JYJ Jaejoong confirms casting in Korean drama, Ji-sung joins

Clockwise from top left, Ji-sung, Choi Gang-hee, Wang Ji-hye and Kim Jae-joong [3HW.Com]

Boy band JYJ member Kim Jaejoong has been set as one of the male leads in what will be the idol star's first acting role in a Korean production.

3HW.Com, the promoter of upcoming SBS TV series "The Boss has Changed" (tentative title), announced through a press release on Thursday that Kim has been cast in the show starring actress Choi Gang-hee who will play the main female character.

Kim has tried his hand at acting before but only in Japan so far including in film "Postman to Heaven" in November 2009 and Fuji TV's "Hard to Say I Love You" in September 2010.

3HW also said that actor Ji-sung and actress Wang Ji-hye have been cast as the main characters to the drama which will be a romantic comedy about the female lead character, who after struggling with employment, becomes the secretary of a boss with a bad attitude at a conglomerate firm.

Choi will play female lead Noh Eun-seol, Ji-sung the childish youngest son of a conglomerate family named Cha Ji-heon, Kim the so-called 'prince of the financial industry' with great capabilities called Cha Mu-won and Wang the perfect lawyer Seo Na-yoon.

The drama, which will be a 16-part series helmed by producer Sohn Jung-hyun of "Lovers in Paris" fame and scenarist Kwon Ki-young, is set to air in the Wednesdays and Thursdays primetime slot starting August 3, after current series “City Hunter” starring Lee Min-ho and Park Min-young ends its run.

Jaejoong, 25, is a member of trio JYJ which broke off from SM Entertainment's highly successful boy band TVXQ which formed in 2004.

Ji-sung, 34, started gaining popularity in Japan with his role as a doctor in 2007 TV series "New Heart" and has starred in a number of Korean films and dramas.

Wang, 25, has appeared in several films and dramas since making her debut in 2003 through a small screen role.

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