Choi Min-shik takes Notes from the Last Row with Choi Hyun-wook
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Netflix has dropped a new poster and teaser for its upcoming suspense drama Notes from the Last Row. Based off the Spanish play El chico de la última fila by Juan Mayorga, the remake stars Choi Min-shik (Big Bet) as a failed author and professor who discovers the talents of Choi Hyun-wook (My Dearest Nemesis), the boy who sits in the last row of his class.
Staring at his unfinished manuscript is literature professor Heo Mun-oh (Choi Min-shik). According to the word on the street, he has only written one novel over 20 years ago and has never published since. While Mun-oh struggles to come up with a new book, he asks his students what they want to write about, and Lee Kang (Choi Hyun-wook) comes to find him with that question in mind.
After reading Kang’s writing, Mun-oh says that he has talent and offers him private lessons once a week. At first, it seems their arrangement works well with Kang thanking Mun-oh as his mentor at an award ceremony for new writers. However, as time passes, Kang ends his drafts with “to be continued..” leaving Mun-oh scrambling for more.
The once apathetic Mun-oh becomes obsessed with Kang’s writing, calling him at night and chasing after him on campus for his next assignment. He wants to know why Kang has not been submitting his work, but Kang seems less interested now in his mentorship, claiming that he does not know either.
Changing tactics, Mun-oh gives Kang an investigative assignment, and the young student starts to feel reinvigorated. As his story ends with a twist, Mun-oh questions what he is reading and wonders if there might be some truth behind Kang’s writing. The teaser then ends with Kang sitting at his desk, leaving the audience to wonder what secrets the boy in the last row might be hiding.
Directed by PD Kim Gyu-tae (The Trunk) with scripts by Jang Myung-woo (KBS Drama Special: Outlasting Happiness), Netflix’s Notes from the Last Row drops all six episodes June 26.
Via JTBC
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