Oh Ji-Ho, the charismatic actor will return to drama to play father of a young girl named Geumbi who suffers from dementia. The script reading was conducted earlier this week on Monday Oct. 17.
Oh will play a conman named Mo Hwee-Chul in the drama who was a selfish man and never loved anybody according to allkpop. Suddenly a 10-year old girl named Geum-Bi appeared claiming to be her daughter. Geum-Bi suffers from a dimentia and slowly losing her memory and Hwee-Chul takes care of her.
The drama will substitute "On the Way to the Airport" as a Wednesday-Thursday night drama on KBS2. The little girl Geum-Bi will be played by a cute child actress Heo Jung-Eun. Other supporting cast includes Park Jin-Hee, Oh Yoon-Ah and Seo Hyun-Chul.
Script reading of the drama was conducted last Monday at the KBS 2 Annex building as reported by SE Daily. The drama will be directed by Kim Young-Jo who is known to be a strict and meticulous director. Oh said that he can now immerse to play father of a little girl since he is also a father of a little girl.
Oh's daughter So-Heun, was born on Dec. 30, 2015, whom he nicknamed Jibong. He appeared with her baby girl in "Return of Superman" KBS variety show since Episode 129 in May 2016.
In the "Return of Superman," Oh is filmed with two other celebrity fathers with their daughters actor and musician Yang Dong-geun with Joy, and actor In Gyo-jin with Ha-Eun. Together they made up a name OGG fathers which stands for Oh, Geun (Yang) and Gyong (In).
The "Return of Superman," follows celebrity fathers who are left alone with their children to give their wife two days-off. The shooting usually took 38 hours with hidden camera installed around the house. "Return of Superman" first episode was aired March 2013 as part of KBS Happy Sunday special with other variety show "1 Night 2 Days."
Watch the first appearance of Oh with So-Heun on "Return of Superman" Episode 129 with English subtitle from KBS World TV below:
