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K-DRAMA PREMIERE: “Destined With You” Features Tangled Fate and Mysterious Curse
In Destined With You, a lawyer bound by a centuries-old curse becomes entangled with a civil servant who holds the key to his freedom—igniting an unexpected romance.
Jo Bo Ah and Kim Rowoon greeted K-Drama fans with their latest work.
Destined With You chronicles the story of a hotshot lawyer who has it all, but is haunted by a family curse. It turns out that the woman who is key to breaking this curse is none other than a seemingly ordinary civil servant.
In the drama, Jo Bo Ah (Tale of the Nine Tailed, Military Prosecutor Doberman) portrays Lee Hong-jo, a 9th-level civil servant and complaint solver at the Onju City Hall She always does her best despite suffering from complaints beyond imagination and is a person who is familiar with being alone.
As she suddenly becomes the owner of an old wooden box, she obtains a forbidden book that was thoroughly sealed 300 years ago. From there, she also holds the key to unlocking the curse of Jang Shin-yu.
Kim Rowoon (Tomorrow, The King’s Affection) transforms into Jang Shin-yu, an ace lawyer waiting for the ‘wooden box’ owner to lift the curse. He is a straightforward man with a cryptic disease. As it becomes severe, he seeks help from Lee Hong-jo, the owner of the wooden box. He is desperate to break the curse passed down from generation to generation in his family.
In the opening week, the connection between Shin-yu and Hong-jo was right away created.
Evidently, the journey of the eventual love pairing will be met with challenges as they work their way out of respective side love stories.
How Shin-yu would need Hong-jo to break his curse and all interesting in-betweens set to happen would pan out in the future episodes.
Watch the highlight of the opening week below!
International fans can watch Destined With You on Netflix.
Photos: Netflix | JTBC Drama
