Jang Dong-yoon rekindles his desires in Like Flowers in Sand
by solstices
One other teaser is out for ENA’s coming-of-age sports activities drama Like Flowers in Sand (beforehand The Sand Flower), providing additional perception into our hero’s dashed desires. He could also be two steps away from giving up, however when a brand new supervisor unexpectedly joins the workforce, she turns into a much-needed ray of hope for our disheartened wrestler.
Jang Dong-yoon (Every day Dose of Sunshine) stars because the ssireum athlete Kim Baek-du, who opens our teaser with a surprising announcement — he’s retiring. Because the youngest son of a famend ssireum fighter, Baek-du as soon as earned excessive accolades in his childhood days, sufficient to be referred to as a younger prodigy. Since then, although, his profession has been on the decline.
Disbandment looms on the horizon for Baek-du’s ssireum workforce, in order a last-ditch effort, a brand new workforce supervisor is recruited. She’s Oh Yoo-kyung — performed by Lee Joo-myung (Twenty 5 Twenty One) — a no-nonsense woman who’s able to toppling a grown man within the ring. It’s sufficient to make Baek-du gasp. Seems Yoo-kyung is his childhood good friend, though she solutions his nervously-stuttered questions with a staunch denial.
Yoo-kyung can’t consider how far Baek-du has fallen, and he or she’s decided to knock some sense into him (each actually and figuratively). “Simply dwell the best way you need,” she chastises, urging him to pursue what he likes and keep away from what he doesn’t. For Baek-du, who’s lived his life within the shadow of his household’s legacy, Yoo-kyung’s phrases are deeply shifting. Seeing her in a brand new gentle — one which conjures up him to present ssireum one other shot — he tells her: “It’s due to you. I returned due to you.”
It’s a pity we nonetheless don’t get to see the remainder of the solid, as a result of I’m excited for Kim Bo-ra — whom I liked in Finland Papa — as a restaurant proprietor, and Lee Joo-seung (Black Knight) as a police officer and Baek-du’s greatest good friend. Becoming a member of them are the elite high-flyer Yoon Jong-seok (Our Blooming Youth) and the ssireum ace Lee Jae-joon (So Not Value It), who’ll doubtless rile up Baek-du’s aggressive spirit.
Helmed by PD Kim Jin-woo (A Mannequin Household) with scripts written by Received Yoo-jung (The Lies Inside), Like Flowers in Sand premieres on December 20 in ENA’s Wednesday-Thursday slot, and can stream on Netflix.
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