Park Jin-hee boards Song Il-kook drama

Park Jin-hee [Chae Ki-won/10Asia]

Actress Park Jin-hee has been cast in a TV series starring Song Il-kook, the show's promoter Baggat said on Wednesday.

A press release by Baggat showed that Park will play Lee Kang-san, who is usually carefree yet passionate in the kitchen, in the upcoming drama named "Fermented Family" (translated title) set to air on JoongAng Ilbo's new general programming cable channel jTBC starting December 7.

Lee will realize her love for her family when due to her father running away from home, she temporarily has to run her father's restaurant and comes to understand why he worked so hard on it.

The drama will also depict on her love with Song's character Ki Ho-tae whom she always fights with yet has perfect teamwork with in times of crisis.

"I'm very happy and excited to get to work with producer Park Chan-hong and writer Kim Ji-woo for the first time in a while," Park was quoted as saying of the duo she worked with for KBS' 2001 mini-series "Stock Flower."

Park, 31, has worked on numerous films and dramas since her 1996 and most recently, appeared in shows "Giant" (SBS) and "Still, Marry Me" (MBC) last year.

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