Singer-actor Lee Junho is going viral as he teases a turn as a down-to-earth, everyday hero.
On the 11th, the Netflix series Cashero revealed its main poster and official trailer.
This grounded superhero drama follows Sang-ung (played by Lee Junho), an ordinary salary worker crushed by wedding costs and housing prices, who suddenly gains a bizarre superpower: his strength scales with the amount of cash in his hand.
The standout in the new poster is Sang-ung's bruised face and torn clothes—hardly your typical cape-wearing savior. With coins spilling down the image and the line, "A cash hero who burns his paycheck to save others," it hints at the hilariously heartbreaking reality of a hero who literally has to shell out to save the day.
Behind him are his shocked girlfriend Minsuk (Kim Hye-jun), a lawyer (Kim Byung-chul) who can phase through anything when he's drunk, and Bang Eun-mi (Kim Hyang-gi), who unleashes telekinesis when she loads up on calories—stoking curiosity about their team-up.
The trailer opens with bills scattering and coins dropping the more Sang-ung uses his power, leaving him and Minsuk stunned. When he snaps, "What am I, a sucker? No way!" his refusal to embrace the power perfectly captures the absurd situations life throws at you.
But trouble keeps finding him. Despite Minsuk warning him to save money for a wedding and a home, the lawyer and Bang Eun-mi from the 'Korean Association of Superhumans' appear, along with Jonathan (Lee Chae-min), Joanna (Kang Han-na), and Cho Wondo (Kim Eui-sung) from the superhuman-hunting syndicate 'Beominhoe,' plunging Sang-ung's life into chaos.
"Do you know what's stronger than superpowers in modern society? Competence," Joanna says, skewering a world where social power and ability rule. With no money yet needing cash in hand to fight, viewers are dying to know how Sang-ung will take on Beominhoe. "How did all those heroes beat the bad guys while keeping up a family and a day job?" Sang-ung wonders—signaling a refreshingly real, human kind of hero.
Cashero premieres on Netflix on the 26th.