Drama: I NEED ROMANCE 3 ( 로맨스가 필요해 3)
Director: Jang Young- Woo
Scriptwriter: Jung Hyung-Jung
Network: tvN
Genre: romance, comedy
Episodes: 16
Release date: January 2014
Running time: Mondays & Tuesdays, 22:00
PLOT
Season 3 of "I Need Romance"s franchise will take place at a home shopping TV station and focus on the alpha girls who works there together, telling the stories of their friendships, their workplace rivalries and their love lines. The heroine, Shin Joo-Yeon (Kim So-Yeon), a 33-year-old fashion marketing director, is an ace in the workplace but constantly licking her wounds when it comes to love. She used to have a kind and warm personality but ofter 9 years in the business she becomes cold. She tells people that she does not believe in love but deep down she can´t give up on real love.
Her love interests will be a work sunbae who mentors her (Namgoong Min) versus a younger man ( Sung Joon) who comes along and heals her jaded sense of romance. (Credits: Dramabeans, AsianWiki)
CAST
Kim So-Yeon- Shin Joo-Yeon
Sung Joon- Joo-Wan
Namgoong Min- Kang Tae-Yoon
Wang Ji-Won- Oh Se-Ryeong
CHARACTERS
Shin Joo Yeon (Kim So Yeon)Shin Joo-Yeon (33years old) works at a home shopping network as a fashion marketing director. She is a tough lady in her workplace ( after 9 years of harsh working experience in a competitive world she became cold) , but she used to have a warm personality. After the last failed romantic relationship, she declares she doesn´t believe in love anymore but its easier said than done.
Joo Wan is a 27 years-old talented songwriter who returns in Korea after 17 years. He has happy childhood memories of growing up with the heroine and finds her again and the two of them will live under the same roof, where he will have his heart stolen by her all over again.
Kang Tae-Yoon is heroine´s sunbae and mentor, an workaholic perfectionist who does whatever it takes to succeed. He is smooth, refined romantic but he inwardly, doesn´t really believe in love.
Oh Se- ryeong is a former model who becomes a celebrity stylist and she is the heroine´s friend but in the same time she is her rival at her workplace. She is uninhibited, honest, true to her emotions and she genuinely loves Tae-Yoon.