Jung So-min courted for tvN sageuk
by tineybeanie
Actress Jung So-min (Soul Repairer) is considering a tvN sageuk for her next project. She’s currently received an offer to star in Tale of the Secret Royal Investigator and Jo-yi, but nothing has been confirmed.
Set in the Joseon dynasty, this drama is about a secret royal investigator who doesn’t want to bother with career advancement, and an ambition-filled “divorcée” (Joseon translation: runaway wife). The duo, along with a group of unnamed women who are not particularly savvy investigators, stumble upon a corruption scandal of huge proportions and begin to pursue the truth.
If she decides to confirm, Jung So-min will play a Joseon woman with a very modern mindset, Kim Jo-yi. It was recently reported that Jo Byung-kyu (The Uncanny Counter) is in the running to be the male lead but he has yet to officially confirm.
Director Yoo Jong-sun (Descended From the Sun) and Lee Jae-yoon (Girl Cops) are working together for Tale of the Secret Royal Investigator and Jo-yi. The drama is being discussed to air in the latter half of this year on tvN.
Via Star News
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1 Kafiyah Bello
January 27, 2021 at 5:13 PM
I love Jung So Min, my only hope is that this is better than her other unfortunate doctor-patient relationship.
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halofan68
January 27, 2021 at 7:38 PM
(1) Is there ever a sageuk about a royal investigator who does NOT work in secret (even though they all end up as secret as a rhino in a phone booth)?
(2) One of the closest things to a consensus among dramaland fans is that Jung So-Min was amazing in This Is My First Life but Soul Repairer was a colossal disappointment (to put in kindly.)
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Kafiyah Bello
January 28, 2021 at 6:42 AM
(1) No, they always work in secret don't they, lol.
(2) I don't even like thinking about Soul Repairer. SHUDDER.
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2 ssandulak
January 27, 2021 at 5:24 PM
Because This is My First Life is a favourite of mine, so I’m always down for more Jung So-min. I couldn’t make it through her last one though...Still I’ll be checking out this one.
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OldLawyer
January 27, 2021 at 10:30 PM
SOUL REPAIRER was simply bad writing. Jung So-min will be worth watching in this one, and has been great in some many other shows.
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3 allia
January 27, 2021 at 8:47 PM
Secret royal inspectors the new trope in drama land?
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ssandulak
January 27, 2021 at 11:48 PM
Sadly kdramas seem to go through waves. If something is decently popular, you can expect someone else’s take on it damn near right after.
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4 vv
January 27, 2021 at 10:17 PM
Wow..her next drama hasn't even aired and she has been courted for her next drama...But honestly how is it that the same type of dramas appear at the same time always. I mean, a secret royal inspector was never a main character before in any sageuk drama, and yet now we have 2 this year....
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halofan68
January 28, 2021 at 7:10 AM
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halofan68
January 28, 2021 at 7:17 AM
Both agree and disagree. For the same reasons undercover cops are such popular figures in movies and film, SRIs frequently pop up in sageuks, IMO, but other than the two this year, the only other one I am aware of where the SRI is the lead character (courtesy of my mother, lol) is Park Mun Soo, the bio-drama about the same historical figure played by Kwon Yul in Haechi.
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vv
January 28, 2021 at 7:54 AM
I completely agree, and that is what I meant...while I do not remember where I saw SRIs before, I do remember the term, so I'm sure they were there somewhere in what I've watched. But I have never seen them as a main character in a story, which is what I meant by suddenly having 2 dramas about them this year. It is the same as when there is a sudden influx of legal dramas or medical dramas, and even this Feb, between Mouse, LUCA, Monster, all talk about psychopaths and origin of birth. Also, this year the number of sageuks dramas is more than any year i've seen. So I was just wondering why it happens that the same genre of dramas always air at the same time.
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ar_arguably romantic
January 30, 2021 at 1:10 PM
It'll be nice to see more Joseon side-character professions get the spotlight and where neither character is secretly royal! Like there should be one of a smooth-talking shopowner or a lady who runs a restaurant. Maybe one from the featuring a middle-aged court lady who takes care of an unruly princess and falls in love with a royal chef.
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5 WishfulToki
January 28, 2021 at 9:29 AM
I like her, but if she wanted to try sageuks I think she could choose a better project.
I'm guessing the royal inspector won't know she's a runaway wife, otherwise he'd be an accomplice in her sin. Remember, in Joseon only a man could divorce a wife, and specifically for 7 sins: disobeying one's parents-in-law; failure to produce a male heir; adultery; excessive jealousy towards other women in the household; serious disease; stealing; and talking excessively.
https://ijkh.khistory.org/upload/pdf/6_05.pdf (page 124)
LOL at the last one.
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mmmmm
January 28, 2021 at 9:55 AM
talking excessively...
🤣🤣🤣 😅
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transient
January 29, 2021 at 1:33 AM
disobeying one's parents-in-law
So, only his parents matters?
failure to produce a male heir, excessive jealousy towards other women in the household;
Oh god, I can't even...
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WishfulToki
January 29, 2021 at 8:20 AM
Yup, it was an incredibly patriarchal society. As the article explains, Confucianism reinforced this. I'm always grateful I wasn't born in Joseon.
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6 yoostar
January 29, 2021 at 4:08 PM
Well everybody is doing secret investigator drama now. I wish someone will adapt shin angyo onshi manga into live action drama. It is about a scret investigator who can summon his own phantom soldier as his power. Its a great story set in fictional korea with many fantasy element. Netflix should join n make that happen
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