Singer Lee Hyori and Lee Sang Soon's "Monggeul counseling center" opens.
The first domestic reality show about love for young people with developmental disabilities supported wholeheartedly by the couple Lee Hyori and Lee Sang Soon, SBS's My heart is soft and fluffy—Monggeul counseling center (hereafter "Monggeul counseling center") premieres at 11:05 p.m. on the 8th.
Monggeul counseling center, the new challenge by PD Go Hye-rin, who won the Baeksang Arts Awards' best work for "Hakjeon and the Back Thing Kim Min-gi," is a coming-of-age romance series that follows young people with developmental disabilities (hereafter "Monggeul") as they create their first romances. The 14-year married couple Lee Hyori and Lee Sang Soon, renowned as one of the entertainment industry's iconic couples, serve as the counseling center's "director," drawing strong interest from the launch stage. In addition, "Extraordinary Attorney Woo" music director Noh Young-shim gifted a song for Monggeul counseling center; an OST performed by Lee Hyori and produced by Lee Sang Soon was created, and with a wave of warm support continuing, attention is focused on what kind of reaction this venture, launched with broad backing, will produce.
In episode 1 of Monggeul counseling center, directors Lee Hyori and Lee Sang Soon meet three "Monggeul"s—Oh Ji-hyun, Yoo Ji-hoon and Jung Ji-won—each with different charms for an initial meeting, and help them with their first blind dates. Among them, Jung Ji-won, a young person with intellectual disability who works as an actor, has his first blind date monitored by Lee Hyori and Lee Sang Soon, and they are said to be unable to contain their surprise at an unexpected romance development, arousing curiosity.
Ahead of his first blind date, Jung Ji-won prepares thoroughly by watching melodramas. Meeting his first blind date at a romantic Han River restaurant, the setting of his dream blind date, Jung Ji-won shows a romantic side—pulling out a chair and taking care of the other person's outerwear like a male lead ripped from a drama—which draws exclamations from Lee Hyori and Lee Sang Soon. Especially amid a mood of excitement and awkwardness, watching the fresh youths do their best exchanging clumsy questions, Lee Hyori breaks into an unguarded smile, saying, "It really feels like a movie."
For a moment, Lee Hyori and Lee Sang Soon are startled by Jung Ji-won's sudden action. When food got on his blind date's mouth while they were eating, Jung Ji-won jumped up from his seat and wiped the other's lips with a tissue. Lee Hyori and Lee Sang Soon, speaking in unison, said, "Oh my, you do that on a first meeting? Already tissue flirting?" and could not close their mouths at the rapid romance development of "drama-ripped guy" Jung Ji-won. When Jung Ji-won even boldly suggested a wine love shot, Lee Sang Soon cried out desperately toward the observation monitor, "No, Ji-won. That's not it."
Whether the first blind date scene of "drama-ripped guy Monggeul" Jung Ji-won that surprised Lee Hyori and Lee Sang Soon will be like, and whether Jung Ji-won, who dreams of a drama-like romance, can find a heart-fluttering love, draws attention.
Meanwhile, SBS special My heart is soft and fluffy—Monggeul counseling center, which this spring will boldly break our preconceived notions and offer excitement and healing, premieres at 11:05 p.m. on the 8th.
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