“I hope this will be a tribute to the parents‘ generation and a source of encouragement for the children’s generation”

Same-age actors’ IU and Park Bo-gum, who are confident in their ‘all-the-best chemistry’, have announced the birth of a life drama that everyone around the world can relate to. This will be through Netflix‘s new original series ‘Fooled In’, which melts a panorama of joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure into the four seasons.

‘Fooled In’, which will be released on March 7, is a work that compares the adventurous lives of youths born in Jeju Island from the 1960s to 2025 to the four seasons. As it is a work that emphasizes the sense of seasons, rather than releasing them all at once like Netflix does, the plan is to present four episodes, each containing a season, one after the other for four weeks.

In particular, this work is the result of the collaboration of writer Im Sang-choon, who wrote ‘When the Camellia Blooms’ ‘Fight My Way’, and writer Kim Won-seok, who directed ‘My Mister’ ‘Signal’ ‘Misaeng’, as well as the first acting chemistry between two actors of the same age, IU and Park Bo-gum, who have huge global fandoms.

In the drama, IU and Park Bo-gum play the roles of Ae-soon, a haenyeo daughter with many dreams who is undaunted by no one, and Gwan-sik, a fishmonger’s son who is as honest as iron but pure enough to be timid in front of the woman he loves, respectively. These portray Ae-soon and Gwan-sik from their teens to their twenties, while Moon So-ri and Park Hae-joon play middle-aged men in their 40s and older, respectively.

At a production conference held at the Conrad Seoul Hotel in Yeouido on the 5th prior to the first broadcast, IU and Park Bo-gum expressed their confidence in the drama, looking back and saying, “Because we’re each other,” they were able to immerse themselves more in this production and film.

IU, who emphasized that Park Bo-gum is a “really good partner,” laughed and said, “We’ve actually known each other since our teens, so it’s like Ae-soon and Gwan-sik have known each other for a long time, so I wasn’t nervous and felt comfortable from the first shoot.”

Park Bo-gum also said that his relationship with IU, whom he first met in his teens and started acting with in his 30s, “is really touching,” adding, “It’s precious that we can meet again like this. “I was able to completely immerse myself in the drama, especially thanks to IU, who portrayed Ae-soon so well in a cool and enchanting way,” he said emphatically.


Reporter Seungmi Lee smlee@donga.com

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