Netflix has lined up its next high-concept, high-demand Korean drama. K-pop superstar Jisoo, of mega-group Blackpink, has signed on to star in Boyfriend on Demand, a romantic-drama series about an overworked young Korean woman who seeks escape in a virtual reality dating program “where she meets the boyfriends of her dreams.”
In the series, Jisoo will play exhausted webtoon producer Mi-rae, “who longs for a second chance at love” but has grown accustomed to a nonexistent dating life due to her hectic schedule. When Mi-rae receives a mysterious “Monthly Boyfriend” device by chance, she decides to give it a try, entering a virtual reality world where she encounters unrealistically perfect boyfriends, “awakening her dormant desires for romance.”
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Popular singer-turned actor Seo In-guk (Doom at Your Service, Café Minamdang) will star opposite Jisoo as Park Kyeong-nam, Mi-rae’s colleague and rival webtoon producer.
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