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Lee Jun-young flexes for Jung Eun-ji at 24-Hour Health Club

The first script reading stills have dropped for KBS’s sports rom-com 24-Hour Health Club, where muscles meet love for Lee Jun-young (When Life Gives You Tangerines) and Jung Eun-ji (Miss Night and Day) in our story’s health and wellness journey.

Our hero is said health club’s director, a fitness nut named Do Hyun-joong (Lee Jun-young) who works double as a personal trainer. But with his hyper-focused mind only obsessed with working out, he habitually uses the word “geun” (meaning “muscle” in Korean) even in regular conversations, greeting others by saying, “Geun morning” and “Geun bye.”

Enter new gym member Lee Mi-ran (Jung Eun-ji), an assistant manager at a travel agency, working for the planning and development team. Although both a foodie and a hopeless romantic, Mi-ran resolves to make a complete life change by signing up at the health club after recently getting dumped.

In supportive roles, Lee Mi-do (Jeongnyeon – The Star is Born) takes on the part of Rosa, a senior staff member at the gym who is wary of Hyun-joong’s leadership. In contrast, the gym mascot and cutie Alex – played by Lee Seung-woo (Face Me) – follows Hyun-joong like a puppy and idolizes him as if it’s a religion.

Rounding out the world with both the gym staff and gym members, the cast lineup also includes Park Sung-yeon (Missing Crown Prince) and Lee Ji-hye (Dreaming of a Freaking Fairy Tale), as well as Hong Yoon-hwa (Comedy Big League) and Kim Kwon (Destined With You) among others.

Production for the series has PD Park Joon-soo (Gaus Electronics) and PD Choi Yeon-soo co-directing, along with scripts penned by Kim Ji-soo (Birthcare Center). Slated to premiere April 30 next month, KBS’s 24-Hour Health Club will be following Villains Everywhere in the Wednesday-Thursday slot.

Via KBS, MBC

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I am looking forward to this one. We have had a few side characters on dramas recently working at the gym so having a drama set there will be an interesting change. Hope it means we are moving away from the slow creep of characters smoking on dramas.

Good to know there will have a week day drama coming soon as most of my soon to drop watchlist dramas are packed into the weekend.

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"soon to drop watchlist dramas" I feel that.

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I love this pairing and I love the supporting cast. Please be good. Please, please be good 🤞🏾

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I’m not overly excited by the premise, but the cast seems fun so I’m definitely still interested. It certainly wouldn’t be the first time a premise sounded weird but ended up being great!

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*zeroes in on Kim Kwon* Ahhhhh! Nice to see you. 😄

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Agreed on that!!

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The premise doesn’t excite me, but what a cast!

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I know a lot of people here, especially lawyers and therapists, experience this all the time, but this is the 4th kdrama in about the last 6 months where a central character is involved in one of my (former) vocational or (current) avocational interests: Beer and Brewing, (Brewing Love) Agricultural research, (Potato Lab) History teaching (Undercover High School), and this one, gyms and fitness.

Of the previous 3, somewhat suprisingly, Brewing Love was actually the best in capturing real life issues in artisan brewing and the beer industry. Potato Lab has been terrible so far with the nature of ag research; and the FL history teacher in Undercover high school has said exactly two interpretative lines as a history teacher, both accurate but not exactly inspiring.

And now we'll see in this one, how good Lee Jun Young is as a "fitness nut." I know that he will feature, at the very least, a set of well defined abs. Still, I have to say, though I know its the first script reading, he's going to have to bulk up just a little bit to be convincing, especially if his mode of address always refers to muscles. I'm not talking the somewhat grotesque, steroid pumped physiques of some of the "Fitness 100" contestants, but at the very least, to be realistic, his forearms and biceps/tricepts need to be a little bigger. (Unless of course, his fitness obsession is biking/spinning or extended treadmill workouts. )

I'm looking forward to long scenes of him doing 3 sets of 10 on various pieces of equipment! It will be gripping entertainment! (get it?- "gripping" barbells, pull up bars, etc..). I hope he doesn't play a clean and (a) jerk, or (bench)press the FL too much to go out with him!

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to be realistic, his forearms and biceps/tricepts need to be a little bigger

Missed opportunity of casting Lee Junho.

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Because I love working out at the gym, and loved Jung Eun-ji in Work Later, Drink Now, I will watch this!! 😁
Let it just be an adult romance without irritating tropes and oh, please let it be funny!!

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This looks interesting!! But more than anything, always keen to see more Lee Jun-young, who seems to be real booked and busy these days.

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How intense is Jun even at a mere reading. 😅🙃😂 He is certainly flexing his talent.

Good to see Kim Kwon in the cast roll call. Hopefully he has been cast in a good role and is not an obnoxious brat, sigh who am I kidding.

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How intense is Jun even at a mere reading.

Right??? It's quite disconcerting!

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Very. I do think he doesn't really need to showcase any actual muscles are the gym owner. His intensity sells it all. 😂

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No gaze would dare wander lower than that nose bridge to check for abs and biceps...

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🙈🤷‍♀️ *cough cough*

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