"Your House Helper" Cast Talks About How The Drama's Different From The Webtoon, Makes Ratings Promise, And More

Two days before the premiere of KBS 2TV’s “Your House Helper,” Ha Seok Jin, WJSN’s Bona, Lee Ji Hoon, and more from the cast and crew spoke with reporters at a press conference about their characters, the unique angle of the drama, and what they will do if the drama performs well.

KBS 2TV’s latest drama adapts a webtoon of the same name, and is a ‘life healing’ story about the perfect male helper (Ha Seok Jin) who helps organize a woman’s (Bona’s) crazy life, her chaotic home, and her complicated mind.

Producing director Jung Sung Hyo said, “The drama is based on a webtoon, and for the first time ever, we are making a drama about a ‘house helper.’ […] Our drama is about a house helper and four of his clients. You can call it a healing drama because through the organization of the characters’ homes, they find a way to heal and grow. And in that process, they find love and rekindle friendships. There is no classic villain; everyone is bright, warm, and healthy.”

The drama plot keeps a certain distance from the webtoon, explained PD Jung Sung Hyo. “The webtoon easily takes leaps beyond reality, but it’s not as easy for dramas, so if we made it the same way, we thought it could be hard for viewers to follow. More than anything, Ha Seok Jin’s character has elements of fantasy, so making his character the same as the webtoon could be strange. We decided it was important to make the character someone you could believe really existed, so we were very careful with the details of the house helper.”

Ha Seok Jin said that even during filming, they made various versions, from which they would choose the one that was the best fit for the overall story.

In order to better play a house helper, Ha Seok Jin became a “cleaner” of sorts in his personal life, as well. “I thought that my life would have to in order for me to be able to play [a house helper] on set, so I’m making an effort to be very neat.”

WJSN’s Bona, who plays the role of Im Da Young, one of the characters in need of the house helper’s skills, said she was really worried, but she was able to put it behind her, not to mention her fellow WJSN members have also been a huge support.

PD Jung Sung Hyo also explained that the drama actors are a couple of years younger than those in the webtoon. “The tone of the drama could very easily become serious. Because we want the drama to be very lively and bright, we deliberately cast actors that were three to four years younger than the characters in the drama. We want viewers to be able to relate to the drama, as if were their story.”

“Your House Helper” will be airing at the same time as “What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim,” also a drama based on a webtoon. PD Jun Woo Sung said, “It’s difficult to compare ourselves to another drama and say we’re going to do better. We’re confident that even for fans of another drama, [‘Your House Helper’] will be a touching drama that’s a source of laughs and healing. The cast is made up of great actors, and they are really bringing their characters to life.”

For a ratings promise, Ha Seok Jin suggested going to clean houses, and actress Go Won Hee said, “If our ratings are good, we’ll choose 10 people’s houses to clean.”

“Your House Helper” airs on July 4 at 10 p.m. KST.

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