Treasure - It's Okay, It's Friendship!
The twelve members of the boy group TREASURE release their first webdrama and vocations for stage play are revealed.
On February 26th, the 35th episode of “TREASURE MAP“, the weekly series from boy group TREASURE, is released on YouTube. Since the launch of the second season earlier this year, the episodes have been full of twists and turns and offer increasingly crazy concepts in which the boys are constantly surpassing themselves. Their efforts are also rewarded by the increasing popularity of the series over the weeks. From the hunt for a hundred gold pieces on the YG Entertainment premises to a giant Monopoly game, you never know what the group has in store for us. But not this time …
Indeed, during the episode, the fans of the group, the Treasure Makers, learn that the boys are going to shoot a webdrama which will serve as the 36th episode for the series. It’s called “It’s okay, that’s friendship!” , an explicit reference to the famous South Korean drama “It’s Okay, That’s Love!” released in 2014. The tone is set, this is a short film which takes up the codes of the South Korean drama in a parody tone as well as numerous references to certain emblematic series. So, while a classic drama revolves mostly around romance between a man and a woman, the members of TREASURE plan to play a bromance, that is, a strong friendship between two or more men who can make it happen. express with a lot of emotions. The cast doesn’t include any female characters.
Once this framework was set, it was necessary to distribute the roles and to do this, the twelve members auditioned with a special jury, made up of EUN JIWON and JANG SUWON, two members of the male group SECHSKIES. It is a remarkable meeting between the representatives of the agency’s first generation of idols and their youngest children, which also celebrates a tradition. Indeed, all YG Entertainment groups have performed a parody of one or more South Korean dramas during their career and TREASURE is no exception.
TREASURE members audition for “It’s Okay, That’s Friendship!””
A very promising program that kept fans in suspense for a week until the official release of the webdrama, scheduled for March 5th. Lasting about 20 minutes and subtitled in English, it shows a real work of realization with clean and clever shots able to suggest the emotions of the characters without them having to say them. Also, some members such as JAEHYUK, ASAHI, HARUTO or even JEONGWOO surprise by their acting. Even if their role requires them to play in quite different registers from each other, they show a real potential to act and we hope to see if the future holds for them, as well as for the other members who have also is doing a good job, great prospects in this area. JIHOON also deserves special mention for taking on multiple roles at once.
The story takes place in a school setting: JUNKYU and DOYOUNG have just arrived in a new school and therefore a new class in which they will try to integrate and make friends, and that’s without counting on their new comrades who are happy to welcome them. But will their arrival really mark the beginning of beautiful friendships or will it on the contrary threaten some of them? Without giving any more clues, we invite you to watch the webdrama without further delay!
The success of “It’s okay, that’s friendship!” is immediate: in less than twenty hours, the video already counts more than one million and two hundred thousand views and becomes the episode of the series “TREASURE MAP” which reached this score the fastest.
Journalist: Joshi
Translator: Shawn
Source: SNS TREASURE
