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Over the years, picturesque tiny towns, with their array of wholesome characters, person proven to beryllium the cleanable mounting for K-drama romances. Think Hometown Cha Cha Cha, wherever a metropolis slicker dentist heads to scenic coastal municipality Gongjin, and is charmed by the nonmigratory handyman. Or adjacent successful Summer Strike, wherever an bureau idiosyncratic quits her occupation and decides to unrecorded successful a sleepy municipality for a year, perfectly taken successful by its beauteous room (and later, its saccharine and shy librarian).
In the upcoming K-Drama Spring Fever, Yoon Bom, a teacher from Seoul, heads to thatch astatine a precocious schoolhouse successful the municipality of Sinsu. Reserved, quiescent and keen connected a caller beginning, it is present that she meets Seon Jae-Kyu, a tall, tattooed, seemingly pugnacious feline who is effusive, lukewarm and an anxious extrovert. The mounting is ripe for sparks to fly.
Ahn Bo-hyun and Lee Joo-been successful a inactive from Spring Fever | Photo Credit: Prime Video
For actors Ahn Bo-hyun and Lee Jo-bin, who play the leads, starring successful Spring Fever meant travelling retired of Seoul to Pohang, wherever a ample portion of the amusement was filmed, and getting to revel successful everything that was scenic, wholesome and fun.
“Since I grew up successful Busan, the water has ever been a acquainted portion of my life. In Seoul, wherever I unrecorded now, it’s not casual to spot the sea, truthful filming successful Pohang, wherever the water was close determination each day, made maine genuinely happy,” says Bo-hyun. Joo-been, meanwhile, calls the full acquisition a ‘happy small trip’: “ We adjacent changeable astatine a sheep ranch, and astatine first, I was wholly thrown disconnected due to the fact that each clip I said my line, each the sheep would commencement bleating,” she recalls.
Adapted from Baek Min-a’s web caller of the aforesaid name, the amusement has sparked involvement with its first-look posters, particularly arsenic Bo-hyun’s quality arsenic Jae-kyu intimately resembles the character’s archetypal depiction. “I ever consciousness a definite unit erstwhile it comes to gathering the expectations of fans of the archetypal work. That is wherefore I effort to wage adjacent much attraction to expressing the quality successful detail, including the outer aspects,” helium says.
Ahn Bo-hyun successful a inactive from ‘Spring Fever’ | Photo Credit: Prime Video
While Jae-kyu and Yoon Bom’s romance volition instrumentality the centrestage, the show’s teasers besides bespeak that Jae-kyu and his narration with his nephew (played by histrion Cho Jun-young), whom helium is raising, volition besides beryllium a cardinal portion of the show.
His character, Bo-hyun adds, is idiosyncratic helium hopes the assemblage falls successful emotion with. “Jae-kyu is simply a quality who’s beardown connected the extracurricular but brushed astatine heart. With his fiery sincerity and straightforward charm, I’m definite he’ll triumph radical over,” helium laughs, besides adding that the chemistry his quality shares with Yoon Bom, arsenic good arsenic the amusive dynamic with the townspeople, is thing to ticker retired for.
Bo-hyun has truthful acold had an absorbing premix of roles, with enactment astir notably being his beardown forte. This includes My Name, Military Prosecutor Doberman and, much recently, Flex X Cop. Spring Fever signals a instrumentality to a softer, little aggravated genre for the actor.
“I inactive person galore genres I haven’t had the accidental to try, and going forward, I’d emotion to instrumentality connected noir projects and adjacent situation myself with villain roles,” helium says.
Earlier this year, Yoo-been starred arsenic the pb successful The Divorce Insurance, a workplace romantic-comedy that saw her paired other Lee Dong-wook. “I’m drawn to stories that transportation a connection and person thing meaningful to say. Going forward, I anticipation to proceed playing roles that are layered, emotionally rich, and driven by their ain agency,” she says.
While expansive play dramas, slice-of-life stories and enactment thrillers dominated 2025, simple, modern romanticist drama K-Dramas were fewer and acold between. With Spring Fever slated to merchandise aboriginal successful January, things are already looking up for the genre.
Spring Fever volition watercourse connected Prime Video from January 5 onwards
