Jeon Hye-jin is running again.

She will return to the small screen in two years through ENA‘s new drama ‘Riding Life’, which will be aired for the first time on March 3rd. This drama is drawing attention as it is her first drama in about two years since the hit ‘Man to Man’ in 2023, and she is returning to her main job as an actor after losing her husband, actor Lee Sun-kyun, at the end of the same year.

‘Riding Life’, which Jeon Hye-jin chose after taking a break from acting for a while, is based on a novel of the same name. It is a family drama that depicts what happens when the main character, a ‘working mom’, asks her biological mother, a ‘single mom’, to ‘ride’ her daughter to her academy.

It also garners attention by covering the so-called ‘7-year-old civil service exam’, which has recently become a social issue, the ‘competition for preschool children to enter a famous English kindergarten’, and the ‘riding’, which all parents with children have experienced, to help them get to and from school.

Jeon Hye-jin plays Lee Jung-eun, a passionate working mom who doesn’t want to miss work or her daughter‘s education. She and Jo Min-soo play mother and daughter.

Jeon Hye-jin is also in positive discussions to appear in the second season of ‘Namnam’, which is currently in production and scheduled to air in the second half of the year.

The previous work, ‘Namnam’, dealt with the story of Eun-mi, a young and immature mother who gave birth to her daughter when she was in high school, and her daughter Jin-hee. At the time, Jeon Hye-jin garnered attention for her character that broke the stereotypical mother image, acting alongside Girls’ Generation member and actress Sooyoung.



Reporter Lee Jeong-yeon annjoy@donga.com

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