Son Ye-jin is back on TV. “The Scandal” premieres on Netflix on September 18 as an eight-episode series released all at once. Her first drama since “Thirty-Nine” in 2022. Four years away from the small screen. She returns opposite Ji Chang-wook and Nana in a Joseon-era adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons directed by Jung Ji-woo. It’s steamy. It’s politically charged. It’s set in one of history’s most rigidly ordered societies. She turned down everything else for four years and said yes to this. That tells you something. It premieres in sixteen days.
Ji Chang-wook brings the controlled intensity of “The Worst of Evil” to Cho Won. He plays the aristocratic playboy who accepts the seduction wager Lady Cho proposes. Nana established her dramatic credentials in Mask Girl on Netflix and plays Hui-yeon, the widow they’ve made their target. Director Jung Ji-woo made “Happy End” and “Eungyo” — films that examine desire and what it costs people without looking away. He doesn’t make comfortable films about uncomfortable subjects. “I didn’t want it to simply follow the structure of a melodrama,” he’s said. “I built the story around protagonists who have a modern sense of self and ask ‘Who am I?'” That’s exactly the right instinct for this material.
Lady Cho appears to be everything Joseon society demands: chaste, obedient, and contained. She’s none of those things. She’s the one who proposes the wager in the first place — she selects the target, draws Cho Won into the game, and sets the terms. It’s the kind of role that requires an actress who can make virtue and ruthlessness coexist in the same expression. Son Ye-jin chose this after four years of turning down everything else. That’s not a coincidence. She wasn’t invisible during those four years either. She made films. She stayed in the industry. But she walked away from TV specifically. The Scandal is the reason she came back.
The series is a TV remake of the 2003 Korean film Untold Scandal starring Bae Yong-joon and Jeon Do-yeon, which was itself based on Pierre Choderlos de Laclos‘ 1782 novel Les Liaisons dangereuses. “Untold Scandal” is still considered one of the finest Korean period films ever made. This Netflix version arrives 23 years later with a global platform and the pressure of following something genuinely celebrated.
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The Joseon setting raises the stakes in a way the original French setting couldn’t. In 18th-century France, reputation was social currency. In Joseon Korea (1392-1910), a woman’s virtue was her entire existence. Not just her reputation. Her existence. Running a seduction game in that environment isn’t just transgressive. It’s existentially dangerous. And Hui-yeon is the perfect target. A widow in Joseon had already lost the social protection marriage provided. She’s specifically vulnerable in a society where female virtue is everything. Lady Cho knows exactly what she’s doing.
The Return Nobody Saw Coming
Crash Landing on You made Son Ye-jin an international name. Then she married Hyun Bin in 2022, stepped away from TV, and spent four years in the most public domesticity imaginable. The projects came. She said no. All of them. Until The Scandal.
Lady Cho is not a safe return role. She’s a noblewoman who proposes a seduction game and runs it on a widow who’s already lost everything once. She’s morally complex. She’s dangerous. She’s the kind of character you choose when you want to make a statement about what you’re capable of. Son Ye-jin waited four years. She came back for this.
The Scandal premieres on Netflix on September 18. All eight episodes at once. Lady Cho has been very patient. We can’t wait to watch!
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