{"id":394455,"date":"2026-04-16T02:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/394455\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T02:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:07:08","slug":"netflix-sets-korean-drama-the-facade-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/394455\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Sets Korean Drama ‘The Facade of Love’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNetflix<\/a> is keeping its K-drama pipeline pumping. The streamer revealed Thursday that it has begun production on The Facade of Love, a new romance series from Mo Wan-il, the hitmaking director behind the JTBC juggernaut The World of the Married, and veteran writer Ha Su-jin (The Matchmakers, Sell Your Haunted House). Netflix also shared a sneak peek from the show\u2019s first table read in Seoul (above and below).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe series finds Mo again mining the marital meltdown dynamics that made his 2020 hit a cultural phenomenon in Korea and beyond. The World of the Married \u2014 a local adaptation of BBC One\u2019s Doctor Foster \u2014 struck a chord with its story of an accomplished female doctor who methodically unravels her husband\u2019s affair. The show went on to become the highest-rated drama in Korean cable television history, with a finale that drew a 28.4 percent nationwide rating, a record that still stands. Mo took home the Baeksang Arts Award for best director for the series.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe series builds on Netflix\u2019s established relationship with Mo, whose first project for the streamer, the 2024 mystery thriller The Frog, was a sizable global hit on the platform.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn The Facade of Love, Lee Dong-wook stars as Ji-hun, a man whose ordered life is destabilized after a chance, charged encounter with Hu-kyung (Jeon So-nee), a stranger he meets while traveling abroad. Both return to Korea expecting their old routines to resume; instead, the connection refuses to fade, slowly opening fractures in the lives around them. Jung Yu-mi plays Sun-hee, Ji-hun\u2019s wife; Lee Jong-won is Dae-hee, Sun-hee\u2019s younger brother, whose own unexpected entanglement with Hu-kyung pulls the story in unexpected directions.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe ensemble continues Netflix\u2019s track record of bringing together some of Korea\u2019s most in-demand talent. Lee Dong-wook is internationally known from his Grim Reaper turn in the 2016 fantasy phenomenon Guardian: The Lonely and Great God (also known as Goblin), as well as lead roles in Tale of the Nine Tailed and Disney+\u2019s A Shop for Killers. Jung Yu-mi is among the most decorated film actresses of her generation, with two Blue Dragon Film Awards, a Baeksang and a Grand Bell across credits including Train to Busan, Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 and Jason Yu\u2019s Sleep. Jeon So-nee broke through globally as the slippery lead of Yeon Sang-ho\u2019s 2024 Netflix hit Parasyte: The Grey, while Lee Jong-won has been steadily on the rise through dramas like Knight Flower and The Golden Spoon.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe series adds to what is shaping up as another formidable year for Korean content on Netflix. The streamer rolled out a 33-title Korean slate in January ranging from a new season of Singles Inferno to rom-com Boyfriend on Demand \u2014 starring Blackpink\u2019s Jisoo \u2014 and Lee Chang-dong\u2019s Possible Love, the revered auteur\u2019s first feature in eight years and a likely contender at this fall\u2019s major festivals. The company expanded the lineup further in late March with romance series Long Vacation from Crash Landing on You director Lee Jung-hyo.<\/p>\n

\n\tKorea continues to play an outsized role as one of Netflix\u2019s most reliable content engines outside the U.S. \u2014 a reality underscored last month by the BTS comeback concert broadcast live from Seoul\u2019s Gwanghwamun Square, which drew 18.4 million viewers and topped the Netflix charts in 24 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix is keeping its K-drama pipeline pumping. The streamer revealed Thursday that it has begun production on The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[337,146,85,399,46,400],"class_list":{"0":"post-394455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-international","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-netflix"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}