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A lot of the articles are just calling it the director's "new work", which is vague, but this one explicitly states it's a drama: https://sports.khan.co.kr/article/202503271703003?pt=nv

Weak Hero getting the mainstream global Netflix-fueled success that it deserves 🥳

Not true at all. The main actress led the previous Hunger Games film to box office success and has been the only part of Snow White to receive critical acclaim. The film is flopping because everything other than her performance is atrocious.

He has been cast in another new drama, "Long Vacation" by the director of Crash Landing on You.
(Source: https://m.entertain.naver.com/article/477/0000541513)

The entire rollout for this has been so strange. I'm guessing the push from January was because they had to secure the rights to Class 1 and release that first. And now they may be hedging their bets on April as Class 1 is doing so well; they may want a bigger gap before they release Class 2.

They probably did not expect WHC1 to hit top 10 (top 5 even) in most of Europe and North America in addition to the countries where Korean dramas usually do well.

Filming to start April 30.

Because it hasn't got an official date yet. Only the dramas with a set date within the next month appear in that list.

This is #1 on Netflix's global movies non-English chart for March 17-23.
It's also #1 non-English on Flixpatrol, currently charting in over 75 countries 🥳

This is getting great reviews and looks like it'll open well at the box office 🙌

Not sure why they're wasting this cast on a Wednesday-Thursday slot instead of a weekend slot. They've not had a hit in this slot since The Good Bad Mother. But maybe this will break the curse.

EDIT 5/27: Looks like this will be Saturday-Sunday after all. Smart choice if true!

If you're using English subtitles, make sure you use the one that is called just "English" and not "English (CC)", because the latter is the dub subtitle and it's always really bad because they have to adapt the lines to fit the characters' mouth movements better, so a lot gets lost.

MBC released a poster shoot BTS look:
https://x.com/mbcdrama_pre/status/1904443134526034016

It was meant to come out in January obviously. No reason for him to lie 🤣
This also states it was originally scheduled for January: https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/weak-hero-class-2-k-drama-is-coming-to-netflix-in-q2-2025/

You’re completely off. It was meant to come out in January when Ryeoun said that. There were literally schedules listing it for a January release. Then they postponed it, likely because they couldn’t get the rights to S1 in time.

Well you can literally hear him say it so what’s the issue? Also, actors will obviously have to know the date this close to airing because they will have schedules related to the promotion of the drama set up at this point.

Well it has nearly 20,000? It's 3rd highest among currently airing dramas. Besides it's a drama with a target audience that's older than the main demographic of MDL.

The translation in the tweet from OP says Weak Hero 2 comes out next month, as does Junyoung in his live (link provided in the tweet) at 2:15 mark.

Confirmed to be a Disney+ original.

If Disney+ tries to get KSH to pay the morality clause penalty (like Netflix did with Kevin Spacey and House of Cards), reshoots with a new lead could be feasible; KSH would essentially foot the bill. But such a lawsuit could take a long time in court, which makes it unlikely, considering the rest of the cast would have to find time in their schedules to return to film all their scenes with the new ML over again.

I'm guessing Disney's plan right now is to kick the can down the road and hope this dies down, then release it later on. People have short memories (the majority that isn't chronically online at least).

Whether or not she was comfortable with it is also irrelevant. He was the adult and he should have known better, regardless of whether she reciprocated.