Storyboard for Park Hye Ryun’s New K-drama Desert Island Diva with Rumored Female Lead Park Eun Bin is a Multi-generational Women Centric Story

I am a huge fan of K-drama writer Park Hye Ryun so news about her next drama is beyond exciting. To hear that its courting Park Eun Bin as the female lead is icing on the cake. The drama is titled Desert Island Diva (Deserted Island Diva) and now the full synopsis is out and I slurped up every word. The drama centers around the female lead who is a young country girl who grew up on a remote island. She dreams of a K-pop career despite having an abusive father and when she turns 16 she gets on a boat for the mainland to attend a K-pop audition. A storm blows her ship into a desert island and she spends another 15 years there all alone surviving on her own skills and she would sing the songs of her favorite singer to give herself strength. Once she is discovered and returns to civilization, she meets her favorite singer who is now a 40-something has-been layabout who is reinvigorated meeting this woman who has idolized her. So the drama is really the human growth and achieving dreams story of two women from vastly different backgrounds who find strength in each other. This sounds sooooooo amazing I can’t wait!

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