Kim Soo-hyun returns to small screen with ‘It’s Okay to Not Be Okay’

Kim Soo-hyun is returning to the small screen for the first time in five years with tvN’s new romantic funny series It’s Okay to Not Be Okay set to begin airing next week.

The upcoming weekend series is the first tv function for the 31- year-old since he was discharged from the military last July. His most recent TV credits include The Producers in 2015 and My Love From the Star in 2013.

” I’ve been waiting on so long, I’m really nervous however also thrilled to come back,” Kim said Wednesday throughout an advertising media occasion. The occasion was livestreamed due to concerns over COVID-19

In the series about individuals dealing with mental illness, Kim plays Gang-tae, who works as a caretaker in the psychiatric ward of a healthcare facility. Gang-tae, who likewise looks after his autistic sibling in the house, hesitates to pursue any romantic relationships.

Starlet Seo Ye-ji plays Mun-young, a successful kids’s book author who has a personality condition. While Mun-young is obviously unable to love anybody, Gang-tae seems to be able to melt her cold heart as the 2 end up being a source of recovery for each other.

“( Mun-young) pursues a distinct style. It’s not to show off herself but it’s like a defense reaction. She’s telling people to not to approach her or talk with her,” Seo said.

Star Oh Jeong-sae, who recently won finest supporting actor on tv at the Baeksang Arts Awards for his function in the KBS drama When the Camellia Blooms, stars as Gang-tae’s older brother Sang-tae. Rookie starlet Park Gyu-young stars as a nurse who succumbs to Gang-tae.

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” I think the title states it all. I feel everyone, including myself, in this world is a bit mad in some ways and I wished to take the opportunity to think of whether this is in fact bad or not,” the series’ director, Park Sin-woo, said.

Park previously produced the 2018 series Encounter, featuring Song Hye-kyo and Park Bo-gum, and SBS’ Do Not Dare to Dream, starring Gong Hyo-jin and Cho Jung-seok.

Pricing estimate film writer Jo Yong, Park said the drama was “an apology to people with disabilities”.

” We often judge other people and injure them, and the writer says she composed the script based on her own experiences, wishing to face those people properly,” the director stated.

” I hope that, after enjoying the 16 episodes, people will wish to befriend disabled individuals rather than trying to help them,” Oh stated.

” I wanted to show how Gang-tae is healed of his inner injuries,” Kim said. “There are several stories and types of love in the drama, and I hope the audiences can likewise heal their own wounds following them,” Kim said.