Riding a hot streak with ENA’s Monday-Tuesday drama Scarecrow, actor Park Hae-soo is reportedly on track to join Jo Jung-suk in a single project.
According to a MyDaily exclusive on the 24th, Park Hae-soo will star in the new drama Paper Man.
The series is a black comedy centered on a tidal wave of counterfeit bills that engulfs South Korea. In the story, the counterfeit money is painstakingly hand-drawn by a person with red color blindness, boasting a realism “more real than real” and posing the provocative question: “Is it fake, real, or art?” Set in an ironic world where money is everything yet nothing feels tangible, the narrative follows a fake who will break laws, rules, and morality in a desperate bid to become “the real thing.”
In this project, Park Hae-soo has been offered the role of Oh Seung-eop, a man from North Korea. Back in February, Jo Jung-suk also revealed through his agency Jam Entertainment that he had “received an offer for Paper Man and is reviewing it positively.”
If their casting is finalized, the explosive acting synergy between proven hitmakers Jo Jung-suk and Park Hae-soo—one renowned for consistently delivering crowd-pleasing characters, the other cementing his status as today’s breakout star—has already sparked intense public excitement.