Shin Sung-rok, Lee Se-young team up in time thriller Kairos teaser
by tineybeanie
The first teaser for time-crossing thriller drama Kairos, starring Lee Se-young (Memorist) and Shin Sung-rok (Vagabond), has been revealed. In this drama, Lee Se-young and Shin Sung-rok fight against all odds and cross time in order to find their loved ones.
Shin Sung-rok’s character is an extremely successful, ambitious man whose life seems perfect until his daughter is kidnapped. Whereas, Lee Se-young’s character is living paycheck to paycheck, barely enduring the drudgery, when her mother goes missing.
Somehow, these two are able to communicate and team up despite the fact that they live in two different times. Shin Sung-rok lives one month in the future, and Lee Se-young lives one month in the past.
In the short teaser clip, a woman stares out from a bridge as if to commit suicide as Shin Sung-rok narrates: “One cannot change what has already happened. I always thought that.” Short cuts of Shin Sung-rok and Lee Se-young are shown, and police dogs search for someone in a tall grassy area. The copy reads: “An opportunity through a special time.”
A cell phone rings, and it’s shown that Shin Sung-rok has contacted Lee Se-young. She tells him, “I saw it,” as a scene shows her chasing someone down. He desperately tries to convince her, “We can change it.” She goes on to tell him, “There was another strange man.” The hints of time-traveling is revealed when Lee Se-young says, “It’s August right now, but it said it was September.”
Lee Se-young is escorted through prison by two guards on each side, as Shin Sung-rok tells her, “You will save my life, and I will save you.” The copy reads, “One minute will change everything,” and a few more shots of Shin Sung-rok and Lee Se-young are shown before the teaser closes.
MBC Wednesday-Tuesday drama Kairos, directed by Park Seung-woo and written by Lee Soo-hyun, will begin airing on October 26.
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1 lillamy
September 8, 2020 at 11:34 AM
Although Shin Sung-rok make a compelling villain, I have to say I'm looking forward to seeing this other side of him. He was wonderful in Trot Lovers (at least in the two episodes I watched. If he'd been the male lead, I would've stayed put).
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YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
September 8, 2020 at 11:32 PM
I can't watch a show where he is not the lead. It breaks my heart. Like Vagabond. I stopped watching the moment they had him doing strange weird things just to get him out of the way. I loved the flirtation between him and Suzy, and if they had had that as the main plot, I would have been glued to the screen all the way to the end.
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mugyuljoie is preciousss
September 9, 2020 at 2:37 AM
You missed the surgery by phone?!!! He's a surgeon now.
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2 Zora
September 8, 2020 at 3:58 PM
Seems more dramas are getting into time travel nowadays. It looks interesting.
@katakwasabi, Are you excited?
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Kairoskat 💐
September 8, 2020 at 5:07 PM
I am excited and worried. Worried I'm too excited 🤣
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Zora
September 8, 2020 at 6:14 PM
😂 🤣 😆
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YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
September 8, 2020 at 10:05 PM
Of course, kat. We totally understand.
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YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
September 8, 2020 at 11:34 PM
Are you excited, @leetennant? Are you excited, @ndlessjoie?
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LT is Irresistibly Indifferent and reminded of the slow march of death
September 8, 2020 at 11:42 PM
I'm concerned that my response to this question may be too on brand
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mugyuljoie is preciousss
September 9, 2020 at 2:39 AM
Am I hearing a mumbled, "Meh" from the indifferent one?
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LT is Irresistibly Indifferent and reminded of the slow march of death
September 9, 2020 at 2:52 AM
Korea attempting time travel dramas in a year that had Dark in it.
Kairoskat 💐
September 9, 2020 at 4:08 AM
Yay! @leetennant and @ndlessjoie is excited! Yay! Let's watch together 🥳
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LT is Irresistibly Indifferent and reminded of the slow march of death
September 9, 2020 at 12:18 PM
I'm excited for you having a new drama with His Royal Hotness.
mugyuljoie is preciousss
September 9, 2020 at 2:38 AM
I'm excited for @katakwasabi!
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mugyuljoie is preciousss
September 9, 2020 at 2:38 AM
I'm excited to have new things to tease @katakwasabi about!
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Kairoskat 💐
September 9, 2020 at 4:06 AM
Ngaaaa...join me watch~~ don't tease me 🥺🥺
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mugyuljoie is preciousss
September 9, 2020 at 6:15 AM
We'll have to see how scary it is first.
egads aka Dame Maggie
September 9, 2020 at 12:22 PM
I'm cautiously excited with a side of cynicism. For Kat's sake (and Royal Hotness) I hope this is good. But you know, I'm still holding out for him to do a musical-based drama because why is he withholding his singing talent from the small screen?
