Musings of the Obsessive Kind

If you, like me, fell for Song Joong Ki's incredible performance as young Sejong in Tree with Deep Roots, it might be a present for you too!

SJK has signed on for his first drama lead role, and what a role! He will star in the upcoming Nice Guy, a revenge/melodrama by Lee Kyung Hee, the writer of Mousie's all-time favorites like Something Happened in Bali, Thank You, A Love to Kill, Will It Snow on Xmas, etc etc.

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SJK plays a man who just goes through life getting vengeance for an awful breakup by treating women like things and playing around with them, until he meets a blind girl played by...drumroll please...Moon Chae Won.

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I love love love MCW. Ever since The Princess' Man, she has become one of my favorite young actresses.

Pair her with SJK, who has incredible chops and can have chemistry with a stone, stick them in a drama by LKH, who always has such meaty roles for her characters and such passionate, complicated storylines about broken souls, and I am in heaven.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you, like me, fell for Song Joong Ki's incredible performance as young Sejong in Tree with Deep Roots, it might be a present for you too!

SJK has signed on for his first drama lead role, and what a role! He will star in the upcoming Nice Guy, a revenge/melodrama by Lee Kyung Hee, the writer of Mousie's all-time favorites like Something Happened in Bali, Thank You, A Love to Kill, Will It Snow on Xmas, etc etc.

!!!!!!!

SJK plays a man who just goes through life getting vengeance for an awful breakup by treating women like things and playing around with them, until he meets a blind girl played by...drumroll please...Moon Chae Won.

!!!!!!

I love love love MCW. Ever since The Princess' Man, she has become one of my favorite young actresses.

Pair her with SJK, who has incredible chops and can have chemistry with a stone, stick them in a drama by LKH, who always has such meaty roles for her characters and such passionate, complicated storylines about broken souls, and I am in heaven.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And they are Yoochun and Han Ji Min. YESSSSSSS!

For those who don't know, RP is an upcoming drama about a prince who loses his beloved to death. Unlike the typical kdrama hero who'd weep an ocean and drown in those tears, the prince catapults himself and his followers into the future somehow to look for her reincarnation. And that's where they bump into doppelganger (and possibly reincarnation) HJM.

This sounds INSANE. I want it!

I am also happy with the leads cast. Yoochun is a rare idol-turned-actor who I like (SKKS is one of my all-time favorites and Miss Ripley was fascinating, if flawed) and Han Ji Min can do no wrong. Dramabeans pointed out there is a four-year-difference there, but much as noona romances annoy me on principle (a) four years is nothing in either direction, imo, especially since neither party is 20 and (b) the actors both look their age - i.e., close enough in age for it not to matter. It would be another thing if HJM looked older than her years or Yoochun younger.

Anyway, hooray!

First off, Koala posted that it is rumored that Jo In Sung and Ha Ji Won are considering being leads in the upcoming The King, a drama by the Damo PD (!!!!!) about a Northerner and a Southerner who fall in love.

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We pause while I issue a primal screen. I am not sure what I would do to ensure that happens, but it possibly involves human sacrifice. Jo In Sung is arguably my favorite Korean actor and I have been dying for him to come back to dramas for years (I believe his last drama was in 2005). I love Ha Ji Won. But, more importantly, JIS/HJW are one of my most favorite ever on-screen pairings (in Something Happened in Bali) and one which I most want to see together again.

I need this, Universe!

In other casting rumors, as per dramabeans, Joo Won is being considered for secondary lead in Moon That Embraces the Sun. Now, I adore Joo Won, but all I can think of is why is he not the main lead!!! He is equally famous to Kim Su Hyun (who is first lead) and he looks old enough for Han Ga In. Booooo! Also, I love him much better. This is nightmare casting for me.

First off, Koala posted that it is rumored that Jo In Sung and Ha Ji Won are considering being leads in the upcoming The King, a drama by the Damo PD (!!!!!) about a Northerner and a Southerner who fall in love.

!!!!!

!!!!!!!

We pause while I issue a primal screen. I am not sure what I would do to ensure that happens, but it possibly involves human sacrifice. Jo In Sung is arguably my favorite Korean actor and I have been dying for him to come back to dramas for years (I believe his last drama was in 2005). I love Ha Ji Won. But, more importantly, JIS/HJW are one of my most favorite ever on-screen pairings (in Something Happened in Bali) and one which I most want to see together again.

I need this, Universe!

In other casting rumors, as per dramabeans, Joo Won is being considered for secondary lead in Moon That Embraces the Sun. Now, I adore Joo Won, but all I can think of is why is he not the main lead!!! He is equally famous to Kim Su Hyun (who is first lead) and he looks old enough for Han Ga In. Booooo! Also, I love him much better. This is nightmare casting for me.