Star power

Park Bo-gum and Park So-dam collaborate in the new K-drama Record Of Youth.

NEW Korean drama series Record Of Youth – starring Park Bo-gum (pic), Park So-dam and Byeon Woo-seok – will premiere in the second half of this year on Netflix.

The show is being directed by An Gilho, whose track record includes Stranger, Memories Of Alhambra and Watcher .Itis scripted by Ha Myeong-hee, whose credits focus on heart-warming stories grounded in realistic settings, Doctors and Temperature Of Love.

It is being produced by Studio Dragon and Pan Entertainment (Winter Sonata, The Moon Embracing The Sun, Fight For My Way and When The Camellia Blooms). Within Korea tvn has the show’s first-window broadcast rights. In the rest of the world it will be exclusive to Netflix.

Established in 2016, Studio Dragon already has a roster of hits including Guardian: The Lonely And Great God, The

Legend Of The Blue Sea, Signal and Stranger. This year, it will produce more than 28 scripted television series.

Record Of Youth revolves around a pragmatic and ambitious young man, who is an aspiring model/actor juggling idealism with the reality of everyday life; an aspiring makeup artist; and a privileged young man who wants to prove himself through hard work.

Korea was one of the first countries outside mainland China to be affected by the Covid-19 outbreak. Confirmed infections rose quickly, but were quickly controlled through high levels of testing and robust contact tracing. That enabled it to restart limited amounts of film and TV production earlier than most other places.

Two of Netflix’s other Korean originals, Love Alarm 2 and Move To Heaven were among the first to restart. – Reuters