"Reply 1994" Is Not A Prequel

If you liked taking a nostalgic trip back to 1997 in "Reply 1997," you may want to go back a little further in time and check out "Reply 1994" That's when the director Shin Won Ho and the drama's writer Lee Woo Jung originally wanted to set the drama. It was the year they both entered college.

But when they started casting they changed their minds.

One of the first people they cast was Eun Ji Won as the character Do Hak Won. Rapper and dancer Eun Ji Won was a former member of Sechs Kies, an idol group whose fame was actually peaking in 1997.

That got the writer and director thinking they ought to set the drama plot three years later.

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