Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Episodes: 16 (To Be Confirmed)
Broadcast network: tvN
Broadcast period: 2019-Sep-28 to 2019-Nov-17
Air time: Saturday & Sunday 21:00
Synopsis:
This drama tells the story of a man and a woman who are both frozen during an experiment. They wake up 20 years later instead of 24 hours later and must keep their body temperature above 30°C in order to survive.
Ma Dong Chan (Ji Chang Wook) is known in the entertainment world as a “hit maker.” A very successful producer of variety programs when every project he attaches himself to turns into a ratings juggernaut, Dong Chan is considered “a manly specimen of manhood, with perfect physical and handsome features who is coldly cool in work and hot in love.” The broadcast station where PD Ma’s productions are filmed also employs part-timer Go Mi Ran (Won Jin Ah), who finds herself in a bind with debt collectors harassing her family for repayment of her family’s debts.
Mi Ran eventually becomes involved with PD Ma’s new variety program entitled “24-Hour Frozen Human Project,” which revolves around an experiment where a man and woman are randomly chosen to be “frozen human specimens” and scheduled to be brought back within 24 hours of their entering the freezing chambers. In order to pay off her family debts, Mi Ran accepts an offer of 5 million won (approx. $4,200 USD) in exchange for being frozen for 24 hours. Due to a mysterious conspiracy, instead of being frozen for 24 hours, they remain frozen for 20 years. Their thawing 20 years later bring up personal difficulties that were in place before entering the freezing chamber that they must resolve before resuming their normal lives.
Dong Chan and Mi Ran start out resenting each other whilst trying to reverse their lives and find out the side effects of frozen human experimentation, with one affecting their very existence – the need to keep their average body temperature close to 31.5°C (88.7ºF) in order to survive.
Cast:
Ji Chang Wook as Ma Dong Chan
Won Jin Ah as Go Mi Ran
Yoon Se Ah as Na Ha Young
Yoon Suk Hwa as Kim Won Jo (Dong Chan’s mother)
Im Won Hee as Son Hyun Ki
Kim Won Hae as Ma Dong Sik
Jun Soo Kyung as Ma Dong Joo
Oh Ah Rin as Ma Seo Yoon
Jung Hae Kyun as Kim Hong Suk
Gil Hae Yeon as Mi Ran’s mother
Shim Hyung Tak as Hwang Byung Sim
Seo Jung Yeon as Oh Young Sun
Choi Bo Min as Hwang Ji Hoon
Yoon Na Moo
Lee Moo Saeng as Jo Ki Bum
Lee Hong Ki