South Korean cable network tvN has announced the premiere date for its upcoming K-drama series, Twinkling Watermelon.
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Twinkling Watermelon will star 18 Again‘s Ryeoun, D.P. season two‘s Choi Hyun-wook, A Business Proposal star Seol In-ah and Summer Strike actress Shin Eun-soo.
The upcoming K-drama series is a coming-of-age series that follows Eun-gyeol (played by Ryeoun), the child of deaf adult with a gift for music who ends traveling back in time. There, he ends up forming a band called Watermelon Sugar with three mysterious youths.
The four main cast members will be joined by Seo Young-hee and Choi Won-young, who will play Eun-gyeol’s parents. Rounding out the cast is My Liberation Notes‘ Chun Ho-jin, who will play the music shop’s owner.
The new teaser for Twinkling Watermelon opens with Eun-gyeol stumbling across a strange music shop, which ends up transporting him back in time to the year 1995. There, he runs into the younger version of his father Lee Chan (Choi).
Twinkling Watermelon will premiere on tvN on October 2 at 8:50pm KST. The upcoming K-drama series will also be available to stream on Viki in select regions.
In other K-drama news, Disney+ has announced the premiere date of its upcoming action-comedy series Han River Police. It’s one of two Korean series the streaming service will debut in September, alongside The Worst of Evil, starring Squid Game’s Wi Ha-jun.
Meanwhile, NME recently gave Disney+’s fantasy-action K-drama Moving a three-star review, saying that the show’s premise of “high schoolers with superpowers is as shopworn as a premise can get” but the series ”more than makes up for with its ample heart”.
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