omonatheydid | Lee Min Ki, Jung So Min + Others Confirmed for tvN Drama

Lee Min-ki and Jung So-min have been confirmed to lead the new tvN drama This Life Is Our First. The drama will be a fresh and fun take on the struggles of this generation’s youths, and how they view jobs, relationships, and marriage. There’s also a disheartening moniker for the youth in Korea that seems to change every time I hear it: the N-po generation. The “po” is for the Korean word pogi, which means to give up, and so while I first heard it as the 3-po generation (giving up love, marriage, and children), it has since been upgraded to the 5-po generation. This Life Is Our First will depict the lives and tribulations of this N-po generation, which would sound like a big downer, if not for the “fresh and fun” vibe the producers are promising.

Lee Min-ki will play the “house-poor” Nam Se-hee, who is described as rational and a sworn bachelor. He is an average man in his thirties who completed army duty, got his degree in design, and now works at an IT firm. He’s described as a typical Mr. Perfect good guy, but his one quirk is that he has clearly defined taste, except he never says that he likes a thing, only that he dislikes a thing. It’s because he believes that your personal preferences are really only made certain when you discover that you dislike something. He will become housemates with Jung So-min’s Yoon Ji-ho, who has had to give up on relationships in order to scrape by financially. This realistic setup, with two roomies who share a living space for financial reasons and no contract anything to keep them there, sounds pretty true to the producers’ promise to keep this show relevant to today’s youths.

Upcoming rom-com This Life Is Our First has gone on a casting spree and added four new names to the drama. Esom (Yes, Family), Kim Ga-eun (Reunited Worlds), and Park Byung-eun (Mystery Queen) have all confirmed their roles in the show, while Kim Min-seok (Defendant) is still in the negotiations stage.

Esom and Kim Ga-eun will play best friends of our heroine, and while they’ve all been close since high school, the two buddies are nothing alike when it comes to how they view relationships. Esom’s character, Woo Su-ji, is described as honest and confident, who prefers the casual, no-strings-attached flings, and views relationships as tools to relieve sexual tension. Which sounds like the complete opposite of Kim Ga-eun’s character Yang Ho-rang, who’s a bit materialistic and whose ultimate goal in life is to become a housewife to a self-made, rich husband. It’ll be interesting to see how these two are best friends even with such different values.

Park Byung-eun will play the CEO of the company Lee Min-ki’s character works for, and he’ll have a loveline with Esom’s character Su-ji. He has a direct personality and will one-sidedly pursue her, and is described as manly at times, and then innocent at others. There’s no word yet on what character Kim Min-seok is up to play.

This Life Is Our First will follow Argon in tvN’s Monday-Tuesday slot sometime in October.

Sources Dramabeans/IS Plus Dramabeans/Osen/Financial News Dramabeans/IS Plus/Sports Donga/Star News

I'm always here for cohabitation dramas and this seems like a solid cast.