Jo Min-soo is Jeon Hye-jin's single mother in Riding Life

6 August 25, 2024August 25, 2024

Jo Min-soo is Jeon Hye-jin’s single mother in Riding Life

by Jenzy

Clockwise: Jeon Hye-jin, Jo Min-soo, Jeon Suk-ho, Jung Jin-young

Casting info for upcoming ENA family healing drama Riding Life has been announced, tackling the dynamics between mothers and daughters through its main characters Jeon Hye-jin (Not Others) and her mother Jo Min-soo (The Cursed).

The drama centers on Lee Jung-eun (Jeon Hye-jin) and her journey as a working mom to a precocious seven-year-old daughter. Raised by her single mother, a hospital therapist named Yoon Ji-ah (Jo Min-soo), Jung-eun is resentful at how she had to grow up quickly as a child, and wants to give her daughter a life different from hers.

However, that’s easier said than done when you’re working in the busy beauty marketing industry with its slogging hours. Not to mention Jung-eun’s husband — played by Jeon Suk-ho (Love Next Door) — is not the most dependable of fathers at the moment with his own job as a home shopping marketer. Although he’s devoted to his family, his immaturity at home and poor job performance at work create lots of tension between him and Jung-eun.

It’s this stressful situation that leads Ji-ah to reenter her daughter’s life through caring for her granddaughter. At Jung-eun’s request, Ji-ah starts to take her daughter to school on her bicycle, and encounters an exciting new world on her bike route. This leads Ji-ah to open herself up to new possibilities — and maybe even romance with the cute English professor and fellow biking grandfather played by Jung Jin-young (Queen of Tears).

Everything about this drama is promising family healing and intergenerational love. Especially since this is Jeon Hye-jin’s first drama after the tragic loss of her husband, I hope this drama delivers on its promise to show that even the messiest of families can find hope and come together.

Written by Sung Yoon-ah and directed by Kim Chul-gyu (Celebrity), Riding Life is expected to release on ENA in the first half of next year.

Via Newsis, Yeonhap News, Money Today

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1 Soyesterday

August 25, 2024 at 10:16 AM

Good Family dramas are rare in asian dramaland these days, i hope this one is at least able to fill that void.

Also rooting for Jeon Hye-jin and the entire cast

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2 PYC

August 25, 2024 at 12:14 PM

The plot sounds nice and a very good cast. Fingers crossed.

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3 Dorotka

August 25, 2024 at 12:43 PM

The description gives me jdrama vibes, in a good way... Grandma on a bike, meeting people, making new connections... and (perhaps) mending the family ties...

(I also can't help to feel sadness again for the terrible loss last year... )