Music Kang (left) and Kim So-hyun (proper). Photograph: courtesy of Netflix.
Music Kang and Kim So-hyun are teaming up once more because the leads for the upcoming romance Okay-drama, White Scandal. The present’s broadcast community, MBC, just lately introduced the casting affirmation, marking a reunion for the celebrities 5 years after they final appeared within the hit collection Love Alarm (2019 –2021).
White Scandal relies on the favored webtoon of the identical title written by Moon Chae-ah. Directed by hitmaker Kim Cheol-kyu of Chicago Typewriter (2017) and Flower of Evil (2020) fame, it dives right into a slow-burning romance that includes a traditional fake-dating trope. The story follows two emotionally wounded folks from completely different walks of life who resolve to enter a contract relationship to deceive the world round them. However as they play alongside, their lives change into sophisticated after they uncover their pasts are related. The story unfolds with the 2 characters trapped in darkish secrets and techniques amid a household energy battle, and ultimately discovering a solution to heal their hidden scars collectively.
Music Kang stars as Dan Yi-hyuk, an elite actor coping with a poisonous household. Born out of wedlock, he’s an illegitimate inheritor to an enormous conglomerate and performs the proper grandson by day however secretly longs to interrupt free from his household’s shadow. Enter Kim So-hyun as Ji Eun-seol, a former well-known baby actress whose promising profession vanished after an unlucky occasion compelled her out of the trade. She’s now scraping by as a low-profile supervisor with hidden goals of creating a comeback. Her life is turned the wrong way up when she meets Yi-hyuk, who’s additionally linked to what occurred together with her prior to now. Issues get messy as soon as they begin pretending to be in a relationship, and it will get much more sophisticated when, in making an attempt to persuade the world they’re collectively, they danger believing their very own lie.
White Scandal is anticipated to carry again the on-screen chemistry between the 2 leads, who drew consideration as Hwang Solar-oh (Music Kang) and Kim Jo-jo (Kim So-hyun) in Love Alarm and its sequel. However whereas Love Alarm was all about an angsty highschool romance, this new present guarantees a considerably extra mature, advanced, and emotionally charged dynamic between the characters.
Soompi studies that the drama will quickly go into manufacturing, and whereas the official launch date isn’t out but, it’ll probably air subsequent yr.