Kim Woo-bin, Kim Hye-soo, Song Hye-kyo to hit the small screen in December... Three major productions face off

Actors Kim Woo-bin, Kim Hye-soo, and Song Hye-kyo will each release new works in December, competing against one another. Kim Woo-bin starts it off. He stars as Jung Min-yong, the leader of the last-place high school baseball team, in tvN’s new Saturday-Sunday drama ″Gift,″ premiering next month on the 5th at 9:10 PM. His character gains insight into the players’ potential after an unexpected accident and works closely with Yoon Seo-jin (played by Seo Eun-soo), the baseball club president. Kim Woo-bin married actress Shin Min-a, who is five years his senior, on December 20 last year after dating for 10 years, and he returns to the small screen with this work just before their first wedding anniversary. Two days later, on December 7 at 10 PM, tvN’s new Monday-Tuesday drama ″Second Signal,″ starring Kim Hye-soo, will be unveiled. It is a sequel to ″Signal,″ which aired in 2016, reuniting writer Kim Eun-hee and actor Lee Je-hoon. Originally scheduled for June, the release was delayed after allegations surfaced last December that Jo Jin-woong had received juvenile protection measures during high school. Jo Jin-woong admitted to past mistakes but denied any sexual assault allegations and announced his retirement. tvN decided to keep the original version after AI replacement tests, asking viewers to separate the value of the work and the creators’ efforts. The eight-episode drama will air episodes 1 and 2 consecutively on the first day and episode 3 within the first week. Following that, Song Hye-kyo joins with the Netflix series ″Slowly, Intensely,″ released on December 11. Written by No Hee-kyung and directed by Lee Yoon-jung, this work tells the coming-of-age story of youth set in the entertainment industry from the 1960s to the 1980s. Alongside Gong Yoo, Kim Seol-hyun, and Cha Seung-won, the series will be released in three parts over three weeks. Part 1, containing episodes 1 to 8, will be available on the 11th, Part 2 on the 18th, and Part 3 on the 25th. Meanwhile, attention is focused on who will be the ultimate winner in this year-end showdown among the three major works released one week apart.