Humble beginnings for ambitious dreamers in Night Light

by javabeans

First stills are out for MBC’s Night Light, the upcoming drama about ambitious young people greedy to claim power and wealth for themselves. UEE (Marriage Contract) stars as one of the three central leads, and given that she’s dressed here as a parking attendant, we can see right away that she’ll be the rags-to-riches story. Her character is described as having the presence and looks of a chaebol daughter, though in reality she’s dirt-poor and works multiple jobs. Having grown up with nothing, she jumps at the opportunity to turn her life around.

The other two leads are played by Lee Yo-won (Ms. Temper and Nam Jung-ki) and Jin Gu (Descended From the Sun); Lee plays Yi-kyung, the rival who embodies both passion and ice, while he plays privileged Gun-woo, who loves her. That is, until Se-jin (UEE) comes along, at which point everything gets complicated as the three get entangled in a fateful storyline.

It’s the “crystal-like” Yi-kyung who will enable the crucial life change for Se-jin; we aren’t told how it happens, but after they meet, Se-jin becomes more and more like Yi-kyung, who is like a prism through which Se-jin comes to confront the world’s greediness. They’ll have an interesting relationship, because while they are rivals who get caught up in a love triangle, they aren’t being pitted as outright enemies; they’ll have a rocky girlfriendship as well.

Meanwhile, Jin Gu’s stills come from the drama’s recent location shoot in Japan. His character Gun-woo is a chaebol’s son with a warm heart and free-spirited personality, and intitially decides to put aside his status to pursue music. That takes him to Japan, which is where he meets Yi-kyung and falls into a daydream-like love… which ends up shattered, after which point he returns to take his place at the chaebol corporation and proves himself with his intelligence. He’s busily working to pull the company out of trouble when he meets Yi-kyung again, twelve years after they’d broken up.

I’m intrigued by the setup of the three characters, all of whom seem to be strong and steely in their own way; the basic description of people who are greedy to claim power and wealth isn’t really much of a hook for me, but I do like the cast and am interested in seeing how the relationships develop. This definitely seems like a show that’ll hinge upon the character dynamics and acting performances, and I’m curious to see how it all shakes out.

Night Light follows current Monday-Tuesday drama Woman With a Suitcase, and will premiere later this month.

Via TV Daily, TV Report

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