Kang Daniel and Chae Soo-bin report for duty in Disney+ drama Rookie Cops

10 January 10, 2022October 19, 2022

Kang Daniel and Chae Soo-bin report for duty in Disney+ drama Rookie Cops

by tccolb

In anticipation of its premiere later this month, Disney+’s original drama Rookie Cops has been steadily releasing new promos, including a pile of character posters and stills.

Set on the campus of a police academy, the coming-of-age comedy is about a group of young, fearless, and passionate trainees and follows their growth as they learn to become real police officers.

In his first leading role, Kang Daniel plays the highly principled Wie Seung-hyun. He values integrity above all else and can never turn a blind eye to any injustices.

Chae Soo-bin (A Piece of Your Mind) takes on the part of Go Eun-kang. With plenty of courage and determination, once she puts her mind to something, she sees it through to the end.

As for our second leads, Lee Shin-young (Awaken) plays the former Judo athlete Kim Tak who once competed at the nationals, while Park Yoo-na (True Beauty) is the charismatic A-plus student Ki Hanna.

In supporting roles, we have the extroverted crime-drama lover Park Sung-joon (Run On), the curious Do-hee (How to Buy a Friend) who dreams of joining the forensics team, the systematic planner Kim Woo-shik (Scripting Your Destiny), and the child-like Chun Young-min (The Devil Judge).

The cast lineup also includes Kim Sang-ho (My Name), Sohn Chang-min (Record of Youth), Lee Moon-shik (Move to Heaven), and Seo Yi-sook (Start-Up), among others.

Written by Lee Ha-na and directed by PD Kim Byung-soo (That Psychometric Guy, Nine, Queen In-hyun’s Man), Rookie Cops will be releasing January 26 on Disney+.

Via KBS, MBC, MK Sports, Newsen

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1 Kurama

January 10, 2022 at 12:47 PM

The big mystery will be Kang Daniel... After Ji-Soo, another big idol without any acting experience in a main role. In the trailer, he looks more like a second role.

Otherwise, I like the casting and it looks more joyful than Live and more focused on training than investigating than Police University.

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Radily

January 10, 2022 at 11:59 PM

Went to see his acting resume (https://mydramalist.com/people/15935-kang-daniel) and it's the first time I've seen one that's emptier than hers: not even a single cameo and literally everyone in the cast has more experience than him. And even then she was billed below Jung Hae In: what did Chae Soo Bin do to get partnered with someone so unexperienced?

As for the drama itself, I do like the posters, though the MBTI feels like they're trying to force characters into particular caricatures. If the writing focuses more on the slice-of-life without injecting manufactured crime cases into the story, it could be a nice and easy watch. It will get interesting if they tackle the clash in idealism that the recruits have against the realism that comes along with being tied down by bureaucratic red tape: I suppose some of them may find themselves more suited to different careers or even different specialisations within the police force (hopefully they aren't all training to become defacto detectives).

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Kurama

January 11, 2022 at 2:42 AM

Being the winner of a Mnet Produce 101 made him very buzzworthy. He seems to be a nice person and worked very hard with a loaded schedule. But except MVs, he doesn't have any acting experience so we just can hope he will be good, not completely bad?

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2 Kafiyah Bello

January 10, 2022 at 7:14 PM

I will try for Chae Soo Bin, love her.

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3 ar_arguably romantic

January 10, 2022 at 9:45 PM

I don't think I've ever encountered a character with the surname Wie before. Seen characters with rarer surnames, but not this one. Wonder if Wie Ha-jun's popularity prompted that.

Seems like Chae Soo Bin and Kang Daniel being the bigger names get the lead status, but the trailer gives me a comedic ensemble vibe, like Woohoo Waikiki

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4 am1993

January 11, 2022 at 4:15 AM

Is Disney + going to pull another Snowdrop by releasing this drama only to East Asia or will it be available worldwide on the 26?

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Gun

January 11, 2022 at 10:26 AM

Only APAC. All their kdrama and variety releases are only in APAC. Maybe after 5-6 months they'll release them for other countries but that's also a maybe. Its the same all their East Asian and SEA content.

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mugyuljoie is preciousss

January 12, 2022 at 12:50 AM

Dear Disney+, you have an audience outside of Asia who would love to watch your Korean dramas.

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Lala

January 18, 2022 at 8:30 PM

Disney+ France will be airing it too (random I know), the posted about it on their SNS. I also hope they make it available in other countries outside APAC

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5 Lala

January 18, 2022 at 8:36 PM

I'm really excited for this! This is Disney+'s first original kdrama content they are releasing and it looks super fun and easy to watch. Fun fact, Daniel has been offered drama roles since his popularity boom in 2017 from viral reality show Produce 101. However, he never accepted the offers until now, saying he only wanted to try when he felt ready. Based on the few teasers we've seen so far the drama looks promising - I just need Disney+ to make it available in my country since I'm already subscribed :/

I also hope Dramabeans will continue to post updates and even recaps when it airs on January 26!