This time, it‘s a ‘romantic comedy’. Lee Dong-wook, who has proven his star quality in various genres such as romantic comedy, action, and melodrama, is challenging the ‘romantic comedy king’ after 7 years.

He will show off his various charms through the new tvN drama ‘Divorce Insurance’, which will air from the 31st.

The drama is an office romantic comedy that depicts what happens when the innovative product development team of a non-life insurance company, which only gathers the best ‘brains’, introduces the ‘divorce insurance’ product.

In the drama, Lee Dong-wook plays Noh Ki-joon, an actuary who develops insurance products. After going through three divorces and losing both his bank account and mentality, he comes up with a practical divorce insurance product based on his own experiences.

In particular, this drama is garnering much attention because it is Lee Dong-wook’s first romantic comedy in 7 years since ‘Goblin’ in 2017 and ‘Touch Your Heart’ in 2019, and it is also director Lee Won-seok‘s first drama directed by him, who directed the film ‘Killing Romance’.

Lee Dong-wook attended the production presentation held online on the 24th ahead of the first broadcast and said, “My recent works all had strong characters and fantasy elements, but this time I wanted to do something light and easy to watch.”

He continued, “I wanted to express Noh Ki-joon’s loveliness well. I worked hard on it, but I don‘t know how the viewers will accept it. It’s been about 7 or 8 years since I‘ve done a romantic comedy. It’s been a while since I‘ve played a soft role, so it’s been nice.”

Having performed high-difficulty action scenes in the drama series ‘Tale of the Nine-Tailed’ and ‘Shopping Mall of Killers’, he chose “the physical comfort” as a good point.

Lee Dong-wook said, “It was really nice to be comfortable this time after flying and rolling so far. I also enjoyed the process of ‘tiki-taka’ with my co-stars and matching the comedic parts.”

Director Lee Won-seok, who was in charge of directing, said, “I love ‘the human Lee Dong-wook’,”and “I was thinking, ‘What would a person who has been divorced three times look like?’, and there was a picture of Lee Dong-wook wearing a hat and having a slightly blank expression. I don‘t really like it, but I thought it might be Noh Ki-joon who has been through the ups and downs of life three times.”


Reporter Lee Jeong-yeon annjoy@donga.com

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