Sageuk Lover

Hi! Sorry for the long comment, but I really appreciate your post (especially on my faves). Ha Ji Won, Moon Chae Won, Kim So Hyun, and Go Hyun Jung are my faves in your list. I don't always watch their works, but the ones I've seen always stay with me and are unforgettable.
1. Ha Ji Won is my top favorite actress. She always choose strong female roles and it really suits her. She's so versatile, she can do really well in sageuk and action, not a lot of actresses with her level of fame can do it. In Hwang Jini and Empress Ki, she showed all her talents (dancing, martial arts) and she was able to play her tragic love stories really well. The other drama of hers I really love was 2003's Damo, I love her strength as a police woman and loved her chemistry with her master their best. She's also enjoyable in Secret Garden as well as movies Haeundae and 100 Days Mr Arrogant, but the sageuks previously mentioned are still my faves of hers.
2. Moon Chae Won is also really good. I love the way she acts and especially the way she cries. I don't know, there's really something about her that makes you really ship with anyone she was paired with (whether girl or boy), she's such a chemistry queen. I don't usually ship same sex couples, but I really loved her chemistry with Moon Geun Young in Painter of the Wind (even if I prefer MGY's character with the male lead). Princess Man was my most favorite OTP of hers for years, but I think Flower of Evil chemistry might beat that. I also love her acting with Song Joong Ki in Innocent Man. I also have a thing for actresses that played the 'evil' second female lead because they tend to be disliked by fans (MCW did in Brilliant Legacy and she was so good there, I actually disliked the OTP being together), and I'm so happy she succeeded as a female lead now.
3. Kim So Hyun is an extremely talented girl since she's a child. Loved her and Kim Yoo Jung equally, but I find So Hyun just a little bit more talented than KYJ. She was so effective as a villain in both Rooftop Prince and Moon Embracing the Sun. Like I said, I really have a thing for girls that played 'evil' second female leads, which is perhaps why I find her Moon Sun character pitiful, even if she was an effective villain. I'm so glad for Missing You drama 2012-2013, where she at last got to pair up with Yeo Jin Goo, show how effective she can be as a lead and melodrama actress, it's the project that lead her for getting more positive roles that helped her become a lead actress today.
4. Go Hyun Jung is someone I've only seen in Queen Seon Deok, but her acting is way too convincing that most of my favorite scenes in the drama include her. She was a compelling villain and she really drives you into her character. Even if it was a villainous character, she was able to make people at least understand where her character is coming from with her actions. Combined with her great acting and the writers' ideas of the character, Lady Mishil has become one of the most characters in Kdrama.
Aside from the four above, I also liked Park Soo Ae, I've seen her in Emperor of the Sea 2004 and she had good chemistry with both Choi Soo Jong and Song Il Gook, though I don't love her the way I love the four mentioned above. I've heard great things about Gong Hyo Jin and Lee Bo Young, I might watch them if I find a work interesting. I love IU's singing of Queen Seon Deok osts, that's all I can say about her now. I'm not really familiar with Lee Yoo Ri (so no comment about her). The only one I quite disliked is Jun Ji Hyun, she seemed okay in My Love from the Stars, but I really don't think it's Daesang worthy (that's why I find her a bit overrated and I cant watch her other works because of it, I'm so sorry).
Thanks so much for your post, I really appreciate it, especially your reviews on Go Hyun Jung, Ha Ji Won, Moon Chae Won, and Kim So Hyun <3

Absolutely. No hate for her personally, but I really can't stand her performance, her sageuk speech is so boring too. All the child actresses here are better than her, especially Kim Yoo Jung and Kim So Hyun. Also if you've seen Moon Chae Won or even Han Hyo Joo's sageuks (most recent successful sageuks done before this series was aired), you're not simply gonna like the female lead's performance here. In my opinion, she should not have accepted this role, especially with Kim Yoo Jung as child actress (KYJ did a similar role in 2010's Grudge the Revolt of Gumiho which had her amazing performance, the adult Yeon Woo actress here should have been prepared for criticisms if she knew KYJ'S performance from her 2010 show). The adult male leads are not even my faves, but at least they were bearable and most people like them too (so I did not mention alternatives for them). My fave for the adult actors is the adult Queen Bokyung.

My impression of him is he's always the unkind dad to Moon Chae Won characters (Princess Man, Innocent Man)

She and Park Hae Jin have the sweetest romance in Famous Chil Princesses

Mydramalist, please change the lead roles order. I know he's the most popular in the cast, but Lee Seung Gi should not be placed as the main character. The main characters here are (in order): second sister, third sister, fourth sister, first sister, parents, third sister's love interest, second sister's love interest, only then Lee seung gi follows (I hate popularity). My favorite character here is Park Hae Jin and Lee Tae Ran's character, Lee Seung gi's character is annoying.

