Just like his character Lee Si Woo can forecast the weather, Song Kang knows what rains and what shines in the world of fashion.
Team Penshoppe’s Song Kang has captured spotlights and hearts as Lee Si Woo in his latest K- Drama hit Forecasting Love & Weather, playing the role of a weather forecasting genius who braves the storms of a seemingly complicated love story. Fans bid goodbye to the beloved character in the series finale which aired last April 3, but Penshoppe’s new ambassador isn’t done channeling Lee Si Woo just yet.
The actor stars in a new Penshoppe campaign for the brand’s newest In Color Collection – a line of classic and versatile fashion pieces that come in vibrant hues and accentuated with polychromatic details. In an exclusive interview with Penshoppe, Song Kang shares his forecast for the future of everyday fashion, and his predictions might not be too far off the mark.
What’s your present-day fashion like, and what are some of your favorite fashion trends?
“My present-day fashion is casual. I like to wear comfortable clothes for personal time outside of my schedule, so a lot of the items in my closet are quite casual. The trending items that [catch] my attention these days include long trousers and cropped jackets.
A Pop of Pastel: Song Kang looks effortlessly stylish in this Pullover Sweater with All The Cool Folks Front and Back Embroidery (P799) and Straight Fit Ripped Jeans (P1099) ensemble
As a fashion enthusiast yourself, you’ve seen trends come and go, but what do you think is a trend that’s here to stay?
“I think [it would be] athletic apparel. There are a lot of people who work out these days as part of their self-care routine. Functionality is the most important element of athletic wear, and compared to the past, there are a lot of clothes with various designs that can be worn in daily life. There may be changes in design and style, but since this is a trend that’s closely related to people’s lifestyles, I feel like the trend itself is here to stay.”
What fashion pieces do you think will always be in style?
“I think items such as jeans, shirts, hoodies, and sweatshirts will be in constant demand no matter how much time passes. Such basic items are clothes that we own as essentials over generations. They’re simple and go well with anything, which makes them versatile.”
What do you think casual everyday wear would look like 10 years from now?
“It’s hard to [guess] since fashion trends change so quickly, but I don’t think it would be too different from what it is now. They say fashion trends come and go. Just as items from 10 years ago become fashionable again with a retro feel, as would the items we’re wearing now become fashionable again in ten years.”
No Regrets: Song Kang sports this laid-back look featuring the No Regrets Relaxed Fit Front and Back Graphic T-Shirt (P499) and Dapper Plaid Trousers (P1099) from the Penshoppe In Color Collection.
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Last weekend, Forecasting Love and Weather wrapped up, leaving us with memories of kilig, frustrations, heartbreaks, and inspiring moments involving the life of weather forecasters. Despite giving us sixteen episodes, we still can’t help but feel that we need to see more of its main stars Song Kang and Park Min-young, and even Yura and Yoon Park! If you’re like us who can’t wait to see them on the screen again, why not join us as we take a look back at the shows that these actors have appeared in in the past!
Nevertheless pairs up Song Kang with Han So-hee. It follows Yoo Na-bi, a student at Hongseo University’s Sculpture Department whose bitter experience in love has made her vow not to fall in love again. This vow is challenged, however, when she meets Park Jae-eon, a charming guy who likes to flirt but only sees romantic relationships as a bother.
Park Min-young and Park Seo-jun lead the cast of the romantic comedy ‘What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim?‘. The smart, rich, and handsome Lee Young-joon serves as the vice president of a large company. His secretary, Kim Mi-so, has been with him for years but when she suddenly decides to quit, Young-joon realizes how big her role is in his life and does everything to keep her by his side.
Starring Song Kang, Kim So-hyun, and Jong Ga-ram, Love Alarm‘s romantic story is propelled by the eponymous app that notifies people if someone within 10 meters has romantic feelings for them. Kim Jojo is a high school student who has to deal with a lot of hardships at a young age, and must navigate her relationships with the Love Alarm app changing the world’s landscape for romance.
Another Park Min-young drama, Her Private Life follows the talented chief curator of Cheum Museum of Art, Sung Deok-mi, who is secretly a fangirl of the Korean boy group White Ocean and its member Cha Sian. When rumors that the two are dating start to spread, Deok-mi fakes a relationship with the new gallery director Ryan Gold to avoid the bullying of Sian’s fans. Real romance soon buds between the two.
