{"id":62256,"date":"2026-06-20T13:23:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T05:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=62256"},"modified":"2026-06-20T13:23:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T05:23:59","slug":"k-drama-casting-news-about-lee-jun-ho-seo-in-guk-shin-hye-sun-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=62256","title":{"rendered":"K-drama casting news about Lee Jun-ho, Seo In-guk, Shin Hye-sun and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">After a few quiet weeks on the casting front, a flurry of K-drama announcements has been making headlines this month, with stars signing on to buzzy projects spanning workplace fantasy, mystery-thrillers and period romantic comedies.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Read on for the latest news.<\/p>\n<h3 type=\"h3\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"eh0yk8h0 css-17x7qa9 e1pqa4re1\">Embassy for Foreign Monsters in Korea<\/h3>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Lee Jun-ho of the K-pop boy group 2PM is in talks for the leading role in the high-concept fantasy series <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Embassy for Foreign Monsters in Korea<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The story follows a human diplomat who is accidentally assigned to work at an embassy that manages monsters living in South Korea. The ambassador of the agency is a water deity \u2013 a dragon \u2013 disguised as a human.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-inline-container e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"image-inline caption e1fvabeq0 css-19sk4h4 ea9pn0s0\" data-qa=\"Component-Container\">\n<figure class=\"image-inline caption ea9pn0s1 css-1qeofuq e1gf69pb0\" data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<div data-qa=\"ArticleImage-handleRenderImage-ImageContainer\" class=\"css-bjn8wh e1gf69pb3\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lee Jun-ho in a still from King the Land. Lee is in talks for the lead role in Embassy for Foreign Monsters in Korea. Photo: JTBC\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/06\/18\/405159dd-8c9a-4639-b69d-277f13f92785_05d9efd3.jpg\" title=\"Lee Jun-ho in a still from King the Land. Lee is in talks for the lead role in Embassy for Foreign Monsters in Korea. Photo: JTBC\"\/><\/div><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\" class=\"css-1bj5zno e1gf69pb1\">Lee Jun-ho in a still from King the Land. Lee is in talks for the lead role in Embassy for Foreign Monsters in Korea. Photo: JTBC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Lee is considering the role of Cha Yeon, the supernatural ambassador who runs this mysterious facility and has been stuck on Earth for 1,200 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/k-drama\/k-drama\/article\/3357504\/k-drama-casting-news-about-lee-jun-ho-seo-guk-shin-hye-sun-and-more?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a few quiet weeks on the casting front, a flurry of K-drama announcements has been making headlines this month, with stars signing on to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[6546,10447,18064,14285,6545,1063,2486,14014,9277],"class_list":["post-62256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-casting","tag-hyesun","tag-inguk","tag-junho","tag-kdrama","tag-lee","tag-news","tag-seo","tag-shin","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}