In Photos: K-Pop Idols-Turned-Actors With Ongoing/Upcoming K-Dramas
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They sing, they dance, and they act, too! Is there anything these K-Pop idols who also star in K-Dramas can't do?
Whether they've retired from music or still actively perform onstage, 10 of these K-Pop idols who also star in K-Dramas show us how to be multi-talented in one of the world's most competitive entertainment industries. These idols shine in a variety of roles (be they bubbly new hires on a job, hardened police offers, undercover agents, or kindhearted university students), giving their fans so much to look forward to when it's time to discover a new series to dig into.
Just this month, we spotted 10 K-Pop idols who also star in K-Dramas, some of which have already begun, with some yet to premier in the weeks to come.
Check out who's starring in what drama in the gallery below:
K-Pop Idols With Ongoing/Upcoming K-Dramas
K-Pop Idols With Ongoing/Upcoming K-Dramas
Wanna One's Ong Seong-wu in "More Than Friends"
Sometimes love gets off the wrong foot, and it's up to destiny to decide if it can recover, or if it was really never meant to be. In "More Than Friends," the cosmos seem to believe that it's the latter, and Ong Seong-wu, who plays the show's male lead, gets to enjoy a second chance at wooing the girl of his dreams, but not without challenges and misunderstandings. Here's a TV show that's great for anyone who believes that love is all about good timing and having the patience for the right time to happen. | Release date: September 25, 2020 to November 21, 2020 | Available on VIU and iQIYI
Photo Credit: @osw_onge
f(x)'s Krystal in "Search"
Here's a title that's sure to attract Sci-Fi and action fans, considering this K-Drama's setting is none other than the Korean DMV, and it centers around the search for individuals that go missing in the location from an unknown cause. A monster of sorts, a vengeful creature, is suspected to be behind the disappearances, and it's up to Krystal's character and the military team she leads to uncover the truth. | Release date: October 17, 2020 to November 15, 2020 | Available on iQIYI
Photo Credit: @vousmevoyez
Girls' Generation's Seohyun in "Private Lives"
In this K-Drama, Seohyun is a master manipulator; she's an experienced poser/con artist who goes to great lengths to lie about her real life and identity, and worst of all, steal others' wealth. Eventually, her sharpened skills in concealing the truth take an unexpected turn; Seohyun's character finds herself uncovering the truth—the real "private lives" of an individual running a corporation with a dark agenda. | Release date: October 7, 2020 to November 26, 2020 | Available on Netflix
Photo Credit: @seojuhyun_s
Shinhwa's Eric Mun in "The Spies Who Loved Me"
This title could very well be the most inspired by an 007 story. Eric Mun plays the role of a secretive ex-husband—one who goes around masquerading as a travel writer but is in truth an INTERPOL agent—of the series' leading lady played by Yoo In-na. It's actually a lot more fun that it sounds; "The Spies Who Loved Me" is tagged as a comedy, and its plot revolves around Yoo In-na not realizing that her second husband is also an undercover spy. | Release date: October 21, 2020 - December 16, 2020 | Available on iQIYI
Photo Credit: @shinhwa_official
SeeYa's Nam Gyu-ri in "Kairos"
Anyone who enjoyed "The King: Eternal Monarch" might just find themselves hooked on "Kairos," another K-Drama that toys with the ideas of intertwined fates and time traveling. "Kairos" ties together the lives of its two leads, unknowingly to them in the beginning, when they both lose people they love and set out on a quest to find them. Nam Gyu-ri's character's searches for her missing daughter, only to make shocking discoveries as she gets closer and closer to the answers she seeks. | Release date: October 26, 2020 - December 21, 2020 | Available on VIU
Photo Credit: @nam_gyuri
AOA's Seolhyun in "Awaken"
Seolhyun takes us through a story about revisiting a past whose ghosts and traumas refuse to be buried in the sands of time. She plays a police offer at the heart of figuring out what really happened in a blaze that consumed a village almost three decades ago— and to the young boy that survived the tragedy unscathed, who may or may not have been the cause of his community's demise. Suspected to have grown up to become a dangerous murderer, the boy and his unknown backstory become Seolhyun's career-defining criminal case. | Release date: November 30, 2020
Photo Credit: @sh_9513
Astro's Cha Eun-woo in "True Beauty"
Here's one that even younger audiences can appreciate. A classic rom-com, "True Beauty" is a story about overcoming one's insecurities and finding love along the way—specifically when you find the right person who can see you for who you are. Cha Eun-woo plays one half of this drama's leading couple, his character a seemingly cool-as-ice popular kid who has refused to let others know about a more sensitive, reflective side of him that lies beneath the surface. | Release date: 1st week of December
Photo Credit: @eunwo.o_c
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Girls' Generation's Yoona in "Hush"
"Hush" has Yoona playing a young newspaper journalist who's new on the job, and in the industry as a whole. She's wide-eyed, excited, and full of idealism, but before she's given the full responsibilities of being a reporter, she has yet to prove her worthiness of the job by maneuvering the ordinariness of office life, paperwork and sitting on a desk all day included. It's essentially a story about growth, but one that isn't without its lighthearted moments. | Release date: December 11, 2020
Photo Credit: @yoona__lim
ZE:A's Im Si-wan in "Run On"
Im Si-wan plays an ex-professional runner in this love story between him and a film translator (Shin Se-kyung). Both from totally different worlds, their characters are challenged to read and understand each other's love languages and learn the value of what it means to truly win life's "race." | Release date: December 16, 2020
Photo Credit: @yim_siwang
Girls' Generation's Sooyoung
From a rookie detective with photographic memory in 2020 series "Tell Me What You Saw," Sooyoung has taken on the character of a CEO of a sports agency in "Run On." Her character is the only child of the owner of Sumyoung Group, but because she's a woman, she's not top of mind as a successor of their company. | Release date: December 16, 2020
Photo Credit: @sooyoungchoi
Blackpink's Jisoo in "Snowdrop"
Blackpink fans have a lot to look forward to—including this new drama, which stars Jisoo in her first-ever leading role! Filming began for the singer and actress in October. Much has yet to be revealed about this series' plot, but it'll be a love story, and a suspenseful one at that. Jisoo reportedly plays a university student who gets entangled with the life of a mysterious young man (Jung Hae-in) who barges into her life one night drenched in blood and covered in wounds. | Release date: 2021
Photo Credit: @sooyaaa___
Lead photos from @eunwo.o_c @@vousmevoyez @sooyaaa__ @osw_onge @sh_9513 @yim_siwang
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