Park Seo Joon And Won Ji An pair up for JTBC drama ‘Waiting For Gyeongdo’
It feels like I haven’t seen a Park Seo Joon drama in ages! The last I saw was Itaewon Class back in 2020. I’m glad he will be starring in a romantic comedy next — it’s JTBC’s Waiting For Gyeongdo. Won Ji An (D.P.) has been cast as the female lead opposite him. The show is another addition to ‘exes-to-lovers’ trope (I have no clue why every other drama these days is about reunited lovers) but there are certain fresh elements added to it to make things more interesting.
Park Seo Joon and Won Ji An play two people who first fell in love when they were 20 years old, when both were part of a theater club called Jirimeolryeol during their university days. After breaking up, they rekindled their relationship at 28 but broke up again. Now they meet again years later as Park Seo Joon’s character, a reporter in the entertainment section of a newspaper, covers a scandal involving an extramarital affair and Won Ji An plays the wife of the man involved in it. Won Ji An’s character is the second daughter of a wealthy family and is a confident and glamourous celebrity, who is internally struggling due to her cheating husband.
The show is touted as a romantic comedy so I’m guessing the plot would contain humour, as opposed to melodramatic vibe which is common in stories like this.
The drama has a solid supporting cast — Lee El (When the Stars Gossip) plays the heroine’s older sister, Lee Joo Young (The School Nurse Files) plays the head of an art academy who was a member of the theater club and is an acquaintance of both the leads, Kang Ki Doong (Reborn Rich) plays her husband and an aspiring actor, Jo Min Guk (Melo Movie) rounds out the cast as a man who runs a used car business and acts as the connecting link among the members of the aforementioned Jirimeolryeol club. I love that the drama has this set-up of how the members of a theatre group are still connected years later and maintain their friendship, giving the drama a slice-of-life, heartwarming vibe.
Waiting For Gyeongdo is written by the writer of dramas like Divorce Attorney Shin (2023) and Thirty Nine (2022). It would air sometime in 2025. Color me excited!
