I Am Not A Robot, which captured our hearts since December last year, is finally making its mark on Japanese TV viewers’ hearts! It will begin airing on April 13 (Fri) on KNTV, a TV channel in Japan which is dubbed as the fastest and the first source of Korean Wave dramas, variety shows, and Kpop alike in subtitled form. Let’s take a look at the details below.
Title: ロボットじゃない～君に夢中！～ (Romaji: Robotto Janai~ Kimi ni Muchuu!~),
Lit. “I’m Not A Robot~ Crazy Over You!~”
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Main Cast: Yoo Seung Ho, Chae Soo Bin, Um Ki Joon
Director: Jung Dae Yoon (W)
Writers: Kim Sun Mi (Shine or Go Crazy), Lee Suk Joon
Regular Broadcast: Friday, 8:50PM – 11:15PM (2 back-to-back episodes)*
Replay Schedule: Saturday, 12:00PM – 2:30PM (2 back-to-back episodes)*
*32 half-hour episodes become regular 16 hour-long episodes
The channel’s page for the drama describes it as follows:
“Yoo Seung Ho in his first rom-com!
Breaking new grounds with his role as Mingyu, YSH plays a human-hating, cold-blooded businessman who has allergic reactions upon contact with people. Though harsh to his subordinates, he mutters the sweetest words only to appliances and gadgets in his mansion where he’s been living in solitude.
And on a certain day, a man like him got an AI robot… supposedly. An accident occurred on the day before, so the one sent to him instead was Jia, a wise woman pretending to be a robot, played by Chae Soo Bin! Just how is a relationship between a cold-hearted master and his robot(?) going to turn out!?
Um Ki Joon, who played the worst villain in “The Defendant”, is Jia’s ex-boyfriend and a doctor of engineering that develops AI robots. Doing a complete 180 degree turn from his previous work, he’s an oddball who is also aimlessly charming! His love triangle is to be looked out for!”
Synopsis
KM Group major shareholder with the good looks, intellect, and great assets—everything about Kim Min Gyu (Yoo Seung Ho) is perfect. But he has one major flaw—human allergy. Triggered by physical contact with humans, it results to breathing difficulty and possibly heart attack. Hong Baek Kyun (Um Ki Joon), a genius robotics engineer, shows Min Gyu the android called “AJI3” (Chae Soo Bin) in order to procure research funding. Min Gyu becomes intrigued by AJI3 but wants to perform tests on it prior to investment. But alas, AJI3 malfunctions just before it is sent over to him. Baek Kyun, now at the end of his wits, offers a part-time job to his ex-lover Jia (also played by Chae Soo Bin)—after whom the face of the robot was modeled. Desperately in need of money, Jia accepts the job to pretend as AJI3!
Before the main series airs, the Special Episode will be broadcast on an earlier schedule, just like it originally did when it was first shown in Korea. The KNTV broadcast of this episode will be on April 6 (Fri) at 8:50PM. The replay will be on Apr 7 (Sat) at 12 noon.
Here’s to hoping for big success of the series in Japan as well!
Cr:
Rough ENG TL: @preciousoobin
KNTV twitter: https://twitter.com/kntv_info/
KNTV IANAR Drama page: https://knda.tv/kntv/program/kn180401/
KNTV IANAR Special page: https://knda.tv/kntv/program/KN180409/
Please share with full credits! Spread the love!