Shin Hyun-bin transforms into a Cinderella at 2AM

8 August 2, 2024August 18, 2024

Shin Hyun-bin transforms into a Cinderella at 2AM

by solstices

It’s time for some fairy godmother magic with Coupang Play’s upcoming rom-com Cinderella at 2AM, featuring a pragmatic princess who decides to break up with her Prince Charming and walk away with his mother’s chaebol cash. Based on the web novel of the same name, the drama transposes the rags-to-riches fairytale into an office setting.

Shin Hyun-bin (Tell Me That You Love Me) takes center stage as Ha Yoon-seo, the manager of the brand marketing team at a credit card company. Yoon-seo has been dating her younger boyfriend for a year and a half, cozying up together to read books and sharing sunset-lit moments by a lake. It’s all a dream come true — until one particular dealbreaker comes into play.

See, her beau Moon Sang-min (Wedding Impossible) is actually the third-generation chaebol Seo Joo-won, which naturally means Yoon-seo is poised to face parental opposition. When Joo-won’s mother — the chairman of the company they both work at — follows the chaebol script and offers Yoon-seo money to leave her son, Yoon-seo decides she’d rather save herself the drama. She’ll cleanly break up with Joo-won within two months.

With that, our realistic Cinderella resolves to dispel the magic and reject her fairytale prince, even if it means walking away from him in tears. Joo-won, however, has other plans. “I’ll show you just how much I like you,” Joo-won declares, vowing to stick close to his beloved noona. Plan A: a playful wink and lots of aegyo. Plan B: holding Yoon-seo’s hand tenderly, and leaning in for a kiss.

Just like Cinderella’s prince, Joo-won kneels to offer Yoon-seo her shoes — first the other half of a pair of heels, then comfortable sandals for her aching feet. “If you want to break up with me, then it can’t be helped. That’s your choice to make, after all,” Joo-won tells her. “However, clinging on is also my choice to make.” Alone in her room, Yoon-seo gazes sadly at their photobooth snapshots, and fond memories of their giddy romance flash by in a montage. Perhaps it won’t be long before Yoon-seo’s heart wavers once again.

Co-directed by Seo Min-jung (Bora! Deborah) and Bae Hee-young, with Oh Eun-ji penning scripts and Park Joon-hwa (Alchemy of Souls) overseeing creation, Cinderella at 2AM will premiere later this month on August 24.

Via KBS

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1 Toblerone

August 2, 2024 at 5:16 PM

She looks old and her acting is boring.
This guy too.

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2 Unaspirated

August 2, 2024 at 7:20 PM

I don’t hate this idea, and it could be really cute, but we’ve already had another Cinderella drama this year that turned out to be ridiculously fantastic. It’s going to be hard not to draw comparisons, no matter how unfair that is. Hopefully they forge their own path and both are great in different ways!

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DancingEmma

August 3, 2024 at 2:17 AM

Dreaming of a freaking fairy tale was largely fun as well as funny in parts so hard to imagine this will somehow hit those same notes too. But, at least, I hope it isn’t a stinker and that MSM gets to go beyond chaebol roles in the near future.

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3 kay4625

August 2, 2024 at 8:02 PM

So, does she get to keep the money after the guy wins her back? Seems like a win-win in my book. This could be fun.

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4 bbstl 🧹

August 2, 2024 at 8:13 PM

I like the little horsies. Can the show please be about the little horsies?🐴🐴🐴

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5 Relisher

August 2, 2024 at 9:25 PM

I do like the different premise of this, but of the two leads, I find her acting a bit passive (though I did think she was charming in Hospital Playlist) and I've only seen him in Under the Queen's Umbrella (where he was fine enough, but Kim Hye Soo was too dynamic and awesome for him to really register).

I had thought this show would be more romcom, heavy on the com, but the trailer is a bit rom cliche instead. I hope it does turn out to be fun but lol, given how much fun stuff is coming up in August, I guess it wouldn't be a huge loss if this one turned out to be a damp squib.

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6 Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️

August 3, 2024 at 1:46 PM

Another one on the potential watchlist. For some reason I took this off the list because I thought this was the next weekender so blanked recent mentions🫢.