EXCLUSIVE: K-drama stars Park Seo-Ham (Our Universe) and Kim Ji-Yeon (The Haunted Palace) are leading Rakuten Viki series Dive Into You.
The series, billed as a fantasy romcom, is from Korean production companies Dexter Pictures and Amuse Entertainment and U.S.-based streamer Rakuten Viki, which is an investor and co-producer. It marks Dexter’s first original drama.
The story follows Yoon Ha-Na (Kim), who is thrown back in time after a near-fatal accident and finds herself body-swapped with her twin brother. Desperate to rewrite fate, she sets out to save her childhood friend, bodyguard and first love Jung Woo-Jae (Park).
Rakuten Viki, which positions itself as the leading global streamer for Asian content, will have rights in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Oceania, India and Southeast Asia.
“We look forward to bringing Dive Into You, a series that is truly an international collaboration, to our highly-engaged viewers,” said Jaehee Hong, Chief Content Officer at Viki. “It is a fine example of high-caliber Asian storytelling, and it has been an incredible privilege to work with Dexter Pictures and Amuse Entertainment to bring this wonderful series to the screen. We’re excited to explore future collaborations to drive even more fandoms around the globe.”
Kim Donghyun, CEO of Dexter, added: “Dive Into You is a project that merges the best of Dexter Pictures’ original IP creation and production prowess, the global co-production experience Japan’s largest comprehensive entertainment group, Amuse, and Viki’s planning capabilities and unmatched reach when it comes to content distribution.”
Park is a former boyband member KNK, and has acted in the likes of Semantic Error, which was for Korea’s Watcha platform and based on the Korean BL web novel of the same name, and TvN’s Our Universe, a coming-of-age romance series. Park is signed to NPIO Entertainment.
Kim also came up a singer for K-pop group WJSN, and has acted in the likes of KBS’s Hit the Top and Girls Generation 1979, MBC and Waave series Joseon Attorney, TVing’s Pyramid Game and SBS series The Haunted Palace. She’s signed to Starship Entertainment.
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