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LT is Irresistibly Indifferent and reminded of the slow march of death
September 9, 2020 at 12:24 PM
We need to push through that adaptation of Pushing Daisies although I'm not sure what role I want SSR to take. We need to make a new role just for him - a singing one.
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egads aka Dame Maggie
September 9, 2020 at 1:37 PM
I would fully support him as a singing pie man, though didn't we decide someone else would be the pie man?
egads aka Dame Maggie
September 9, 2020 at 1:41 PM
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egads aka Dame Maggie
September 9, 2020 at 1:42 PM
Wait, a kdrama version of Dead Like Me, and SSR could take Mandy Patinkin's role, and before he was reaper he was a musical star.
Maybe I'm just needing a good grim reaper show right now, but I think this could work.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent and reminded of the slow march of death
September 9, 2020 at 2:42 PM
Junho was the Pie Maker
Jung Ryeo-won was Chuck
Kim Seul-gi was Olive (this is the main singing part, the others don't really sing)
The Aunts are Oh Na-ra and ???
We could make SSR Emerson Cod and make him a Singing Detective. Or make up a brand new singing role just for him.
Kairoskat 💐
September 9, 2020 at 4:24 PM
Gomawo for trying to make new roles just for Shin Sung Rok 🥺😆. Yes to singing pie man if it also means he's also a baker with a cute bakery. *mind drifts* isn't a bakery/pie shop also one of the background in Sweeney Todd?! Yikes. No Sweeney Todd and Ms Lovett inspired bakery please 😱.
>The Aunts are Oh Na-ra and ???
Fun tidbit: Oh Na Ra and Shin Sung Rok were in Finding Mr Destiny aka Finding Kim Jae Wook musical in 2006 before it became a movie 🤣.
Kairoskat 💐
September 9, 2020 at 4:11 PM
I need a musical drama too. The veryyyy smallllll snippets in TLE was not enough 🥺.
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WishfulToki
September 9, 2020 at 6:25 PM
I'm excited if you cameo in this one Candy, I mean YY.
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YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
September 8, 2020 at 11:59 PM
@bbstl's cat is cautiously excited. "Meow wish is for a meore accurate representation of the cat population of the country. We cats are pawssibly the most overlooked animals in this industry."
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bbstl 🧹
September 9, 2020 at 11:03 AM
Did we miss the mention of a cat?😼 we only saw the part about two police dogs, bleh.
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YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
September 10, 2020 at 12:18 AM
The cat appears when he time travels to the past. Except that everything is backward.
"Woem." (Hint: Read it backward, Sherlock)
The first sound he hears in the new world.
He opens his eyes and there's a cat, next to him, upside down. Four paws in the air and head on the ground. It rolls off into the dark. Bham! And just like that, he's in the past.
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bbstl 🧹
September 10, 2020 at 11:11 AM
Ah. Ohhhhhhhhh. An upside down cat is definitely a sign of things being not right.
3 Jezz
September 8, 2020 at 5:12 PM
Park Seung-woo previously directed four small-screen dramas (one web horror-drama Rumor was on Olleh/Youtube and the three were all MBC where Kairos will also aired here).
Link to him: https://www.hancinema.net/korean_Park_Seung-woo-filmography.html
I'm totally excited! :)
Amazing but I'm interested too with this great time travel crime sci-fi drama show.
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4 Kairoskat 💐
September 8, 2020 at 5:31 PM
26 October 2020!!!!!
*spazzing*
Time travel is not my cup of tea but Trot Lovers reunion! Royal Hotness looking royally hot! Lee Se Young rocking short hair! Yessss 🤩.
Am I too excited? Yes. No. Maybe. Yes? Haha
ps: @tineybeanie Kairos is a Mon-Thurs drama, not Wed-Thurs~~
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YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
September 8, 2020 at 10:09 PM
I hope, for your sake, that his hair stays up, kat.
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Kairoskat 💐
September 8, 2020 at 10:18 PM
For my sake or yours YY? Hahaha.
His hair is already floppy, covering most his forehead in the teaser 🙃. Suits won't stay long either....ngaaaaaaa...but it's him. He can wear anything and rock it. Sample⚡🦸🏻♂️: https://j.gifs.com/3Qv6ZA.gif
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YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
September 8, 2020 at 11:29 PM
Ha ha ha ha
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WishfulToki
September 9, 2020 at 6:25 PM
*whispers*
What does KAIROS mean?
