CNBLUE’s Lee Jong-hyun, along with actors Seo Young-joo and Yeo Hoi-hyun, has been confirmed on August 18 as one of the leading cast in KBS’s upcoming 8-episode youth drama, Lingerie Girls’ Generation. The nostalgic series will focus on a group of teenage girls in 1979 led by an 18-year old high school student named Lee Jung-hee who will be portrayed by Cosmic Girls’ Bona.

Seo Young-joo will take on the role of Bae Dong-moon, a kind high schooler who has a crush on Bona’s character for a long time. The 19-year old actor appeared in at least eight dramas since 2009 including JTBC’s Solomon’s Perjury which ran from December 2016 to January 2017. He also starred in various films since 2008, one of which is Juvenile Offender that won him the Best Actor award at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2012.

Lee Jong-hyun, meanwhile, is up to play Joo Young-choon, a typical 20-year-old man responsible for taking care of her younger sister and does some chores at a local pharmacy. The actor was last seen in a television drama in Orange Marmalade (2015) and got his first leading role in a drama through Netflix’s 2017 original series titled My Only Love Song which stars Gong Seung-yeon as the heroine. Just like Seo Young-joo, Lee Jong-hyun is a promising young actor who made his acting debut in Gentleman’s Dignity for which he won a New Star award at the SBS Drama Awards in December 2012.

Rounding out the major male roles in the drama is Yeo Hoi-hyun, who will be playing a smart and handsome high school student named Son Jin. With his intellect and charismatic appearance, he becomes a popular boy among the girls in town. Meanwhile, Chae Seo-jin completes the main cast of the drama. She will be playing the transferee student from Seoul who will become Lee Jung-hee’s rival-turned-friend classmate.

Lingerie Girls’ Generation, which will premiere on September 11 and take over School 2017 on Mondays and Tuesdays, is set in the 1970s in Daegu City, South Korea. It is based on a 2009 coming-of-age novel of the same name written by Kim Yong-hee. The screenplay of the adaptation is penned by Yoon Kyung-ah while directing will be helmed by PD Hong Seok-gu. Writer Yoon and director Hong collaborated previously in Perfect Wife.

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