Stove League

스토브리그

• Native Title: 스토브리그
• Director: Jung Dong-Yoon

Writer: Lee Shin-Hwa

Genres: Drama, Sports, Melodrama

Network: SBS

Episodes: 16

Release Date: December 13, 2019 - February 7, 2020

Runtime: Friday & Saturday 22:00

Language: Korean

Country: South Korea

About the preparation period of a major league baseball team. The drama focuses on a loser team that prepares for an extraordinary season upon the arrival of their new general manager, and each episode will focus on a problem they have as they prepare to become a stronger team. Se Young is the youngest head of the management team of Dreams, a cellar-dwelling baseball team. She's highly recognized for her perseverance and intense passion for the team. One day, Seung Su is appointed as a general manager. Although he's been working in the sports field, the teams he led to the championship were unpopular, and some of them were even disbanded after winning the league due to the financial difficulties of their parent companies. Would this unlucky new general manager be able to steer Dreams to the championship with passionate Se Young? Han Jae Hee, an energetic man, who is the grandson of a furniture maker. Kim Young Chae, who is a softball player turned sports announcer. Yoo Min Ho, a pitcher, who is crazy about baseball. (Source: Viu, AsianWiki & Soompi, dramalist, asianwiki, wikipedia)

Cast:

• Namkoong Min as Baek Seung-soo

With the next baseball season coming closer, Seung-soo is appointed general manager to the Dreams team. He doesn't have a particularly nice personality but he is determined to make the team the best.

• Park Eun-bin as Lee Se-young

She is the only woman manager in the league and is very passionate about her team. Though she has been working in this field for ten years, since her college years, she never gives up.

• Oh Jung-se as Kwon Kyeong-min

Director of Jaesong Group and nephew of the Dreams club's owner. He is the one who hired Seung-soo.

• Jo Byung-gyu as Han Jae-hee

Se-young's co-worker at the Operations Team. He got the job through connections.

Notes:

1. "Stove League" takes over the SBS Fridays & Saturdays 22:00 time slot previously occupied by "Vagabond and followed by "Hyena" February 21, 2020.
2. Namgung Min & Park Eun-Bin previously worked together as second leads in 2013 MBC drama series "Hur Jun, the Original Story."
3. First script reading took place the first weekend of September, 2019 in South Korea
4. Ep.6 airs on January 3, 2020 to allow airing of the SBS Entertainment Awards airs on Saturday, December 28, 2019.