Hot on the heels of all that High Kick 4 speculation comes this bit of great news: The sitcom has cast teen heartthrob-in-the-making Yeo Jin-gu. Or maybe he's already a heartthrob and noona-killer, on top of being a promising future leading man. (But still fifteen! He's a 1997-er, folks, read it and weep.)
Producers and cable station tvN have been very adamantly stressing that this sitcom is NOT—they repeat, NOT!—part of the High Kick universe, despite being created by the same hitmaker PD, Kim Byung-wook. Maybe that accounts for its very quirky (working) title, Potato-Shaped Sweet Potato Star 2013QR3. The "2013QR3″ part of the title was done to mimic the naming of a new planet, and the show itself will incorporate astrological references.
Yeo Jin-gu's character is named Hong Hye-sung, which could be one such cosmic reference (hye-sung = comet)… or, you know, just a normal name. Potayto, sweet potahto? In the show, the Hye-sung character is a computer programmer who dreams of becoming Korea's Mark Zuckerberg.
Though this is not part of the High Kick franchise, as with all of Korea's daily sitcoms, we can expect a large cast with multi-generations and a bunch of quirky characters. Yeo Jin-gu has mostly made a name for himself wowing audiences in the childhood roles for tons of adult stars, many of them in serious dramatic roles: I Miss You, The Moon That Embraces the Sun, Giant, Warrior Baek Dong-soo, Swallow the Sun, Tazza, Iljimae. But he's got a lovable playful side, which we've seen glimpses of, and I'd LOVE to see him on a daily basis. Most of the time we get two, maybe four awesome episodes of him, and then he goes away and we're stuck with Jang Hyuk, or Kim Soo-hyun, or Yoochun! All right, those aren't bad trade-offs, but you can't help wanting him to stick around for longer.
Potato-Shaped Sweet Potato Star 2013QR3 will air in usual sitcom format: four episodes a week, broadcast on Monday through Thursday evenings, for 120 episodes total. It's aiming to begin filming in August and will probably broadcast soon thereafter (sitcoms and dailies shoot closer to a live schedule in general). We can expect lots more casting news to come in the following weeks.
Via SBS
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