chaebol, in tvN‘s new Monday-Tuesday drama ‘That Dude is a Black Flame Dragon’, which will first air on February 17.

He starts his company life hiding his deep-rooted otaku side and struggling to be recognized by his grandmother as the successor to Yongseong Department Store, and he will portray a romance that breaks the seal with Moon Ga-young. Choi Hyun-wook, who mainly played student roles, is raising expectations for this work as he takes on the role of a department head who wears a suit.

Lee Chae-min, who rose to fame with ‘Door Boy’, will challenge herself with a campus romance in MBC’s new Friday-Saturday drama ‘Bunny and Brothers’. ‘Bunny and Brothers’, based on a Kakao webtoon of the same name, is a romance drama about Bunny (Noh Jung-eui) looking for a boyfriend after her first relationship, which turned out to be a dark history, suddenly gets entangled with attractive men. Lee Chae-min plays Hwang Jae-yeol, who coincidentally gets entangled with Bunny.

Hwang Jae-yeol, an all-rounder in the Visual Design Department of Yein University, is a typical example of the strong and the weak, and is extremely popular within the department. From the teaser video, Lee Chae-min, who has melted the hearts of viewers with his warm atmosphere and affection, is drawing attention to how he will display the charm of Hwang Jae-yeol, a ‘man straight out of a comic book’.

The first half of the year will be marked by the reliable Kim Soo-hyun and Seol In-ah. Kim Soo-hyun, who has portrayed every role he takes on with charm and given us a variety of emotions, returns as Kim Sung-joon in Disney+‘s original series ‘Knockoff’. It is the story of a man whose life is turned upside down by the IMF, going from an ordinary office worker to the king of the global counterfeit market. Kim Soo-hyun, who impressed the world at home and abroad with ‘Queen of Tears’ last year as ‘Baek Hyun-woo’, has transformed into a character with a completely different charm, raising curiosity.

Seol In-ah, who challenges without limits with her genre-neutral acting skills and excellent character digestion, can be seen in MBC’s new Friday-Saturday drama ‘Labor Attorney Noh Moo-jin’. In director Im Soon-rye‘s first drama, Seol In-ah will play the role of Na Hee-joo, the sister-in-law of Noh Moo-jin (Jung Kyung-ho) and the brains of Noh Moo-jin’s office, captivating viewers with her refreshing charm. Expectations are also high for the fresh brother-in-law-sister-in-law chemistry she will show with Jung Kyung-ho.

In this way, the actors of Gold Medalist have finished preparing to meet viewers with a full lineup in the first half of the year. Last year, Kim Si-eun played the role of Yeong-mi, the 95th contestant in the Netflix series ‘Squid Game’ Season 2, Kim Soo-kyum appeared in the TVING original series ‘Good or Bad Dong-jae’, and Song Ga-yeon appeared in tvN‘s ‘Love on a Single-log Bridge’, showing that new actors have also been active.


Reporter Yoo Ji-hye yjh0304@donga.com

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