Extraordinary Attorney Woo season 2 confirmed; Yeon Sang-ho to make Parasyte: The Grey for Netflix – K-drama casting latest

Season two of Extraordinary Attorney Woo is confirmed without changes to the cast, but with the stars’ busy schedules, it isn’t expected to air until 2024

D.P.’s Koo Kyo-hwan joins Lee Jung-hyun in a Yeon Sang-ho-directed drama about fighting alien parasites and Parasite star Choi Woo-shik returns in Murder DIEary

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Park Eun-bin in a still from Extraordinary Attorney Woo. Season two of the hit K-drama about an autistic lawyer is confirmed, without changes to the core cast. But with the stars’ busy schedules, it isn’t expected to air until 2024.

Published: 7:15pm, 27 Aug 2022

The year’s hottest show, Extraordinary Attorney Woo, has booked a swift second season renewal, and Netflix is planning a pair of high concept series. Here’s the latest news on Korean drama casting announcements.

1. Extraordinary Attorney Woo season two

The summer sensation Extraordinary Attorney Woo recently concluded its run with the seventh highest audience for a show in Korean cable history. On the eve of its finale, production company A-Story revealed that plans are in motion for a second season.

The new season is expected to air at some point in 2024 and A-Story is adamant that it will not change any cast members or the show’s key creative personnel. Owing to the difficulty of navigating the busy schedules of its stars, it could be a while before it goes back into production.

In its seventh week of global streaming, Extraordinary Attorney Woo was the most watched series on Netflix around the world, eclipsing the second week of The Sandman.

2. Parasyte: The Grey

Director Yeon Sang-ho’s collaborations with Netflix are set to continue with this week’s announcement of Parasyte: The Grey, a live-action drama adaptation of the hit Japanese manga of the same name, which has already spawned two Japanese films.

Leading the series will be Koo Kyo-hwan (D.P.), Jeon So-nee (When My Love Blooms) and Lee Jung-hyun (The Battleship Island). Both Koo and Lee have previously worked with Yeon on his Train to Busan follow-up, Peninsula.

Lee Jung-hyun in a still from Peninsula. Photo: Next Entertainment World

The story follows parasites from space that latch on to human hosts. As they spread through society, a group rises up to fight them.

Jeon will play a woman who falls prey to a parasite, Koo is on board as a man searching for the creatures to track down his sisters, and Lee will play the leader of a group tasked with confronting the aliens.