Yeon Woo-jin and Han Groo New Romantic Comedy This 2014 "Marriage Not Dating"

This is so awesome! I'm a big Yeon Woo Jin fan, finally a leading role for him! I have watched his previous works and he's very talented. Yeon Woo Jin, Han Groo, 2AM's Jinwoon, and SECRET's Sunhwa have been cast in the upcoming tvN weekend drama 'Marriage, Not Dating'!

Marriage Not Dating will be a 16-episode rom-com from the writer of the two-episode drama Anticipate Love and the PD of Brain and Haeundae Lovers. It’s being prepped to follow tvN’s current weekend drama Gap-dong late next month. Yeon Woo-jin stars as a successful plastic surgeon with his own clinic who rebels against his wealthy family in one way: he refuses to get married. So in an effort to get his family off his back, he decides to bring home a girl they’ll never approve of. It’s not the most sophisticated or rational plan, but perhaps he’s seen a lot of dramas.

Idol Jung Jin-woon (Dream High 2) has been cast to play a rich playboy who never stays in one place too long and doesn’t believe in love. He gets everything he wants with money or charm, but then one day he falls for the heroine and does a complete 180 in the name of love. Han Sun-hwa (God’s Gift-14 Days), also an idol, plays a plastic surgeon who went to med school with the hero. She’s ambitious and bold, and described as a woman who loves herself more than anyone else. And finally Yoon So-hee (Let’s Eat) has been cast as the heroine’s co-worker and friend.

Cast

• Yeon Woo-Jin - Kong Ki-Tae
• Han Groo - Joo Jang-Mi
• Jinwoon - Han Yeo-Reum
• Han Sun-Hwa - Kang Se-A
• Heo Jeong-Min - Lee Hoon-Dong
• Yoon So-Hee - Nam Hyun-Hee
• Park Jun Gyu - Joo Gyung-Pyo (Jang-Mi's father)
• Lim Ye-Jin - Na So-Nyeo (Jang-Mi's mother)
• Kim Kap-Soo - Kong Soo-Hwan (Ki-Tae's father)
• Kim Hae-Sook - Shin Bong-Hyang (Ki-Tae's mother)

The posters are out for tvN’s new Friday-Saturday romantic comedy Marriage Not Dating, featuring a happy bachelorette party, a doom-and-gloom bachelor party, and a wedding photo shoot where the bride kidnaps two men to haul to the altar. It cracks me up that there’s rope involved, especially since Yeon Woo-jin is really selling his character’s reluctance to get hitched.

So while he’s the man who won’t marry, Han Groo will play the heroine who can’t marry. She’s the small-town university graduate who works in a luxury department store and has no prospects. She’s described as an analogue girl, who prefers polaroids to digital pictures and refuses to give up on her 2G cell phone. She believes in going to see someone in person if you miss them, and naturally believes in true love. She’s been alone her whole life and idealizes marriage because she wants to be with someone all the time, but every man she dates finds her earnestness too overwhelming and ends up leaving her.

The hero is an introvert who always prefers to be alone, and is so abrasive on every single blind date that his family sends him on that he always ends up with water splashed on his face for saying something rude. His initial connection to the heroine is an unpleasant one but he somehow convinces her to play his girlfriend in front of his family. Of course the fun is that a contract relationship is never just an act.

"Marriage Not Dating" takes over the tvN Fri & Sat 20:50 time slot previously occupied by "Gap Dong” and will be followed by "Age Ending in Nine Boy" 2014.