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Park Seo-joon returns to small screen with 18-year love story in Surely Tomorrow

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December 08, 2025

South Korean actor Park Seo-joon has not done a proper romantic television drama in five years.

Park Seo-joon returns to small screen with 18-year love story in Surely Tomorrow

Park Seo-joon and Won Ji-an at the Seoul press event (both below) for Surely Tomorrow (left). PHOTOS: PRIME VIDEO

(PHOTOS: PRIME VIDEO)

Ever since he sparked a cultural moment as the dogged underdog Park Sae-ro-yi in Itaewon Class (2020), he has kept busy with bigger-budget fare a cameo in Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero movie The Marvels (2023), Netflix’s period horror Gyeongseong Creature (2023 to 2024) and apocalyptic film Concrete Utopia (2023).

But sitting before a room full of reporters at a hotel in Seoul’s Guro-gu on Dec 4, the 37-year-old seemed ready to scale back down.

“I’ve been working steadily, just on different platforms,” Park said at the press conference for Surely Tomorrow, his new series which premiered on Prime Video on Dec 6. “But I think I've come back with a more mature way of expressing things.”

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