Park Jung Min and BLACKPINK’s Kim Ji Soo will play the lead roles in Coupang Play’s new series “Influenza”, written by Han Ji Won and Ji Ho Jin and will be directed by Yoon Sung Hyun.
“Influenza” is a drama in which soldier Jae Yoon (Park Jung Min) and his girlfriend Youngjoo (Jisoo), who have just breakup, running toward each other while struggling with a group of zombies.
Park Jung Min plays Jae Yoon, a young man who enlists late in life at the age of twenty-six, hoping to do alternative service with a job at a defence company. Unsure of his future, he says goodbye to his girlfriend and faces a world overrun by zombies. Weak and unconfident, he gradually becomes the leader of his squad as they struggle against the zombie outbreak.
Ji-soo plays Youngjoo, a newcomer to society who struggles with Jae Yoon, who doesn’t understand her feelings for him, and they breakup. When she goes out to meet her boyfriend, she discovers a zombie outbreak and gradually becomes stronger in the fight for survival.
Coupang Play drama Influenza is expected to consist of 9 episodes and filming will end in next May.
