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Girls’ Generation’s Im Yoon-ah eyed for A Tyrant’s Chef and more Korean drama casting news

Ji Chang-wook and Exo’s D.O. are set to lead Sculpture City, while Girls’ Generation’s Im Yoon-ah has been offered a time-travelling role

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Im Yoon-ah in a still from Big Mouth. Im has been offered a part in time-travel drama A Tyrant’s Chef. Photo: Disney+

A talented chef travels to the past and twins trade places in the latest Korean TV dramas for which casting has been announced.

1. A Tyrant’s Chef

Girls’ Generation K-pop group member Im Yoon-ah (or Lim Yoon-a) has been offered a part in the new drama A Tyrant’s Chef. Described as a time travel drama, the show is the latest from director Jang Tae-yoo, known for the smash hit My Love from the Star.

The series concerns a talented chef who, at the peak of her career, finds herself whisked back in time. In the past, she is confronted by a tyrannical king who is also known for being a gourmet.

Girls’ Generation member Im Yoon-ah in a still from Big Mouth. Photo: Disney+
Girls’ Generation member Im Yoon-ah in a still from Big Mouth. Photo: Disney+

Recalling the hit Mr. Queen, a period drama with a similar time travel and food-themed premise, A Tyrant’s Chef is eyeing Im for the title role.

Im recently appeared alongside Lee Jong-suk in the legal thriller Big Mouth and will soon grace the screen again in the film 2 O’clock Date, for which she will reunite with Exit director Lee Sang-geun.

2. God and Law Firm

Hospital Playlist actor Yoo Yeon-seok has been cast as the lead in the coming supernatural legal drama God and Law Firm.
Yoo Yeon-seok as Kang Dong-joo in a still from Dr. Romantic season 3. Photo: Netflix
Yoo Yeon-seok as Kang Dong-joo in a still from Dr. Romantic season 3. Photo: Netflix
Journalist, producer and consultant Pierce Conran has been based in Seoul since 2012, where he served as the Korea Executive for LA-based production company and sales agent XYZ Films and as a long-time editor of the Korean Film Council’s English website KoBiz until 2021. Born in Ireland and raised in Switzerland, he received an MA in Film from Trinity College Dublin and is currently the Korean drama critic for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, as well as a programming adviser for the Fribourg International Film Festival and Fantastic Fest in the United States.
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