Son Seok-gu, who rose to stardom with the modifier “Mr. Gu, better than Gucci”, is back.

He will be the lead actor in the new JTBC drama ‘More Beautiful Than Heaven’, scheduled to air on April 19th.

Having left a strong impression through the Netflix drama ‘Murderer’ and the movie ‘Comment Unit’ last year, he is drawing attention by appearing as the ‘romanticist of the century’ in the new lead drama.

‘More Beautiful Than Heaven’ is a romantic comedy drama that depicts the story of a protagonist who meets his lover again in heaven after facing death. The direction is by PD Kim Seok-yoon who created ‘My Liberation Diary’, and the script is by writer Lee Nam-gyu who wrote ‘Dazzling’, ‘Hip-happy’, ‘Morning Comes to the Psychiatric Ward’.

Above all, this drama is garnering much attention because it will fully revive the charm that made people suffer from ‘Son Seok-gu fever’ at the time due to the fact that Son Seok-gu and PD Kim Seok-yoon have teamed up once again. Son Seok-gu has shown special affection for the character of Ms. Gu from ‘My Liberation Diary’, to the point of calling her “the character of my life”.

In the drama, Son Seok-gu plays Go Nak-jun who loves his wife dearly and is a doting husband who would marry her if he were to be reborn. The role of his wife Lee Hae-sook is played by ‘Nation‘s mother’ Kim Hye-ja. The two will play the role of a couple who reunited in heaven and will show a romance that will make you laugh.

In particular, thanks to the fantasy genre added to the concept of a ‘romance that transcends reality’, the setting where Son Seok-gu meets again in heaven when he is thirty and Kim Hye-ja is eighty is intriguing.

The two also garnered attention for their extraordinary chemistry in the teaser video recently released by the production team. In the video, Kim Hye-ja and Son Seok-gu show off their cute and comical sides despite their forty-two-year age difference, drawing the attention of fans.

The production team said, “Son Seok-gu and Kim Hye-ja go beyond romance to encompass comedy, human, and fantasy genres. “Please look forward to not only the two people’s lovely transformations, but also a cheerful and warm story that goes beyond reality and imagination.”


Reporter Lee Jeong-yeon annjoy@donga.com

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