Kang Sora and Yoon Hyun Min confirmed for fantasy romance drama

[keytfelt.livejournal.com]

Gyeryong Fairy Tale is a new drama in the works that puts a spin on the classic folktale of the fairy and the woodcutter, about a 699-year-old fairy who’s lived through a couple of dynasties while waiting for her reincarnated husband. Kang So-ra has confirmed to headline as the fairy, and Yoon Hyun-min will be playing the role of her husband.

The drama is an adaptation of a webtoon by the same name, about a fairy from Gyeryong mountain who has lived from Goryeo to the present day while waiting to reunite with her husband. She’s 699 years old and appears like a grandmother to most, but special people can see her true form, as a beautiful young woman. She runs a strange little coffee shop tucked away in the mountains that serves hand-ground coffee. She talks to animals and plants, and some of the animals around her seem to be people reincarnated in different form.

In the original webtoon, Yoon Hyun-min's character is a biology professor at a university. He suffers from very severe insomnia and is undergoing clinical trials and therapy just to find a cure, and is your general prickly, smartass, handsome young man, though probably a notch crabbier than most because he gets no sleep. He’s forbidden from drinking coffee but can’t live without it, and the hijinks begin when he breaks down and has to have coffee in the middle of nowhere, and lo and behold, there’s a coffee shop right there in the middle of nowhere.

Gyeryong Fairy Tale will be a pre-produced drama and is currently being considered for a tvN slot later this year.

Source: Dramabeans/Star Today/Naver

Comments

[ty.livejournal.com]

Hmmm

So elements of Goblin and elements of Black Knight.

hft

even though the ending of black knight pissed me off SO MUCH

[ssehun.livejournal.com]

i'm looking forward to a couple of dramas this year and now i'll be adding this one to that list too! i love stuff that's based on fairy tales, whether it be books or dramas :D