Starring Song Kang and Park In-hwan, Navillera is an inspiring tale about a 70-year-old man who just retired from his job and wants to pursue his longtime dream of being a ballet dancer despite his family’s disapproval. In his pursuit of this dream, he meets a young man who also aspires to become a ballet dancer but is hindered by life’s challenges.
Another Park Min-young starrer, this Korean drama follows Hye-Won, a cello player whose trauma from people who hurt her emotionally leads her to move back to her hometown Bookhyun Village. Here, she meets Eun-Seob, a bookshop owner who has a simple and peaceful life. When the two collide, their lives are forever changed.
Song Kang plays a very different role in Sweet Home. The Netflix thriller follows the residents of an apartment complex who are trying to survive amid a mysterious phenomenon where human beings transform and become dangerous creatures that manifest their desires. Song Kang plays Cha Hyun-soo, a survivor who is trying to tame the monster within him.
Before Forecasting Love and Weather, Yoon Park and Yura worked together in Radio Romance as Lee Gang and Jin Tae-ri respectively. It follows Kim So-hyun’s Song Geu Rim, a radio program writer with great passion, but lacks talent in writing. When her radio program is on the verge of cancellation, she gets to work with top actor Ji Su-ho who can’t do anything without a script.
If you loved Song Kang in Love Alarm, Nevertheless, and his latest K-drama Forecasting Love and Weather, then you shouldn’t miss the upcoming Song Kang Live Fan Meet hosted by Netflix!
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Happening this March 4 at 7 PM, the fan meeting will be broadcast live through the Korean Content Youtube Channel THE SWOON. Expect the Korean star’s greetings to his fans worldwide, as well as a Q&A session, a fun quiz, and many more engaging activities! And the best part is, any fan can attend for free, with no tickets needed!
The one-hour virtual fan meeting will be streamed in English, and will provide an exceptional fan experience to interact with your beloved K-star! It will also be available in Trad. Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, Thai, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Latin America), and Vietnamese, after the live event.
For the latest updates, follow Netflix on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. And don’t miss out on the latest episodes of Song Kang’s new romcom drama with Park Min-young, Forecasting Love and Weather, now streaming on Netflix.
Love is in the air as weather forecasters fall for each other in Netflix’s new K-drama Forecasting Love and Weather. The series directed by Cha Young Hun of When the Camellia Blooms and starring Park Min-young and Song Kang is heading to the streaming platform this February 12, 2022, with two episodes to be released per week.
Watch the trailer of Forecasting Love and Weather below:
Before the pilot episode of this series drops tomorrow, we had the chance to virtually attend a press conference for the show which included director Cha Young-hun, and the main cast: Park Min Young, Song Kang, Yoon Bak, and Yura. During the presscon, they talked more about the series, its characters, and how it all came together.
Synopsis
This 16-episode rom-com series follows the “cheerful romance drama” of people at the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA). The story centers on Jin Ha-Kyung who decides not to commit to an office romance ever again after a brutal breakup. But when the new team member Lee Si-woo arrives, she can’t help but fall for him.
As actress Park Min-young described the series, “It has elements of romance, it has elements of work, growth, and ambition. So it has a diverse array of emotions and elements, and I think this makes the story even more interesting.”
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Forecasting Love and Weather is heading to Netflix on Saturday, February 12, 2022, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Two episodes will be released every week on Saturdays and Sundays with a total of 16 episodes.
The Cast and Characters
Forecasting Love and Weather has a star-studded cast K-drama fans would want to watch out for. Park Min-young of What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim, Her Private Life, and City Hunter plays Jin Ha-Kyung, the youngest chief forecaster in KMA’s Forecasters’ Division 2.
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“I think for the first time, we’re going to get some cold wind from Siberia,” said Min-young, comparing Jin Ha-Kyung with the bubbly characters she played in the past. “She is very cold-headed, she is a stickler to the principles and rules, and she’s not really a very popular character. Work is always first for her, and I think that’s one of the reasons she was dumped by her boyfriend, she’s always about work.”
Meanwhile, Song Kang of Navillera, Love Alarm, Nevertheless, and Sweet Home, stars as the special reporter Lee Si-woo. Kang described his character as “an innocent and very funny guy, but he is down to business about the weather.”
