Okay, this set up sounds just like the set up in C-movie Soul Mate which last year got a K-movie adaptation that starred Kim Da Mi. And now she’s in talks for the K-drama A Hundred Memories which is courting Shin Ye Eun for the other female lead. It’s the story of two ladies who work in the bus transit system in South Korea in the 1980’s and become best friends and their romantic entanglement with the man who may be their destiny in life. The have wildly different personalities and backgrounds and the story weaves it way through their work and friendship on the bus. It’s from the screenwriter of Crash Course in Romance and the PD of Thirty-nine and should start filming soon once the casting is confirmed.
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I have been so looking forward to this project but I am a bit disappointed there is going to be a love triangle involving the 1st and 2nd female leads. Don’t really want to see these hardworking women jeopardising their friendship over a man on top of all the other disrespect and sexism they have to endure as women in the 1980s.
Not going to lie though, I am so curious who the male lead will be. Since the CWS rumour got shut down immediately I feel like the ML is already cast but they are still negotiating or waiting to announce.
Regarding SYE, I’ve said it before but it just that takes one role in the right drama to turn the trajectory around for an actress or actor. SYE used to be known for breaking down crying on camera because all her dramas were failures. Her career lost momentum but since she got cast in a supporting role in The Glory it has revitalised her career. She has endorsements, nominations, been cast in Jeong Nyeon with Kim Tae Ri and now this anticipated drama.