JUHN Jai-hong Lines Up 4th Feature
2NE1’s Dara (a.k.a
Sandara PARK) will team up with actors
HAN Jae-seok and
CHO Dong-in on incoming music drama
Echo (working title) which kicks off production this month and is expected to be released within the year. The project will mark
JUHN Jai-hong’s fourth directorial outing.
Though known for being part of the wildly successful four-member girl group 2NE1, Dara has extensive acting experience in recent Korean TV dramas, but also in a number of films in the Philippines, where she used to live. Echo will be her first Korean feature.
Getting his start working on the films of KIM Ki-duk, including
Breath (2007), for which he was an assistant director, JUHN debuted as a feature filmmaker with
Beautiful in 2008, which was produced by his maverick mentor. KIM also wrote and produced his next feature
Poongsan (2011). He broke out on his own for his next feature
Gifted, which bowed at the
Busan International Film Festival in 2014.