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Yoon Bak who starred in You Are My Spring and Itaewon Class will play Ha-kyung’s ex-boyfriend Han Ki-joon, who is the KMA spokesperson director. According to actor Bak, the character “cares a lot about what people think of him,” and is “the worst person.”
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Lastly, Yura of Now We Are Breaking Up stars as the daily weather reporter Chae Yoo-jin. “Yoo-jin wants to become successful,” shared Yura. “She is in her 20s, and she has a lot of ambitions, but not everything goes her way so she struggles really hard.”
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Getting the Cast Onboard
The series has an exciting roster of stars but what attracted them to join the project? The cast members also answered this question during the press conference. For Park Min-young, it was the uniqueness of the story that got her saying yes.
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“I never really knew much about the weather service and I don’t think there’s a series that really delved into this area so I thought that was really crisp-fresh,” said Min-young. But she also shared some of the challenges of doing this series: “If there’s like a medical drama or a legal drama, there are a lot of them so I can learn from the other dramas and series. And I kinda know how they speak and what terminologies they use. But for the weather service, I really had no idea how they spoke and what terminologies there are so it was really difficult to look up the terminologies. So I had to look up documentaries in order to familiarize myself with the service.
“So it was like a big, difficult homework for me. At first, I didn’t think it was too difficult, but now I think this series was one of the most challenging for me. But because it was challenging, I really enjoyed it, and I’m really proud that I pulled it off,” the actress added.
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Meanwhile, Song Kang highlighted the humor of the story and how he relates to his character when answering why he got on board for the project. “First I thought the premise of the KMA is very interesting, and while I was reading the script, I think it was very humorous. It was very funny in some parts, so that is why it was really attractive for me. And my character Si-woo is really innocent, naive, and kind of dorky so I think that he resembles me to some extent that’s why I chose this series,” he explained.
Yura also loved the humor, as well as the heart-fluttering parts of the script. “I auditioned twice for Forecasting Love and Weather,” shared the actress. “When I read the script, I was just like an audience reading the script, right? So I read the [first through fourth episodes] in the script and I found myself bursting out in laughter and sometimes my heart would flutter. And then I went to see the director, director Cha is such a nice person. I was really touched by his good heart so I was sure that I wanted to be in this series.”
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Yoon Bak, unlike his co-stars actually wanted to say no to the project because of his character. Here’s why he pushed through with the role:
“I have to be frank, right? I don’t want to lie,” the actor began. “The three actors said that the script was fun and that applied to me too. Everyone was so nice except for my character, Han Ki-Joon. He’s like the worst person ever so I really didn’t like him, but they offered me this character. So I had a meeting, and I was going to say no, and I went to see the director, but then the director persuaded me that I should take this part, so that’s why I became a part of this series. But you know, filming was fun and exciting and I could find the evil inside of me coming out, so it’s a very meaningful experience for me as well.
Life and the Weather Side by Side
Asked how the story of Forecasting Love and Weather took shape, director Cha Young-hun explained that it has been in the head of creator and writer Sun Young for a very long time before it was finally brought to life on TV.
“I think it took her about two years to do all the research and for about eight months, she practically lived at the KMA,” revealed Young-hun. “She worked overnight with them for two months, to really get a grasp of what’s happening there and when I talked to her, I felt like the weather and life of people, I think there are many similarities and I found that very interesting.”
“We are not able to know what is going to happen next in our life and that is the same for the weather. Then I put myself in the shoes of the people who have to forecast this unpredictable weather, and I think that was the trigger that interested both the writer and myself to this story. We cannot predict what is going to happen next in our lives, or what’s going to happen in the weather. We sometimes get the wrong gut feeling but we don’t give up. Weather forecasters need to continue to make the weather forecast and people need to continue with their everyday life. And I thought that was very intriguing,” the director added.
Watch Forecasting Love and Weather when it starts streaming on Netflix this February 12, 2022.
About ‘Forecasting Love and Weather’ Directed by: Cha Young Hun Writer: Sun Young Premiere date: February 12th Episodes: 16 episodes (Every Sat & Sun 2 episodes per week) Starring: Park Min Young, Song Kang, Yoon Bak, and Yura Distributed by:Netflix Logline: Inside a national weather service, love proves just as difficult to predict as rain or shine for a diligent forecaster and her free-spirited co-worker. Release Date: February 12, 2022
