| Be Positive | |
|---|---|
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| Also known as | Positive Physique |
| Genre | Web series Drama Romantic comedy |
| Written by | Lee Byung-heon |
| Directed by | Lee Byung-heon |
| Starring | Do Kyung-soo Chae Seo-jin Lee David |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Original language | Korean |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Producers | Choi Yoon-suk Choo Hyun-sung |
| Running time | 10 mins |
| Production companies | Samsung Cheil Worldwide |
| Original release | |
| Network | Naver TV Cast JTBC2 |
| Release | October 31 (2016-10-31) โ November 5, 2016 (2016-11-05) |
Be Positive (Korean: ๊ธ์ ์ด ์ฒด์ง; RR: Geungjeongi chejil; lit. 'Positive Constitution') is a South Korean web series starring Doh Kyung-soo, Chae Seo-jin and Lee David. The web drama was produced by Samsung, and intends to send a message of support to the younger generation. The drama aired on October 31, 2016 at 17:00 (KST).[1][2][3][4][5][unreliable source?][6] The web drama started airing on JTBC2 on March 1, 2017.[7]
Plot
[edit]A story about Hwan-dong (Doh Kyung-soo), a film major who is preparing for his graduation project as a movie director. His script wins a grand prize, but he faces difficulty after difficulty while trying to finalize the film. He asks his ex-girlfriend Hye-jung (Chae Seo-jin) to play the main role in his production. She is understandably surprised at his bold request but in any case, she agrees. He completes his production with success.
Cast
[edit]Main cast
[edit]- Doh Kyung-soo as Kim Hwan-dong[8][9]
A film major who aspires to be a film director.
- Chae Seo-jin as Bang Hye-jung [10]
Hwan-dong's ex-girlfriend who was quite a successful actress once.
Hwan-dong's best friend who dreams to become a film producer.
Supporting cast
[edit]- Kim Jong-soo as Professor Ma
- Kim Eui-sung as Hwan-dong's father
- Nam Gi-ae as Hwan-dong's mother
- Heo Joon-suk as Noh Seung-boo
- Unknown as Kim Han-joo
Original soundtracks
[edit]| No. | Title | Artists | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Common People" | Song Yoo-bin | 3:23 |
| 2. | "Don't Let me Down" | Ryu Ji-hyun | 4:07 |
| Total length: | 7:30 | ||
Reception
[edit]It was reported that Be Positive became the second most watched web drama ever with 21.83 million views in just two weeks of its release, following Falling for Challenge (which was also produced by Samsung and starring D.O.'s bandmate, Xiumin), which has over 24 million views.[12][13] On November 22, it was announced that the web drama surpassed 30 million views, making it the fastest web drama to reach this number of views within 18 days from its release, making it the most watched web drama of all time.[14][15] As of December 30, 2016, the drama's views from Naver, Daum, Facebook and YouTube surpassed 50 million views. The web drama became the most watched in 2016 on Naver.
Awards and nominations
[edit]| Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 12th Soompi Awards | Best Web Series | Be Positive | Won |
References
[edit]- ^ ์ผ์ฑ, 2016๋ ์น๋๋ผ๋ง 10์๋ง ๊ณต๊ฐโฆ EXO ๋๊ฒฝ์(๋์ค) ์ฃผ์ฐ. sisaweek.com.
- ^ "์ฑ์์ง, '๊ธ์ ์ด ์ฒด์ง' ์ถ์ฐ ํ์ โฆ์์ ๋๊ฒฝ์์ ํธํก". naver. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
- ^ "๋๊ฒฝ์ยท์ฑ์์ง, ์น๋๋ผ๋ง '๊ธ์ ์ด ์ฒด์ง' ํธํก..10์๋ง ๊ณต๊ฐ". naver. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
- ^ ์ผ์ฑ, ๋ค๋ฒ์งธ ์น๋๋ผ๋ง ์ ์ - ์ธ์ฐ๋งค์ผ. iusm.co.kr (in Korean). Retrieved 2016-09-25.
- ^ jun2yng (2016-09-19). "Update: EXO Member D.O.'s New Web Drama Announces Air Date And Title". Soompi. Archived from the original on 2018-07-12. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "'์์' ๋๊ฒฝ์ ์น๋๋ผ๋ง '๊ธ์ ์ด ์ฒด์ง', 10์ ๋ง ๊ณต๊ฐ". naver. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
- ^ "'1์ฃผ๋ ' JTBC2, ์น๋ '์ฒซ ํค์ค๋ง ์ผ๊ณฑ ๋ฒ์งธ' '๊ธ์ ์ด ์ฒด์ง' ํธ์ฑ". hubnews.co.kr. Retrieved 2017-03-15.
- ^ "'์์' ๋๊ฒฝ์, ์ด๋ณํ ๊ฐ๋ ์น๋๋ผ๋ง ์ฃผ์ฐ ๋งก์". naver. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
- ^ "EXO's D.O. to star in new web drama". The Korea Herald. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
- ^ "์ฑ์์ง, '๊ธ์ ์ด ์ฒด์ง' ์ถ์ฐ ํ์ โฆ๋๊ฒฝ์ ์์ฐ์ธ ์ญ [๊ณต์]". naver. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
- ^ "์ด๋ค์, '๊ธ์ ์ด ์ฒด์ง' ์ถ์ฐํ์ โฆ๋๊ฒฝ์์ ๋๋ฒ์งธ ํธํก". naver. Retrieved 2016-10-22.
- ^ ์์ ๋ฉค๋ฒ ์ถ์ฐ `๊ธ์ ์ด ์ฒด์ง` ๋ฑ ์น๋๋ผ๋ง ๊ฐ์ธ. The Kookje Daily News. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
- ^ ์ปจ์คTV. ์ปจ์คTV. Archived from the original on 2016-11-16. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
- ^ "์์ ๋๊ฒฝ์ ์ฃผ์ฐ '๊ธ์ ์ด ์ฒด์ง', 3์ฒ๋ง๋ทฐ ๋ํ..์น๋ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ก". naver. Retrieved 2016-11-22.
- ^ ""์น๋๋ผ๋ง๊น์ง ํฐ์ก๋ค"..์์ ๋๊ฒฝ์์ ๋๋ถ์ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ ์ฑ์ฅ๊ธฐ". naver. Retrieved 2016-11-22.
External links
[edit]- Be Positive at IMDb
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