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Jezz
September 9, 2020 at 6:36 PM
I found that real meaning of Kairos:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos
Ancient Greek for right, critical, or opportune moment
Chronos referred to chronological or sequential order
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WishfulToki
September 9, 2020 at 6:51 PM
Oh, thank you! That's interesting. So the title is referring both to time travel and having to make a decision at the right moment, with ability and a little bit of luck. I like the metaphor of archery.
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5 karened
September 8, 2020 at 7:15 PM
Although this type of plot has been done to death in recent years, I'm still excited if only for Shin Sung Rok's involvement. Hope something fresh will come out of this drama!
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6 poliwag
September 8, 2020 at 9:01 PM
This Shin Sungrok-shaped hole was made for me, indeed
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YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
September 8, 2020 at 10:08 PM
Is the SSR-shaped hole in your heart too, poliwag?
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poliwag
September 8, 2020 at 10:10 PM
Always, ever since he went off the market I am always sad about him :( Best oppa who may or may not have chest hair
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YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
September 8, 2020 at 10:48 PM
Does he have chest hair? He was shirtless in that hot scene from TLE. I'm pretty sure he was smooth as a baby. But @katakwasabi would know. Kat knows EVERYTHING about SSR. He is my Unoppa. I can't call him Oppa, even though he is the only shape left in my sad little Candy heart. I kicked my other Oppas out.
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poliwag
September 8, 2020 at 11:55 PM
It is an endeavour I have sought answers of for 6 years now. Maybe he waxes >_>
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YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
September 9, 2020 at 12:38 AM
Maybe he just yanks it all off religiously, like once a week. In keeping with his macho guy image. I can't believe he doesn't have a hairy chest, though. He's got so much hair...that fringe he sported in Perfume was thick. @sicarius watched Vagabond to the end. What do you think, sic? Does SSR have a hairy chest?
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mugyuljoie is preciousss
September 9, 2020 at 2:41 AM
I watched it to the end, but he became more sparse the longer it went. Not sure if his chest hair did the same.
poliwag
September 9, 2020 at 2:46 AM
I see...I see...thank you for your contributions to this important science
YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
September 9, 2020 at 3:42 AM
@ndlessjoie Like @poliwag, I am grateful to you for your helpful analysis of the (lack of) chest hair. He was kind of a spare tyre in the drama, sadly, and so dispensible. I was so angry when they had him crash in that contrived accident! How dare they! So if he was sparse, part-wise, and chest hair-wise, it was THEIR FAULT! Hair fall is related to stress, and if his entire chest of hair fell off, well! It was because he was under so much emotional duress, being relegated to a useless extra.
7 YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
September 8, 2020 at 10:07 PM
There is a hole in my heart after the end of TLE in the shape of SSR.
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8 Diana Hansen
September 9, 2020 at 12:44 PM
quick someone write to him and ask him directly to show us if he does or does not have chest hair! and i am voting for not! but i will watch him in anything. he commands attention by showing up.
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YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
September 10, 2020 at 12:43 AM
Diana, this hair thing is a very weighty issue. @poliwag pondered it for six years. I guess we will just have to wait and see (I have a magnifying glass in my drawer). However, it is my humble opinion that SSR has a bountiful chest of hair (or a chest of bountiful hair?) judging from the lushness of his fringe and the prolific garden of rich, luscious, jet-black hair on his head ---- @leetennant I am referring to the structure above the forehead. Will this get me banned from DB? *Giggling*
@wishfultoki I almost want to make your fangirl heart happy (I know how much you love my cameos, toki!) by declaring: "Yes! I will cameo as a strain/tuft/bush/forest of chest hair on that beautiful chest...but...there are some things I draw the line at, and chest hair, no matter how hot said chest may be, is not one of them.
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poliwag
September 10, 2020 at 12:58 AM
It is research I and @mary have pondered long and hard upon...sometimes he has chest hair and sometimes he...GASP...doesn't...perhaps I will ask him in personal eventually, in the hopes that this can finally be put to rest
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Diana Hansen
September 10, 2020 at 7:30 AM
please let us know so we can stop staying up at nite trying to figure out does he or doesn't he
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WishfulToki
September 10, 2020 at 2:21 PM
@yyishere Thank you for your considerate refusal of that cameo role 😆
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9 karened
September 14, 2020 at 4:02 AM
SHIN SUNG ROK!!!! Oh boy I am excited!!!
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Kairoskat 💐
September 14, 2020 at 4:24 AM
I'm excited tooooo!!! Yayyyy!!! 🥳
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