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I understand where you're coming from but the character he's playing is an aspiring boxer. I would hope that st the bare minimum, the actor playing that role won't look like a flawless idol that weighs less than the female leads combined. I think we as an audience need to level up and start looking beyond superficial aspects like appearances and assess and appreciate actors based on how well they pull off the characters they play instead.

I'm so beyond excited for this show that I'm now also borderline worried if I've set myself up for disappointment but fingers crossed this will be an exception 😭

I personally don't think she needs to do more tragedies like TSHLYE to prove her acting talent. Her roles in dramas like Because This Is My First Life and Alchemy of Souls already proves her talent. She handled both the melacholy and the lighthearted moments incredibly well in these two.

I mean "troublemaker" in the description immediately made me think of either Kim Nam Gil or Kim Young Kwang, so maybe one of them. Even Kang Ha Neul would be a good choice

Please please someone make a korean remake of the cdrama Hidden Love with her in the lead 😭

He is so memorable in every role...I think Chocolate is his best work yet...

Two sisterhood dramas releasing at the same time? This and A Hundred Memories. That's new...in fact sisterhood in kdramas in itself is so rare. Wonder which one I'll end up liking more. So far from the plot summaries, A Hundred Memories is winning, eager to find out for real tho!

Lee minki needs to come back to romcoms asap 😭 on the contrary, very exciting to see my fav park min young in something not romance for the first time!

Park min young is so important to kdrama watchers like me for whom kdramas have become synonymous with *the* park min young. I hope she stays healthy for a long long time and doesn't get into any unhealthy eating habits. She's been perfect, no amount of more or less weight loss and cosmetic work will change that. So please relax, queen!!

Really hoping this won't turn out like Blood Free where all the brilliant chemistry between the leads was wasted by the god awful ending and rushed pace. Disney+ has that track record after all...

Hoping this might be the drama that pushes Fan Zhi Xin into mainstream dramas...he's too talented to only be doing niche and mini dramas. Way better screen presence than some mainstream actors too...definitely a loss not giving him lead roles in full length shows

That's a very valid point honestly, I didn’t think about it from that perspective. But imo (and this might be a controversial take), the weight of the chemistry between leads in shows like this often rests much more on the male lead's shoulders than the female's. At least that's what I've observed so far in most of the shows I've seen with what I thought was great chemistry. And so here too, it's Lee Chae Min's screen presence as the king, from the styling, to his characterization, to how imposing he looks and really embodies that character that I think makes their chemistry work so well for me so far, beyond the bickering aspect alone. In constrast, My Demon is a show I've tried multiple times now to try and get into with a similar bickering dynamic, but there's a vitality and charm missing in Song Kang's gaze there that misses the mark in terms of chemistry for me. So while yes you bring up a really good point about the bickering aspect, I do think Lee Chae Min's presence alone is a big reason their chemistry is working for me so far.

Lee chae min here has more chemistry with yoona than all of his other leads who are "age-appropriate" combined...and this is coming from someone who isn't the biggest fan of age gaps irl myself and was really skeptical about his casting from the beginning...but from the moment the first posters came out to the actual show now, he's completely changed my opinion. He's charming as hell as the king and totally looks and acts the part just as well. Just goes to show that we need to stay open-minded lol...it's really not about the age-gap, but if the actors have enough maturity, charm and talent to create great chemistry.

I'm genuinely surprised by how lee chae min has more chemistry with yoona in this drama than his co-stars who were closer to his age like in Hierarchy...

What r u talking about? She has been working consistently since her debut without any major breaks, eeven delivering more than 1 drama some years. Her male counterparts have had bigger breaks outside of military service. I wonder why they never get these assumptions?

Clearly viewers don't care for "the nice guy" anymore. More than half the edits I've been seeing for this show are about the second male lead and his obviously problematic obsession with the female lead. Looks like kdrama writers this decade went from toxic to greener than green flags and people are so tired to the point where they want to support toxic characters over the clean and pure ML with the personality of a brick.

Beyond the ridiculous premise, it's the way the makers had to picturize only shin eun soo with her hair down in school , like not even a little hair clip because a ponytail or braid with her hair type would not allow for exaggerating the unkempt-ness (if thats a word) of her curly frizzy mane while she's surrounded by other girls who all look like they put in the bare-minimum effort to come to school with pulled back hair (as picturized in the article above).

Reminded me of the Chinese drama The First Frost where in the flashback scenes, they had to have only the female lead with her hair down in school, looking like a manic pixie come to life, horribly out of place for a school setting.

Like, we get it. They're the main lead. But it's like it's not enough for the female lead to just be a normal school girl. They have to stand out some way or the other from the rest of the "average" crowd for the hero to take a look at them, for better or worse.

She's adorable omg...that photo makes her look like a tiny woman 🥰

Too early to tell, but if this drama pans out the way I'm thinking it will purely based on the summary, it might actually become my favorite drama of the year. Looks like it has all the themes I love in stories: sisterhood, unrequited love, an aloof and tortured male lead, small town life, etc etc

Yes but that's recently and i'm glad he's been able to branch out but the fact remains that for the majority of his filmography, he's been playing the same slightly dorky, goofy funny guy across different settings