Netflix K-drama Navillera: Song Kang plays ballet dancer in heart-warming and easy-going family drama

Song co-stars with Park In-hwan, one of South Korea’s most beloved older actors, in a show with an ‘it’s-never-too-late-to-follow-your-dream’ premise

The young actor plays a stubborn young dancer who must teach Park’s retired postman how to dance ballet – a passion he has been waiting decades to fulfil

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Song Kang in a still from Navillera, an undemanding ballet K-drama which promotes the idea that it’s never too late to follow your dreams.

Published: 4:15pm, 3 Apr 2021Updated: 4:15pm, 3 Apr 2021

For the third time in four months, young Korean star Song Kang is back with a new show, following Sweet Home and the second season of Love Alarm, both of which debuted on Netflix.

Song plays to type as a stubborn young dancer in Navillera, a tvN drama streaming worldwide on Netflix, but he’s also going beyond his usual fan base. The show is airing twice a week, on Mondays and Tuesdays, for a total of 12 episodes until April 27.

Song co-stars with Park In-hwan, one of South Korea’s most beloved older actors, and the strong family themes and the it’s-never-too-late-to-follow-your-dream premise mean the show is aimed at a mature audience.

Park plays Sim Deok-chool, a septuagenarian retired postman who lives with his wife, Hae-nam (Na Moon-hee). After attending the funeral of an old friend, he happens to pass by a ballet studio in which he sees young dancer Chae-rok (Song) practising.

This plants a seed and reminds him of his passion for ballet as a youth, a passion that has remained unfulfilled for decades – but no longer. He goes back to the studio and asks owner Ki Seung-joo (Kim Tae-hoon) to teach him, but he is turned down.