Park Sung-yeon, Lee Ji-hye, Hong Yoon-hwa, the three health club witches (24-hour health club)

TV Mar 27, 2025

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Photo courtesy of KBS 2TV‘s new Wednesday-Thursday drama “24 Hour Health Club”
Photo courtesy of KBS 2TV‘s new Wednesday-Thursday drama “24 Hour Health Club”

‘24 Hour Gym’ Park Sung-yeon, Lee Ji-hye, and Hong Yoon-hwa announce the birth of the one-of-a-kind witch trio.

The new KBS 2TV Wednesday-Thursday drama ‘24 Hour Gym’ (directed by Park Jun-soo, Choi Yeon-soo/written by Kim Ji-soo), scheduled to premiere on Wednesday, April 30th at 9:50 PM, is a heart-pounding muscle growth comedy (comedy romance) that unfolds as the gritty gym manager Do Hyun-joong unconventionally corrects the lives of the worry-prone members.

Today (the 27th), ‘24 Hour Gym’ released stills of the three gym members Park Sung-yeon, Lee Ji-hye, and Hong Yoon-hwa who are responsible for the laughter of countless people on weeknights. The cheerful gym life of the three witches, who work out together, learn Zumba dance, and so on, is a real fun show with their muscle push-and-pull.

Park Sung-yeon plays the role of Im Sung-im, the leader of the three witches and the troublemaker of the gym. Although Sung-im, the queen of nostalgia, has lived as a shadowy existence at home, supporting her husband and children, she shows off her presence at the gym with her reliable younger siblings on her back. Sung-im, who has been feeling empty due to menopausal symptoms, wants to live as ‘me’ for the first time, not as someone‘s wife and mother.

Lee Ji-hye gives a passionate performance as the second of the three witches, Yoon Bu-yeong. Sung-im’s right-hand man Bu-yeong is a character with such weak physical strength that she lives with arthritis in her knees. Bu-yeong enrolls in a gym at her husband‘s urging, and by fate, she meets Seong-im and Park Dool-hee (played by Hong Yoon-hwa) and they become like real sisters.

The youngest of the Witch Trio, Park Dool-hee, is played by Hong Yoon-hwa. Dool-hee, who has a warm image reminiscent of Winnie the Pooh, visits the gym to lose her belly fat and fatefully meets the best of her sisters, Im Seong-im (played by Park Sung-yeon) and Yoon Bu-young (played by Lee Ji-hye). In particular, Dool-hee is expected to stimulate viewers’ mouths with her bold eating habits, which is unusual for the youngest.

In this way, the members of the ‘24-Hour Health Club’, the Witch Trio, will gather at the gym with various stories and ages, giving sympathy and comfort to viewers. Expectations are rising for the synergy that Park Sung-yeon, Lee Ji-hye, and Hong Yoon-hwa, who possess delicious acting skills, will create when they meet, and for the amazing teamwork they will display.

‘24-Hour Health Club’ is the result of the collaboration between Director Park Jun-soo of ‘Gaussian Electronics’, ‘The God of Music’, and Writer Kim Ji-soo of ‘Postpartum Care Center’. It will premiere on April 30 (Wednesday) at 9:50 PM as the follow-up to ‘Country of Villains’.

Jeon Hyo-jin, Donga.com Reporter jhj@donga.com

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