Filming has started on a first-love film
TWICE’s Dahyun and actor Cha Woo Min have begun filming a romance film, Soompi reported on 21 October. The production company announced that Clouds Roll Like Gureumi, identified in the report as a literal title, has assembled what it called a fresh cast featuring the two leads and has started shooting with a target release in 2027.
The announcement is a production milestone rather than a release confirmation. It places the project past casting and into active filming, gives the two performers named lead roles and sets out a character premise specific enough to discuss. For readers who follow K-pop artists moving into screen work, the useful detail is the pairing and the story outline, not a launch date: the 2027 reference is a target, and the report does not attach a fixed release day to it.
Gu Reum is written as self-assured
Dahyun plays Gu Reum, a high-school student who has used a wheelchair for all 17 years of her life because of paraplegia. According to the character outline, she proudly shows off a pink wheelchair and has a sunny charm, a brighter personality and stronger self-esteem than anyone around her. She is a member of the school art club.
Those traits shape the kind of romance the film is promising. Gu Reum is not described through hardship or medical detail beyond the fact of her paraplegia; the emphasis falls on confidence, sociability and a stated interest in drawing. The outline also gives her a reason to leave the art room and enter another part of school life, which is where the story’s central meeting happens.
Jun San carries wounds he hides
Cha Woo Min plays Jun San, described as Gu Reum’s first love. He is a high-school student with a promising future in swimming, an impressive physique and striking looks, but he hides insecurities and emotional wounds that others know nothing about. Swimming dominates his thoughts.
The outline also explains how he ends up at the pool with time on his hands: he has been kicked out of training after fighting with a senior student. He is assigned volunteer work, and the film is said to follow the deep-seated self-loathing he has carried for years. That detail gives the romance a second centre of gravity.
Jun San is not simply a confident athlete; the premise sets his public promise against a private struggle, and the story is described as tracking how he grows closer to Gu Reum through the volunteer work he was made to do.
The school volunteer scheme as the story’s engine
The meeting point is unusually concrete. Gu Reum becomes a volunteer-work mentor for Jun San after he is removed from training, and the film’s description places their early contact inside a school arrangement rather than a chance encounter. She is the mentor; he is the student assigned to the work. That structure creates a reason for repeated time together and an imbalance the film will have to handle.
Read against the outline, the setup also explains why the romance is framed as a first love that grows rather than arrives at once. Gu Reum’s curiosity about abdominal muscles takes her to the swimming pool in the first place, and Jun San’s forced volunteer hours keep him there. Both characters are present for reasons of their own, which gives the story two motivations to work with.
A comic hook inside a first-love story
The premise includes a deliberately comic detail: Gu Reum, an art club member, becomes consumed by a desire to see and draw abdominal muscles firsthand. That is the stated reason she heads to the school swimming pool, and it is the kind of specific, slightly absurd motivation that can set a film’s tone early.
Interpreted cautiously, the detail suggests the romance is intended to open on curiosity and humour rather than solemnity, with Gu Reum as the one pursuing an interest and Jun San as the subject of it. The report describes the overall film as depicting a tumultuous journey of first love and personal growth as the two become someone truly special to each other, so the comic opening sits alongside a more emotional arc.
How those two registers fit together will only be clear once footage or a trailer arrives.
Two performers already known on screen
The report points readers towards previous screen work from both leads, linking to Cha Woo Min in My Bias, My Boss and to Dahyun’s drama Love Me. Those references are useful for anyone new to either performer: they place the pairing within television viewing that already exists rather than treating the film as a first introduction.
For Dahyun, the film is a lead role in a feature at a time when TWICE remains an active group, and Soompi’s report frames the project as her individual acting news rather than as a group announcement. For Cha Woo Min, the role continues a television profile into film. The announcement does not describe either performer’s preparation for the parts, and the report offers no comment from the cast or director, so the useful information remains the casting, the characters and the start of production.
Why the character outline draws attention
Stories built around a disabled lead and a non-disabled romantic partner often raise questions about whose perspective the camera serves. The outline offered here gives reasons to watch how that is handled: Gu Reum is described as having stronger self-esteem than anyone else, with a stated personality and her own pursuit, while Jun San’s struggle is presented as a separate thread rather than the film’s only emotional subject.
That is a reading of a character description, not a verdict on the finished film. The reporting does not say how the production approaches accessibility, casting or consultation, and no footage has been described. What can be said is that the premise gives Gu Reum agency on paper: she chooses the pool, she takes the mentor role and she is the one whose interest starts the story. Whether the film sustains that balance is a question for its 2027 target release.
The 2027 target and what follows
The practical timeline is straightforward. Filming is under way, the production company has named 2027 as its target, and the title is described as a literal one, so an English-language release title may still change. No further casting, distributor or fixed release date appears in the report, which means the announcement marks the beginning of the project’s public information rather than a complete picture of it.
For now, the confirmed elements are Dahyun as Gu Reum, Cha Woo Min as Jun San, the school swimming-pool setting, the volunteer-work connection and a first-love story that the production frames around personal growth. Those details are enough to follow the film as it moves through production, and they give fans of both performers something specific to discuss before any promotional material appears.
The takeaway is simple: a new romance film with a defined character premise has entered production, and its 2027 target is the next marker to watch.
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