Reply 1994
| Reply 1994 | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Romance, Comedy |
| Written by | Lee Woo-jung |
| Directed by | Shin Won-ho |
| Starring | Go Ara Yoo Yeon-seok Jung Woo Kim Sung-kyun |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Original language | Korean |
| Production | |
| Production location | Korea |
| Original release | |
| Network | tvN |
| Release | September 2013 |
| Related | |
| Reply 1997 | |
Reply 1994 (Korean: 응답하라 1994; RR: Eungdabhara 1994) is an upcoming South Korean television series starring Go Ara, Yoo Yeon-seok, Jung Woo and Kim Sung-kyun. It airs on tvN in September 2013.
It is written by Lee Woo-jung and directed by Shin Won-ho, the same team behind hit 2012 series Reply 1997.
Plot
Three young men (Yoo Yeon-seok, Jung Woo, Kim Sung-kyun) from Gyeongsang Province room together at a boarding house while attending a university in Seoul. The boarding house is run by a couple (Sung Dong-il, Lee Il-hwa) with a daughter (Go Ara).
Reply 1994 follows the pop culture events of that year, including the emergence of seminal K-pop group Seo Taiji and Boys and the Korean Basketball League.
Cast
- Go Ara[1][2][3]
- Yoo Yeon-seok
- Jung Woo
- Kim Sung-kyun
- Sung Dong-il
- Lee Il-hwa
- Baro[4]
- Min Do-hee
- Son Ho-joon
Production
Director Shin Won-ho and writer Lee Woo-jung had originally planned for their previous TV series to be set in 1994, which was the year they entered college (Shin studied chemical engineering at Seoul National University). But they decided to change the year to 1997 after casting Sechs Kies member Eun Ji-won, since H.O.T. and Sechs Kies fandom was at its peak that year, which made an interesting juxtaposition to the failing Korean economy during the IMF crisis.[5]
Shin and Lee felt there was enough material for another series, and in a bid to replicate Reply 1997's success, cable channel tvN announced a "sequel" or "second season" in April 2013.[6][7]
Despite the same writer and director, and the casting of Sung Dong-il and Lee Il-hwa, Reply 1994 is not a prequel of Reply 1997; it uses the same concept of coming-of-age drama combined with 1990s nostalgia, but with a completely new plot and characters.[8]
References
- ^ Park, Jin-yong (21 June 2013). "Go Ara in discussions to join Reply 1994 drama". Korea Star Daily via Yahoo!. Retrieved 2013-06-21.
- ^ Do, Hyelim (21 June 2013). "Go Ara considering casting in Reply 1994". StarN News. Retrieved 2013-06-21.
- ^ "Go Ah-Ra likely to join drama Reply 1994". Asia Today. 22 June 2013. Retrieved 2013-06-22.
- ^ Kang, Jung-yeon (21 June 2013). "B1A4 Baro to Join Reply 1997 Season 2". 10Asia. Retrieved 2013-06-21.
- ^ Oh, Esther (7 September 2012). "Producer Reveals Reply 1997 Was Actually Going to Be Reply 1994". enewsWorld. CJ E&M. Retrieved 2013-06-21.
- ^ MacDonald, Joan (17 April 2013). "For Second Season Reply 1997 Goes Back To 1994". KDramaStars. Retrieved 2013-06-21.
- ^ Hong, Grace Danbi (17 April 2013). "Reply 1997 Second Season to Air in September". enewsWorld. CJ E&M. Retrieved 2013-06-21.
- ^ Do, Je-hae (24 June 2013). "Returning dramas show cable might". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2013-06-24.