KBS's next weekender is starting to fill out its cast, and they've got a big win in the plus column: Lee Yoon-ji (The Great Seer, The King 2 Hearts) has joined the cast. Love her. The family drama set to follow You're the Best, Lee Soon-shin is called Royal Family, but it's a punny title for the family's last name Wang, to make Wang Family = royal family. It's another household full of daughters and sounds a lot like Lee Soon-shin minus the birth secret drama, which actually sounds pretty nice.
The family will have a total of one son and four daughters, so the casting process is still ongoing. But so far we've got: Oh Hyun-kyung (Shark) playing 1st Daughter Wang Soo-bak, aka "king watermelon." Oh, we're just getting started with the puns. She plays the successful sister who has to come back home when she fails spectacularly. Then there's Lee Tae-ran, who's currently in the weekend drama Goddess of Marriage (apparently she'll be pulling double duty at some point?) playing 2nd Daughter Wang Ho-bak, aka "king pumpkin," who has troubles because of her layabout husband Heo Se-dal, aka "bombast," played by Oh Man-seok (Wild Romance).
Lee Yoon-ji will play 3rd Daughter Wang Kwang-bak, given a boy's name because her parents so desperately hoped to stop having daughters. So I guess that makes her the Lee Soon-shin of this family. She has a secure job as a teacher, but one day out of the blue she decides to quit her job to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, and turns her family upside-down with the news. She's blunt and outspoken and often acts as the family's troubleshooter, and is described as a cheery breath of fresh air.
The drama comes from the PD-writer team behind Three Suspicious Brothers (the PD also did Only You and the writer did I'm Going to Live Well), and plans to be a realistic multi-generational family drama about siblings and favoritism. So…lots of fighting to look forward to?
Royal Family premieres in late August on KBS.
Oh Hyun-kyung, Oh Man-seok, Lee Tae-ran
Via Joy News
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