Casting Shapes Up For "Medical Top Team"

The acting team for the upcoming drama "Medical Top Team" is shaping up nicely, with several new actors signed on and more reviewing possible roles. It's a hospital drama about top doctors in their respective fields coming together to form a team. The doctors work together to solve cases but also compete for choice hospital positions. They fight and fall in love.

The latest actor considering joining the hospital staff is the band SHINee's Minho. He has been asked to play the role of Kim Sung Woo, a third year resident in the thoracic surgery department. There are yet unresolved questions about whether the role's requirements will fit into the schedule set by SHINee's album promotions.

The drama team has also signed on actor Ju Ji Hoon, who played the prince in "Princess Hours. He will play Hang Seung Jae, a very smart physician who wants to become a director at the hospital. It will be his first medical drama. Last year he appeared in the film "I Am A King."

Jeong Ryeo Won, who viewers may remember as the girl who stole Hyun Bin from Kim Sun Ah in "My Lovely Kim Sam Soon," will play Seo Joo Yeong, a charming but perfectionist workaholic cardiothoracic doctor.

Oh Yeon So, who played Bang Mal Sook in "You Who Rolled In Unexpectedly" and Na Jong Goo in "Oh Ja Ryong," will play a young thoracic surgeon with only two years of experience. It will be the first time the actress plays a doctor.

"I am happy to work with such a great cast," said Oh Yeon So. "Although I am nervous about it being my first doctor role."

The last person considering a role is Lee Min Jung, who starred in "Big" and "All About My Romance." If she does take a role in the medical drama it will be a first for her too, as it will be her first role after she marries Lee Byung Hun in August.

Kwon Sang Woo of "Queen of Ambition" and "Dae Mul" has already signed on to play the leading male role, that of a genius surgeon.

Kim Do Hoon, who directed "The Moon That Embraces The Sun" is the director. Yoon Kyung Ah, who wrote the drama "Brain," is the writer. The drama begins shooting in August and is set to air in October, following "The Queen's Classroom" and "Two Weeks."