Gosh, I wanted him to reunite with her in a drama so bad. I like Ji Jin Hee but Bae Soo Bin would have really been great as King Sukjong since he already played a king in Painter of the Wind, had chemistry with Han Hyo Joo in Shining Inheritance, and even played in a revenge drama with Lee So Yeon who was Jang Ok Jung here.

Your opinion on second lead actresses are so right. I hate that they're written that way that they have to be evil if they can't get their man. That's why I always love and always remember the second lea d actresses specially since no one cares or remember them. Moon Chae Won here, young actress Kim So Hyun in Moon Embracing the Sun, Kim Min Seo also in Moon Embracing the Sun, and Han Eun Jung in Full House. And I'm always happy and supportive when they actually got popular themselves (Moon Chae Won and Kim So Hyun).

Song Joong Ki and Yoo Ah In are the highlight in this drama.

You're the most talented in your age group (1987 liner) whether girl or boy. You're performance in Painter of the Wind is so good, you can convincingly pull off the role of a girl pretending to be a boy.

That's just acting. I know people are not a big fan of sageuks, but if you watch his historical dramas, you will like him more sinc ell his roles are different (from gay man to charismatic king).

This guy is super duper underrated. To this day, I can never understand and 100% believe that he did not deserve to be just second lead in Brilliant Legacy, especially considering who the lead guy is. Let's discuss it at that point in 2009, Bae Soo Bin had already been in 4 different sageuks (a harder genre to act in) that are all successful, all very different characters, meanwhile the lead guy there in Brilliant Legacy only had 2 acting credits before (I've seen one of those and I was not impressed by his acting as a 20 year old boy who got his friend pregnant). I know that other guy was a popular singer and great in variety shows, but we're talking about acting here, and only acting experience should have count. Such a big disservice to him, to this day I still wish he had a role where he ended up with Han Hyo Joo. I'm not being biased here, I also love Moon Chae Won a lot more than Han Hyo Joo at that point, but Han Hyo Joo deserved the lead role since she had more acting experience than Moon Chae Won at that point.

What could have been: Alternative Actresses for adult Heo Yeon Woo
1. Song Hye Kyo - say what you want about her acting, but I believe she's better than Han Ga In (she's nominated for Baeksang in That Winter the Wind Blows). She's also very pretty and cries prettily too which is I think enough for adult Yeon Woo character.
2. Han Hyo Joo - she and Kim Yoo Jung have the same vibe, she already played a girl sought after by two brothers in Iljimae and she obviously learned more about acting in Dong Yi so she would have been a good option too. She's also closer to the male leads age.
3. Moon Geun Young - she's a great actress, best among her age group, there's nothing else to say since she can really pull off the role. Like Hyo Joo, she's also close to the age of the male leads.
4. Moon Chae Won - I'm 100% sure she would not accept this drama if offered to her back then as she had just finished Princess Man, but it would have been epic for her to do this as well as she had already proven she can act as a lead in a romance sageuk. She's also close to the male lead's age like Hyo Joo and Geun Young
5. Han Ji Min - she may be older than the male leads, but her partnership with the male lead in Rooftop Prince (close age to male leads here) means she could have also pulled off great chemistry with them, she also had sageuk experience the years before, her pairing in Yi San was well liked by the people too.
6. Song Ji Hyo - same reasons as Han Ji Min, except the sageuk she did before was Jumong, Frozen Flower, and Gye Baek. She had fantastic chemistry with Song Joong Ki (a guy older than Moon Sun male leads but looks same age as them) so I'm sure she would have good acting and chemistry with male leads here

Finally someone who has the same opinion as me.

I actually requested them to change it, otherwise both Kim Yoo Jung and Lee Tae Ri should also be main leads, not to offend Kim So Hyun (she's my fave too), but even Lee Tae Ri has a bigger role than her here.

This is why Moon Chae Won is extremely underrated, she takes dramas which are more serious and requires greater acting skills.

watch Princess Man, her best work to date, if you check her wikipedia, she was even nominated in awards outside Asia (ex: Monte-Carlo Television Festival 2013 awards)

If they would reunite, it would not be within the next year or 2, Song Joong Ki has to film Arthdal Chronicles season 2 and his movie in Colombia called Bogota. (And I personally don't want them too, they will be bashed because many people keep insisting they dated in the past, given SJK's divorce with a big name hallyu star I'm sure they will be bashed if they reunite again).

I can never forget BIDAM, never!

I'm not yet in the mood, but I'm really considering watching this because both main guys were paired with one of my fave actresses Moon Chae Won in other dramas and I just want to see them fight, bonus Yeo Jin Goo and Kim Yoo Jung are here too.

Is he really going to be in Tale of the nine-tailed? He wasn't in the script reading?