Park Eun-bin and Shin Min-a, synonymous with ‘Lovely’, will face off in a ‘Thriller’.

Actors Park Eun-bin and Shin Min-a, who have been active in the romantic comedy genre with their bright and lovely charms, have chosen ‘Thriller’ as their first OTT (online video service) leading roles and will be appearing one after another on TV screens this spring. Drama fans are paying close attention to whether their ‘reversal charm’ can drive the success of the drama.

Park Eun-bin, who previously made a series of hit dramas with her loveliness as a lead role, such as ‘Yeommo’, ‘Strange Lawyer Woo Young-woo’, and ‘Diva of the Uninhabited Island’, played the role of Se-ok, a genius surgeon with sociopathic tendencies who feels murderous intent during surgery, in the Disney+ drama ‘Hyperknife’, which released episodes 1 and 2 on the 19th, showing the most intense acting transformation since her debut.

After having her medical license revoked by her respected teacher Deok-hee (Seol Kyung-gu), Se-ok lives as a ‘shadow doctor’, moving from one illegal surgery center to another. When she reunites with Deok-hee, she explodes with madness and instigates conflict.

In particular, in episodes 1 and 2 that were released, she strangles Deok-hee with an IV drip or By trampling on painkillers and exploding with emotions, she heightened the tension to the max, raising curiosity about what the next story will be like. Viewers also gave favorable reviews on SNS for Park Eun-bin‘s new side that we’ve never seen before.

Shin Min-a, who has been active in the romance genre and even earned the nickname ‘Rom-Com Queen’, will also show a new side of herself in the Netflix drama ‘Bad Romance’, which will be released on April 4th. Although she first challenged the thriller genre in the 2020 film ‘Diva’ and received favorable reviews, this is her first time starring in a drama that is not a romance.

‘Bad Romance’, which Netflix is confidently presenting with the title “The craziest thriller of the year”, depicts the story of six people who are entangled in a bad relationship that they cannot escape from even though they want to. The acting synergy of the actors Park Hae-soo, Lee Hee-joon, Kim Sung-kyun, Lee Kwang-soo, and Gong Seung-yeon, who starred with Shin Min-a, is also a point to watch.

In the drama, Shin Min-a plays a doctor who has been living with lifelong trauma due to an incident she experienced as a child and encounters someone she never wanted to meet again. She will go back and forth between extreme emotions of inner pain and revenge.



Reporter Seungmi Lee smlee@donga.com

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