Kim Hye-ja and Son Seok-gu are coming together in a life-transcending romance.

JTBC‘s new Saturday-Sunday drama ‘More Beautiful Than Heaven’ (directed by Kim Seok-yoon, written by Lee Nam-gyu and Kim Soo-jin) is a life-transcending romance that unfolds when Lee Hae-sook (played by Kim Hye-ja) arrives in heaven in her 80s and reunites with her husband Go Nak-joon (played by Son Seok-gu) who has become a young man. The dynamic story of Lee Hae-sook starting a second life at the end of life called death presents warm emotions beyond pleasant laughter.

Director Kim Seok-yoon of ‘Hip-Hop’, ‘Dazzling’, ‘Awl’, and writers Lee Nam-gyu and Kim Soo-jin have reunited for this production. The drama stars Kim Hye-ja, Son Seok-gu, Han Ji-min, Lee Jung-eun, Cheon Ho-jin, and Ryu Deok-hwan. Above all, Kim Hye-ja and Son Seok-gu act as a couple.

Kim Hye-ja plays the role of Lee Hae-sook, an 80-year-old wife who reunites with her husband who has become a young man in heaven. Lee Hae-sook, who had no choice but to become the head of the household overnight due to her husband’s accident, has long been called a ‘veteran fighter’ armed with real-life compression muscles from the bottom of the household. After meeting her husband‘s death at the age of 80, she goes to live a second life in heaven at her own age, unlike others.

Son Seok-gu plays Lee Hae-sook’s loving husband and heavenly postman who delivers letters of wishes from the earth, ‘Go Nak-jun’, and they act as a special couple with Kim Hye-ja. Having left his beloved wife first, he builds a pretty house in heaven and waits for Lee Hae-sook, whom he will soon meet again. However, Go Nak-jun, a lively young man in his 30s, encounters ‘an 80-year-old woman’ Lee Hae-sook and continues his unexpected life in heaven.


In the first teaser video released by the production team, the subway in the afternoon when the sun is setting, just like Lee Hae-sook‘s life, under the red sunset shining through the window, the soliloquy “Is heaven really there?” echoes hollowly. As if answering that question, the train carrying her passes ‘Sacheonsan Mountain’, which separates life and death, and crosses ‘Samdocheon’, arriving at Lee Hae-sook’s destination, ‘Heaven Station’.

Lee Hae-sook, who entered heaven as she thought it would never exist, chooses to live as she is now at the age of 80 through the heaven admission counseling room. The only reason is that she thought of her husband, Ko Nak-joon, who used to say, “You were pretty in your twenties, and you were pretty in your forties, but my wife is the prettiest now.” However, the one waiting for her is her husband who has returned to his youth in his thirties. The awkward reunion is short-lived, and Lee Hae-sook and Ko Nak-joon begin their second married life, which is either heaven or hell. The story of Lee Hae-sook‘s entrance into heaven, the only person who did not return to her youth in heaven, is drawing attention.

‘More Beautiful Than Heaven’ is scheduled to air in April.

Hong Se-young, Donga.com reporter, projecthong@donga.com

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