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| yna@yna.co.kr 2023-01-28 08:59:43
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Yonhap) – One of the renowned South Korean screenwriters, Kim Soon-ok, who is known for her scripts for several hit dramas including “Penthouse” and “My Sister Is Alive,” will make a return to the small screens with a new revenge play titled “Pandora: Beneath the Paradise” (hereinafter referred to as “Pandora”).
The upcoming weekend drama, for which writer Kim participated as a creator and was based on the script written by writer Hyun Ji-min, who has been co-writing with her for several years, will premiere on Mar. 11, tvN announced Friday.
“Pandora” will tell the revenge story of a woman living a life that everyone envies to punish those who manipulated her fate while recollecting her lost past memories.
South Korean veteran actress Lee Ji-ah will play the vengeful woman Tae-ra, who faces her life, which she believed to be an utmost perfect one, falling apart, as she recaptures the pieces of her past she had lost. Faced with the rather intimidating truth that her life was shaped and maneuvered by someone else, Tae-ra begins a bloody revenge to protect herself and her family.
An array of veteran actors, including Lee Sang-yoon, Jang Hee-jin, Park Ki-woong, and Bong Tae-kyu, will be joining as cast members to bring even more tension to the acts.
Lee Sang-yoon plays Pyo Jae-hyun, the Speaker of Hatch, an IT tech with new brain nerve smart patch technology and a strong candidate for the next presidential election, and Jang Hee-jin will play Ko Hae-soo, the main new reader for YBC and also the daughter-in-law of the second son of the broadcasting company.
Park Ki-woong will act out the role of Jang Do-jin, the second son of Geumjo Group who is also the CEO of Hatch Management and a gold spoon by birth; Bong Tae-kyu will play the geek hacker Koo Sung-chan, who is the head of Hatch Research Institue.
Producer Choi Young-hoon, known as the director of “Wonder Woman” and “Good Casting,” will be directing the drama series.
(This article is translated from Korean to English by Ha eun Lee)
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