According to OSEN on March 6, Jung Yu Mi recently received a casting offer for Netflix’s new project Love Affair and decided to appear in the drama. Lee Dong Wook had already confirmed his participation previously, and with the arrival of Jung Yu Mi, the key lineup of male and female leads has been completed.
In this regard, Jung Yu Mi’s agency Noon Company said: “Jung Yu Mi has received the script proposal for Love Affair and is currently reviewing it.”
Lee Dong Wook will play Kim Ji Hoon, the male lead in his forties. He falls in love with a woman other than his wife, causing his once happy family to head towards destruction. Jung Yu Mi will play Ji Hoon’s wife, who feels confusion after discovering her husband’s affair despite their previously happy marriage.
Earlier this year, Jung Yu Mi parted ways with Management SOOP after nine years and signed an exclusive contract with her new agency Noon Company. Love Affair is expected to be her first project after the move, and will also mark the first time Jung Yu Mi and Lee Dong Wook will act together.
In particular, Love Affair is the new work of director Mo Wan Il, who directed the drama The World of the Married, which aired in 2020 and recorded a peak audience of 28.4%. After finishing the Netflix series The Frog (2024), he was preparing the Insiders series, but stepped away due to various circumstances, unintentionally leading to a long hiatus in his directing work. Love Affair centers on a couple who had stable jobs and a happy marriage, but whose lives fall apart due to a fated love that appears as suddenly as a car accident.
After director Mo Wan’s representative works The Misty (2018) and The World of the Married (2020), the focus is on how he will depict the intense emotions between spouses and extramarital affairs.
There are also comments that the drama shares some similar settings with the mega-hit Bride and Groom, but the level of expression and plot are said to be even bolder.
Meanwhile, Love Affair is expected to begin filming in the first half of this year, and there are also rumors that there will be location filming overseas in Spain. The script is written by Ha Soo Jin of KBS2 drama The Matchmakers, the production will be handled by FNC Story, and the series will be distributed globally on Netflix.
Sources: Nate
