Na In-woo reunites with Lee Se-young at Motel California
by tccolb
Looking ahead in the distance to 2025, MBC makes an early start in promos to welcome us to Motel California, reuniting Lee Se-young (What Comes After Love) with another past love Na In-woo (Marry My Husband) in the first script reading stills.
With the story adapted from the popular novel Home, Bitter Home by Shim Yoon-seo, the drama takes us to a rustic countryside where our title’s motel is also home for our interior designer heroine Ji Kang-hee (Lee Se-young). This is where Kang-hee was born and raised, but her childhood was inflicted by emotional struggles due to her unconventional upbringing as well as her mixed heritage. Kang-hee thus ran away once she became an adult and now 12 years later, for reasons yet unknown, she’s back in her hometown.
Kang-hee’s return is, of course, big news for her old friend and first love Chun Yeon-soo (Na In-woo), the town’s local veterinarian. As our stalwart, noble, and shining knight who has always cherished Kang-hee, the romance will be following our main pair as love sparks between them once again.
I imagine, though, that reconciliation with Kang-hee’s dad Choi Min-soo (Numbers) will be an important story arc too. The life-long romanticist and free-spirited Ji Choon-pil (Choi Min-soo) once dreamed of making a Hotel California (cue the Eagles), but ended up settling for a small motel. As a bit of a busybody, Choon-pil likes to involve himself to help with all the villagers’ affairs. However, he’s oddly cautious with his family and couldn’t bring himself to protest when his daughter left town.
Filling out the drama’s love square, fancy hotel heir Kim Tae-hyung (a.k.a. Goo-won)(Bait) takes up one corner, while Choi Hee-jin (The Impossible Heir) sits on the other as a fellow veterinarian and Yeon-soo’s college hoobae.
The supporting cast lineup also includes Woo Mi-hwa (Jeongnyeon – The Star is Born), Jung Yong-joo (Knight Flower), Gu Ja-sung (Sponsor), and Lee So-yi (The Matchmakers) among others.
Directed by PD Kim Hyung-min with writing by Lee Seo-yoon (365 – Repeat the Year), the check-in time for MBC’s Motel California is set to begin in January 2025.
Via MBC
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1 🌸 Seeker 🌸
November 12, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Lee Se-young is one busy lady who I am happy to see. 😊
Starting another new year with Na In-woo. Okay but also wae, mwo. 😐
Looks like I will be cheering for our 2FL. It would be nice if she has a separate loveline.
Just wondering if Choi Min-soo will be riding any elevators in his motel. 🤭
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2 panshel
November 12, 2024 at 11:02 PM
Another female lead returning to her hometown and reuniting with her childhood first love?
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vienibenmio
November 13, 2024 at 8:42 AM
And he's loved her all along, hasn't he? So tired of this dynamic
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3 Isa is always time travelling
November 12, 2024 at 11:08 PM
Rural settings, a veterinarian, Lee Se Young and an interesting support cast.
Count me in.
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4 Kurama
November 12, 2024 at 11:40 PM
Hum... I don't think Na In-woo has screen presence/charisma, in front of Choi Min-soo, he will disappear.
But I'm really curious about Choi Min-soo and Lee Se-young's father-daugther relationship!
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bong-soo
November 13, 2024 at 6:18 AM
It really is early days but to be on the safe side perhaps I should give Na In-woo what I should call my ‘Lee Joon-gi/LAWLESS LAWYER Warning:
Na In-woo, watch out! Choi Min-soo is a shameless scene stealer! Consider yourself forwarned.
(O/T note. What Choi Min-soo did (to pro) Lee Joon-gi in LAWLESS LAWYER (2018) (Viki US) wasn’t scene ‘stealing’ but highway ‘robbery’. It was fun to watch. Then there was the famous fight (but that might be getting into sp0iling. A thing of beauty.)
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5 Unaspirated
November 13, 2024 at 4:42 AM
Sounds like Once Upon a Small Town but with the roles swapped? Hopefully they keep The Eagles to a minimum (read: absent), otherwise I’ll be finished before we even get started 😅
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Elinor, Team Glasses team co-captain
November 13, 2024 at 8:39 AM
😂 You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
Really, Hotel California? Would anyone be inspired by a song about a creepy haunted hotel? I hope it's just a coincidence and that amount of Eagles is zero.
I'm most excited by Choi Min-soo and least by Lee Se-young. I found her so irritating in Park's Marriage and What Comes After Love that I dropped both shows.
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hacja
November 13, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Maybe in this show, Na In Young will put Lee Se-young back on the highway, and show her a sign. Otherwise you'll be pushed to your limit, one more time.
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6 Dylan [Suffering from Judge from Hell brainrot]
November 13, 2024 at 7:46 AM
One day Choi Hee-jin will be the FL of her own drama or movie. One day, she won't just be the SFL nursing an impossible crush. All the true Heejinheads out there, our day will come...
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7 Kafiyah Bello
November 13, 2024 at 8:45 AM
I will try for CMS. I adore him.
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8 Diana Hansen
November 13, 2024 at 9:26 AM
Sounds good. Will keep tabs on it!
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9 Ahjummaaa
November 13, 2024 at 10:36 AM
I'm kinda lukewarm on Lee Se-young, wasn't completely won over by her in What Comes After Love. I don't know but watching her stressed me out for some reason? I mean, I know she's very pretty. Beautiful, even. She lights up on the screen. But her sad facial expressions stresses me out. That probably makes little sense, right? Looking forward to the ML and his future father in law haha.
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