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The production team of JTBC's new drama We Are All Trying Here has announced the casting of Koo Kyo Hwan, Go Youn Jung, Oh Jung Se, Kang Mal Geum, and Park Hae Joon.
We Are All Trying Here follows the journey toward inner peace of a man who, being the only one whose life is not going well among a group of accomplished friends, is driven to anguish and madness by envy and jealousy. Employing "anxiety" as its key theme, the drama is expected to offer a "green light" to those who have come to a standstill at the warning signal of worthlessness.
The K-drama is penned by My Liberation Notes writer Park Hae Young, and helmed by Welcome to Samdal-ri director Cha Young Hoon.
Koo Kyo Hwan takes on his first leading role in a TV drama. He plays Hwang Dong Man, an aspiring film director who is the only one in the renowned film industry circle known as "The Eight" who has yet to make his debut. Like an uninvited guest, he constantly straggles on the fringes, enduring by concealing his constant anxiety behind relentless verbosity and bravado.
Go Youn Jung takes on the role of Byeon Eun Ah, a producer at the film company Choi Film, nicknamed "The Axe" for her razor-sharp script reviews. Eun Ah hopes to maintain calm and composure in any situation, but in reality, she battles trauma, suffering nosebleeds whenever she becomes emotionally overloaded.
Oh Jung Se takes on the role of Park Gyeong Se, a director at the film company Gobak Film and a man plagued by an inferiority complex toward Hwang Dong Man. Gyeong Se is a successful, in-demand director who has helmed five feature films, but after his recent work suffers a crushing box-office failure, he becomes tormented by an inferiority complex, finding himself unusually shaken by Dong Man — someone he deems "a nobody."
Kang Mal Geum takes on the role of Ko Hye Jin, the CEO of the film company Gobak Film and Gyeong Se's wife. Hye Jin runs the restaurant that serves as the hideout for the members of "The Eight," and while she possesses a broad-minded generosity to accept Dong Man's rambling monologues, she is also an all-around producer who at times demonstrates firm, blunt leadership.
Park Hae Joon takes on the role of Hwang Jin Man, Dong Man's older brother and a former poet. Once a poet, Jin Man experienced the depths of his own incompetence and collapsed; now, having severed ties with the world, he drifts from one day-labor site to another to sustain his life.
The production team stated, "We Are All Trying Here focuses on the journey through which people who have come to a standstill in the face of worthlessness embrace one another's deficiencies and, for the first time in their lives, find room to breathe," adding, "By not denying but instead transparently confronting the universal emotions of envy and jealousy, we want to deliver both piercing empathy and warm comfort to viewers at the same time."
They continued, "The feast of performances by Koo Kyo Hwan, Go Youn Jung, Oh Jung Se, Kang Mal Geum, and Park Hae Joon — combined with writer Park Hae Young's insightful lines and director Cha Young Hoon's warm perspective — will come together to offer a magical experience that makes even the most wretched moments of life feel meaningful."
We Are All Trying Here is scheduled to air on JTBC in the first half of 2026.
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