Attention, new Korean series coming to Netflix! This Saturday, January 4, the platform adds the first episode of Ask the stars (When the Stars Gossip in English), new series from South Korea and broadcast weekly. A new fiction that is unlike any other!
A Korean series replaces another on Netflix. While subscribers can discover this Saturday January 4 the last episode of When the phone rings, which created a surprise by being a hit on the international platform, another series should also cause a lot of talk in the weeks to come. It is about Ask the starsthe first episode of which is posted online this Saturday. Every weekend, you can discover two new episodes of this romantic fiction, one on Saturday and one on Sunday. Highly anticipated in South Korea where it is broadcast on the tvN channel, which produced the 5 most popular Korean series of 2024, Ask the stars will take you far. Very far away!
Ask the stars (Netflix): a Korean romantic series that takes place… in space!
What makes Ask the stars so unique is that its action takes place in space. Yes, forget the streets of Seoul (or Busan), or the small villages that we can see in most other Korean fiction, the action of this novelty takes place within the International Space Station. Eve Kim (Gong Hyo-jin) is a Korean-American astronaut. Rather rigid, she does not tolerate any misconduct from her team. His well-organized daily life will be disrupted with the arrival on board of Gong Ryong (Lee Min-ho). The latter, a gynecologist in life, arrives as a space tourist, shattering the well-ordered lives of Eve Kim and the other astronauts. And that’s just the start of the problems…
An extraordinary budget for Ask the stars
Since the announcement of the filming, Ask the stars is one of the most anticipated K-dramas. It must be said that this ambitious project required no less than five years of work and required a huge budget. Because recreating a spaceship and pretending to rotate in zero gravity has a price. The 16 episodes of the fiction would have required a budget of 50 billion wonor 33.6 million euros. This sum makes it one of the most expensive series produced for South Korean television.
Ask the stars marks the return to television of a popular actor in South Korea
Ask the stars is also an event because it marks the return to the small screen of a popular actor in South Korea: Lee Min-ho. If he has been part of the cast of the series since 2022 Pachinkoavailable on Apple TV+, he had not played in a television drama since The King : Eternal Monarchbroadcast in 2020 and available on Netflix. Aged 37, Lee Min-ho catapulted to stardom in 2009 with the series Boys Over Flowers (also watch on Netflix), which reached 35% audience share and earned him the Baeksang Arts Award for best new actor. Opposite Lee Min-ho, K-drama fans will find Gong Hyo-jin, absent from the small screen for five years. The cast also includes Han Ji-eun (Be Melodramatic) and Oh Jung-se (It’s Okay to Not Be Okay, Mr Plankton).
